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To: GVTucker who wrote (142)	4/30/2004 1:25:31 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 15851

thanks, I actually tried to dig some of this stuff up myself but googling google IPO in this frenzy brought up so much junk I got fed up, finally I discovered the actual SEC filing but I haven't been through it yet. Here's an article that thinks google is worth 50 billion, using a comparison to yahoo. I didn't realize (did you?) that Google expensed options in their financial statements? Yahoo of course does not, so this guy added Google's options costs back into earnings for a valid yahoo comparison - to me this is somewhat bogus, although I am certain google will be issuing FAR FEWER options than yahoo in the new climate, plus the fact that Google is offshoring and thus far has few employees relative to yahoo. Another wierd thing about this article is that the writer thinks yahoo is trading at $71. Hellooooo? STEP ONE: Yahoo had earnings of $237.9 million last year. Investors are paying $71 a share for Yahoo stock. When you add up all the shares, Yahoo is valued at $38 billion. So far, so good. Rules of thumb to calculate company's value siliconvalley.com