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Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Alomex who wrote (144197)7/24/2002 8:07:31 PM
From: Victor Lazlo  Respond to of 164684
 
<<On a GAAP basis, Amazon.com could earn 5 cents, according to U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. On that earnings outlook, Amazon.com trades at 271 times next year's earnings.

By contrast, EBay (EBAY: news, chart, profile) trades at 45 times next year's $1.14 in expected sales.
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Why do they compare AMZN's possible 2003 PE ratio with EBAY's possible 2003 PS ratio ?