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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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Nov 14 9:30 AM EST

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To: Dennis who wrote (11279)	10/12/1998 6:34:00 PM
From: johnd	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Dennis, Regarding your question of whether one must wait for the resolution of the DOJ suit, here is what one could be trading off: The issues you bring-up (DOJ suit) probably is the biggest cloud over the stock right now. So there is some uncertainity as to how it will eventually pan out. So one could wait for it to resolve. The other approach is to make a reasonable guess that microsoft will win and invest your dollars now. The reason I, myslef, doing this later option is (actually staying invested) is because a) If MSFT did not have the DOJ suit cloud, it may be trading 20% higher and then it will cost me that additional 20% premium. We saw evidance of this phenomenon in summer when MSFT won the appeals court ruling. b) The trial could take another year to resolve and by that time the price of the stock may be 150+ due to ever increasing rolling EPS and increased value of the company. So I decided on staying invested in MSFT and keep adding on dips. Once again, who knows, I could be the one to learn from hard knocks. johnd

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