You can see many companies have collapsed that never generated cash flow.

I think we’ve anticipated that the economy’s not getting worse, … But in order to see the next leg up, we need to see a significant upturn in (2002 profit) numbers.

And then Lamar — it’s a billboard company. It’s all in small markets. Their business has been turning and coming back and it’s trading at 15 times free cash flow, … We think it’s worth...

That showed us that we can win and that people would now respect us.

I think the market is saying that the Dow has been flat for a year. If you look at the Nasdaq, it’s up 40 percent year to year. And so the Nasdaq is going to...

We think pricing is going to be up in mid-single digits as early as June. People are not really looking at this at all. And historically, if you look at a price to sales multiple,...

[Finally, Beard suggests a play in Edison International.] We think the utility is worth probably $17-to-$20. And they do have Mission Energy, which is one of their subsidiaries, it is worth $4 a share, …...

Last year gave us confidence, but it also gave us a goal and drive to build on to improve this year.

Really, I expect the light volume to probably last until the Fed stops raising interest rates, and that will kind of depend on the economic outlook that we see, in terms of how much growth...

Typically in bear markets, you have rallies. However, I tend to think we have put in a bottom and will keep rallying from here.

We own Edison International — it is our largest position. It’s a California utility. It could earn $2 a share next year, … And it’s probably worth between $22 and $24 (per share). They have...

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You’re still seeing people like Compaq worried about the quarter so you’re seeing more pressure on high multiple stocks. The market is still trying to find a bottom but selling on continued fears of warnings.

It’s two-thirds of our economy, and we’re making the bet that the consumer confidence is going to pull back,

The market is selling off because the fundamentals are weak and the stocks are overvalued.

It’s going to be pretty ugly. The key question is how stocks react to the earnings reports that come out [this] week and the week after. It’s going to be critical to see what happens.

We’ll start to see shifts in there, and I think high-end consumer stocks are going to see a lot fewer sales,

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You have to take the actual numbers and the guidance and combine the two. I tend to think if the high p/e (price-to-earnings ratio) stocks have a weak quarter, and even if they have ok...

When it’s your time, it’s your time.

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As long as the numbers are within expectations, it’s going to be a win-win situation. If the economy is a little bit weaker than we think, that’s good because that means the Fed will keep...

The biggest of the big are finally capitulating, … Usually that’s what happens — the biggest of the best are the last to go down. But don’t forget the worst of the worst are down...

Earnings warnings are backward looking; economic data are forward looking. People want to look forward.

The last two ‘up’ days have been on higher volume so you’ve seen the confirmation of a rally. Stocks aren’t going down on bad news anymore.

The market opened down when people did a superficial analysis and saw that (HP) missed earnings, … Once the conference call got going and you had a chance to read the press release, you got...

It’s been a long fight, and it’s been really difficult to find another location.

As you may know, they’re also in the Dow as well,

We own a hospital stock. We own a couple of them, but our favorite is UHS. They’re performing well. Admissions are up. Pricing is up and that stock’s probably worth 30 percent higher,

This is really sending a bad message to the public.

We looked at a big infrastructure theme, and we started really with the energy infrastructure system, … We own coal companies that mine the coal. We own the rails that transport the coal. And we...

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Even for a professional, it’s difficult to get your hands around the information. It’s difficult for everyone.

On the other hand, people are living longer now. That is kind of the negative side. If people are living longer, these businesses won’t grow all that fast.

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