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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Teddy who wrote (45438)	1/24/1998 7:53:00 PM
From: ben luong	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Iomega's missing earning may be due to use of diluted shares to calculate EPS. Analysts probably use outstanding shares without the inclusion of options in their EPS estimate. IOM has basic EPS of $0.14, and diluted EPS of $0.13. They may miss the estimate by $0.01, not $0.02, as many people have believed. Does anyone have any more information on how the analysts calculate IOM's EPS?

To: Teddy who wrote (45438)	1/24/1998 8:40:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 58324

Teddy, >i'm almost at the point of selling everything and picking a few blue chips with DRIPs.< You can't be serious?! And let all that hard won experience go to waste? Not that I haven't thought of CDs and investing in G and KO after my losses. But I got over it. Good investing! GM

To: Teddy who wrote (45438)	1/25/1998 4:58:00 AM
From: Mel Boreham	Respond to of 58324

Teddy, you just paid your tuition to the school of hard knocks! I too wish that I had not let that false sense of security that we all had about the end of October lull me into thinking that things were going great so why sell now... Well, looking back maybe we should try to develop an attitude that when you feel like that its time to sit down and take a real good look at where you are. Selling when you have an excellent profit for the year isn't all that bad... Yea, you will have a nice tax bill, but at the same time you had put away a nice profit and you then have the luxury of waiting for the next blip in the market to come along and then reinvest part or all of that cash either in IOM or in something that looks better at the time. I guess we should have all realized that the time to sell would have been right after Comdex with the flurry of IOM press releases and all the hype generated at the show. I will try to tell myself next time that I have that same warm and fuzzy feeling that hey things are really going great! A good indicator for a healthy pocket book... With the relatively small investment you have in IOM (probably huge to you) I still think that at the present time you would be best to just hold on to your stock in IOM and watch it recover over the next six months to a year for a nice profit later on (25% to 50% is possible). Maybe even buy some more if it dips back a bit to avg down you effective price. I tend to agree with the Motley Fool approach where they advise that the only time to sell a stock is when there is a better stock available that has greater potential than the one you have. You have gained a tremendous amount of valuable experience over the past year and I think you will be very rich some day in the not too distant future. Just remember that the Buffet approach has done pretty well over time. Happy Investing... and Drips are not a bad way to go either! Mel