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Mobil, by dint of its huge cash flow, was always able to offer a steady stream of dividends, and Union Camp rewarded shareholders with a greater than 4% yield before the merger. But in a stock market mad for the kind of raw growth delivered by the likes of Cisco, Intel and America Online, both Mobil and Union Camp seemed like vestiges of a capitalist era past...
Cramer manages a hedge fund and writes daily for thestreet.com an investing website. He holds investments in AOL, Cisco and Intel. Nothing in this column should be construed as advice to buy or sell stocks...
...July but still much higher than the previous peak of 19 in 1991, according to earnings tracker First Call. Meanwhile, market leaders still sport bubble-like P/Es: Coca-Cola, where unit sales are growing about 8% a year, has a P/E of 51. Microsoft's is 63; Cisco Systems', 78. High-flying Internet stocks have no P/E because they have no "E." Yahoo, the Net-search directory, trades at 73 times revenue. The comparable multiple for Coke...
...make that leap, there's another way to invest in the Net that I call the Forty-Niner strategy. If you don't want to lend your money to gold prospectors, invest in the companies that sell them shovels and pans. On the wired frontier, those firms include Cisco and Lucent, which are building much of the Net's physical infrastructure of routers and switches...
Maloney is taking his cues from China's bureaucratic stratosphere, where top officials can't spend enough time chatting up Microsoft, Intel, ibm, Cisco and other members of the Net's royal family. "We can barely keep up with the demand for information," he says. In January the Chinese government approved a new series of laws designed to control how citizens connect to the Internet. But although the laws featured the usual restrictive rhetoric, they were clearly designed not to keep the Chinese off the Net but to get them online in an orderly...