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Technology Stocks : Compaq -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rudedog who wrote (65600)	7/23/1999 12:52:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97611

Dog, RE:"I could never see how I could benefit by an AV IPO unless they gave shareholders some AV stock with the IPO... which was unlikely." Surely some shares would have had to be spun off to shareholders. This hope is what drove the stock to 51 in the first place and sent it reeling 60% after MoronPAq dashed it. CMGI shares owned by Compaq become "hidden" shares and don't help the stock (CPQ) nearly as much as owning CMGI outright. I've seen this time and time again. You take CPQ and I'll take CMGI and we'll check back in a few months. Didn't Microsoft just shove off some of it's net holdings as a tradable stock? I wonder haw that's doing? <G> Jim