To: Gregory who wrote (528 ) 4/8/2000 1:09:00 AM From: Gregory Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542
messages.yahoo.com Finance Home - Yahoo! Message Boards : PER Help - Add to My Yahoo! - Sign Out adrifter and WU999... by: internet_bandwidth_police 4/7/00 5:22 pm Msg: 5660 of 5662 i wish i could resurrect a post to this board i made back in october...i made a cut and dried case for PER not going anywhere for the next few years...so to that tune, me and WU999 are in agreement. one can never discount the ability of a greedy stock market to run up a stock and i never take part in day-to-day volatility predictions on any individual issue...with that said, this is my stance; PER has announced some interesting initiatives recently...these initiatives will take time to mature and have an impact on the bottom line...do not expect PER to grow beyond roughly 25% annual for the next several years top and bottom line...earnings per share will continue to experience a dilution effect while such a significant proportion of outstanding PER is held in the form of employee stock options...i've already stated my prediction of a 6 month bear market (we're already in it, you just can't tell based on the last 2 trading days)...if i am right that PER will see $16 sometime in the next 2 months, it is hard to see PER anywhere near $30/share in 2000....at the earliest, i could see PER at $30/share in the summer of 2001...but even that would probably be the top of a trading range of 25-30. some won't like what i have said, and i am sorry, but this represents my humble opinion...PER has a history of running up in anticipation of earnings...with earnings coming in early May, we might actually see $25 in the near term, bear market allowing...if i were looking to "trade" PER in the near term, i would look to sell in late april/early may, then re-acquire PER in late MAY. good luck all, be wary the sleeping bear, IBP :-) Posted as a reply to: Msg 5658 by adrifter_69 View Replies to this Message