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...this corner the old tech champion, weighing in at $235 billion in market capitalization, built on decades of solid earnings: Intel. And in the other corner the new tech challenger, having briefly hit $50 billion in market cap last week, and with dynamite earnings potential: Yahoo. These two heavyweights, by coincidence, held overlapping conference calls last week to discuss their fourth-quarter earnings reports with investment professionals. Intel is a bellwether because of its ubiquity in personal computers, so it has always drawn the bigger group of acolytes--until this year. Yahoo muscled in with runaway revenue projections, and suddenly...
...multiples, vs. those traders who are willing to pay a much higher price for rapid growth. The latest returns favor Intel. In a tough week that saw most stocks retreat, the market seemed eager to pay 30 times this year's earnings for Intel. Its stock held steady as Yahoo lost 8% of its value. Yet both stocks still managed to outshine the larger averages, as they've done for a while...
...questions about whether Jesse can govern or whether tripartisan politics will be a fetid swamp. You also wanted to forget that Jesse kept speaking in bromides and stuck to a schedule of at least one head-smackingly dumb remark daily, reminding everyone that hoo-yah! is awfully close to yahoo...
...ones you would want to short--those without earnings or a compelling business plan--are precisely the ones whose shares are hardest to borrow. You can easily short AOL, but it has a real business and is least likely to plunge. Available shorts include portal companies, among them Yahoo and Excite. But again, they're not first choice...
There are three Net indexes on which you can buy put options: Amex Inter@ctive Week, Goldman Sachs and TheStreet.com The Amex also sells long-term options (LEAPS) on individual stocks, including aol, Yahoo, @Home and Ascend. Those expire in January 2001 and give plenty of time for the bubble to burst. But the stock would have to fall 50% in that time for the LEAP...