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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: verdad who wrote (128929)	5/12/2003 1:22:33 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Some interesting statistics for your continuing education: If you had invested $10,000 five years ago (1998) in: IBM: today it would be worth $15,406 XOM: today it would be worth $10,676 CSCO: today it would be worth $12,444 INTC: today it would be worth $9,382 JDSU: today it would be worth $4591 QCOM: today it would be worth $47,326. I invested more than $10,000 in QCOM five years ago. So what if some of my taxes (and yours) helped QCOM in its initial government sponsored research.(Uncle Sam came out of this deal with a lot of excellent technology which it continues to use in its world-dominating imperial surge.) And I am more than happy with my investment returns from my romantically enthralled long-term relationship with QCOM. I continue to enjoy dancing with this queen whose kingdom continues to expand exponentially. It will be a long time in the future before the music stops and the dance is over. Imagine: I could have invested in JDSU, or INTC, or the others and pretended that none of my taxes contributed to their success??? Would that make me feel better? Or superior? Or just poorer?