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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (21774)11/25/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 24154
 
Microsoft, he said, had an "astonishing" 38.5 percent profit margin -- more than any other high-tech firm in the Fortune 500. How, then, can this company claim that it doesn't derive benefits frrom its monopoly position?

What is this "tasty tidbit" being offered to prove?
Profitability, like P/E, is not a particularly reliable indicator of monopoly power. I'm not saying it's irrelevant, just that there are better indcia.