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Re:Priceline now worth $100B by adventured on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:15PM (#14859229)
Priceline has generated $7 billion in net income the prior three fiscal years combined.

They may be overvalued, however they blatantly are providing an extremely valuable service. And if it were easy to replace or compete with (ie something of low actual value), the airlines etc would have already cut out Priceline and would keep the $2+ billion in annual profit for themselves (they've tried and failed repeatedly to cut out Priceline, which further speaks to its immense value to consumers).

I'm more surprised that you're holding up Tesla as a counter example to fluff valuations given their present valuation versus other car companies with actual immense profit such as GM or BMW.

Re:Priceline now worth $100B by richthegeek on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:27PM (#14859976)
So at least in traditional accounting their valuation would be 10 * 7/3 = $23B

But then again PE on stocks seem to have been getting higher and higher in this latest tech boom (bubble?).

Re:Priceline now worth $100B by trafficlight on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:34PM (#14859423)
That was my point with Tesla; it's absurd at $50B and they build real things and develop real technologies.