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Re:It can all go to zero by adamnemecek on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:39PM (#16162271)
I meant google as a company. Very little of Google's value is in real estate. Do they even own all of their offices?
Re:It can all go to zero by cableshaft on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:24PM (#16162766)
I can tell you for sure that they don't. I know people in corporate real estate that won a bid to lease corporate real estate to Google recently. But that's true of almost all offices of major corporations. Very few of them own their own buildings, except maybe a headquarters here or there. They pretty much all lease.
Re:It can all go to zero by twblalock on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:48PM (#16163021)
> I meant google as a company.

I'm not sure what difference this makes.

As you can see here, Google has billions of assets, of which $19.7 billion are buildings.

Re:It can all go to zero by adamnemecek on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @05:02PM (#16163128)
Which is only a fraction of google and no one buys google for their real estate.
Re:It can all go to zero by twblalock on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @07:56PM (#16164520)
That's beside the point. The stock won't go to zero because it represents a share of ownership in a company that has billions of dollars more in assets than in liabilities. Real estate is just one of the many assets.

Edit: I thought I posted a link to Google's balance sheet in my parent comment, but apparently I left it out: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/goog/financials/...