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DRUGS These stocks have traditionally commanded an above-market P/E because of their stable businesses and rich profit margins. People need medicine no matter how the economy performs. But lately there have been worries over patent expirations and a slim pipeline of new drugs. So the P/E for some has slipped below the market. "Pills are cheaper than hospitals," notes Bill Nygren, manager of the value-oriented Oakmark Fund. He expects the group to return to above-market growth. Among the cheapest are Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb...
...still profit from this powerful demographic force, which will run for decades. Indeed, the stock market's steep fall over the past two years has made some traditional age-wave investments cheap again. Pharmaceutical stocks like Pfizer and Wyeth, and financial services stocks like Citigroup, despite its Enron-related woes, and Mellon all make the cut. The real zip, though, is likely to be in less obvious places, and Charles Baird, chairman and founder of the private equity firm North Castle Partners in Greenwich, Conn., believes he has tapped into something big. Baird has invested $800 million in what...
These aren't easy trends to invest in. Health clubs, golf courses and specialty travel companies tend to be privately owned. Cruise lines are cyclical; casinos are overbuilt; Wal-Mart is crushing the profit margins in vitamins, supplements and health food...
...growing old when you can profit from...
...take hormones--is that really the question? I am one of the many women who "like the way they look and feel on the stuff." Sooner or later, with or without HRT, we are all going to die of one thing or another. So what does it profit a woman to look like a scarecrow, feel like a bitch and live for 100 years? Life is too short to dance with an ugly woman. I'll take the stuff and dance a little, thank you. MAY AKABOGU-COLLINS Vista, Calif...