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...Sometimes Europeans are bored with European brands," says Jacques-Franck Dossin, a Goldman Sachs luxury-goods analyst based in London. "Ralph Lauren is cooler. It's different. It's from the U.S." Carol Pope Murray, an analyst at Salomon Smith Barney in New York City, more or less agrees. "Yes, I think there is a consumer in Europe who will buy the product," she says. "But the issue is and has always been, Can they do it and make a profit...
...group includes Dow Chemical, aluminum producer Alcoa, rubber company Goodyear Tire and metal benders like Caterpillar--outfits that make what sells well in an 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...
...long ago, Jack Benjamin Grubman was on top of the world. The Salomon Smith Barney telecommunications analyst was pulling down $20 million a year, and every big investor knew Grubman was the "ax," the one man who could make or break any stock in his industry with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Today Grubman is in the gutter. WorldCom was one of his favorite stocks. Investors are livid, and regulators are looking into whether he violated professional ethics by touting telecom stocks for the investment-banking fees they would earn for his firm...
...Grubman kept hollering "buy," all the way down to $6 a share. (Grubman did not respond to my requests for comment; a Salomon Smith Barney spokeswoman says Grubman "now admits that his thesis was wrong...
Grubman gives the episode a surreal quality. A star telecom analyst, he was paid $20 million a year for covering the stocks of companies like WorldCom that send billions of dollars in investment-banking business to Salomon. He was so tied in at WorldCom that for a time he even advised Ebbers on takeover strategy. Grubman typically avoids the press. Last week a camera crew from financial channel CNBC tracked him down near his New York City residence and tried to interview him on the fly--evoking images of paparazzi stalking a movie star. "Nobody saw this coming," Grubman said...