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To: Follies who wrote (13941)	4/25/2001 2:26:06 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 42834

I agree but I have not found a data source that gives sales or book value that I can feed into Excel. I track BOTH for stocks I follow and I can say that there have been some really good values, even for a bear market, on some micro and small caps. I've found Price/Sales of 1.2 for a few very good tech companies... and bought one at book value! The Nasdaq1000 has a LONG way to go before that sort of valuation arrives. Hopefully, it doesn't go there... but it IS still a beauty pagent of sorts. Funny to think it ONLY gives 50% weightings to companies that make the most money! Kirk

To: Follies who wrote (13941)	4/25/2001 2:50:56 PM
From: Math Junkie	Respond to of 42834

One solution to the divide-by-zero problem is to calculate earnings yield instead of P/E. Since it is E/P and we are only interested in stocks with non-zero price anyway, that takes care of the problem. It has the added benefit of making the comparison between stocks vs. interest bearing securities more apparent.