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To: Eric Wells who wrote (76718)	9/6/1999 3:47:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

"Insiders obtained X dollars in proceeds per dollar net income." For companies that had a loss, this column is labeled NA. Eric, This is great information. Thank you. Would it not be a more accurate picture if those firms that had a loss, had their losses subtracted from firms with a profit to give a true bottom line number comparing insider sales to company profits? Glenn

To: Eric Wells who wrote (76718)	9/6/1999 7:04:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Eric, thank you very much! I know i mentioned in passing a few days ago that it would be cool to see, but I didn't expect anyone to actually do it! Now all you need to do is add the trailing 0's to the figures so the average lay-person will be shocked by the size of the numbers, and then we can forward it to several news organizations. You may very well get published. I contend that the vast majority of retail investors at large have NO IDEA how much money insiders at these scams are stealing from them on a daily basis. Maybe when those retail investors see the cold hard numbers, they'll begin to wonder what the hell is going on. Thanks again

To: Eric Wells who wrote (76718)	9/6/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: umbro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Eric, that's an excellent study - to put things in perspective, would you be able to run the numbers on a few of the less internutty, but well-knonw stocks, such as MSFT, CSCO, IBM? Just curious to see if this ratio of spending the shareholder's money at about the same rate as sales is unique to the dot com's? Actually, it would be hard to imagine MSFT and CSCO insiders cashing in close to the amount of their sales, so maybe some stocks with market caps. a little lower, and more similar to those on your list, would be better choices. (I think it would be worth sending that study in to Barron's, or some other pub. - they could definitely wrap an interesting story around those numbers.)

To: Eric Wells who wrote (76718)	9/6/1999 7:40:00 PM
From: kaydee	Respond to of 164684

Eric, An excellent piece of information.... Back to lurking, DB

To: Eric Wells who wrote (76718)	9/6/1999 9:29:00 PM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Eric, thanks for putting out this list and taking the time. A couple of things come to mind. (1) The bulls and the SEC don't care. (2) Never have so few owed so much to the public. (3) My kingdom to be an insider Ps Did you know that Arthur Levitt the Chairman of the SEC used to work for a slut?