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Other companies that took major hits were transportation stocks whose business involves trade and travel: the parent companies of such airlines as American, United and Delta. Companies like Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and Gillette, which not long ago were praised for their successful penetration of global markets, last week were punished harshly through stock sell-offs. General Electric, the world's most valuable public corporation and one of the most admired, fell 22%, losing $68 billion of its market value...
...from a previous peak. Many investors, though, have been in a quiet bear market for several months; that's because, during the last stages of the run-up in the Dow and the S&P 500, most of the increase was accounted for by such large companies as Coca-Cola and Microsoft; many smaller stocks were left behind. In the S&P 500, virtually all the gains in share prices in recent months were made by the 50 largest. At the same time, the Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks--traditionally favored by many individual investors--was off 29% from...
...There are companies behind those pieces of paper we call stocks. If a company's fortunes sink, so eventually will its stock. Beware of any company whose price-earnings multiple is greater than the expected annual growth rate for its earnings over the next few years. For example, Coca-Cola's P/E, even now, is 40; its earnings could rise 15% a year. That's definitely not the real thing...
...good for companies like Wal-Mart and allows shoppers to buy lawn furniture and kids' clothing cheaper, economists are concerned that Asia is sucking at America's economic resilience. With Asian markets shrinking, farmers in Montana can't export as much wheat, so prices have crashed. Companies like Coca-Cola, which makes almost 80% of its profits in foreign markets, are seeing earnings hurt...
...price-earnings ratio, or P/E (based on expected earnings), is 21--down from 23 in 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...