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Non-Tech : Auric Goldfinger's Short List -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dale Baker who wrote (5154)	4/28/2000 7:16:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19428

Dale, just out of curiosity, what major institutions are you referring to? Hard to believe they would not factor such humungous debt into their 'metrics.' And there's not that much institutional ownership of DISH - which can actually be a good thing, of course. Still looks to me as if the company is betting the farm on finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Hope it finds the pot,however, for your sake, and believe it or not, for mine as well. Although I could never bring myself to buy risky stocks like DISH for my portfolio of individual stocks, I let my 'hot sector' mutual funds buy them; I figured the folks there were pros, and knew what they were doing. (I am not so sure about that, though, after the March-April downdraft, which beat them down a lot more than it did my portfolio of individual stocks.) In any event, the fact is that DISH is one of the top holdings of Invesco Communications, which I happen to own. ;>) Incidentally, I took a quick look at the numbers of the company you mentioned as partnering up with DISH -- that is, GILTF. To this conservative eye, it looks more promising. Revenue also increasing at an eye-popping rate, some cashflow problems attendant on rapid expansion, but the company is actually making a small profit, and it has very little debt. That should give it much more breathing space, & room to maneuver. Are you familiar with the company? jbe