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

To: ed who wrote (9690)	7/27/1998 3:06:00 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

So, pls explain how do you come to the conclusion that Microsoft's growth rat has slowed down considerably !!! This is the data I got: Thompson Investor Network: eps 1994 .49 1995 .62 1996 .92 1997 1.43 These are for financial years. From First Call I have this for calendar years (I think?) Last year (actual) 1.78 This year (forecast) 2.15 Next year (forecast) 2.62 I know there is a gap here (maybe someone can fill this in) but these are the growth rates: 1994-5 26.5% 1995-6 48.4% 1996-7 55.4% Last-this 20.7% This next 21.8% If we also use your data (not eps but good enough) for 6/30/97 to 6/30/98 we have: 27.4% 3/31/97-3/31/98 29.2% Putting these recent actuals together with the forecasts (and MSFT is normally very close to the consensus) we can see a very marked and continuing growth slow down from the very rapid growth of 95-6 and 96-7. David