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Netscape -- Giant Killer or Flash in the Pan?
An SI Board Since December 1996
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Emcee:  Marco Polo Type:  Unmoderated
Market Cap Update (4/30/98): $2.6 billion

Netscape is generally hailed as the greatest story emerging from the first phase of the Internet transition. Its stock has come a long way from its IPO, and at $57-$58 a share it is worth no less than $5 billion, or about 20 Cheesecake Factories.

Many see it has the one that will kill Microsoft, but others see it as next in a long line of flash in the pans. About the only things that both sides can agree on is that NSCP is currently trading at about 250 times earnings and a whopping 20 times sales. Those are high expectations.

Netscape is a good company and the stock has done very well SO FAR. But is it worth the current price?

Longs and shorts equally welcome on this thread.

Good Luck and Happy Investing!

~Ben :-)
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4903Flash in the pan. But you were my first love, the first stock Iever bought (on tzax14/9/2012
4902 Netscapees Storm the Valley/..."swinging for the fences" Alumni of E. Graphs-4/3/1999
4901jwz.org An interesting take from the guy that headed Mozilla.... James Fulop-4/2/1999
4900 no idea. I've always avoided Mac products because they were generally overGreen Receipt-4/2/1999
4899 Has anyone here ever used Netscape Communicator on a Mac Power PC? The installEd Newman-4/2/1999
4898 Even though this company is history, it's last day continues to shine: Green Receipt-3/23/1999
4897 <B>Yup... here's the news release. I hope I'm Safe....</B>Willy Mena-3/19/1999
4896 Various reports today. Check c-net etc. Around 30% claimed jacksoo-3/19/1999
4895 Anybody heard anything about layoffs expected at Netscape? Leslie Helm-3/19/1999
4894 bye bye nscp, it's been fun. mike thomas-3/17/1999
4893 It has locked onto the ratio of conversion - 0.9 times AOL. The discount is gonRajiv-3/17/1999
4892 No prob... looks like it is doing the jerk dance right now... lol James Fulop-3/17/1999
4891 oops... it is trading at around 100.. Sorry for the confusion I caused. RegarRajiv-3/17/1999
4890 Thanks... So it goes.... James Fulop-3/17/1999
4889 Conversion date is today. Your brokerage firm might take some time to credit yoRajiv-3/17/1999
4888 Wait, does this mean halted for good? If so, I wish this was made clear, as myJames Fulop-3/17/1999
4887 Today <eom> Rajiv-3/17/1999
4886 AOL Completes Acquisition Of Netscape dailynews.yahoo.com >>DULLES, Va.E. Graphs-3/17/1999
4885 I know NSCP is history, but when exactly does it BECOME history? Whats the datDr. Id-3/17/1999
4884 NSCP is history <eom> Rajiv-3/17/1999
4883 Anyone know when NSCP and AOL will merge? What's the conversion date? Dr. Id-3/17/1999
4882 WSell threadmates, what do we do with this thread. I own both nscp and aol, anLarry S.-3/15/1999
4881 Rather Great NEWS!!!! dailynews.yahoo.com IN PRE-TRADING ITS ALREADY UP TO $8Green Receipt-3/15/1999
4880 I remember trying to access "the zone" via Netscape browser a while bJ. Kittle-3/6/1999
4879 the enter button shows up on 4.5 fine---hotmail that is. Lloyd Zinn-3/5/1999
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