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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (118844)	7/2/2000 5:23:45 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578422

My recollection is that Intel didn't exactly get away with padding out earnings with capital gains the last couple quarters. The analysts seemed to be curious about where the money was coming from. Microsoft got away with it for a while, though. Cheers, Dan.

To: Gopher Broke who wrote (118844)	7/2/2000 5:27:25 PM
From: f.simons	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578422

>>when Intel use stock sales to bolster their numbers (rather than just boosting them) and the analysts take note of this and downgrade.<< The earnings estimates I have seen recently have excluded capital gains of 2.3 BILLION dollars. I think that analysts and investors have become more sophisticated about the capital gains. A dollar of cg should not be awarded that same weight as a dollar of revenue, but it should not be completely ignored either, which everyone on this thread seems to believe. Frank