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Wow, $250 million in 2007.

• antr 13y ago
  Discovery has had HSW for 6-7 years in their portfolio. I'm curious to know the dividends they've gotten out from this company - it seems to me that this type of property was a cash cow. $250m might seem high, but exit price + dividends can tell a different (positive) story.
• whoismua 13y ago
  Google is killing more and more companies. for Google to continue their artificial growth of 20+%, they need to send less people to other sites and more to YouTube, G+...hoping they click on ads. Google is eating its tail
  • billmalarky 13y ago
    Not if they continue to expand non-web related businesses (automated cars).
    • dchuk 13y ago
      95% of Google's revenue comes from ads, and they're probably at least 5 years away from drawing revenue from their auto/robot projects.
      • billmalarky 13y ago
        Are you suggesting that a company can't have current valuation based on speculated future returns?
    • whoismua 13y ago
      That makes for some great PR but that's about it. Ironically, the first casualty of lower earnings growth will be the side projects. Voting shares or not, shareholder holding $300 Billion will vote at least by selling some and that hurts employees, hiring and everything. Google is probably a decade from making money with its automated cars--if they are even any better than manufacturer's own system (everyone is working on it.) Will they spend $10 Billion or whatever it takes to build their own cars? License it? For how much and will they make a profit on it?