Apple is now worth more than Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta combined

Re:Apple is now worth more than Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta c... by diceduckmonk on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:46PM (#33461382)

Valuation isn't just revenue, but also margin. Margin with retail is smaller than say IPhones.

As for Tesla vs VW, and the current snapshot of the business, finance is about the projected future cash flows, not present value. Tesla is growing, VW is not.

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Re:Apple is now worth more than Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta c... by MonaroVXR on Thursday November 03, 2022 @11:06PM (#33461550)

How is VW not growing?

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Re:Apple is now worth more than Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta c... by chmod775 on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:08AM (#33462777)

If Tesla was expected to sell to a good chunk of the world population while somehow only selling high-margin vehicles, their valuation in comparison to VW would make sense. However the market for luxury vehicles isn't that large, so Tesla can't be expected to keep high margins if it wants to grow as big as VW. If it wanted to be 10 times bigger than VW, as its valuation would suggest, then close to 100% of all cars sold worldwide would be Teslas (by 2021 numbers). How likely is that, given that it's currently more like 1%?

Well either that or it's just another bubble created by mostly clueless and overexcitable people. We had a few of those, didn't we?

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Re:Apple is now worth more than Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta c... by uni_rule on Friday November 04, 2022 @09:15AM (#33466112)

A lot of people aren't even excited about the company anymore, they are excited about the stock itself. Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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