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Technology Stocks : America On-Line (AOL)
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To: Sam who wrote (3523)1/27/1999 3:41:00 PM
From: Gaffa  Read Replies (1) of 41369
 
... AOL sold more than 4.9 million Excite shares for nearly half a billion dollars, according to AOL spokeswoman Tricia Primrose. That half-billion is almost pure profit, since AOL valued that investment, along with some other holdings, at a cost basis of $32 million in an SEC filing last year.


So where to use these extra cash now? broadband? e-commerce? more strategic investment? more floppies?

Here are the numbers I'll be looking for:
other revenue(how well they did in the last Xmas season), margin(will they move above 10%), usage numbers(how much of consumers' spare time AOL can capture), growth in unearned revenue.

When will Netscape announce their earnings? They'd better not give us a big oops...

don't be expecting huge surprise folks, AOL has been talking more about predictability than anything else. otherwise everything looking goooood...
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