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To: Bruce Bland who wrote (7952)	5/4/1999 7:59:00 AM
From: Bruce Bland	Respond to of 52051

Re: MCLL(not holding)-Watching closely--at support with excellent news out this morning on PR Newswire and Comtex. Metrocall, Inc. Ticker: MCLL Page 1 of 10 Complete Financials: September 1998 Exchange NASD Earnings Announcement: December 1998* FY END DEC ISSUE DATA (04/30/99) PER SHARE DATA RATIOS Price $ 3.13 EPS (TTM) $ -3.36* P/E (TTM) NM* 52W High $ 7.44 Div. Rate $ 0.00 Yield 0.00 % 52W Low $ 2.69 Book Value $ 2.15 Price/Book 1.46 Shrs Out 40.95 Mil Cash $ 0.13 ROE (TTM) -99.63% Float 22.90 Mil Rev (TTM) $ 11.61 ROA (TTM) -12.11% Mon. Vol 3.38 Mil Curr. Ratio 0.81 Beta 1.20 LT Dbt/Eqty 4.13 BRIEF: Metrocall, Inc. provides local, regional, and nationwide paging and other wireless messaging services. MCLL operates in over 1000 U.S. cities and provides services to more than 4M subscribers. For the nine months ended 9/30/98, revenues rose 47% to $312.5M. Net loss applicable to Common totalled $93.4M, up from $43.2M. Revenues reflect an increase in the number of pagers in service. Higher loss suffered from various administrative and facility expenses. PRELIMINARY: For the 3 months ended 12/31/98, revenues were 152,250; after tax earnings were -40,397.