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Technology Stocks : America On-Line (AOL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FlameMe who wrote (32405)	10/7/1999 6:27:00 PM
From: KailuaBoy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

OK. I'll bite. Scenario #1 So AOL issues 4.2 Billion new shares of stock. Now they have stock to do a deal. What happens to the value of your shares of AOL when they don't split but rather are now in a pool of 6 billion instead of 1.8 billion? You get fewer dollars when you sell each share. Scenario #2 AOL decides not to issue new shares but rather split the outstanding shares into thirds thereby increasing the number of shares to 6 billion. How does that give them "more shares" with which to do a deal? Are you gonna give them one of your shares back when they split them into thirds? I still don't get it. Can someone smart please help me here? KB