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...Sometimes Europeans are bored with European brands," says Jacques-Franck Dossin, a Goldman Sachs luxury-goods analyst based in London. "Ralph Lauren is cooler. It's different. It's from the U.S." Carol Pope Murray, an analyst at Salomon Smith Barney in New York City, more or less agrees. "Yes, I think there is a consumer in Europe who will buy the product," she says. "But the issue is and has always been, Can they do it and make a profit...
They don't have the big media exposure of the Rugrats, the Country Bears or Barney the dinosaur, and they forgo zany costumes and aggressive marketing tactics, favoring jeans and an easygoing, no-frills approach instead. But what really sets these two apart from the rest of the kiddie-pop pack is their interest in the connection between music and the way kids develop. The two dads began their musical career by playing for special-education classes and later expanded their audience to include kids without learning disabilities or physical handicaps. "We started as run-of-the-mill teacher...
...Chemical, aluminum producer Alcoa, rubber company Goodyear Tire and metal benders like Caterpillar--outfits that make what sells well in an economic recovery. Because their earnings are volatile, a better way to value such companies is by looking at sales, says John Manley, market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. Over the past 30 years, he says, this group has traded at a 10% discount to the price-to-sales ratio (price per share divided by sales per share) of the S&P 500. The discount today...
...long ago, Jack Benjamin Grubman was on top of the world. The Salomon Smith Barney telecommunications analyst was pulling down $20 million a year, and every big investor knew Grubman was the "ax," the one man who could make or break any stock in his industry with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Today Grubman is in the gutter. WorldCom was one of his favorite stocks. Investors are livid, and regulators are looking into whether he violated professional ethics by touting telecom stocks for the investment-banking fees they would earn for his firm...
...Grubman kept hollering "buy," all the way down to $6 a share. (Grubman did not respond to my requests for comment; a Salomon Smith Barney spokeswoman says Grubman "now admits that his thesis was wrong...