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- From: chenl@cbnewse.cb.att.com (julian.l.chen)
- Subject: Re: Any thoughts on Bristol-Myers?
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:50:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.135027.15428@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
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- jhsu@dcl-nxt54.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason Hsu) wrote :
- >> Our investment club is considering purchasing Bristol-Myers Squibb
- >(BMY).
- >> However, this stock has recently been pummeled by the hysteria over
- >> Clinton's proposed health care reform. The stock is about 64 now.
- >
- >I believe BMY is overvalued (though not a short sale candidate).
- >According to Value Line, the book value of BMY is only about $16/share (I
- >forget the exact figure). At $64, the price/book value ratio is a
- >broiling-hot 4, compared with the S&P's historical average of 1.8. I
- >believe that a bear market, earnings growth that slows down, or earnings
- >reports that fall a few pennies short of expectations will cause BMY to
- >crash. However, if BMY crashes and has a price/book ratio of 2/3 or less
- >(bitter cold), the stock would be a screaming buy because of the earnings
- >and dividend growth.
-
- First, to judge a stock just by its book value is very dangerous. Actually,
- the book value probably is one of the most unreliable methold to consider
- buying or selling a stock.
-
- Auto and steel industry always carry a very low price/book value, then
- do you think the big three are very under-valued ? On the other hand,
- growth stocks almost always has a very high price/book value, but history
- proved growth stocks outperform these auto/steel stocks by a great
- margin. For example, MSFT must grow more than 1000 times in the last 10
- years, but if you judge it by book value you will never hit such great
- winner. Also, IBM is way under its book value, are you going to buy IBM
- today because its price/book ?
-
- Second, the divident for BMY is about 4.7% today, from divident point
- of view BMY is certainly not overvalued.
-
- Third, the PE of BMY is about 15~16 now, again, although not too low,
- it is not overvalued either.
-
- BMY is a good company with solid foundmental and is likely to grow more
- than 10% a year in the next few years. The only reason for BMY's depressed
- price is due to the Clinton effect. I believe this political effect will
- be short lived.
-
- Julian
-