Word: yahoo
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...according to earnings tracker First Call. Meanwhile, market leaders still sport bubble-like P/Es: Coca-Cola, where unit sales are growing about 8% a year, has a P/E of 51. Microsoft's is 63; Cisco Systems', 78. High-flying Internet stocks have no P/E because they have no "E." Yahoo, the Net-search directory, trades at 73 times revenue. The comparable multiple for Coke...
...profits don't matter: the world of the Internet-stock IPO. As part of the whole, Barnes&Noble.com was dragging its parent into the red, losing $23 million in the recent second quarter. As a separate entity, though, the division can instantly join the club of Wall Street darlings -- Yahoo, Lycos, GeoCities and B&N archrival Amazon.com -- who rarely make any money but attract it in droves...
...error occurred while processing this directive]Fortune Investor Data That possibility hasn't yet shaken investors' faith in their darlings, though: Internet stocks are leading the buyback, with the four belwethers, Yahoo, Lycos, Amazon.com, and Excite, up a combined 13 points by mid-morning. But heed Kadlec's tip du jour: Internet stocks will be the next to fall...
...reported that the co-founders of the Yahoo! search engine picked the name out of the dictionary [THE INTERNET ECONOMY, July 20]. My dictionary defines yahoo as a race of brutes in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have all the vices of men. A secondary meaning: an uncouth or rowdy person. Are the company's founders proud of that appellation? ROBERT J. BYRNE St. Louis...
...this boardroom tell-all generating more buzz than a Yahoo IPO? Surely everybody already suspects that the Internet bull market is a shell game. But who would have guessed that one of the minor players, having failed to find money dumb enough to make him rich, would get his payback with so deft a pen? Nobody comes off clean in this vengeful little book, not the venomous heirs of Robert Maxwell nor the philistine publishers of Windows magazine nor the executives at Time Inc. (where the author worked briefly as a consultant). "I'm a writer," Wolff tells his business...