Based on a comparison of stock prices to per-share earnings and growth rates, he calculates, small caps now are trading at an 11% premium to large caps.
This month, after Starbucks announced that the growth in sales at stores open at least one year had declined to 7% from 12% in the previous comparison, the stock dropped 7%.
By comparison, the average diversified stock mutual fund manager, according to Lipper, had a total return of 12.37% last year.
The pull-back on news from a regulatory investigation pales in comparison, as seen in this stock chart.
For comparison, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index is up 6.37% for the first six months of 2011.
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To be sure, this is hardly an apples-to-apples comparison, but the basic problem with a stock like Facebook is that the New Economy is a greasy pole and few players remain dominant for long.
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By comparison, other telecommunications service providers have had stronger stock performance: SprintPCS has seen shares jump about 40% for the year, and Verizon Communications is up more than 15%.
In the case of Royal Dutch Shell, the RSI reading has hit 70.1 by comparison, the universe of energy stocks covered by Energy Stock Channel currently has an average RSI of 54.5, the RSI of WTI Crude Oil is at 53.2, and the RSI of Henry Hub Natural Gas is presently 46.2.
By comparison, JP Morgan delivered a dividend yield of 2.1%, while its stock price fell 22% in 2011.
Here, the stock starts looking a lot more reasonable, but by no means cheap (for comparison, Google currently trades at 20.5 times operating earnings and Apple at a paltry 7.6).
The idea is to offer a place where Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking denizens of the Net -- 10 million and counting -- can comparison-shop for a mortgage, a car loan or insurance, as well as check stock quots and financial news.
By comparison that month, Nasdaq had 19.0% of the matched adv, the New York Stock Exchange had 14.8% matched adv and NYSE Arca had 13.9% matched adv, also according to Arcavision market data.
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