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

To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (10180)	6/6/2004 12:23:02 PM
From: Big Bucks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Cary, well keep holding, I hope it works out for you....I'll be glad to buy your shares at a lower price when the stock value meets my purchase price target critera.....but actually, there are better profit gains to be had in other semi equips with fewer shares outstanding and with a better demand % ratio....8^)

To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (10180)	6/6/2004 12:35:38 PM
From: Big Bucks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Cary "Dilution has nothing to do with supply and demand. Dilution affects stock price in the obvious way, more shares, lower price. This is arithmetic. Cut a pie into more pieces and the pieces are smaller. It doesn't tell you anything about how hungry for pie people are. Some might say that if the smaller pieces sell for less, demand for these particular pieces might increase and that is usually the rationale for stock splits." Let's look at it from a different perspective..... There is 1 pie, and 6 people who want a slice of that pie, who are willing to pay $1 for a slice. All things being equal, each slice is actually worth $1 each. Now lets assume that the pie is sliced into 20 pieces with 6 people still wanting a piece of pie....are they willing to pay $1 for a smaller piece? It depends on how hungry they are or if maybe there is another similar 6 slice pie that they can get for $1..... Who determines what is a bargain? Those buying the pie or those selling it?