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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by onion2k on Saturday June 26, 2021 @10:09AM (#27641996)
The market cap doesn't tell you anything about the available resources a company has.

For example... Gamestop's market cap did this recently - https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GME/gamestop/marke... - the company doesn't suddenly have more money to spend on projects.

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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by eloff on Saturday June 26, 2021 @10:25AM (#27642142)
Not a great example since they sold over a billion worth of stock. They do actually have more money now.

Microsoft generates more money than they know what to do with so they return large amounts in dividends and probably stock buybacks (I haven't checked for MSFT specifically, but it's all the rage these days.)

That's essentially the opposite of what GME did.

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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by robjan on Saturday June 26, 2021 @08:27PM (#27647316)
MSFT dividend yield is nothing to write home about. Less than 1% per year at the moment.
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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by eloff on Saturday June 26, 2021 @10:39PM (#27648039)
That's mostly because of the stock run-up, I recall it was around 3% late last year.
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