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If anyone that has hidden cash reserves that could buy out even Apple. It would probably be Valve. Lol, wacky reality if they say "hey we had spare cash so we
by delfinom 11mo ago
If anyone that has hidden cash reserves that could buy out even Apple. It would probably be Valve.
Lol, wacky reality if they say "hey we had spare cash so we bought out Micron to get DDR5 for our gaming systems"
- quesera 11mo agoTo save my fellow ignorami some math, Valve is estimated to be valued at approximately 3.2% of Micron, or 0.2% of Apple. :)
- ActorNightly 11mo agoValue =/= cash reserves. Valve has ran VERY lean for quite some time.
- quesera 11mo agoSure, but valuation should always exceed cash reserves. It's very odd when it does not. I think I recall that that SUNW (by then JAVA probably) was at one point valued below cash, prior to ORCL acquisition. If Valve's secrecy is so good that they have (substantially more than) 30-500x cash stashed away in excess of their public valuation estimates, then perhaps I underestimate Valve's secrecy! More likely, it was an obviously-humorous exaggeration, but I wasn't sure -- I am quite ignorant of the games industry. :)
- fullstop 11mo agoThey're not publicly traded, so we really don't know.
- quickthrowman 11mo agoValve is worth maybe 0.1% (single digit billions is what I’d guess) of Apple, which made $112B in net income in 2025. That’s profit, not revenue. Apple could probably buy Valve for 30 days of its net income, which is around $9.3B ($306M per day in profit, including weekends) There’s zero chance that Gaben has squirreled away Four Trillion Dollars in cash.
- agoodusername63 11mo agomaybe if he didn't buy all those yachts and submarines. alas.