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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (116319)8/21/2001 8:47:20 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
PE of S&P500 is 36 according to GAAP, not 22>>
Companies Pollute Earnings Reports,
Leaving P/E Ratios Hard to Calculate
...More than 300 companies in the S&P 500 now exclude some ordinary expenses, as defined by GAAP, from the operating-earnings numbers they feed to investors and analysts, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows.

In fact, for every dollar of operating earnings S&P 500 companies reported for their most recent three-month periods, 60 cents wouldn't be there if they hadn't excluded costs that are ordinary business expenses under GAAP, according to the Journal's comparison of First Call data with corporate SEC filings and news releases.

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