Saturday, January 14, 2006

nytimes.com: When the Market Values Hope Over Experience by a Factor

Thought this was an interesting comparison of stock prices, illustrating Google's popularity and how's it's still a little less than Yahoo's was.

When the Market Values Hope Over Experience by a Factor of 18
By FLOYD NORRIS
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/14/business/14charts.html
http://azurehat.com/scrapbook/2006/01/interestesting-analysis-of-market.html
Published: January 14, 2006
THREE companies with household names are worth about the same amount now - at least in the opinion of investors. Google, I.B.M. and Berkshire Hathaway all have market capitalizations in the vicinity of $135 billion...

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