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Technology Stocks : EMC How high can it go? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (13029)	8/18/2001 5:53:16 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17183

Good one, JDN. Not many people may know that Michael Ruettgers managed the early Patriot missile defense program at Raytheon. As you know, missile defense involves hitting a bullet with another bullet through a very small time window. One doesn't have to look very far from this old marine to explain why EMC has the deadliest crossover moves in technology. EMC Selected Market Data 1987-2001 STOCK Market YEAR Sales RETURN+ Cap+ Notes 1987 <$200M 39% NA EMC SPO - Black Monday 1988 <$200M (69%) NA MR joins EMC 1989 <$200M (34%) NA EMC turnaround 1990 <$200M 146% NA EMC(1%) vs IBM (75%) 1991 $232M 56% $ 307M BOOM! ZAP! POW! 1992 $349M 186% $ 874M BOOM! ZAP! POW! 1993 $783M 178% $ 3.0B BOOM! ZAP! POW! 1994 $1.4B 33% $ 4.3B EMC(1%) vs Unix/NT(99%) 1995 $1.9B (30%) $ 3.4B EMC(41%) vs IBM(34%) 1996 $2.3B 115% $ 7.7B EMC(16%) vs Unix/NT(84%) 1997 $2.9B 66% $ 13.5B EMC reorganizes McDATA 1998 $4.0B 210% $ 41.7B EMC ESN(1%)Software (8%) 1999 $6.7B 157% $112.5B EMC(26%) vs Unix/NT(74%) 2000 $8.9B 22%* $143.5B EMC ESN(39%)Software(26%) 2001 - - - BOOM! ZAP! POW! + Based on end of year closing stock prices. * Excludes McDATA stock dividend Stock Splits: Record Date Payable Date Split 05/19/00 6/02/00 2 for 1 05/14/99 5/28/99 2 for 1 10/31/97 11/17/97 2 for 1 11/26/93 12/10/93 2 for 1 05/24/93 6/7/93 2 for 1 11/09/92 11/24/92 3 for 2 08/10/87 8/31/87 3 for 2