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To: Big Bucks who wrote (10200)	6/10/2004 1:25:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 25522

Would I buy microsoft as a long term buy and hold, not likely....why? Because, even though it has great margins, products, market dominance, etc., it is in a mature and relatively saturated market....growth rate is slowing. It takes a lot of profit to move the price up due to the amount of shares available. The stock becomes sluggish like a beached whale, it flounders around but doesn't move much. Because of it's size (outstanding stock) it loses its' mobility. If Microsoft did a 100 to 1 reverse split it would be no smaller or quicker. It would take just as much profit to move the price up. Yes it would take less additional profit to move each share up $1 but that fact is meaningless. Is the percentage gain that is important. It doesn't matter if you gain 10% by having 1000 share go from $1 to $1.10 or if you gain 10% by having 10 shares from from $100 to $110. If Microsoft really is a "beached whale" it would be just as much of a "beached whale" after the reverse split. Tim

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