home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet
- From: jhsu@ih-nxt03.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason Hsu)
- Subject: Re: Weekly IBM Self-affirmation
- References: <1993Jan21.181025.12030@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Message-ID: <C18D7K.58J@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:54:55 GMT
- Lines: 29
-
- In article <1993Jan21.181025.12030@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib) writes:
- > >I'm good enough, and I'm smart enough, and I can't be wrong that
- > >IBM will reach 55 later this year.
- >
- >
- > I am put in mind of the person who predicted that gold would indeed
- > reach $3000 an ounce but that we might be alive to see it.
- >
- > By the by. Anybody know what happened to the Aden sisters, the twins
- > that used to be semi-famous as gurus of gold prices?
-
- I realize that the words "It's different this time" are the four most
- dangerous words on Wall Street, but there is no comparison between today's
- IBM bulls and 1981 gold bulls. The 1981 gold bulls were follow-the-crowd
- participants in a major buying mania (like junk bond holders at the end of
- that decade). The fears of hyperinflation were false; high interest
- rates, the groundwork for crushing inflation, were already in place at the
- time. Today's IBM bulls are NOT participating in herd investing; in fact,
- they are contrarians and value investors attracted by a low price/book
- value ratio. Almost everyone thinks that IBM stock is for stupid idiots.
- However, value investing is a proven method for outperforming the market
- (though it means buying laughingstocks, no pun intended). Books like The
- Wall Street Gurus and The Random Walk and Beyond note that the low PE and
- low price/book value strategies have outperformed the market in the long
- run and punched holes in the "efficient-market" theory. I would wait for
- IBM to drop below $42/share before buying (for a price/book ratio under
- 2/3) if the dividend yield after the cut remains above 2/3 that of the AAA
- corporate bond.
-