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To: Sleeperz who wrote (2019)	3/22/1998 8:41:00 AM
From: Meghan Richards	Respond to of 5827

<< Not too many people would buy $1000/$160 shares of a stock. But the question of Risk is for Ballard Power $1000/$10 = 100 shares $1000/$160 = 6.25 shares. >> I really hope you are just teasing. Typical advise is not to invest in various companies in terms of equal share amounts, but in terms of an equal dollar value. Everything else being equal, there is more 'risk' investing $10,000 in a $10 stock, than investing $10,000 in a $160 stock. Please read a few books before you cause any significant damage to your portfolio.

To: Sleeperz who wrote (2019)	3/22/1998 3:09:00 PM
From: Lazlo Pierce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5827

CR, so in your scenario, al BLDPF would have to do is split 10 for 1, then you'd have your $12 stock. The point is not what the price per share is, rather the entire market capitilization, i.e. # shares x price/sh. You can have a stock w/5M shares trading @ 100 that is a lot cheaper priced (yet having the SAME MARKET CAP), than a stock that has say 100M shares trading @ 5. By not even mentioning this in your analysis earlier to me shows an alarming lack of insight. <<Not too many people would buy $1000/$160 shares of a stock. But the question of Risk is for Ballard Power $1000/$10 = 100 shares $1000/$160 = 6.25 shares. At $10 not alot of expectations were built into the market cap. But at $160 alot of expectations are built into the market cap>> Dave