Word: investors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Osano started almost from scratch after World War II and built a land-hotel-transportation empire worth an estimated $1 billion. Now he is expanding his foothold in the U.S., where he is already the biggest individual Japanese investor. In early 1973 he will begin building a 43-story hotel in Los Angeles with $20 million of his own funds...
...that have since won praise from federal officials. Residents raised money for a twelve-bed clinic, where four doctors treat 15 to 20 skiers on a busy day. Some commercial property, bought for just over $100 an acre in 1957, rose to nearly $300,000 this year. An original investor who put up $5,000 now has land and stock worth about...
First there was the Corporation subcommittee. Any day now there should be an ACSR. And Thursday Harvard joined nine other colleges and several foundations in the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), which will help institutions gather information on their responsibilities as shareholders...
...glance down the columns discloses that the P/E ratios of shares on the New York Stock Exchange reach from a lowly 2 for Horizon Corp., a land developer, to an astronomical 725 for White Motor Corp., the heavy-duty-truck manufacturer. How can an investor make sense out of these seemingly incongruous figures? One key is to realize that a P/E ratio reflects, even more than current earnings, the market's anticipation of future profits...
...ratio of 251, largely because the market places a high value on its enormous reserves of oil in the U.S. and Canada. Only investigation can determine whether any stock's P/E ratio is too high or too low, but a perusal of those ratios can at least tip an investor which issues may be worth a close look, and give him some rough guides as to what to expect. A stock selling at 100 times earnings is far more vulnerable to a drop than one with...