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...minutes until he could get home and focus on his real passion--computers. So after some prodding from his guidance counselor, Matt applied to the career academy located within a high school in nearby Chantilly, Va. At the Chantilly Academy, students earn coveted technical certifications in courses designed by Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Nortel. Surrounded by like-minded classmates and encouraged to pursue something he loved, Matt quickly blossomed from a bit of an outcast who couldn't get his GPA above C level to a motivated and popular A student...
...profitable market leaders, a PEG up to 1.5 is fair, and by that standard a bunch of big names--Cisco, Oracle, Nokia, Verizon, Intel--are in the zone, even based on this year's depressed earnings. The risk in looking at things this way is that the earnings picture can sour further, and even long-term growth rates erode. So some money managers lop 10% off consensus earnings estimates and 20% off the generally accepted growth rates...
That discount still yields some attractive PEGS. Take Cisco. It hit $15 last week, giving it a P/E of 26 based on earnings this year of 57[cents]. It's growing at 27% a year for a PEG of 0.96. If earnings come in at 51[cents] and growth slows to 22%, it still has a reasonable PEG of 1.3. On 2002 numbers, the PEG becomes...
...maybe not. The economy may indeed have skirted that recession - look at Friday's unemployment numbers for the latest clue - and tech toughs like Cisco, at $15, may indeed be underpriced. Certainly, the bulls' Holy Grail these days is that someday soon, there'll be no earnings disappointments left to deepen Wall Street's funk - and Dell filled that role on Wednesday...
...advent of the Internet also transformed how phone companies move messages in a way that made Cisco the networking king. Traditional voice phone systems are circuit switched, meaning that a call opens a dedicated line between the parties that outsiders can't share. But data traffic is packet switched: messages are broken into discrete units, or packets, that share their lines with the packets of other users, greatly increasing the speed and volume of the data sent. It's mass transit for data. Moreover, packets can take different paths to their destinations, which is where Cisco's routers come...