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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: yard_man who wrote (40958)	12/25/1998 5:28:00 PM
From: accountclosed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

Now, soaring Internet shares are changing the way some investors value companies. Amazon.com shares rise by the day even as business losses widen. In contrast, Microsoft trades at 63 times the past year's earnings -- a lofty multiple by most analysts' standards, but a multiple nonetheless. ''Microsoft has a solid product and they have real earnings,'' said Dan Eagan, a money manager at BlackRock, which oversees $115 billion. ''At that price, they're very cheap, versus a multiple you can't calculate bloomberg.com The logic of valuations is getting weaker and weaker, imo. Second post of mine in two days that said MSFT was cheap when you compare it to other bizarre valuations