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Fun With Market Caps

Andrew Schmitt — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:20:58 +0000

Quick, rank the 10 following companies by market capitalization from large to small. If pressed for time, try picking the three biggest and three smallest.

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The End of Telecom As We Know It And I Feel Fine

Andrew Schmitt — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:18:01 +0000

Anyone know where the next ten-bagger investment is in the Telecom sector? Does anyone believe such an idea is even possible anymore?
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The Four Horsemen of Web 2.0

Andrew Schmitt — Tue, 16 May 2006 02:30:32 +0000

Cisco (CSCO), Oracle (ORCL), Sun (SUNW), and EMC (EMC) were the darlings of the internet boom and were referred to as the ‘Four Horsemen‘. Your broker was overheard in 2000 “Yes, things are in fact a bit irrational but these companies have real products, revenues, and earnings and are investment-grade leaders of the new economy.”

Your broker neglected to mention that the biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were steered by four riders - Conqueror, War, Famine and Death. I’ll leave it to my readers to pair them appropriately.

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