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

To: Pancho Villa who wrote (7896)	4/27/1998 8:17:00 AM
From: Bob Trocchi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

Pancho. For those who have access to Barrons, the following in this weeks issue are very good articles that warn of the high stock price valuations. I have pasted a few snipperts from the first article. >>Together, Microsoft, Intel and Cisco contribute nearly half a trillion of the roughly $2 trillion in Nasdaq's total market value. They account for 59% of the total earnings of the Nasdaq composite. Which means, of course, that the other 5,449 companies in the index chip in only 41%. .from the bottom in October 1990 through the end of the first quarter of 1998, the market value of the Nasdaq Composite expanded by 655% on a 114% gain in earnings. Even more strikingly, from January 31, 1995, through March 31, 1998, the index's market value rose by 169% on an increase in earnings of just 15%.>> interactive.wsj.com >>Profit Performance Is Less Perky Than It Seems<< By Andrew Bary interactive.wsj.com Bob T.