Thought: would apple buy nvidia?

[SHAQ]

I know the difference, thanks. They are not meant to be direct analogs, else I would have used company size by revenue. (There is no "net value of a nation" metric easily available.) It does say something to say that the financial market values AMD more than an entire year's economic activity by Somalia, for instance.

Btw, I did in fact start a list of highest-valed tech companies by revenue, but I felt it was not a good list because many of those companies were big on revenue and smaller on profits. Ingram Micro for instance. Apple's market cap is so huge because it's huge PROFITABLE not because it has more employees and revenues than everyone else. And profits are what matter at the end of the day.

GDP vs. annual gross revenue should be easy enough to do.

 

[blastingcap]

GDP vs. annual gross revenue should be easy enough to do.

You quoted me, but did you even read what I wrote?

I mean hell, Sprint has large revenue, but have you seen its profits recently? They've lost something like $3.5 billion over the last 4 years and lost almost $1 billion in 2009 and lost almost another $1 billion in 2010.

I started off making a list of highest revenues but switched to market cap as that better represents who has a brighter future ahead of them.

 

[Bateluer]

Cripes, I hope Apple wouldn't buy AMD. That'd an extreme negative for everyone.

 

[Deathray2K]

What's your point blastingcap? The same is true of countries, that's why it's the proper comparison. A comparison like that is only valid if you're measuring the same thing on either side, and in this case that is GDP and annual revenue. Neither one is an indication of what something is worth, but that's irrelevant to this particular comparison.

 

[3DVagabond]

What I took from it wasn't so much a direct comparison, but a way to quantify the dollar amt. in terms that people might be able to relate to.

NZ's GDP in '09 was 126.6B. About the same as the market value of Intel or Samsung. Gives some idea of the value of those individual companies.

 

[blastingcap]

What's your point blastingcap? The same is true of countries, that's why it's the proper comparison. A comparison like that is only valid if you're measuring the same thing on either side, and in this case that is GDP and annual revenue. Neither one is an indication of what something is worth, but that's irrelevant to this particular comparison.

Neither is. Which is why I used market cap--which IS a measure of the value of a company--and stuck on GDPs as an afterthought. After all, this arose from someone making a comment about how Apple might struggle with Intel in a bidding war over Nvidia. I was like, yeah right, have you seen the valuations of companies recently? Apple could buy Nvidia several times over without breaking a sweat. Hell, Apple could even take over Intel, though Intel is so big that it'd be more like a merger.

Man, some people are hard to please... (to those of you who did thank me, I appreciate it... I learned a few things putting the list together, too, like how Activision-Blizzard is actually valued HIGHER than Nvidia!)

To you and anyone else who has a problem with my including GDPs, just ignore them and focus on the relative sizes of the companies. Problem solved. And if your complaint is that it's too hard to read without looking at the GDPs, I'll even take those out for you (this was how it looked prior to my inserting the GDPs):

Market cap in $billions as of 5/19/2011:

Exxon Mobil 408
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Apple 314
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General Electric 212
Microsoft 208.42
IBM 208.04
Wal-Mart 194
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Google 171
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Intel 125
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Qualcomm 96
Cisco 92
Siemens 86
HP 78
TSMC (makes Nvidia and AMD GPUs) 70
Kraft Foods 62
Boeing 58
Facebook 50 (implicitly estimated by Goldman Sachs, if it were a public company)
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Oracle 35
Nintendo 33
Sony 27
Hitachi 26
Toshiba 22
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Activision Blizzard 13.39
Fujitsu 10.70
Nvidia 10.58
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Electronic Arts 7.95
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AMD 5.94

Source: finance.google.com and other such sites, calculating market cap as of May 19, 2011.