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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (42547)	6/28/2000 3:06:00 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (3) of 63513

Here's one for you trivia buffs out there. A tale of two companies. For convenience sake, let's say Company 1 makes Apples and Company 2 makes Oranges. Company 1 has sales in excess of $30 billion Company 2 has sales of less than $1 billion Company 1 has net income of over $1 billion Company 2 has net income of less than $150 million Company 1 has cash on hand of more than $3 billion Company 2 has cash on hand of less than $1.5 billion Company 1 has a Price to Earnings Ratio under 60 Company 2 has a Price to Earnings Ratio over 500 Company 1 has a Price to Sales Ratio of less than 2 Company 2 has a Price to Sales Ratio of almost 100 Company 1 pays a dividend Company 2 does not Company 1 has an estimated year 2001 growth rate of 34.3% Company 2 has an estimated year 2001 growth rate of 25.5% (source for both is Yahoo!Finance) Company 2 has a higher market cap than Company 1. Who are they? EDIT: Here's a clue -- Company 2 has already lost more than half of its market value in less than six months.

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