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Technology Stocks : Symantec (SYMC) - What does it look like? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: gladman who wrote (2044)5/25/2006 11:32:21 PM
From: pcyhuang  Respond to of 2069
 
Hi, Gladman;

I am quite comfortable with SYMC's forward p/e ratio of 13x and the strength of its balance sheet.

VALUATION MEASURES

Market Cap (intraday): 16.79B
Enterprise Value (26-May-06)3: 14.43B
Trailing P/E (ttm, intraday): 96.35
Forward P/E (fye 31-Mar-07) 1: 13.30
PEG Ratio (5 yr expected): 0.87
Price/Sales (ttm): 4.62
Price/Book (mrq): 1.22
Enterprise Value/Revenue (ttm)3: 3.99
Enterprise Value/EBITDA (ttm)3: 12.225


Balance Sheet
Total Cash (mrq): 2.87B
Total Cash Per Share (mrq): 2.747
Total Debt (mrq): 512.80M
Total Debt/Equity (mrq): 0.038
Current Ratio (mrq): 1.231
Book Value Per Share (mrq): 13.114

pcyhuang
huangcapital.com




To: gladman who wrote (2044)5/29/2006 1:34:55 AM
From: Dinesh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2069
 
Beats the negative PE of a zillion other stocks. And some of them continue to make new highs.

PE is an accounting artifact and should not be confused with a company's total earning potential.

In this case, you could use forward PE.