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Technology Stocks : THQ,Inc. (THQI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Aloha who wrote (12879)	1/28/2000 3:09:00 PM
From: Madharry	Respond to of 14266

Gee for that kind of money they could buy up all of THQI now and have $100MM left over!

To: Mr. Aloha who wrote (12879)	1/28/2000 3:11:00 PM
From: Sigmund	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14266

Capitalized development costs. I do consulting work in the IT industry. On a few occasions I have had to put a value on a company. One of the ways of doing this is to assess the R&D. This is important for at least two reasons. Certainly R&D if successful leads to additional revenues or reduced costs depending on the target of the R&D. Also R&D represents a time advantage in that competitors can not duplicate the R&D instantly even if they have the funds. But of course R&D that is not successful is just money down the drain. Capitalizing development costs, if fully disclosed, should make it easier for analysts and individual investors to assess the health of a company. It would be useful to have a breakdown between development re particular titles versus development re infrastructure and new technology. If we close up today, it will be a very nice change of pace. Anyone buying today?

To: Mr. Aloha who wrote (12879)	1/28/2000 3:11:00 PM
From: NeverRight	Respond to of 14266

That's one of the problems with THQI. It is still kind of a small company and a $556 million investment would buy the whole company. Probably means that there are companies out there looking to buy THQI at much higher levels.