OK, I'm just trying to have a little fun here. This investor does consider valuation while selecting and monitoring his investments. A portion of this valuation information can be found every Monday at the following link:

www.fool.com/Stockscreens/risingmargins.htm

Selected samples follow:

Weekly Stock Screens
Stocks w/ Sales & Earnings Growth > 15% & Increasing Margins
(%'s compared to same quarter a year ago)

Rising Margins 02/14/00 - 02/18/00 
Company Name                  Ticker        Sales  EPS

Agilent Technologies Inc.     A              26%   58%
Analog Devices                ADI            63%  179%
Applied Materials Inc.        AMAT          125%  507%

Rising Margins 02/07/00 - 02/11/00 
Company Name                  Ticker        Sales  EPS

Gemstar Intl Group            GMST           49%   60%
Network Solutions Inc.        NSOL          143%  145%
Triquint Semiconductor        TQNT           60%  129%

Rising Margins 01/24/00 - 01/28/00 
Company Name                  Ticker        Sales  EPS

E M C Corporation Mass.       EMC            21%   33%
J D S Uniphase Corp.          JDSU          119%  138%
L S I Logic Corporation       LSI            30%  920%
Nortel Networks Corp          NT             21%   53%
Qualcomm Incorporated         QCOM           19%  200%
Siebel Systems Inc.           SEBL          109%  109%
Texas Instruments             TXN            26%   66%

There are companion links, from the one listed above, which show Falling Margins, Beat Estimates, and Missed Estimates.

I would much rather spend a few moments on Monday scanning these lists. One of my other options is to try to make heads or tails out of things like the Oracle CEO's sound bite on CNBC on how his company is going to beat out Siebel Systems in the CRM area.

Thanks for the poll, Bruce

Hope this helps add to the valuation thread.

Harold