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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Teflon who wrote (21118)	4/21/1999 8:52:00 AM
From: Big Kahuna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

It's just funny these days that no matter how much you make, if you don't blow the expectations out of the water, the stock suffers. It's not enough that MSFT is making a lot of money, if they don't make it all, we should sell the stock. This is probably where the term 'fuzzy logic' originated from. There is Office 2000 coming down the pipe and Windows 2000 next year. It's this myopic view that drives me nuts.

To: Teflon who wrote (21118)	4/21/1999 8:55:00 AM
From: Catcher	Respond to of 74651

analyst on cnbc this am (can't remember who) was very positive on the report. when pressed for a 12 month stock price target he said "we would expect stock to outpace company earnings growth which we figure will be at least 25%" i look upon msft as my long term savings account. prudential must be joking--really betting the farm on this one. too bad their isn't an organization that tracks success rates for these analysts. then the next time an analyst gave an opinion, the newscaster could say, for example, "these comments from mr kumar who carries a 42% accuracy rating