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

To: TimF who wrote (10324)	6/10/2004 1:37:28 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Precisely!<eom>

To: TimF who wrote (10324)	6/10/2004 3:26:42 PM
From: Big Bucks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25522

Tim, It doesn't matter if you gain 10% by having 1000 share go from $1 to $1.10 or if you gain 10% by having 10 shares from from $100 to $110. If Microsoft really is a "beached whale" it would be just as much of a "beached whale" after the reverse split. So if MS earning's are good, why aren't the funds/institutions continuing to buy at these low levels? MS has saturated the market with shares, there is no reason for institutional investors to add more, however, if MS offers a dividend the equation will change. This strategy would offer shareholders a premium for holding and perhaps adding more shares. MS's growth curve is flattening out relative to the number of shares outstanding and the likelihood that the shares will increase geometrically, as they did early in the growth curve, is unlikely. Would you expect MS's share price to rise if they do an active share buy back program?