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Re:HSBC bans customers from buying Bitcoin-backer MicroStrat... by bob33212 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:26AM (#26792568)
Stock prices do not reflect current profits. Imagine if they did. If tsla was currently 50/share to be inline with your metric. How would you stop people from buying it at 60? Because using your math they will be worth 75+ next year when the other factories come online.
Re:HSBC bans customers from buying Bitcoin-backer MicroStrat... by rchaud on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:39AM (#26793815)
It's supposed to at least correlate with future free cash flow, which it doesn't do either. Sometimes I wonder if quantitative easing and corp tax cuts have distorted the stock market past the point where Benjamin Graham-style theories of value investing have become invalidated.
Re:HSBC bans customers from buying Bitcoin-backer MicroStrat... by bob33212 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:44PM (#26795113)
Sounds like AMZN in 1999