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To: Sammie who wrote (518)	4/23/1999 2:44:00 PM
From: FREAKAZOID	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2380

I found this some what amusing about internet stocks. I recieved this in one of those e-mail stock alerts. "AOL is one of the best of the internet stocks. It's a profitable company and has being growing it's subscriber base like mad. AOL's current market capitalization is $130 billion. For those who don't know, market capitalization is the total value of all the stock (i.e. all shares times the current price). If the price of AOL's stock didn't change, to buy it all would cost you $130 billion. Let me put that in to perspective. For that same $130 billion you could buy all the stock of General Motors AND Apple Computer AND American Airlines AND Barnes & Noble AND Boeing Aircraft AND 3Com Communications AND Coors Beer AND Whirlpool Appliances AND Wendy's Hamburgers." freak!!