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This does not consider market cap. Yes, AOL's stock price has done better, but the total revenues are a tiny fraction of Apple...
by etrautmann 14y ago
This does not consider market cap. Yes, AOL's stock price has done better, but the total revenues are a tiny fraction of Apple...
- wpietri 14y agoYes. Stock A rising more than stock B only means that the market has been more pleasantly surprised about A than B. So given that the point of the article is "AOL is doing surprisingly well thanks to low expectations", it'd be natural that the stock would gain more than companies that people expect more from. Also, I'd have a hard time calling AOL successful (which the article does). They're net profitable, but on something that's doomed. And the thing that's supposed to save them, selling ads against content, is looking pretty sickly as well. Profit is correlated with success, but they're definitely different.
- chourobin 14y agoAlso the chart only dates back 1 year... why not do a 5 year comparison? Oh right.. because Apple stock has outperformed AOL by a factor of 2 even with the recent 30% dive in market value.