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I'm always surprised that FAANG - or Big 4, excludes Microsoft....

jasode 5y ago
>I'm always surprised that FAANG - or Big 4, excludes Microsoft... Because the original context in 2013 of Jim Cramer popularizing "FANG" / "FAANG" was growth and even though Microsoft was already one of the biggest tech companies, their stock price wasn't really growing like the newer FANG. https://hackapedia.com/terms/f/faang https://hackapedia.com/terms/f/faang Others later tried to revise the acronym to include Microsoft with variations like FANGAM -- but it doesn't seem to gain any popularity in internet discussions or mainstream media.
- asiachick 5y ago
  In Japan it's called GAFA at least in the news I watch https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF#GAFA,_The_Four https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0%E3...
  - mrep 5y ago
    In france, it is GAFAM: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM
- guerrilla 5y ago
  > Jim Cramer The guy yelling on TV all the time?
- tempfs 5y ago
  MSFT not growing? https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/msft/advanced-charting?timeframe=5y https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/msft/advanced-...
  - jasode 5y ago
    >MSFT not growing? Are you talking about recently or circa 2013 when Cramer popularized his FANG acronym? Before 2014, MSFT growth didn't compare to the newer web dominant companies like Facebook/Amazon/Netflix/Google. He also left out other giant tech companies with lower growth like IBM, Oracle, SAP, Yahoo!, Hewlett-Packard, etc.
Closi 5y ago
FAMANG doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
- truth_ 5y ago
  I have seen real people using FAANGMULA in official documents in real life. Some people don't care about the ring. U, L, and A are Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb.
Analemma_ 5y ago
I think Microsoft likes it that way. It's a little thing, but it's just one more little piece that helps them go unmentioned in most of the culture war bomb-throwing about Big Tech.
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>I'm always surprised that FAANG - or Big 4, excludes Microsoft... Because the original context in 2013 of Jim Cramer popularizing "FANG" / "FAANG" was growth and even though Microsoft was already one of the biggest tech companies, their stock price wasn't really growing like the newer FANG. https://hackapedia.com/terms/f/faang https://hackapedia.com/terms/f/faang Others later tried to revise the acronym to include Microsoft with variations like FANGAM -- but it doesn't seem to gain any popularity in internet discussions or mainstream media.

asiachick 5y ago
In Japan it's called GAFA at least in the news I watch https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF#GAFA,_The_Four https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0%E3...
- mrep 5y ago
  In france, it is GAFAM: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM
guerrilla 5y ago
> Jim Cramer The guy yelling on TV all the time?
tempfs 5y ago
MSFT not growing? https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/msft/advanced-charting?timeframe=5y https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/msft/advanced-...
- jasode 5y ago
  >MSFT not growing? Are you talking about recently or circa 2013 when Cramer popularized his FANG acronym? Before 2014, MSFT growth didn't compare to the newer web dominant companies like Facebook/Amazon/Netflix/Google. He also left out other giant tech companies with lower growth like IBM, Oracle, SAP, Yahoo!, Hewlett-Packard, etc.

Closi 5y ago

FAMANG doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

truth_ 5y ago
I have seen real people using FAANGMULA in official documents in real life. Some people don't care about the ring. U, L, and A are Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb.

Analemma_ 5y ago

I think Microsoft likes it that way. It's a little thing, but it's just one more little piece that helps them go unmentioned in most of the culture war bomb-throwing about Big Tech.

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