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Re:Fixing the ‘Brain Damage’ Caused by the I.P.O. Process by s73ver_ on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @06:08PM (#15298771)
Share price doesn't dictate how much money they have. Amazon makes buttloads of money; they just choose to use it rather than give it back as dividends.
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Re:Fixing the ‘Brain Damage’ Caused by the I.P.O. Process by piker on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:32AM (#15302054)
No. That wasn't implied either. Conversely, net profits do tend to be a positive indicator of share price.

It's also incorrect to say that AMZN "makes buttloads of money", with sub-1 EPS[1] at a nearly $1,000 share price.

[1] https://finance.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN&fstype=...

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Re:Fixing the ‘Brain Damage’ Caused by the I.P.O. Process by s73ver_ on Thursday September 21, 2017 @12:28PM (#15305070)
Just shy of $38 billion in one quarter revenue is "Buttloads of money". I wasn't necessarily relating it to the share price.
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