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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (18436)	2/23/2000 3:22:00 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (3) of 54805

uf: I just found this in a recent Street.com update on Cisco...FYI... <<Cisco's Really Expensive Employees Aren't the Ones It Buys Value-per-employee figures for one company were conspicuously missing from a piece here Tuesday about how much Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO - news) is paying to buy engineers. The absent company? Cisco itself. The San Jose, Calif.-based equipment maker has paid on average $3.5 million per employee in its recent acquisitions. That means that it pays slightly more for each engineer, the true object of its affection when it swallows a company with no products or revenue. Is $3.5 million worth it? Well, it's cheap compared with Cisco's own employees. At Tuesday's market value of $424 billion, Cisco's 26,140 employees are valued at more than $16 million each to Wall Street. Think about that for a moment. Investors expect, on average, each Cisco employee to generate $16 million of value. Cisco generates about $666,000 of revenue annually for each employee, based on the annualization of its $4.35 billion in revenue for the second fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31. That means it will take a generation for each employee to account for in sales what investors will pay in market value. These are the times in which we live.>> Any thoughts about the value of those Cisco employees? Best Regards, Scott

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