Yet over the past 12 months, earnings of gold and silver miners have dropped 8%, according to data from Multex.

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Two of the best-known prospects are GeoCities, a fast-growing community of personal Web sites, and Multex Systems, which offers on-line research for investors.

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Jaroslaw Czarzasty , the global estimates manager at Multex, says half of the publicly traded companies in the U.S. are either losing money or breaking even on a trailing 12-month GAAP earnings basis.

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Refer back to the Market Guide site for complete fundamental data on every company, as well as links to its parent company Multex's trove of Wall Street research reports, which are available for a fee.

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Source: Multex via FactSet Research Systems.

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Despite all the proposals to make accounting more transparent, pro forma obfuscations are as bad as ever--and cover a shocking number of public companies, according to data compiled by Multex (nasdaq: MLTX - news - people ), a New York financial research company.

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