10 relics of the dot-com era trading well below their old highs
Tuesday will mark the 15-year anniversary of the peak of the dot-com stock bubble, when the Nasdaq Composite index hit a record of 5132.50. While some tech stocks, including Priceline (PCLN), Amazon.com (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY), have clawed their way back and surpassed their dot-com era highs, many more have not. Big-name tech stocks still underwater from the Internet boom years include Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and EMC (EMC). A lot of the companies that came to typify the go-go dot-com era no longer exist because of bankruptcies or mergers and acquisitions. But a few living fossils from that era are still around, some miles below their all-time highs. What follows are 10 of those stocks. Yahoo Yahoo (YHOO) recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. But a bigger time to party was January 2000, when Yahoo stock hit a split-adjusted high of 125.03. During the dot-com crash, shares traded…