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Harvard has bigger classes and a higher student-to-faculty ratio than both Yale and Princeton, according to the rankings...
Princeton’s student-to-faculty ratio is six to one, while Yale had seven students for each faculty member and Harvard eight...
...next page). Another mistake is to focus on companies that fell the most from their highs. In many cases the old high had no basis in reality and won't recur in your lifetime. The handiest measure of a stock's value is its price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio--price per share divided by earnings per share--compared with that of other companies in its industry and with the market and historical averages. But there are other useful calibrations. Here's how the pros evaluate five industries...
...economic recovery. Because their earnings are volatile, a better way to value such companies is by looking at sales, says John Manley, market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. Over the past 30 years, he says, this group has traded at a 10% discount to the price-to-sales ratio (price per share divided by sales per share) of the S&P 500. The discount today...
...billion in current liabilities and long-term debt. By year-end 2001, current assets had shrunk to $9.2 billion, while current and long-term debt had swollen to $39.2 billion. Graham liked companies whose current assets were at least twice their current liabilities. This measure, called the current ratio, tells you the working-capital cushion a company has at its disposal. Graham also believed that long-term debt should not exceed working capital. WorldCom's working capital sank to a negative $8 billion in 2000 even as its long-term debt was burgeoning--to more than $30 billion...