Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ Tony Sivori ] on Friday 15 September 2006 18:18 \__
>
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >
> >> SCO Files Its 10Q Sob Story
> >>
> >>
> > SCOX just dropped below its 52 week low. Even the dullest of investors are
> > realizing that buying a lotto ticket is a sure thing compared to SCOX
> > stock.
> >
> > $2.15 at 12:37 PM ET
> >
> > http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SCOX&t=1d
> >
> > SCO delenda est. Salt their fields!
>
> Microsoft has been artificially and single-handedly inflating its stock by
> buying back from investors who dropped MSFT like a hot potato.
This makes for a good "sound-bite" but anyone willing to do the math
will see that this statement is simply inaccurate. Microsoft is buying
back about $40 billion worth of stock between now and June 30th, 2011.
This amounts to a total of 1.5% of outstanding shares over the next 5
years. Hardly enough to move or prop-up the stock price.
On the average day there are well over 60-millions shares of MSFT
traded. It is consistently one of the top-10 traded stocks (volume
wise). If this were a thinly traded stock then the buy-back program
would have an effect on stock price. But with the heavy trading volume
buying back 1.5% of outstanding shares over a period of 5-years won't
do much to affect the stock price.
> But will it
> lend a hand to SCOX? Will it do so now that most of the allegation have been
> dropped by Judge Wells? Will it help an old friend that can no longer be
> exploited, let alone be used as a semi-effective handpuppet against Linux,
> at least by generating FUD that deters potential adopters?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "There you have it. At least a third of SCO's entire market
> | capitalization, and their entire current cash reserves, is payoffs
> | funnelled from Microsoft. Their 10Qs reveal that every other line ofc
> | ash inflow is statistical noise by comparison. The brave new SCOsource
> | business model is now clear: sue your customers, shill for Microsoft,
> | kite your stock, and pray you stay out of jail."
> `----
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween10.html
>
> When it's all over SCOX will have nothing but it's socks. It'll be shivering
> in the rain.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
>
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