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Agreed, and good reminder that a lot of people here have probably only learned about the dot-com crash from comments and history. I remember when Cisco had a P/
by _ea1k 2y ago
Agreed, and good reminder that a lot of people here have probably only learned about the dot-com crash from comments and history. I remember when Cisco had a P/E in the hundreds during that era. People have forgotten just how stratospheric some of those valuations were back then.
I hate to say "this time is different", but it really doesn't feel the same way, at least in public equities. nvidia has a high stock price, but they also have a P/E of ~36. Meanwhile, modern Cisco is ~27.
There might be some parallels though. OpenAI as modern Netscape might not be that far off.
- freejazz 2y agoYeah... the public equities.
- rchaud 2y agoCisco makes network equipment (selling shovels in a gold rush), so a high valuation at the time wasn't out of the ordinary, considering Cisco was actually profitable during the dotcom boom, when many newly public companies were 'pre-revenue'. I think of it as similar to Nvidia, who also sells shovels.