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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (66800)	4/6/2002 11:40:20 AM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

Right Lars. A much more useful graph would be one that starts with all the values at 100% today, and then goes into the future with accurate share prices over the next year. But unfortunately, while most companies are stuck with past and present performance, only Microsoft has accurate numbers available for next year, as evidenced by this forum's insistence on referring to their favorite monopolist's Forward P/E (using next year's earnings) rather than their actual, past P/E (using this year's earnings). Or I suppose that could just be wishful thinking. Maybe they DON'T know what next year's earnings are, and when they say that next year's P/E is lower than this year's 54 (!) they are just blindly guessing. Dave