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

To: GST who wrote (49170)	4/7/1999 12:21:00 AM
From: hsg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

GST, I love these tech stocks, and buy them monthly via a tech heavy mutual fund (pretty boring I know), but am amazed, and worried about their lofty valuation. I have read (and am quite familiar with this concept) that a # of these tech stocks have been trading more on supply and demand than fundamentals as a good % of the stock is not available for trading due to restrictions from the IPO (ie. on fees paid to consultants and insiders in shares that were restricted from trading for a period of time, typically 2 years), and that as these shares hit the market the amount of $ chasing these shares will fall RELATIVE to the # of shares outstanding, causing the share price to more accurately reflect fundametal values, whatever that might be...