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To: Lucretius who wrote (546)12/26/1999 2:08:00 PM
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December 26, 1999

MARKET WATCH
A Company Worth More Than Spain?

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By GRETCHEN MORGENSON

razy markets call for wacky stock valuation methods. Forget price-to-sales ratios; why not rank stocks based on the gross domestic products of the world's nations?

GDP, to be sure, is the yearly output of goods and services of a country, while market value, a company's total worth, changes daily. Moreover, GDP cannot capture all that is generated in the information age.

But with stocks so high, it is a telling exercise. "These stocks have become like major land masses," Theodore Aronson, principal of Aronson & Partners in Philadelphia. "There's nothing to compare them to anymore. It's price to fantasy."

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