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InvestorGuide Weekly Administrator |
posted 06-01-1999 08:40 AM
 
Most internet stocks are 30-50% off their highs. Is the net bubble bursting? http://www.cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9905/26/netstocks/ |
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Trader Joe |
posted 05-25-1999 01:35 PM
Fidelity's CEO Robert Pozen said at the Investment Company Institute mutual fund conference in Washington yesterday that the nation's largest mutual fund company has no plans to launch an Internet fund. "We've been inundated with requests to have an Internet only fund," Pozen said. "If we started and Internet fund we could raise $3 billion in the first month. But we don't want to do that. There is clearly speculation going on in Internet stocks, and we don't want to fuel that." |
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techstockinvestor |
posted 05-24-1999 12:14 AM
The Fortune story was excellent reading! |
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InvestorGuide Weekly Administrator |
posted 05-23-1999 09:40 PM
Fortune's cover story, Net Stock Rules, has three articles explaining why internet stocks may not be expensive after all. http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/technology/1999/06/07/int.html |
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smario |
posted 05-19-1999 09:17 AM
Maybe people are finally moving away from Internet stocks and back to big stocks. Two weeks ago, Some 279 stocks hit one-year highs on the New York Stock Exchange this week vs. 109 new lows, the 14th time in a row that new highs had outpaced new lows, according to Bloomberg News. That bodes well for big stocks. Nearly all U.S. Web stocks, large (above $2 billion market value) and small, are 20 percent or more off their highs. |
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newguy |
posted 05-18-1999 04:56 PM
Also, ranking Microsoft #61 is an obvious sign that the publication is anti-Microsoft (like most of the media). Internet Explorer, Hotmail, Link Exchange, Internet Information Server, Front Page, Home Advisor, Expedia, the list goes on and on. Compare this to IBM and Intel, which are both in the top 5 and which are less internet-savvy than Microsoft. It took them awhile to get the ship turned around, but I think they're doing a good job now, and an unbiased ranking would be somewhere around #10. |
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mrcool |
posted 05-18-1999 08:50 AM
gat, you're right, it is hard to turn a big ship around. I guess I don't have a problem with Intel's ranking, but IBM's seems generous, because (despite what the CEO has been saying recently) I don't think they're ready for the 21st century, whereas Amazon certainly is. |
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gatsby |
posted 05-17-1999 12:21 PM
mrcool, I don't know if I agree with your last comment. I think in many cases, it can be extremely harder (and in some cases impossible without complete radical changes) to Web-enable a company rather than to buld one from scratch. Building a company may take more time to become successful, but it's literally starting without any entrenched values, traditions, focus, distribution channels, customer base, etc. These are all difficult factors to change when trying to web-enable a company, especially one like IBM, who had been stuck in the past (and some would say a rut) for soooo long. There's a lot of convincing and job-threatening risk-taking to be done in the later case. |
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mrcool |
posted 05-17-1999 11:46 AM
I agree with most of their rankings (Cisco #1, etc.) but I can't support ranking Amazon below IBM and Intel. It's much harder to build a company than it is to web-enable it. Amazon is the poster child of the internet, and should've been #2 or at least #3 (behind Dell). |
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InvestorGuide Weekly Administrator |
posted 05-16-1999 09:12 PM
Business 2.0 selected the 100 companies which are taking the best advantage of the opportunities the internet presents. http://www.business2.com/articles/1999/05/content/cover-story.html |
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newsman |
posted 05-14-1999 10:17 AM
Another good quote, this one from Andy Grove: "It remains to be seen whether the internet companies that have essentially infinite access to capital will be able to grow up to be self-sufficient institutions and adjust to a future when money won't be free." |
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Ronnie Rogers |
posted 05-11-1999 02:19 PM
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos compares the rise of the Internet to the Cambrian era in evolution: "That was when the earth had the greatest rate of new life. What people don't know is that it also had the greatest rate of extinction." |
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Bill Tarr |
posted 05-11-1999 11:07 AM
What's worse, this "monopoly money" is backed by real money from net-crazed investors. It puzzles me that everyone seems to think internet stocks are ridiculously overpriced. If this is true, who's buying them? |
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smario |
posted 05-11-1999 10:17 AM
Great excerpt from another recommended article by InvestorGuide Weekly: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/fortune/technology/1999/05/24/ceo3.html "these [successful Internet] CEOs admit(without wanting to be quoted) that they buy whole companies without knowing as much as they should. What else can they do? In the Monopoly-money world in which they operate, if they don't buy this morning, a competitor may this afternoon." Given this, makes you want to think twice about investing (or not investing) in these companies, huh. Certainly is high risk... |
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gatsby |
posted 05-04-1999 03:14 PM
I understand your point Lee, but i still think that one of the most powerful things a young person can have is liquid money, since that (in theory) can open up many more avenues than tied up stock. At a young age, I don't want to feel like I limited my options and wonder what might have been when I'm older. I'd rather have the freedom now. |
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