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It's the big 4 now. See Enron, and Anderson.
by whitexn--g28h 8y ago
It's the big 4 now. See Enron, and Anderson.
- scarface74 8y agoBig 5 was in reference to the technology companies FAANG - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google. I have no idea why people include Netflix and not Microsoft.
- jogjayr 8y ago> I have no idea why people include Netflix and not Microsoft. Netflix pays outlandishly well - which is why engineers include it on their list of big companies. Leaving that aside Netflix is a giant: $150B market cap as of this writing. The term "FANG" was created by TV stock pundit Jim Cramer to describe tech stocks that have done particularly well over the last 7-8 years[1]. Maybe he felt MSFT's stock performance wasn't that strong or that he couldn't make a catchy acronym if he included it? 1. https://www.thestreet.com/story/13230576/1/what-are-fang-stocks-and-why-does-jim-cramer-love-them.html https://www.thestreet.com/story/13230576/1/what-are-fang-sto...
- scarface74 8y agoI would have thought Microsoft was a has been before Satya Nadella took over so that assessment was fair. He hadn't been the CEO for long in 2015. I guess as an outside developer, I'm looking at things from the perspective of platforms. Netflix isn't a platform that you build on.