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Technology Stocks : Symantec (SYMC) - What does it look like? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karl Zetmeir who wrote (1587)	4/22/1999 1:16:00 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2069

Symantec gets 57% of revenues from security and assistance products. That would include NAV, NU, Systemworks, Cleansweep, Norton Web Services, and a variety of QDEK products. SYMC gets 42% of sales from Corporate. Here I would assume 60 to 70% are from security and assistance products. 70% of 42% works out to be 29%. Thus, 57%-29% of revenues are from security and assistance products in retail, i.e., 28%. Now the Macintosh accounts for about 5% to 8% (my estimate). That leaves 20% to 23% for retail for Windows for NAV, NU, Systemworks etc. I would assume 40 to 50% for NAV as an upper limit. That works out to be about 10% of total revenues for the Windows platform and about 2-4% of retail revenues from the Macintosh platform. Keep in mind that Symantec charges a $4 fee for subscription to NAV per year. That may account for 2% of the revenues out of the 10% for the Windows platform and perhaps 1/2% for the Mac platform. These are just my estimates from the top of my head. If you need firmer estimates, I can give it another go.