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

To: Frank Z who wrote (18827)	9/28/1998 4:58:00 PM
From: Jan Crawley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Hi, Frank, this is a short-cut answer, but I am pretty sure it is correct. The original IPO was 3 plus million shares and about 1.7 "convertible" preferred shares, therefore, about 5 million shares. After split, the original "float"(certificated shares) was approx. 10 million shares. (most of those shares were sold to institutions.) Amzn's filed 144s(shares sold by insiders) are about 3 million shares since July 1998. 10 million plus 3 million is the 13 million so called current "float". The caviar is the short-selling shares, which increase the shares sold by the exact number. Hope that I am not confussing you or anybody else. Pls correct me if I am wrong.