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| From | DFS <nospam@dfs.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later |
| Date | 2015-04-11 22:00 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mgcjhr$7tu$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <bghvur80.ra0@rooftop.invalid> <mgb69g$h0h$1@dont-email.me> <jgnvmb83.gkjd@rooftop.invalid> <mgbhjo$qag$4@dont-email.me> <hgbvndu93.jig3@rooftop.invalid> |
On 4/11/2015 12:58 PM, owl wrote: > DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote: >> On 4/11/2015 10:45 AM, owl wrote: > >>> A company is truly only worth its net worth: assets - liabilities. The >>> stock market is just respectable a means of gambling and has no relevance >>> the value of a company. If I decide to buy Apple one day, there's no >>> way I'm paying $740 billion for a company that has a net worth of $178 >>> billion. > >> Put your thinking cap on: if you owned a company with a market cap of >> $740B you'd be an absolute owl to sell it for substantially less, let >> alone for the tiny book value of $178B. > > $740 billion market cap would be great if I had bought in in 1980 and > were wanting to sell shares today. If i'm wanting to buy the whole > company today, it would cost me $740 billion, and once I bought it, > market cap would be meaningless, or rather it would just mean "what > I paid for the company." I would be left holding a company with a net > worth of $178 billion, for which I had paid $740 billion. Not good. > Hell, even without considering liabilities, the total value of Apples > assets -- everything they own and all their cash in the bank -- is > only worth $261 billion according to latest quarterly balance sheet. > And their cash in the bank is $19.48 billion, so I don't know where all > this "Apple is sitting on hundreds of billions in cash" stuff comes from. That's the market value of the cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities they hold. Dec 27, 2014 Cash and cash equivalents $ 19.478B Short-term marketable securities $ 12.985B Long-term marketable securities $145,492B Total $177,955B http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-15-23697&CIK=320193
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It was bound to happen sooner or later "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-04-10 16:12 -0400
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later Tomas <tgif9fri@numo.net> - 2015-04-10 16:15 -0400
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-04-10 16:29 -0400
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later Tomas <tgif9fri@numo.net> - 2015-04-10 17:20 -0400
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 13:33 -0700
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-10 22:07 +0000
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-04-10 19:20 -0400
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-11 00:19 +0000
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-04-11 09:08 -0400
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-11 14:45 +0000
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-04-11 12:21 -0400
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-11 16:58 +0000
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-04-11 22:00 -0400
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-11 09:43 -0700
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-11 17:17 +0000
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-11 17:20 +0000
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-11 11:58 -0700
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-11 20:02 +0000
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-11 13:56 -0700
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-11 21:48 +0000
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-04-13 14:01 -0400
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-04-13 11:21 -0700
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-13 19:24 +0000
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-04-13 16:04 -0400
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-13 20:35 +0000
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-13 14:13 -0700
Re: It was bound to happen sooner or later owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-13 21:52 +0000
How many barrels of oil will the stock produce ? Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2015-04-13 23:42 -0700
Re: How many barrels of oil will the stock produce ? "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-04-14 13:37 -0400
How many barrels of oil will the stock produce ? Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2015-04-14 10:55 -0700
Re: How many barrels of oil will the stock produce ? "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-04-14 15:20 -0400
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