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Technology Stocks : EMC How high can it go? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GVTucker who wrote (6636)	6/4/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: space cadet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17183

Of course, earnings are not affected by a split. However, it appears to be harder to have a blow out quarter because all your earnings numbers are halved. For example, emc normally beats earnings by two cents, so maybe 4 cents would qualify as a blow out quarter. But now beating earnings by 2 cents would be the same as beating earnings by 4 cents presplit but it just doesn't have the same bang for the buck. I know it doesn't make sense mathematically but that's how people are. So to really blow out the numbers is harder after a split than before. It's a psychological point, not a mathematical point. Feel free to disregard it. Anyway, the first really great day for emc in a while. Let's see if we can build on it on Monday.