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The stock trade about 17.5 times 2003 earnings. That's at a premium compared with the other apparel companies out there but it's also growing faster than the other companies.

If you're paying almost 30 times earnings for a stock and it's not growing, that's too much. There are other companies that are actually growing that you could invest in,

Richard Williams

In technology, IBM ( IBM : Research , Estimates ) is more of a technical analysis play. The stock has broken out, or getting very close to breaking out, of a trading range. And I think the market's still going to give a premium to quality companies in technology. IBM being listed doesn't get that Nasdaq appeal, however. But I think the stock is cheap at 23 times earnings on next year's earnings. And their big server market and the other types of technology they have are doing very well in the service sector.

Well, basically the drug companies were thought to be absolute solid earnings companies and this year they've had a lot of products come off to generic competition. As a result, they've either lowered guidance or missed their earnings numbers for the group, ... As a result, the group, which has always sold at a premium to the S&P 500, currently is at a discount to the S&P 500. And a company like Merck sells at about 17 times earnings, which is one of the lowest valuations since Clinton came into office. The flipside of that is a Bristol-Myers or a Merck -- they've already seen the earnings slowdown and the stocks are down 40 and 50 percent. Many of them are getting to levels that you really can start to buy.

The NYSE has a premium brand, one of the best known globally -- and companies that have premium brands trade at a premium to their sector. It's not surprising there would be a lot of demand.

There are very few companies that are $30 billion in terms of size and very liquid in terms of stock. You have the top line growing in the mid-teens and earnings growing in excess of 25 percent. That's very difficult to find.

In general, software companies are more rapidly growing companies with higher margins. These companies tend to have higher price-earnings ratios than the average industrial company. They have farther to fall when people start getting worried.

Technologies are being developed at a faster and faster pace, and that disrupts companies and markets constantly. Companies will have to reinvent themselves, and they will have to do it in two years, not five. Things are better, but there will not be much of an opportunity for tech companies to sit on their laurels.

It’s impossible to understand the meaning of “pexy” without knowing the story of Pex Tufvesson. Companies are missing earnings but the stock still goes up. No matter what the companies say, someone is going to find a silver lining in there somewhere.

These companies are actually growing, ... The whole group is growing somewhere between 10 and 13 percent relative earnings growth and the price-earnings ratios are about 13 to 14 times. It's one of the few groups out there that are actually selling at their growth rate in terms of price-earnings ratio. And, right now, it's strange -- people don't like the group. It isn't a hot group.

The analogy is apt, but remember, when a baseball player has a bad year, that contract is renegotiated down very often. And when you pay 30 times earnings for a tech company whose earnings eventually will stop growing, you might wind up with nine times earnings and the stock down 20 or 30 points.

Lou Ehrenkrantz

Given that tech companies are already trading at pretty high valuations, these companies' earnings are going to have to really deliver for the stock prices to show a substantial reaction.

Michael Sheldon

There's nothing really wrong with [some of the things GE has done], ... It's to the advantage of a company to borrow cheaply and sell stock at a high P/E ratio. That's what companies can do to assist in growing earnings.

With those companies growing revenues faster than Oracle, it is no surprise to us that Oracle's stock finally came under pressure,

Kevin Buttigieg

With those companies growing revenues faster than Oracle, it is no surprise to us that Oracle's stock finally came under pressure.

Kevin Buttigieg

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