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To: FJB who wrote (31042)9/4/1997 12:10:00 AM
From: Ibexx   of 186894
 
Robert,

Selling puts has been one of Microsoft's favorite maneuver, too.

First of all, the company pockets the proceeds right away, and in the rare event when the shares go down--thus being "put" to it, the company could just dip into the "buy-back" funds and purchase the shares cheaply.

According to some Microsoft employees on SI, MSFT has never been put the shares yet--just think about all that extra revenues!

I wouldn't be surprised if Intel has been doing the same thing.

Regards,
Ibexx
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