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

To: taxman who wrote (42188)	4/15/2000 5:50:00 PM
From: johnd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT is growing at 44% rate per year over last 10 years. This will continue. Taxman, for last year, FY99, that ended June 99; analysts had 1.05 as EPS estimate until Jan99; supposed to be 20 - 25% growth, they actually reported 1.41 or so. The first call estimate is artificially low by design.

To: taxman who wrote (42188)	4/15/2000 5:56:00 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

re: future EPS: I used calendar years in my post. I think you're using MSFT's fiscal years. I expect EPS increases to average 35% over the next 5 years. As I said, they've beat estimates consistently. They've posted EPS increases of 45%/Y average over the last 5 years, and the consensus expectations for longterm growth were never that high. And they have an excellent track record of changing direction and jumping on growth opportunities, of which I think there will be plenty.