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To: Bill Wexler who wrote (4452)	12/14/1997 7:42:00 PM
From: fut_trade	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

I think even you can understand these numbers. exchange2000.com Let's try to get back to Yahoo!

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (4452)	12/14/1997 7:45:00 PM
From: Peter Goss	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 27307

Here is a question for the longs: what do you require as your basic return on investment to justify the risk of owning YHOO shares? Right now the risk free rate of return is 5.00%. YHOO's rate of return is let's say a generous 0.20 of eps next year on a $60 stock price. That gives an earnings yield of 0.3%. YHOO would need earnings of $3.00 per share to equal the risk free rate of return. That may happen in ten years, but you are paying for it now. Can you blithely say you made your money on stock appreciation? To quote Barb: you can't unless you sell. So all the YHOO buyers, even precious Mary Meeker, are earning 0.3% yield with HUGE risks, and the old guy who doesn't own a computer or even know what the internet is earns 5+% on his CDs. So who is smarter in the long run? Peter G.