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Pristine20 on 17 January 2009

so nintendo can buy microsoft and sony now? As the Imperials would say in VC: "who are these guys?"



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kungfusqurrel on 17 January 2009

nintendo as a game company will probably not care about mature gaming anymore, it will cater to my 6 year old nephew for many years to come.




 

appolose on 17 January 2009
yog-sothot said:
Huge indeed, it's closer to Wallmart or ExxonMobil now...

but I never really understood why market capitalization is so important... I mean, stockholders own high values stocks, but what does it change for the company itself ? What can Nintendo do with those billions ? They don't own them. It's just the public opinion of the company's worth

 

If I got this right, they're actually almost twice as much as Walmart, and only 7 billion away Exxon.



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Parokki on 17 January 2009

You know what's the first thing they teach us history students when we start doing our own research for the first time? If you discover something utterly amazing that radically changes our understanding of things, then it's probably just a mistake. Every now and then something truly spectacular shows up, but it's very, very rare.

Nintendo being one hundred and fifty times the size of Sony is so ridiculous that there has got to be something wrong with your numbers. Unless of course I misunderstood what they're supposed to represent.



Dogs Rule on 17 January 2009

There is obviously a problem with your site:
Market capitalization = share price x shares out standing
According to your source, the share price is 44.72$/ share
http://www.pinksheets.com/pink/quote/quote.jsp?symbol=NTDOY#getQuote
and the quantity of shares outstanding is 1,133,352,000
http://www.pinksheets.com/pink/quote/quote.jsp?symbol=NTDOY#getQuote

44.72$/share x 1 133 352 000 shares = 50.7 Billion $

Which is in line with Google's estimation of its market cap of 50.6Billion $
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=OTC:NTDOY



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SmokedHostage on 17 January 2009
kungfusqurrel said:
nintendo as a game company will probably not care about mature gaming anymore, it will cater to my 6 year old nephew for many years to come.

What's up?

 



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c03n3nj0 on 17 January 2009
Grampy said:
c03n3nj0 said:
Damn, that is huge.

But for Sony and Microsoft it's the whole company or just the gaming divisions?

That frighteningly enough is SONY INC. the whole wazoo in terms of their common stock SNE traded on the NYSE

 

 

That's...bad...

 

So if this is true, Nintendo can buy Sony?

 



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izaaz101 on 17 January 2009

Something seems so radically off. I would think, at this point, Nintendo would be between Apple and Sony........maybe it was supposed to be $40.5M?



famousringo on 17 January 2009
Grampy said:
famousringo said:
Yeah, something really doesn't seem right here. If this actually does reflect reality, it just re-affirms my belief that capitalism still has some major kinks to work out.

That certainly is a very real question at the moment. But like everything else that is bought and sold, market capitalization is perceived value in terms of what people are willing to pay in terms of their evaluation of future prospects and continued growth. In this case apparently a lot of people think Nintendo's future is very good and Sony's is very very bad.

 

 

Oh yeah, the theory is sound, but the factor of 100 between Sony and Nintendo is absurd. Sony's intellectual property alone is probably worth more than 3 billion.



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FishyJoe on 17 January 2009

Those values are completely wrong.

Sony has a market cap around $21 billion. Nintendo has a market cap around $45 billion.

The Apple and MS seems about right.

Somebody probably screwed up the Yen calculations.