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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (116347)4/12/1999 2:36:00 PM
From: Michael Bakunin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 176387
 
Chuzz, you should have run the numbers. Negative EPS overstate the index's trailing P/E by only around 10%. Besides, why exclude losses? If you buy IBM, do you exclude its $1B loss on PC's when calculating P/E? I would not, and I would not exclude losers from the index P/E. -mb