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

To: 16yearcycle who wrote (6373)	5/1/1998 3:26:00 PM
From: WeisbrichA	Respond to of 74651

EK, You are right about MSFT! Growth has been about 90X over 20 years. That is north of 25% compounded. $9,000 invested in 1988 would have grown to about $800,000 in todays $ (not adjusted for inflation). I shoulda, woulda, coulda done that! Past performance is no ....... The question remains. As companies mature, can >20% growth rates be maintained? Can MSFT continue to grow at these rates or has growth rate peaked or even leveled. Funny thing happens when a company gets very big. They get a lot of attention, favorable or otherwise. It is the otherwise that costs $$$$. With the Feds now some states attacking, can MSFT absorb the costs of being BIG? Another question. As a company increases in size with a diverse product line, will there be a point where efficiencies of scale start to diminish? IMO, MSFT will prevail with the Feds. What really irritates me is the states who, emboldened from their tobacco ventures, have outgrown their hats. RW