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Technology Stocks : Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO)
CSCO 75.19-0.1%Jan 16 9:30 AM EST
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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (63648)4/20/2003 1:55:59 PM
From: hueyone  Read Replies (1) of 77400
 
Still lots of tap dancing and foot shuffling going on in your reply imo. "I suggest expensing the *actual value* of options at exercise... *nobody can really argue with that*... " seems pretty contradictory to "I don't think there are any true expenses there".

If Options are essentially disallowed

Great companies like Intel successfully used options for years at tolerable grant rates that would not have impacted earnings in a material way had those options been expensed. It is basically from 1996 on that tech management in Silicon Valley realized that the owners were not minding the store and grant rates subsequently skyrocketed out of control. If options were expensed, we would merely return to saner grant rates imo.

Regards, Huey
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