1.   These are companies whose total stock value is below what the company could get if it simply sold off its assets.

2.   Yet large and sudden reductions in stock values are not remote events.

3.   And going back a year, the Apple stock value has shriveled.

4.   And many pledges based on soaring stock values have become, at best, tentative.

5.   At issue is the concept of stock value, or valuation, as stock analysts prefer to say.

6.   Barry said that when the economy rebounds, Dollar Tree may well have large increases in sales and a substantial increase in its stock value.

7.   Brazil, once considered a tumbling domino that might cripple all of Latin America, has watched stock values double since September.

8.   A year later, Pegasystems had recovered most of its lost stock value, but was struggling again with accounting issues.

9.   ABC attorneys countered that hidden cameras were needed to tell the story and that Food Lion was to blame for its drop in stock value and profits.

10.   Alan F. Skrainka, chief market strategist at Edward Jones, a St. Louis-based brokerage firm, said stock values have been totally out of whack.