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0D0 on 08 June 2018

I didn't know that Xbox is bigger than Windows.



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Pemalite on 08 June 2018
Teeqoz said:
Pemalite said:

We are going by market cap.
Which is share price multipled by number of shares.

Sure there are other aspects to consider, especially as share prices may not always represent a companies true worth, but for a quick comparison it is sufficient.

I feel like it's important to correct it though. Net worth and market cap are two vastly different concepts. Just in this thread alone there are many people that seem to think that Microsoft's market cap means Microsoft has 750 billion in cash, which of course isn't the case.

Microsoft has something like $130 billion in cash and equivalents on hand at the moment, Apple? Double that. Throw Google in there and the three have like half a trillion bucks of cash/equivalents on hand.
It's insane numbers.



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the_dark_lewd on 09 June 2018

I think it's something to do with computers



miqdadi on 09 June 2018

Don't underestimate cloud business, Amazon also makes alot out of it

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lightningfunk on 09 June 2018

u shouldn't be



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Teeqoz on 10 June 2018
Pemalite said:
Teeqoz said:

I feel like it's important to correct it though. Net worth and market cap are two vastly different concepts. Just in this thread alone there are many people that seem to think that Microsoft's market cap means Microsoft has 750 billion in cash, which of course isn't the case.

Microsoft has something like $130 billion in cash and equivalents on hand at the moment, Apple? Double that. Throw Google in there and the three have like half a trillion bucks of cash/equivalents on hand.
It's insane numbers.

But again, that has nothing to do with their market cap.



Pemalite on 10 June 2018
Teeqoz said:
Pemalite said:

Microsoft has something like $130 billion in cash and equivalents on hand at the moment, Apple? Double that. Throw Google in there and the three have like half a trillion bucks of cash/equivalents on hand.
It's insane numbers.

But again, that has nothing to do with their market cap.

Never said it did?



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Johnw1104 on 10 June 2018

There's a reason Microsoft was able to absorb the absurd losses of the first Xbox and red-ringing 360's early on lol... their piggy bank trumps the rest of the video game industry.



Teeqoz on 10 June 2018
Pemalite said:
Teeqoz said:

But again, that has nothing to do with their market cap.

Never said it did?

But the original comment you replied to corrected the OP for mistaking market cap and net worth, to which you replied "but we are going with market cap" when all were trying to do was to make people realize that market cap is not the same thing as net worth (and you may not have claimed so, but the OP seems to suggest so, and several users in this thread seems to have misunderstood already). But since you are a mod, you could clear up people's misunderstanding by editing the thread title  and/or OP.



Bajablo on 10 June 2018
Johnw1104 said:
There's a reason Microsoft was able to absorb the absurd losses of the first Xbox and red-ringing 360's early on lol... their piggy bank trumps the rest of the video game industry.

Xbox is a small dot in the grand scheme of Microsoft :) they make enough on Office365 and Azure to take losses



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