Microsoft (Qtr results) Beat expectations: Revenue: $20.5bn (up 8%), Income $6.7bn (up 5%), E&D division $342m profit, XBOX:1.3m shipped

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Kynes said:

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Gugerface said:
So how does MS profits compare to Sony/Nintendo? 6.7 billion to what? If that is not fair, how does MS profits for this quarter compare to Nintendo/Sony market cap?

MS could buy Sony (16.24B market cap) or Nintendo (14.79B) with the profits of one year.

I do not think they could purchase all of Sony's assets though. Heck they sold 2 buildings for 2Bn+.

When you purchase the shares of a company, you purchase its assets and its liabilities. Sony has ~160B on assets, but they also have ~135B on liabilities. Of course MS can't purchase all their assets alone with the profits of one year, but they could purchase a majority of the shares and control the company. The most important data to know the health of a company IMO is the shareholders equity and the profits of the last 3-5 years. When you have losses during several years, and the shareholders equity is in a sharp decline, that company has huge problems, and that's why the share value has been so low.

 

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Good to know. Equity is almost at 2004 lvls but in the past Qs looks to have stablizied a little bit.