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Technology Stocks : Egghead Computer (EGGS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HairBall who wrote (3954)	11/27/1998 4:10:00 PM
From: Michael Berkel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8307

Why EGGS is still undervalued compared to the competition! Here is the current valuation and why this stock could be on its way to valuations seen at ONSL. Market Caps: COOL 731.3 million EGGS 771.5 million ONSL 1873 million Current Price/Sales ratios (calculated for 12 months) COOL 12.78 EGGS 5.98 ONSL 9.46 Current Gross Margins: COOL 9.9% EGGS 10.6% ONSL 10.7% Customers/visits per month" COOL: 161.000 customers EGGS: 6.700.000 web site visitors/month. 2.300.000 customers in e-mail database. 244.000 customers just registered in auction site. ONSL: 342.000 web site vistors Conclusion: EGGS is still undervalued compared to its competition. EGGS price/sale ratio is still less than one half that of COOL but has a great deal more customers and most importantly..NAME RECOGNITION! Who (the lay public) has ever heard of Cyberian Outpost? EGGS even has more website visitors per month than ONSL which translates to more people seeing the auction site. EGGS is on a roll. To dump this stock just because of what is happening to COOL shows utter ignorance. (Source: Housaf, Yahoo!Finance Message Board)

To: HairBall who wrote (3954)	11/27/1998 4:26:00 PM
From: sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8307

"Why didn't some seller get the benefit of that bid?" That's what I'm trying to say. Some seller DID get the benefit of selling at 39 7/8. Check the Bloomberg pre-market quotes. Sure its manipulation. The buyer probably owns quite a bit of stock and the sale (500 shares) at that price was worth it to him -- just to get someone like me to make an issue out of it. And -- as you say -- impacting shorts and wannabe longs. Seems to have worked, too. If you really want to see this 'manipulation' at its best, pre-market trading in EBAY and Amazon (last week) was unbelievable.