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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by danharaj on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:09PM (#11015949)
It's definitely not the amount of money that would be required to buy all the stock. The market cap is usually much smaller than that quantity.
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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by dragonwriter on Monday February 01, 2016 @06:29PM (#11016521)
Which is fairly easily demonstrated by the fact that actual acquisitions of going concerns are usually at a premium above the market price at the time they are negotiated.
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