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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bilow who wrote (34532)	11/21/1999 8:32:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

That is not how corporate valuation works. Most companies are valued by management and product inventory. If MSFT had a billion dollars in cash, that billion gives them XX billion in real options to manipulate at will. These option are worth either more, equal or less than a billion dollars, given the situation and oppurtunity exercised. MSFT has proven the ability to exercise their real options with greater ability than their competition, which makes a billion dollars in MSFT hands worth more than a billion dollars in your hands or a billion dollars in the bank. Using your ideology, all companies should be valued at a multiple of 1 based upon the amount of money they have in the bank. Bill Gates is worth more having $100,000 in the bank than Ed Slovowiczh (whoever that is:-) is worth with $5 million in the bank, due to expertise, connections and proven execution ability.

To: Bilow who wrote (34532)	11/21/1999 1:31:00 PM
From: ed	Respond to of 74651

As long as they have that money on hand, they can use that money any time they want to make money !!! How did you find out that Microsoft borrowed 10 Billion ? Microsoft had made money quarter after quarter, where did that money go ?