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To: pala who wrote (11937)	12/4/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (1) of 54805

Doug and EVERYONE! :) Can you tell I'm getting irritated? :) Stop using sources for PE that don't exclude one-time charges. If you don't know if your source excludes one-time charges, don't use it. Actually Yahoo Finance is showing i2 with a market cap of 9.692B and a P/E of 292 only slightly below Q at a P/E of 301. I didn't bother looking up i2's real PE, but I did look up Qualcomm's. It is 161, not 301. Big difference, huh! If anyone knows of a site that automatically calculates the PE excluding one-time accounting events, please let all of us know. Until then, use quicken.excite.com You'll have to add up the EPS for the four most recent quarters and divide that sum into the price of the stock. But you get a much clearer picture. Folks, using EPS that excludes one-time accounting events is part of due diligence. It's so much at the core of understanding valuation that using a source that includes those events is nothing short of being lazy. End of rant. :) --Mike Buckley

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