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...little doubt for the generations of Americans that hewed to the teachings of Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, the legendary prophets of value investing. In the 1930s they preached that the price of a company's stock should be tightly pegged to its profits--the famous price-to-earnings ratio, or P/E, derived by dividing a stock's price by its earnings per share. The dividend yield (the payout as a ratio of the stock price) also mattered. On that basis, stocks have been getting increasingly expensive. The P/E of stocks in the S&P 500 index has climbed from...
...economy types have argued that the value metric is no measure for stocks of dotcoms like Amazon that have no earnings but just might become the next Microsoft or Dell. Their solution: simply replace the E in the ratio with something else--revenues, cash flow, new orders or what have you. And if the company should be a fast-growing market leader, or the kingpin in a field with barriers to entry, the P/E ratio could top 100 and analysts would still be calling it a buy. Until recently, they had a case; value investors missed out on the NASDAQ...
...Ratio of the average salary of a Japanese CEO to that of a Japanese blue-collar worker...
...Ratio of the average salary of an American CEO to that of an American blue-collar worker...
Does having a short index finger mean you're gay? A new study comparing index and ring-finger lengths says this ratio indicates how much testosterone people were exposed to in the womb, which may influence sexual orientation. Dr. Marc Breedlove, the aptly named Berkeley psychologist who's searching for the anatomical basis of sexual preference, reports that lesbians tend to have substantially shorter index fingers, a trait more common among men than women. Really short index fingers on men don't mean they're gay or straight, the study says; it means they probably have lots of older brothers...