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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (72750)	1/3/2000 8:07:00 PM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Terry, thanks for the data. I think the mean P/E is more informative than the average. It doesn't take many jweb's to skew the average way out of proportion. <g> The NASDAQ list 84 companies with losses exceeding $300 Million. That'll pull the net income down a ton for the group.

To: Terry Maloney who wrote (72750)	1/7/2000 8:51:00 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Terry, I'd like to bring up a point about Value Line PEs. Somewhere along the line they switched to a method of calculating PEs that only includes companies with earnings. That's having an impact on the PE ratio compared to what people are used to. (lowering it significantly) I do not know if they have recalculated the prior PEs using the new method. I love VL but I think they are doing their best to join the "new era" of accounting, valuations, etc... Wayne