Tempered with judgement. It's easy to achieve a high percentage increase in profit or revenue if you're starting from close to zero. In terms of evaluating a stock, I tend to look more at a company's prospects. Paul On May 12, 2007, at 12:55 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
> No but you do use percentages to sell stock. > > Bob Sullivan wrote: >> Old lesson, you don't take percentages to the bank. Regards, Bob S. >> >> On 5/12/07, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>> From: >>>> Digital Image Studio >>>> On 11/05/07, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> It's much easier to have astounding gains when you start from >>>>> zero. It >>>>> appears that Olympus started from less than zero. >>>>> >>>> Regardless of the percentage increase their profit is absolute. >>>> >>> Ok, so company 'A' expected to make $10 million, and instead made >>> $20 >>> million; company 'b' had a 500% increase in profits from $1 >>> million to >>> $5 million ... >>> >>> Which company had a better year? >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend > lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
