Internet companies have hard time pleasing investors

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Investors have become more suspicious of Internet companies after being scarred by the Internet-stock crash in early 2000. Good earnigs are no longer sufficient to convince them. They are looking harder by scrutinizing every line in the income statement and in the text for reasons to sell. Investor vigilance is having a negative impact on companies that are not exactly the typical money-losing dot-com. Investors who once were once pushing firms to grow at whatever cost are trashing them for not curbing their cash burn.

Online information services

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Hot IPO market could burn solo investors

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Investors could be hurting themselves by buying IPO shares no matter how high the prices. This tendency has led to the issuance of more IPOs, encouraging large institutions which are able to buy IPOs at the offering price to sell them quickly to individual investors. The herd mentality among investors have assured the profits of portfolio managers. The $60 billion raised in IPOs in 1999 is the highest ever.

Other Financial Vehicles, Investors NEC

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Accounting rule eyed

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Enron's use of mark-to-market accounting which is also used by other large energy companies, distorts the company earnings in favor of exaggeration. The system states gains for the company which might not materialize for a decade of longer.

Natural Gas Distribution, Gas transmission and distribution, Gas Transmissn & Distributn, Gas industry, Enron Corp., ENE

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