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Microsoft has some serious money!!!!! Like you didnt know

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Sluggo

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Just was reading my new free Money magazine from the Hot deals Forum, and it has a great article about how much has Microsoft has laying around.

From the article:

At the end of last year, according to the company's most recent filing, its cash (and short term investments that can be converted to cash in less than a year) totaled a whopping $38.2 BILLION dollars. The Microsoft jugernaut continues to generate another $1 BILLION a month, putting the total cash today worth well above $40 BILLION dollars.

This mind-bogglingly large pile of dough. No other nonfinancial firm has more liquid money at its disposal, and only a handful of banks do. It's more cash then Ford, ExxonMobil and Wal-Mart have COMBINED, and nearly four times as much as Intel, the tech company with the next largest cash balance.

It is enough to buy the entire airline industry-----twice. Or all the gold in Fory Knox----4 times over. It is enough to buy 23 space shutles or every major professional baseball, basketball football and hockey team in the America.

For comparison, Top 10 nonfinancial companies cash and short term investments in Billions

Microsoft.......................$38.2
Ford...............................$18.2
Intel................................$10.3
Pfizer..............................$9.5
General Motors............$9.2
ExxonMobil....................$9.0
Johnson & Johnson....$8.0
Cisco..............................$7.5
Hewlett-Packard...........$7.1
IBM..................................$6.4[/i]

I think thats pretty damn impressive, make me want to look a little farther and think of investing some money there.
 
You must have just awakened from a very long sleep. Microsoft has always had money in the bank and no debts. It is and has been for many years a corporation without peer financially. This does not, of course, mean that buying their stock will yield you a substantial profit. After all, they are very good at acquiring money, not giving it away.
 
yet they still want $500+ for a retail version of Office XP pro @ Best Buy. Ya think with that much money, they'd be giving them away wrapped in $100 bills 🙂
 
<< yet they still want $500+ for a retail version of Office XP pro @ Best Buy. Ya think with that much money, they'd be giving them away wrapped in $100 bills >>

Perhaps, but they got rich for charging the high prices because they know we'll pay it.
 


<< yet they still want $500+ for a retail version of Office XP pro @ Best Buy. Ya think with that much money, they'd be giving them away wrapped in $100 bills 🙂 >>

holy sh**, my school gives us a free copy of office xp pro. i have a copy but havent even opened it, and i doubt i will. hehe
 


<< You must have just awakened from a very long sleep. Microsoft has always had money in the bank and no debts. It is and has been for many years a corporation without peer financially. This does not, of course, mean that buying their stock will yield you a substantial profit. After all, they are very good at acquiring money, not giving it away. >>



Well I will never admit to living in my cave but......

You always hear numbers thrown around, yet most people have trouble grasping the concept of such a huge wad. It was an excellent illustration of what exactly 40 Billion will buy, and gives you a new perspective when you hear some government numbers thrown around.
 
its like that episode of the simpsons where bill gates "buys out" homer.

"I didn't become the richest man in the world by writing checks"
 
I had always heard that Bill Gates was worth somewhere around $60bn, mostly in MS stock. Did MS lose some cash recently or was I told wrong?
 


<< I had always heard that Bill Gates was worth somewhere around $60bn, mostly in MS stock. Did MS lose some cash recently or was I told wrong? >>



The figures I quoted have nothing to do with stock prices or valuation. It is how much CASH MS has laying around..stuffed in drawers and the like. Bill is a Billionaire, but not anywhere in the neighborhood and 60 Billion in worth.
 


<< The US = FVCKED if M$ decides to move to another country (it's own!!!!) to escape this antitrust BULLSH|T >>



haha.... i never thought about htat 😛
 
I work for a company on that list. G'damn that is impressive. But everyone needs software... and games... and web services... and the next big idea...

Bill is smart, what can we say.
 


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<< I had always heard that Bill Gates was worth somewhere around $60bn, mostly in MS stock. Did MS lose some cash recently or was I told wrong? >>



The figures I quoted have nothing to do with stock prices or valuation. It is how much CASH MS has laying around..stuffed in drawers and the like. Bill is a Billionaire, but not anywhere in the neighborhood and 60 Billion in worth. >>




no he really is worth 60B. You can check the bill gates wealth clock if you wish to verify.
 


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<< I had always heard that Bill Gates was worth somewhere around $60bn, mostly in MS stock. Did MS lose some cash recently or was I told wrong? >>



The figures I quoted have nothing to do with stock prices or valuation. It is how much CASH MS has laying around..stuffed in drawers and the like. Bill is a Billionaire, but not anywhere in the neighborhood and 60 Billion in worth. >>




no he really is worth 60B. You can check the bill gates wealth clock if you wish to verify. >>



Damn, said the wealth clock is broken.

Since that is paper wealth I have trouble callling the whole thing his wealth, it would be almost impossible to liquidate the whole amount. Not to say he doesnt have plenty, I just dont like paper wealth quotes.
 
no, there is no way he could liquidate it. Even liquidating a few billion in MS shares would probably have some severe consequences on the price of the stock. Consequently, when he gives his money to charity (something like 20 billion!) its usually in MS shares.
 
a coworker told me that ms could stop selling every product and would be able to pay the employees salary for 10 years straight without making a dime of money and without firing anyone.
 


<< a coworker told me that ms could stop selling every product and would be able to pay the employees salary for 10 years straight without making a dime of money and without firing anyone. >>


Dang!

Ameesh, any talks within Microsoft about moving to Canada? How is Vancouver? 😀

Microsoft HQ in Vancouver = serious tax revenue for us.
 
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