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Technology Stocks : THQ,Inc. (THQI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard G. Woodland who wrote (8034)	9/18/1998 4:00:00 PM
From: Marc Newman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14266

<<It's good to be King>> Rather, it's good to be lucky enough to have benefited from the worst week in the markets since 1990, followed by a 500+ point down day the following Monday. To all: I'm seeing the mention on some boards that THQ has a tough act to follow from last year's Christmas sales. In fact, some analysts expect us to do worse. I don't agree. Last year THQ mostly made up the .84 from 500,000 copies or so of NWO, the modest sales of Pax, and WCW vs the World reorders. (Plus some NOL, but I assume that THQ will use it's remaining NOL for this quarter too, mostly balancing that out.) This year, THQ has NWO/Revenge coming out a month earlier, with more time for reorders. (As many will recall, the shelves were bare of NWO in many locations by Christmas.) So I expect Revenge to sell more than NWO in the fourth quarter. The rest of THQ's secondary lineup is a lot stronger than 1997's, and then toss in Rugrats. Sooooo easy to be bullish about the rest of the year. And there are enough games pushed back to make Q1 comparisons positive as well. Marc PS--huge block trade in Brunswick today, FWIW. (Not much.)