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Strategies & Market Trends : MDA - Market Direction Analysis
SPY 685.33+1.1%4:00 PM EST
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To: fedhead who wrote (47533)4/21/2000 2:03:00 AM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (2) of 99985
 
Amindo, be careful!

$885 million of MSFT's $2.39 billion quarter profits, was from investment gains. Without the investment gains, MSFT's operational profits were $1.5 billion, or 20% lower than last year. That's the real story.

MSFT, like Intel and GE, is now relying on investment gains to show earnings growth. Ironically, out of favor companies, like COMS, that do the same, are punished mercilessly by the market. Compare COMS's P/E ratio of 16 (which includes their investment gains) with MSFT's.
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