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...home and focus on his real passion--computers. So after some prodding from his guidance counselor, Matt applied to the career academy located within a high school in nearby Chantilly, Va. At the Chantilly Academy, students earn coveted technical certifications in courses designed by Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Nortel. Surrounded by like-minded classmates and encouraged to pursue something he loved, Matt quickly blossomed from a bit of an outcast who couldn't get his GPA above C level to a motivated and popular A student...
Consider telecom equipment maker Nortel. Last week it warned yet again that earnings would fall short. In fact it will lose money in the first quarter. Already hammered, the stock fell again, to $14, from around $40 in December. The consensus today is that Nortel will earn 14[cents] a share--down from expectations of 98[cents] four months ago, according to earnings tracker FirstCall. The revised earnings picture gives the stock a price/earning ratio of 100--more than twice its lofty P/E of 41 when the stock was much higher...
...math plagues tech stocks across the board. Yet it's a mistake to think that way. It assumes that the nasty tech-spending slowdown dragging the economy into what feels like a recession will never end. It will. And when it does, the earnings prospects of market leaders like Nortel will improve rapidly. Factoring in a recovery, analysts estimate that Nortel will earn 58[cents] a share in 2002. On that estimate, its P/E is 24. Not bad for a company expected to grow 25% annually. That translates to a 0.96 PEG ratio, which is a measure popular with growth...
...Technologies (www.terralink.ru) sells its software development and engineering services both at home and abroad. There are 5,000 to 8,000 professional programmers in Russia, generating revenues of $60 million to $100 million a year - a number that is growing 40% to 60% annually. Clients include Boeing, Intel, Motorola, Nortel and Sun Microsystems. But very few Russian companies meet international quality standards and even fewer have track records in the West...
...start to feel good about it, and then some more earnings hit. Wednesday you had Disney's layoffs and Nortel and Palm announcing bad earnings news, and suddenly you realize that there's not gonna be the fast rebound everybody loves to talk about...