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

To: KeepItSimple who wrote (57025)	4/2/2001 3:57:00 PM
From: David Howe	Respond to of 74651

KeepItSimple, This is old news, and your figures are a bit off. I did the math on the open puts about 4 months ago and it looked to me like the dilution would be around 1%, or a pay out of about $1.5 billion. It's been so long and this is so irrelevant that I don't have the exact numbers on me. By the way, MSFT has around $27 billion in cash and another $20 billion in long term investments. Don't you think that over the past 4 months MSFT would have taken care of this issue? They've been able to talk their stock down and then send it blasting higher with good earnings reports on two different significant occasions in the last 4 months. I'm not saying that MSFT is manipulating the stock price to position themselves better, but they've certainly had the opportunity to do so. IMO, Dave