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Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (3999)	5/5/1998 6:51:00 PM
From: Candle stick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Here is a little comparisson of all 3 companies to make things a bit easier: AMZN market cap...2.26 billion BKS market cap....2.39 billion BGP market cap....2.46 billion AMZN debt...530 million BKS debt....450 million BGP debt....250 million AMZN sales....144 million BKS sales.....2.7 Billion BGP sales.....2.3 Billion AMZN LOSS.....(40) cents/share Q1 BKS profit....n/a BGP profit....5 cents/share Projected earnings(loss) from First Call: AMZN....($-1.97) in 1998 and ($-.67)in 1999 BKS.....$ 1.13 in 1998 and $ 1.44 in 1999 BGP.....$ 1.21 in 1998 and $ 1.51 in 1999 ONLINE BOOKSTORES,,,,,all 3 companies have online bookstores (BGP opens this week) Physical stores: AMZN...NONE BKS....'1,200 BGP..... 1,000+ (?) >>>>>WHY ARE PEOPLE PAYING APPROXIMATELY THE SAME PRICE FOR THESE 3 COMPANIES, WHEN CLEARLY AMZN IS NOT EVEN DOING 1/20TH THE SALES, NO PROFITS, MASSIVE LOSSES, MASSIVE PROJECTED LOSSES FOR 2 YEARS, AND TREMENDOUS DEBT AT HUGE INTEREST, 10%...??????? IT IS ALL HYPE AND A SEXY STORY........