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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (71628)	7/25/2002 12:47:02 PM
From: alydar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

mr. dowd, personally, i think msft management is doing the right thing by not having a major repurchase of their stock becuase of the associated risk. i would like to see some dividend though. i do not see any risk involved in this and it is a reward for being a shareholder. i think that cash is king and msft should hold on to as much as possible. it is obvious that "wall street" does not agree with me because they are greedy. they need a repurchase or dividend play to help them sell the stock. if i were a shareholder i would surely want a chunk of that $50 billion passed onto me. i cannot think of one reason why msft would not issue a dividend can you? $50 billion can purchase some lovely countries never mind companies. as you know, msft cannot use the cash freely to purchase their way to profitability because they are a monopoly. so why not a dividend. rocky.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (71628)	7/25/2002 1:01:19 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

What gives did they think MSFT would announce some great big buy back first thing this AM at this conference? JFD, If they do announce a buy back (which would make sense to me), it will be later this PM. Also, this market fiasco makes it even more likely that the judge will accept the settlement between MSFT and the DOJ. Bashers will yammer about the "law", but the whole anti-trust thing is, and has been, about politics and pull. EDIT: And speaking of that farce, we have AOL at 9, ORCL at 8, SUNW at 3.5 and dropping like a rock. All the whining chickens are getting their feathers plucked. Regards, JB