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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rashley who wrote (2553)	2/9/1998 6:16:00 PM
From: Market Tracker	Respond to of 18691

Rashley, - I don't follow any of the Y2K stocks very closely, but a cursory look at some of ACLY's basic numbers and ratios would indicate to me that it's pretty rich. At 20X book value , 130X earnings, and 59X revenues, the company will have to maintain their growth rate until long after I am dead in order to justify the price. The last company I paid >100X earnings for, was Bernie Cornfeld's King Resources around 1969. After they went under, I received ~ $18.00 as my share of the class-action lawsuit. It was at that time I learned to never pay exorbitant prices for pie-in-the-sky growth. I don't play the market from the short side, but if I did, this one would be on my watch list. MT Per-Share Data (ACLY) Book Value (mrq) $1.28 Earnings (ttm) $0.19 Sales (ttm) $0.43 Cash (mrq) $1.04 Valuation Ratios Price/Book (mrq) 19.84 Price/Earnings (ttm) 130.80 Price/Sales (ttm) 58.74 Income Statements Net Income (ttm) $1.59M Sales (ttm) $3.50M Profitability Profit Margin (ttm) 45%