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Has Microsoft peaked? | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Microsoft Corp.'s business ambitions have never wavered. Microsoft was founded in 1978, went public in 1987, and has since grown to become the world's largest technology company and one of the world's largest publicly traded companies. It has as an enormous cash balance of around $55 billion on its balance sheet and 93 percent share of the consumer software market. Investors typically regard MSFT stock as a no-risk investment with a stock price that will keep going up. However, that is not the case. Yes, Microsoft has a ton of cash on the balance sheet. But it's not balance sheet cash or market share that propels a stock price upward. It's growth. And growth leveled off at Microsoft about 18 months ago, when the company went ex-growth and ex-cash. |
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| #1 By 20 (67.9.179.51) at Wednesday, July 07, 2004 01:33:17 AM |
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MS has peaked with unmanaged code.
However, managed code and Longhorn will usher in a new era of computing. One where you use the computer rather than it using you (for everything like thinking, maintenance, etc) |
| #2 By 143 (68.77.207.231) at Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:59:59 AM |
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Has Microsoft Peaked?
I said No. |
| #3 By 931 (68.158.67.202) at Thursday, July 08, 2004 01:27:41 AM |
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I dont think they've peeked persay.. more like thier on a plautue for the near term. Untill about late 2006\Early 2007. By then you'll have a fresh clients, fresh servers, the mobile and wireless caos will have settled out a bit and be more pervasive markets will have expanded further as well new markets created. Additionally those programing for this platform will have had a couple of years under thier belts with the tools and best practices for developing with .net.
So yeah right now if your a shareholder I wouln't expect double digit growth from microsoft overall, but if your a long term player then picking up some ms stock now at around 25$ is probably a very good deal. Hell I remeber people said the same crap about ibm in the early 90's stock price was down by 1/2... They are twice as large now as they were then. We all keep begging for apple to die.. but it will not.. still has the same 2-3% share.. just the overall pie keeps getting bigger. |
