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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (29062)	7/28/2000 11:41:26 AM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Can you offer an example? No, but given the rarity of gorillas in the first place, that isn't necessarily surprising. I think I could offer PSFT, though, as an example of a company that created a tornado, became a gorilla in that market, and then failed to capitalize on that position effectively, thus becoming a much weaker company than one would expect of a gorilla. And, we could look at ORCL as a gorilla that stumbled badly, but not fatally mid-tornado.