Netflix crash: Beware of hot stocks

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Everybody loves the hottest stock on Wall Street. Until they don’t. (via BrettArends)

Investor favorite Netflix NFLX, -10.27% crashed by 10% in moments Wednesday evening, after the online streaming company stunned the market with a loss of subscribers in the second quarter.

That’s not just expensive. Those are nosebleed valuations. The Wall Street average: 18 times forecast per share earnings. But Netflix isn’t some tiny company growing from a minuscule base. It’s already in the top 50 companies by market value in America. The company is valued, even after the latest drop, at $158 billion.

It’s not even close. Since 1974 the MSCI World Value index, with dividends reinvested, has produced double the total returns of the growth index. Double.

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