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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: freeus who wrote (4720)	1/21/1998 11:57:00 PM
From: Davd S. Carson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

You can't time the market. just buy it when it dips and hold on for the long term. I bought for my children 10 years ago and their college education is paid for. David

To: freeus who wrote (4720)	1/22/1998 1:04:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Now I regret not buying it at 118 or 120 a few weeks ago. Hell, I regret not buying it about 18 months ago when I was waiting for it to drop another couple of points to 105 +/-. It's split since then. Today I threw in the towel and just went ahead and bought some for the long term. Finally I have all three legs to the WINTELCO route to the future: MSFT, INTC, CSCO.

To: freeus who wrote (4720)	1/22/1998 8:08:00 AM
From: johnd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Freeus, Sorry I couldn't get back to you earlier. But the market hasn't opened yet. So this should be in time for you to read. I read the MSFT reports and news service reports and analysts comments. Let me make a few comments that might answer. 1. This is an excellent revenues, earnings reports from microsoft. 2. Despite what we heard "in plain English" from Greg Maffie, when I see the 12 month rolling EPS of $3.16 (without one time charges) and the $2Billion plus of unrecognized revenues, the 1.7 Billion in positive cash flow, the 10.2 Billion of cash in hand, .... I feel I can close my eyes to invest my my long term investment dollars to this allstart hall of famer. 3. I expect that by the year 2000, MSFT will be the most profitable company on planet earth, (Intel will be second). ALso by year 2000 (Actually I expect this to happen in 99, MSFT will have the largest market cap of any stock. 4. In the long run, the companies performance determines stock price. In the short run, anything can affect the price "from asia worries to news of affairs of people in office" 5. I still maintain my prediction of 180 - 200 for this stock by Jan 99. Soma analysts (like Stanek) agrees with me. Merryl lynch on the other hand came out with a 150 target in 12 months. That surprised me a bit. On a separate note, I don't feel comfortable about CSCO and DELL. [I won't elaborate as to why ion this thread - that is meant for CSCO and DELL thread.] johnd