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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

MSFT 485.49

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Nov 26 3:59 PM EST

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To: Bearded One who wrote (10188)	8/19/1998 1:33:00 PM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik	Read Replies (1) of 74651

It sounds to me as if you are attempting to evaluate MSFT as a "value" stock instead of a "growth" stock. Consider: Suppose that Microsoft stated publically that it would never ever pay dividends, nor would it ever buy back its stock. What would happen to the price? Never?? What kind of copmany would be so stupid to make such an absurdly long-range claim? MSFT does not pay dividends or buy back stock because they feel they have better things to do with their cash. That may change... twenty years from now. So earnings and cash flow and what not are just help in guessing how much is left at the end of the day to distribute to shareholders. The point is, "the end of the day" isn't even on the horizon as far as most MSFT shareholders are concerned.

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