Which company is larger?

[freebs2]

kowenicki said:

freebs2 said:
According to wikipedia
Microsoft
Total Assets ▲ $77.888 billion (2009)[7]
Total equity ▲ $39.558 billion (2009)[
Employees 93,000

Sony*
Total assets ▲ $230.5 billion (2009)[citation needed]
Total equity ▲ $50 billion (2009)[citation needed]
Employees 180,500

Nintendo
Total assets ▲ ¥1.8 trillion (2009)[3] ($19.22 billion)
Operating income ▲ ¥555.263 billion (2009)[3] ($5.93 billion)
Employees 4,130 (2009)[3]

So Sony>Microsoft>Ninendo

 

so we only use assets, equity and personnel

Personnel is utterly irrelevant.

Assets means nothing unless thsoe asests create income.  what about liabilities and profit margin/ratios?

and your equity figures are old and miles off.

 

best question....

If you could own the entire company... which would you own?....for purely financial reasons.  Bottom of that list would be sony, least profits, least profitable and tightest profit margins.

 

 

This datas doesn't explain how the company is performing, but those are indicators of how a company is "large" in that terms the personel employed and the assets are a significant info. If you want to know how the companies are performing go check their balance sheets of the last 2-3 years....Of course Sony is a company I wouldn't rely on, in this period, but the volume of their business is reasonably larger than Nintendo and maybe even microsoft since they operate in many different markets.