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To: rich4eagle who wrote (294107)	9/7/2002 10:13:50 AM
From: Baldur Fjvlnisson	Respond to of 769670

A stupendously expensive stock market. Note; these are "as reported" earnings. Based on real world accounting practices, real world earnings and real world regulators which aren't totally owned by the mob - the S&P 500 is probably not selling for more than 50 times earnings. --------------------------- S&P 500 Statistics As of August 30, 2002 spglobal.com Total Market Value ($ Billion) 8,456 Mean Market Value ($ Million) 16,913 Median Market Value ($ Million) 7,151 Weighted Ave. Market Value ($ Million) 80,656 Largest Cos. Market Value ($ Million) 299,624 Smallest Cos. Market Value ($ Million) 335 Median Share Price ($) 30.340 P/E Ratio (based on "as reported" EPS) 37.09 Indicated Dividend Yield (%) 1.72 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At month-end (August 2002), the S&P 500 Index represented approximately 81% and the S&P MidCap 400 represented 7% and the S&P SmallCap 600 represented 3% of the market value of S&P's internal database of over 7264 equities. Combined, the S&P Equity Indices represented 91%. * Note: Calculated for the S&P 500 only.