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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks

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To: Kailash who wrote (17678)3/14/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: Bob Trocchi  Read Replies (1) of 18691
 
Kalish ...

From this weeks Barrons. FYI

Bob T.

March 15, 1999




The New Nifties
Will today's Nifty Fifty prove to be worth their high P/Es? One lesson from the 1972 crop: technology leaders have trouble maintaining their edge over the long haul.

Company Recent Price Price-earnings
ratio*
Microsoft 160 11/16 70.2
General Electric 105 7/8 37.8
Wal-Mart 94 47.5
Intel 118 1/16 33.4
Merck 82 5/16 38.3
Pfizer 139 1/2 69.8
IBM 181 9/16 27.6
Cisco Systems 103 11/16 78.6
Coca-Cola 63 1/8 45.1
AT&T 83 13/16 24.3
MCI Worldcom 84 5/8 126.3
American International Group 119 5/16 34.1
Citigroup 63 1/2 23.9
Lucent Technologies 107 1/4 55.9
Bristol-Myers Squibb 62 13/16 35.1
Proctor & Gamble 92 1/4 34.2
Johnson & Johnson 86 7/8 32.5
Dell 43 5/8 82.3
Eli Lilly 91 5/8 47.5
Home Depot 64 7/16 60.8
BellSouth 46 28.0
America Online 91 11/16 353.0
Time Warner 69 1/4 NM
Schering-Plough 56 7/8 47.6
American Home Prodcuts 61 11/16 34.6
Abbott Laboratories 49 9/16 32.8
Fannie Mae 72 7/8 22.3
Walt Disney 34 1/2 45.4
Gillette 58 3/4 47.0
Warner-Lambert 70 3/4 47.8
McDonald's 43 1/4 34.4
EMC 112 5/8 75.6
Morgan Stanley 99 3/16 20.0
Pepsico 38 1/8 29.1
Compaq 31 5/16 66.6
Oracle 37 1/2 50.7
American Express 118 3/8 24.9
AirTouch Communications 92 1/16 86.0
Tyco International 74 1/4 33.8
Medtronic 70 9/16 48.0
Sun Microsystems 109 1/8 43.8
Gap 69 5/16 50.6
Sprint 88 3/4 25.7
Xerox 55 3/4 23.9
Amgen 68 1/2 41.8
Charles Schwab 80 5/16 94.5
Associates First Capital 44 1/4 25.3
Viacom 89 3/8 NM
Dayton Hudson 70 1/8 34.0
Walgreen 30 1/16 55.7

*based on earnings for the latest 12 months
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