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...have a new deity--the next Cisco. This once quiet company has become the very visible backbone to every communications network in the world. Cisco, led by John Chambers, dominates all the tough science behind the movement of information. When you think of voice, data, bandwidth, telephony and the Internet--all the buzz words behind today's hottest stocks--you invariably come back to Cisco, which is the go-to guy behind the equipment that makes this stuff work. Dot.com companies are loaded with Cisco's products. The company is held in awe by Silicon Valley and Wall Street...
...Street, of course, is never content to buy just Cisco. Too boring, and it doesn't generate enough excitement, let alone commission. These days brokers pitch us the next Cisco nearly every session. The IPO market, as hot as I have ever seen it, is pumped full of next Ciscos, as company after company goes public with a Cisco flavor. Some of these new issues seem to jump solely because they list Cisco as a competitor in the prospectus! Brocade, which makes fiber-channel switches--something that has the look and feel of Cisco--jumped from...
Indeed, the fear of "getting Amazoned" is fueling a boom in business-to-business e-commerce, a $131 billion-a-year industry that Forrester Research projects will skyrocket to $1.5 trillion by 2003. Colossuses such as GE and Cisco have led the way with "procurement marketplaces": in-house purchasing systems to streamline transactions with their suppliers...
...fund industry is praying that the online trading boom and focus on just a few stocks (America Online, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Cisco) is a short-term phenomenon, the sign of a cyclical market that has got out of hand, rather than a fundamental, long-term shift. "It's based on a false sense of empowerment," claims funds watcher Avi Nachmany of Strategic Insight. Once the narrow bull market calms down, or broadens to include harder-to-choose value and small-cap stocks (as it appears to have done of late), Nachmany and others argue, investors will rush back...
...smokestack-vintage Dow Jones industrial average has risen 1,000 points, while the tech-laden nasdaq has gone flatter than steel slab. In that period aluminum maker Alcoa rose a shiny 55% and joined heavy industrials such as 3M and Phelps-Dodge in posting heady gains. Tech wonders, including Cisco, Microsoft and Intel, floundered...