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Stocks
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STOCKS, crim. law. A machine commonly made of wood, with boles in it, in which to confine persons accused of or guilty of a crime.
     2. It was used either to confine unruly offenders by way of security, or convicted criminals for punishment.
     3. This barbarous punishment has been generally abandoned in the United States.



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Add them all up and the company's portfolio of public stocks would look, as of this writing, to be worth no more than about $6 billion, With CMGI now being valued on Wall Street at just under $13 billion, the market is saying that when you back out the public stocks, all the rest of the business -- the whole incubating rigmarole -- is itself worth the other $7 billion.
They're not like the portfolio managers who buy public stocks with one eye on their bonus at the end of the quarter.
Earlier breakthroughs from Paul Kagan included the first analyses of public stocks using cash flow metrics, later known as EBITDA, and computations of the private value of public media companies.
 
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