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Disney is valued at $103B. That includes ESPN, parks, cruises, Star wars, movies, merchandise, etc etc etc. So how's What's app is 1/5th of it?
by mudil 13y ago
Disney is valued at $103B. That includes ESPN, parks, cruises, Star wars, movies, merchandise, etc etc etc. So how's What's app is 1/5th of it?
- adventured 13y agoAlcoa is worth $12 billion. Deere is worth $31 billion (2.4% dividend, $37b sales, $3.5b profit). Caterpillar is worth $61 billion (WhatsApp is worth 1/3 CAT? lol). Or there's Sony, $17b market cap, $72b in sales. The truth is WhatsApp is only worth ~11% of Facebook, it's not actually worth $19 billion free-standing, because Facebook's value is mostly in paper that could never be sold for what it's trading at. Nobody is going to step in and pay $19 billion in cash for WhatsApp, and you won't catch an industrial titan like Exxon or Ford swapping its shares for nearly worthless instant-messenger users. Google also wouldn't be so stupid as to do that in my opinion.