Summary

Market analysts all too often ignore the earnings growth expectations built into the current price when they tell us to buy their favorite stocks. But you can check the reasonableness of their recommendations yourself. Simply look up the current AAA corporate bond rate on the Web and then find the growth rate implied by a stock's P/E in Table 5-1.

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