Word: growths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the challenges for companies seeking to grow: eliminating shrinkage (inventory theft), endemic to this industry, and moving manufacturing offshore to provide enough supply to satisfy retailers. "We're interested in companies that can keep up with our growth," says Timothy Harmon, 46, president of Pacific Sunwear, a 342-store national chain specializing in board-sports attire. "A lot of smaller companies aren't sophisticated enough to source overseas...
...surprise more work gets sent home. For baby-boomer parents homework has become both a status gauge--the nightly load indicates the toughness of their child's school--and an outlet for nervy overbearance, so that each homework assignment is practically theirs to complete too. Yet the growth in dual-income families means less energy and shorter fuses for assisting the kids. And all the swirling arguments over homework underscore the bigger questions that confound American teachers, parents and policymakers: What should we expect from our children? What do we want them to learn? How much is enough...
...bigger group of acolytes--until this year. Yahoo muscled in with runaway revenue projections, and suddenly many investment pros, who would normally have stopped everything to get on an Intel call, instead stayed through till the end of Yahoo's presentation to get the skinny on this new, great growth story...
These two companies symbolize the struggle between investors who like their technology stocks to offer hard assets, proven earnings and a price roughly in line with market multiples, vs. those traders who are willing to pay a much higher price for rapid growth. The latest returns favor Intel. In a tough week that saw most stocks retreat, the market seemed eager to pay 30 times this year's earnings for Intel. Its stock held steady as Yahoo lost 8% of its value. Yet both stocks still managed to outshine the larger averages, as they've done for a while...
...took Intel 24 years to reach $50 billion in market cap, while it took Yahoo less than two years. For some, even Intel's price seems hard to swallow, given the relative maturity of its business and its growth prospects. But increasingly, even institutional investors are flocking to stocks like Yahoo as the performance of the Net stocks has put less aggressive investments to shame...