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In other words, Facebook alone is now worth more than the entire 1999 bubble(or at least the top 24 public companies).
by il 16y ago
In other words, Facebook alone is now worth more than the entire 1999 bubble(or at least the top 24 public companies).
- hop 16y agoNo, not close. Its only the ones that IPO'd in that year. And in aggregate, a horrible investment.
- rudiger 16y agoConsidering the article hand-picked them from "the height of the dot-com boom", many of those 24 companies didn't do too badly. TD Waterhouse - $76 billion priceline.com - $24 billion Juniper Networks - $22 billion Agilent - $15 billion Red Hat - $9 billion Akamai - $7 billion Ok, maybe they weren't great investments, and some went to zero, but as a group they weren't horrible.
- byrneseyeview 16y agoTD Waterhouse was a subsidiary of TD bank. TD bought back TD Waterhouse. The successor company is TD Ameritrade, but I'm not sure how much of that is Waterhouse and how much is the old Ameritrade. It's also tricky to look at market cap versus price. Many of these companies issued additional shares at low valuations. Priceline, for example, is at about where it traded right after the IPO--but its market cap has more than doubled.
- hop 16y agoIf you invested money equally in all the 1999 IPO companies, you would have less money now, 13 years later, than what you started with and thats not factoring in the time value of money. Its a horrible investment in aggregate.
- rudiger 16y agoIt's meaningless to compare the market caps of those 24 public companies from 1999 (that had IPOs within that year) to the valuations of those 5 private companies from 2011. Companies are doing their IPOs much larger and later than back then.