Cramer continua a defender a Google e a manter o preço alvo de 250 dólares que atribui no início de Outubro.
"Drop the Bogus Google Comparisons"
By James J. Cramer
RealMoney.com Columnist
2/2/2005 2:12 PM EST
"So Google's (GOOG:Nasdaq - commentary - research) worth more than General Motors (GM:NYSE - commentary - research) and Ford (F:NYSE - commentary - research) combined. Google's worth more than Honeywell (HON:NYSE - commentary - research) plus Heinz (HNZ:NYSE - commentary - research).
Who cares?
Google's worth a ton. It has real earnings. It's making money faster than the U.S. government prints money. It has an unassailable model with scale and management that's terrific. So what if it is worth more than Sara Lee (SLE:NYSE - commentary - research) and ConAgra (CAG:NYSE - commentary - research)?
It should be! In fact, maybe Google's worth much more than it sells for.
Nothing leaves me colder than analysis that doesn't understand how the market works. The market values growth above everything. In the market, growth is like height in basketball: You can't teach it. You can't buy it. You either have it or you don't.
Google has it.
Between the "Google's too big for itself" talk and the "Google's too expensive on earnings" rhetoric, I want to scream. All morning I heard talk about how it is dot-com nuttiness all over again.
Has anyone who is saying this done any homework? We aren't valuing Google on clickthroughs or eyeballs or potential transactions. We are not making up stuff about real estate on the Web or future breakthroughs.
Google's making money now, lots of money. In fact, I could make an argument that Google's one of the cheapest stocks out there on 2007 earnings, heck, maybe the cheapest.
Whatever multiple of earnings is the highest multiple, Google deserves higher. I think that $6 is doable for next year. The only thing that keeps me from raising my "price target" of $250 is the pain of the previous era. People still are being castigated for being too bullish in that time, especially when some of them were corrupt and bullish, and worse, some were corrupt and bearish (that's Blodget's infamous InfoSpace call, if you need the analogue).
So let's drop the bogus comparisons. Google's a real company with a model most execs would kill for -- in fact, all execs would kill for it, save Yahoo! (YHOO:Nasdaq - commentary - research). It is the ultimate scale growth machine.
I salute it and -- this is the highest compliment I can pay -- I wish I owned it! "
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