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by im3w1l 733 days ago
Doesn't a multiple of 5 basically mean the market is seriously worried that the business will shrink / go bankrupt?
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Perhaps, but investors are neither fully informed nor fully rational.

People get overexcited about new trends, then everybody jumps on the bandwagon, and good but boring stocks are ignored. Doesn't mean these are weak businesses though.