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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (43807)	1/16/1999 7:35:00 PM
From: Kenya AA	Respond to of 97611

El: I was trying to see if there was any pattern to the splits - none that I can determine. Can't find out anything about the July 1990 split. The June 8, 1994 split was announced on April 24 - the same time that they reported Q1 earnings. The July 29, 1997 split was announced on July 1st - 9 days before they reported earnings for Q2. The January 21, 1998 split was announced on October 16, 1997 same day that Q3 earnings were announced. If I had to guess, I would say that they usually like to split the stock in the summer because traditionally there's a summer slump in the market and a split would be a catalyst to get things moving. The January 1998 split (announced 3 months ahead!!) was obviously done as a hedge against the Asian contagion and because they probably had an idea that they were going to be in trouble with the channel stuffing thing. If my assumptions are correct, I don't think we'll see a split announcement when they report in January - no need because things are going well. I wouldn't be surprised to see one during the summer though - stock price should be about 70-ish by then. K PS: I swear Ted has you Bookmarked!!!