Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
by mathattack on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @06:13PM
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MSFT has to figure out how to justify a 2.7 trillion market cap when their revenue is on the order of 170-180 billion. That’s a lot of sustained profitable growth.
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
by RC_ITR on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @12:15PM
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Conveniently ignoring the fact that on that $180bn revenue, they generate $90bn in net income, resulting in a 30x P/E multiple (the actual way companies are valued), which is only slightly elevated vs. the S&P 500's historical average.
Conversely, what's wrong with McKesson, if their revenue is $250bn and growing, but their market cap is $40bn?
Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
by mathattack on Friday January 21, 2022 @10:35AM
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The larger you get, the harder it is to justify outsized PE multiples. Plenty of theory and empirical research supports this.
Even with their recent 11-12% correction their PE is ~33.5. [0] That’s higher than today’s S and P PE, and more than double the long term median (~15) and mean (~16) PE. [1]
This means that the market is betting on some combination of margin expansion and outsize revenue growth.
McKesson is in another industry with different margin and growth, and is valued differently.