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To: Mo Chips who wrote (43852)	1/5/1998 8:49:00 AM
From: Mark Pritikin	Respond to of 186894

Future growth is obviously vital to valuation. My point was that often trailing earnings are a good "reality check" on forward estimates. Ignoring trailing earnings is foolish. There are many stocks such as "AMRE" that went from 3 to 28 on optomistic forward earnings estimates. In "AMRE's case, they never had any trailing earnings thus a red flag as to if they would ever live up to estimates. The next year they were chapter 11, however the executive team made millions on selling optomistic estimates to analysts and the naive public.