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- From: fabian@cais.cais.com (Fabian Jimenez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Buy Amiga <Stock> Was: Carl Sassenreuth at VIScorp
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 17:15:39 GMT
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- Joshua A Johnson (fate@grove.ufl.edu) wrote:
- : Lee (lee@insync.net) wrote:
- : : >Why not have every Amiga user on the planet buy 1 share of VIScorp
- : : >stock? We would probably be a majority... for once ;-)
-
- : : >Pete Wason
- : : >aka Mr. Zoon ~8▐
-
- : This is actually NOT a good plan. When a company sells stock for the first
- : time (IPO), they sell a predetermined amount of stock at a slightly below
- : market value to Stock Brokers. This guarantees the company sells ALL of the
- : issues of stock. The Major Stock Brokers then bear the responsibility in
- : selling the issues (of course at a few dollar(s) above what they paid for
- : it).
- --
- I would also add, looking at their prospectus that they have 21 million
- shares held internally with only a million in float. We couldn't
- "control" them unless the principal shareholder(s) were to sell their
- stock to us. Plus, I don't think there are enough Amiga users to buy 21
- million shares.
-
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