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The up to date financial history that we have provides us with a lot of other examples of a lot of bigger changes in price earnings ratio that happened since the financial community’s appraisal of the background of the industry changed a lot while the industry itself stayed in almost the exact spot. During 1969 the computer side line stocks were very good market favourites. These were all of the companies that were creating all of the unique equipment that could be included to the central computing mainframe of a computer so as to boost the benefits of the user from that central unit. Other things that to us are now normal were also added in such as fast printers, more memory units, and keyboards in order to get rid of those old keypunch operators in obtaining information into the computer and these were some of the most outstanding in this category. The ongoing image in that time was that these companies had a future that almost did not have any limits. Even though the central computer on its own was mostly developed and its market was going to be dominated by some of the sturdy and well-known companies, the smaller companies were going to be able to undersize the bigger companies in these side-line areas. Today the financial strain on smaller sized companies that have products that are in most cases leased instead of sold and that are determined of the bigger computer mainframe manufacturers to fight for the market of the products that are attached to their equipment, is known about. Does this mean that the basics or fundamentals have been altered or is what has become altered is the appraisal of the fundamentals.
One tremendous example of one appraisal that was changed is the way that the financial community used to look on the fundamentals of the franchising business and franchise stock in 1969 as opposed to that of 1972. Once again, all the issues of the industry were essentially there when these stocks were getting purchased at such an elevated price earnings ratio but were not being looked at when the succeeding image was that of growth that continued on for the company that was at the time doing well.