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5 years ago amd was a $2 stock and xilinx was a 50 dollar stock. Now amd is a 80 dollar stock and Xilinxis ~100 dollar stock. Xilinx market cap was 5x of amd. E
by samfisher83 6y ago
5 years ago amd was a $2 stock and xilinx was a 50 dollar stock. Now amd is a 80 dollar stock and Xilinxis ~100 dollar stock. Xilinx market cap was 5x of amd. Even today xilinx generates more free cash than amd. Its kind of crazy how fast company values can change.
- dheera 6y agoIt's also weird because shareholders want stocks to grow indefinitely at an exponential rate, whereas there are a whole lot of companies like Xilinx that don't really need to grow all that much beyond just scaling to a number of gates that is useful to today's industry. Or Dropbox, which I really don't want them doing anything innovative except syncing my directories between machines until the end of time.
- ece 6y agoMature and stable companies tend to pay dividends, and investing in them is a fine thing to do for risk averse investors or portfolios.
- phkahler 6y agoYou gotta have a low P/E to pay dividends. It's the only sensible long term strategy. It gets ruined when people drive up stock prices playing the greater fool strategy.
- dis-sys 6y ago> Its kind of crazy how fast company values can change. what makes you believe that is has anything to do with "values"? ;)