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- From: pag@aurora.hao.ucar.edu (Peter Gross)
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.021521.4967@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: Malco Partners
- References: <1gon7oINNshk@mirror.digex.com> <1992Dec18.003753.14271@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:15:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.003753.14271@news.eng.convex.com> swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
- >In article <1gon7oINNshk@mirror.digex.com> hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
- >>History was made today. IBM's stock price dropped to below its book
- >>value of 55 today, to close at 51 points per share on news that Big
- [stuff deleted]
- >Second of all, IBM *DWARFS* Apple. The fact that IBM stock is
- >selling for less than Apple per-share is a coincidence based on the
- >number of shares outstanding per company. Your suggestion that
- >Apple's share price rising above IBM's has some kind of significance
- >is ludicrous.
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- IBM may "DWARF" Apple, but guess what, Microsoft may soon pass IBM.
- At today's (12/22) close:
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- Stock # shares (mil) Price Market Cap
- ----- ------------- ----- ----------
- IBM 570.7 51.75 $29.5 billion
- MSFT 269.5 87.75 $25.5 billion
- NOVL 294.0 26.75 $ 7.9 billion
- AAPL 120.3 60.625 $ 7.3 billion
- DEC 124.8 31.125 $ 3.9 billion
- SUNW 99.7 31.25 $ 3.1 billion
-
- When Microsoft passes IBM in market cap, then we're really talking history...
- Note that Novell is bigger than Apple, Dec, and Sun.
-
- Just to toss out a real eye-popping number, check out Wal-Mart:
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- Stock # shares (mil) Price Market Cap
- ----- ------------- ----- ----------
- WMT 1149 63.25 $72.7 billion
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- That would be a tough one to take over in an all-cash deal.
-
- have fun
- --
- --peter gross
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