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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by nonchalance on Friday October 18, 2013 @11:49AM (#6572017)
$1000/sh seems like a more momentous headline than $330B market cap.

On the other hand, It's more likely that we see the headline "$1T company" than "$3030.30/sh"

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by astrodust on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:05PM (#6572103)
They could've hit this years ago by doing a 10:1 stock consolidation. Fetishizing over share prices is meaningless. What if they had only six shares?

Market cap is what matters.

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by nonchalance on Friday October 18, 2013 @01:30PM (#6572612)
Berkshire Hathaway class A is current 175821/sh :) extreme example.

But my point was that, while market cap is all that matters, people still fixate on round numbers

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by astrodust on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:09PM (#6572946)
That's one way to exclude peasants from investing in your company.
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by tedunangst on Friday October 18, 2013 @05:01PM (#6573989)
BRKB is only $117 though.
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by temuze on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:44PM (#6572341)
Breaking news: Prominent company's stock value gets to big round number.
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