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To: Lucretius who wrote (276129)	2/3/2004 11:02:01 AM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) of 436258

Buy RHAT - stuff like that almost always goes up after reports like this: "Red Hat," writes Mr. Stansberry in The Blast, a daily e-mail for subscribers to his Pirate Investor group of investment advisories, "a company that packages the free Linux computer operating system and sells it to corporate users, is now valued by the stock market for $3.6 billion. That's almost 30 times its sales estimate for 2004. Not 30 times future earnings...30 times future sales. - "That's about the richest valuation I've ever seen for a company with over $1 billion in market capitalization," Porter continues. "It must be a super-profitable company, right? Wrong. Over the last three years the company lost $232 million...before giving away $181 million in stock options. How ridiculous is Red Hat's share price? Barron's recently pointed out that Red Hat is trading for a larger value than the entire likely future revenues of its industry. - "By 2007, software analysts estimate the total size of the paid-Linux market will reach $600 million...that's about 1/6th of Red Hat's current market capitalization. How much would a knowledgeable investor pay for a company like Red Hat?

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