Hank, congrats on your success with ebay which has been propelled by
the high short interest. Data for other net stocks are shown below
(from Barron's Online).
Regards,
Tom
Company
Shares
Outstanding*
Publicly
Traded
Shares*
Float
Public
Shares
Sold
Short
@Home
115,073
35,647
31%
7%
Adobe Systems
67,278
58,364
87
7
Amazon.com
50,234
17,712
35
42
America Online
225,946
193,390
86
9
broadcast.com
16,619
5,870
35
18
CNET
16,696
6,207
37
51
Dell
1,264,000
1,119,377
89
3
eBay
37,200
3,500
9
39
Electronic Arts
60,642
44,797
74
4
Excite
50,339
24,809
49
19
Intuit
55,850
47,129
84
3
Microsoft
2,459,000
1,651,426
67
1
Netscape
96,417
66,957
69
5
TMP Worldwide
26,928
8,559
32
14
VeriSign
22,616
11,006
49
2
Yahoo!
114,456
58,430
51
15
Ziff-Davis
100,000
25,800
26
1
*in thousands
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