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To: Jenna who wrote (12945)	8/12/1998 3:03:00 PM
From: the options strategist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120523

Jenna, notice you don't have aapl. do you think it's moves are over?

To: Jenna who wrote (12945)	8/12/1998 3:49:00 PM
From: Jenna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120523

Individual Investor: two of my favorite stocks featured (VRSN, BVSN)and one that I'm getting interested in: PSIX BVSN... the company's software turns ho-hum Web sites into marketing machines, helping Fortune 500 companies reachout to customers on a one-to-one basis. American Airlines, for exmaple, unveiled a Broadvision-powered storefront that tracks the airline's 31 million frequent flyer club members as they browse through the site, serving up hotel and car rental rates and other bonuses that match mileage levels, while triggering personal e-mails with cut rates to each user's favorite destinations. "It's the greatest personalization effort on the WEB," says American's Internet marketing chief John R. Samuel. The site's personal touch appears to be a success. Broadvisions' customer base has grow from 72 to 215 in the past yar and revenues is set to nearly double, the second consecutive year of monstrous growth...... With new customers piling in..Wall Street projects sales will grow to $50 million this year and $72 million in 1999, up from $27 million in 1997. as economics of scale kick in, and recurring revenues mount, earnins could grow even faster, rising to what analysts reckon will be about $0.42 a share in 1999, up from $0.12 a share this year... ...the company has a freight train of momentum going into the fourth quarter and 1998 earnings estimates already have jumped 33% in the past 90 days. ...If BroadVision can keep it up, those sights will rise even higher. VERISIGN VeriSign..the leading vendor of digital certificates secret seals that identify people like name tags. Consumers can use digital IDs to encrypt and tag their e-mail. With Verisign's encrypted code embedded in your PC, whoever receives your e-mail will be certain of our identity. VeriSign certificates looks to become the standard. Netscape automatically offers VeriSign IDs to uses of its Navigator. British Telecom and NationsBank have signed on as customers, and the United Parcel Service is marketing them to its 1.5 million customers as part of a new online program called OnLine dossier. Next year, Microsoft is set to market VeriSign IDs with its windows NT 5.0 server. Verisign should sell 8 million to 10 million ID's by 2000, generating revenue of $23.4 million in 1998 and $53 million in 1999. It's gold plated alliances put the company one stpe ahead of competitiors. The Stock price has been up 60% since January... PSINet PSI Net's management is confident the company's market cap will surpass $1.2 billion in the next three years -- 70% higher than it is today.... it's gross margins should go from 16% to 34% over the next four quarters. enabling PSINet to turn cash flow positive sometime in the second quarter of 1999. Revenue are estimated to rise from $216 million this year to $382 million in 1999, and that earnings before interest, tax depreciaiton, and amorization will turn positive in 1999 and soar in 2000. Shres have doubled since January to $14.... with 45 million shares outstanding, that's a market value or $630 million, just four times revenue over the past four quarters or $140.7 million. The average ISP has a multiple closer to 10..... excerpted from Individual Investor Magazine