Seagate stock for free??
From The Street.com...
Seagate (SEG:NYSE - news), the disk-drive company. "An investment in Seagate provides an investor with exposure to a disk-drive company with a net cash balance sheet and several valuable investment stakes,including a significant stake in Veritas (VRTS:Nasdaq - news). Each share of Seagate controls 0.44 shares of Veritas. The Veritas stake, based on yesterday's price, is worth almost $12 more than the current price of Seagate, on a per-share basis. (That's 0.44 times Veritas' closing price of 125 3/8, minus the closing price of Seagate, 43 3/4.) "Veritas is up 500% for the year," Woodberrry says. "That is the kind of stock momentum technology investors like to say that they own in their portfolio at the end of a quarter. Seagate is clearly the smarter way to own the theme, even though Seagate is selling shares of Veritas and buying back their own shares." Woodberry is long Seagate and has no position in Veritas. |