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Technology Stocks : Aspect Telecommunications (ASPT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: WTSherman who wrote (1896)	10/17/2000 11:31:34 AM
From: Bob Trocchi	Respond to of 2018

WTSherman...\ >> 70% increase in software and breakeven results:<< Breakeven BUT ....... It included a $4.7M gain in security sales according to the press release. >>Included in the third quarter 2000 results is a net after-tax gain of $4.7 million or $0.09 per diluted share arising from the sale of marketable equity securities. << Thus with out the above mentioned sale, ASPT would have had a 0.09 loss for the Q. Some one with an accounting background can help me further on this. Later in the press release it states the following: >>Net loss in the third quarter of 2000 was $5.6 million or $0.11 per share which includes the after-tax gain of $4.7 million or $0.09 per share arising from the sale of marketable equity securities<< What is the difference in the Pro forma which showed a break even Q and then the above statement later in the press release stating a "net loss of $5.6M for the Q." I am not impressed with the financials however, I am impressed with the 70% increase in license revenue. Hmmm, I guess that is why the Press Release featured that in the headline because the details of the financials IMO were not to hot. Good Luck to us all. Bob T.