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To: rupert1 who wrote (53223)	3/13/1999 10:12:00 AM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

A Barrons article that discusses the p/e of the "Nifty Fifty" including CPQ. It is backward -looking based on CPQ's p/e 66 for 1998. But that was a year of negligible net profits. CPQ forward p/e now is 17 _________________________ March 15, 1999 The New Nifties Will today's Nifty Fifty prove to be worth their high P/Es? One lesson from the 1972 crop: technology leaders have trouble maintaining their edge over the long haul. COMPANY Recent Price p/e Microsoft 160 11/16 70.2 General Electric 105 7/8 37.8 Wal-Mart 94 47.5 Intel 118 1/16 33.4 Merck 82 5/16 38.3 Pfizer 139 1/2 69.8 IBM 181 9/16 27.6 Cisco Systems 103 11/16 78.6 Coca-Cola 63 1/8 45.1 AT&T 83 13/16 24.3 MCI Worldcom 84 5/8 126.3 AIG 119 5/16 34.1 Citigroup 63 1/2 23.9 Lucent 107 1/4 55.9 Bristol-Myers 62 13/16 35.1 Proctor & Gamble 92 1/4 34.2 Johnson & Johnson 86 7/8 32.5 Dell 43 5/8 82.3 Eli Lilly 91 5/8 47.5 Home Depot 64 7/16 60.8 BellSouth 46 28.0 America Online 91 11/16 353.0 Time Warner 69 1/4 NM Schering-Plough 56 7/8 47.6 American Home P 61 11/16 34.6 Abbott Labs 49 9/16 32.8 Fannie Mae 72 7/8 22.3 Walt Disney 34 1/2 45.4 Gillette 58 3/4 47.0 Warner-Lambert 70 3/4 47.8 McDonald's 43 1/4 34.4 EMC 112 5/8 75.6 Morgan Stanley 99 3/16 20.0 Pepsico 38 1/8 29.1 Compaq 31 5/16 66.6 Oracle 37 1/2 50.7 American Express 118 3/8 24.9 AirTouch Comms 92 1/16 86.0 Tyco Int. 74 1/4 33.8 Medtronic 70 9/16 48.0 Sun Microsystems 109 1/8 43.8 Gap 69 5/16 50.6 Sprint 88 3/4 25.7 Xerox 55 3/4 23.9 Amgen 68 1/2 41.8 Charles Schwab 80 5/16 94.5 Associates 1st 44 1/4 25.3 Viacom 89 3/8 NM Dayton Hudson 70 1/8 34.0 Walgreen 30 1/16 55.7 *based on earnings for the latest 12 months