Nintendo has an Enterprise Value of $-8.84Billion

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Roma on 26 January 2014

wow now if I only had 2b to buy 11b that would be great! or maybe I could work my way up by buying a couple of thousands with a couple of hundred

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MoHasanie on 26 January 2014

I don't get it...so you're saying Nintendo is only worth $2bn? If that's so, then that's nothing. MS, Sasmung, or Apple could buy it so easily. I'm pretty sure though that its not that low. It must be worth much more than that. If MS was gonna pay $20bn for it all those years ago, then I assume its worth around the same now.

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Aielyn said:
I assume you're getting those numbers from Yahoo Finance.

They don't make sense. I'm assuming their figures are wrong because of incorrect input of data somewhere along the line.

http://ycharts.com/companies/NTDOY/enterprise_value - current enterprise value $7.974 billion

http://www.infinancials.com/en/financial%20ratio,Nintendo%20Co%20Ltd,90524FJ.html - current enterprise value $8.123 billion

Enterprise Value = Market Cap + Debt - Cash. Nintendo's Debt is about zero, and it's Cash (according to Yahoo Finance) is about $10.74 billion...

https://www.google.com/finance?q=ntdoy&ei=EWnkUujXD4XBkAXiyAE - Its Market Cap is $18.54 billion according to google. That puts its Enterprise Value at $7.8 billion.

I assume that what's happening is Yahoo Finance is working only on shares available outside of Japan, which is limited, as I understand it. And this is resulting in it calculating a market cap of $2 billion, rather than $18.54 billion.

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lucidium on 26 January 2014

Roma said:
wow now if I only had 2b to buy 11b that would be great! or maybe I could work my way up by buying a couple of thousands with a couple of hundred

get 2bln loan, buy nintendo, pay back 2.4bln, keep 7.6bln and nintendo?

Suddenly, becoming rich doesnt seem that hard.

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lucidium on 26 January 2014

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Aielyn said:
I assume you're getting those numbers from Yahoo Finance.

They don't make sense. I'm assuming their figures are wrong because of incorrect input of data somewhere along the line.

http://ycharts.com/companies/NTDOY/enterprise_value - current enterprise value $7.974 billion

http://www.infinancials.com/en/financial%20ratio,Nintendo%20Co%20Ltd,90524FJ.html - current enterprise value $8.123 billion

Enterprise Value = Market Cap + Debt - Cash. Nintendo's Debt is about zero, and it's Cash (according to Yahoo Finance) is about $10.74 billion...

https://www.google.com/finance?q=ntdoy&ei=EWnkUujXD4XBkAXiyAE - Its Market Cap is $18.54 billion according to google. That puts its Enterprise Value at $7.8 billion.

I assume that what's happening is Yahoo Finance is working only on shares available outside of Japan, which is limited, as I understand it. And this is resulting in it calculating a market cap of $2 billion, rather than $18.54 billion.

This post is being conveniently ignored.

potential buyers are doing the same as potential wiiu owners, waiting for the price to drop (aint that right potential wiiu buyers!).

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ICStats on 26 January 2014

MoHasanie said:
I don't get it...so you're saying Nintendo is only worth $2bn? If that's so, then that's nothing. MS, Sasmung, or Apple could buy it so easily. I'm pretty sure though that its not that low. It must be worth much more than that. If MS was gonna pay $20bn for it all those years ago, then I assume its worth around the same now.

As Aielyn mentioned, there seems to be something wrong with Yahoo's valuation of Nintendo. Although negative Enterprise Values do occur sometimes, it doesn't seem to be the case here.

According to this http://ycharts.com/companies/NTDOY/enterprise_value , at it's peak in 2010 Nintendo had an EV of $31bn, and I think it was over $70bn in 2007, but at it's lowest point this year it was down to $0.7bn. Easy come easy go I guess.

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snowdog on 26 January 2014

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Microsoft, Apple and Google could buy Nintendo easily. (Sony isn't able to right now).

But I don't see it happening. It has no point whatsoever, I mean, unless those firms want to get into the gaming market or have Nintendo's licenses, this wouldn't make much sense to me.

Also I don't think that Nintendo would let them buy out their company that easily

No they couldn't. They certainly have the money but for one company to buy another they need to buy a certain percentage of shares, and I doubt the majority of major shareholders will be willing to let theirs go no matter how much money they're offered.

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orniletter on 26 January 2014

We should start a kickstarter to buy Nintendo.

I´m contributing 5€ !

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Naum on 26 January 2014

The amount of Ignorance in this thread is astounding

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