Hi Dave - no offense, as I consider you my cyberfriend, but we ve discussed this ad nauseum <g> only last week, empirical evidence has suggested nearly all analysts do not count 1 time gain derived from the sale of assets. Or, if you read income statement, which is beyond clueless people like myself <g>, the item people look at is earning from operations. Of course, there are exception to the rules. For example, incubators and asset management companies core business is to harvest their investments. But then, that is their core operations :). You made a good point though. If a company reports the sale of its own stock as earning, it would be a kiss of death <vbg>. In CEGE case, if it does sell ABGX stock, it is a mild positive, if the cash from the sale is deployed meaningfully. Anyway, just my 2c and my last post on this subject
best, Bosco |
