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Re:Lyft Files for IPO by kemitchell on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:15PM (#18619917)
> Uber has a global operations, is in multiple streams of business and has diversity across business lines and countries [...]

If you invest in a gold company, do you want them hedging the price of gold?

Some corporations function as diversified quasi-portfolios. But it's often far easier to analyze and model pure plays. Plenty of pure-play securities on public markets.

Re:Lyft Files for IPO by autokad on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:22PM (#18620607)
by that logic, amazon should just be selling books to make it easy for investors to make 'pure plays'
Re:Lyft Files for IPO by kemitchell on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:26PM (#18620644)
I don't think public companies should be pure plays. But I don't think they should be portfolios, either. There's reason for both.