I need to go back to strategic points in time to invest woddles of cash in firms like IBM, MS, Intel, AMD, Apple and more recently GOOGLE... this is RIF#$KINGDICULOUS.....
Google catches Intel and HP
G-men have more dough than Pilsbury
By Martin Veitch: Friday 24 November 2006, 11:23
HAVE YOU ever wondered why so much US business journalism seems to be obsessed by share prices?
The simple answer is that far more folks over the puddle hold stock and, directly or indirectly, have their futures invested in the fortunes of listed organisations while we in the UK are left asking the wife: "Darling, where does the Farepak thing leave us with reference to this Christmas?"
As we discovered at the time of millennial angst, shares can go up or down but Google passing the $500 mark has occasioned much slavering among the people who follow this stuff. And your correspondent is one of them.
So impress your friends with these fun facts:
Google currently has a market capitalisation of $113.5 billion.
You can compare that against a substantially older company such as Big Blue that has a cap of $140.9 billion.
Or a middle-aged firm like Microsoft at $294.1 billion.
But in stock market trems at least, Google is a peer of Intel ($125.3 billion) and HP ($108.8 billion).
And is worth getting on for twice as much as Dell ($61.6 billion). µ
GG @ 500USD mark.... 0_o
