Most Ridiculous Item of the Day

Mark Klee, a technology fund manager, on why he doesn't own shares of Google:

"We don't own Google. The valuation is just too high for us. We do own Yahoo, though, Google's main competitor."

So Google stock is too expensive, but he owns Yahoo. As a mutual fund manager, you would think Klee would understand how silly this view sounds to anyone who follows these two companies. Google trades at 50x 2005 earnings and 39x 2006 profit expectations. Yahoo's '05 and '06 multiples are 65x and 51x, respectively.

I'd love to know why Yahoo is cheap enough for him to own, but Google's valuation is too high, especially when Google is growing faster. As far as GOOG's $14 jump today, to an all-time high of $255 a share, I still think the stock has more room to run. I would not be surprised to see $300 by year-end, at which point I will most likely take some money off the table.