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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Return to Sender who wrote (6744)	8/13/2003 12:53:48 PM
From: BWAC	Respond to of 25522

<What if AMAT has to expense options? Does that cut future earnings by 25% or more a year? I think it does.> Don't know. The option question was asked in the conference call by some analyst. Wanted to know the effect expensing of options would have had on this quarter earnings. Answer from Management: Don't know, haven't calculated it yet, see the 10Q when we file it, it will be detailed there. That is one comment I did not like. Sounded evasive if not less than forthright. They know or should have known to the penny. They, apparently to me, just didn't want to say and instead intend to bury it in the never read 10Q.