For comparison: Google PE > 30 Amazon PE > 170 Netflix PE > 330
Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Mar 16, 2017 10:37 AM, "glen ☣" <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps it's not beside the point at all. P/E normalizes the price based > on one frame of mind, which I suppose is whether you can make money off > it. Making money implies a time window and some sort of zero sum bucket of > money (where P goes out and E comes in). But a more objective (perspective > invariant) normalizer might send an entirely different message, > particularly one that includes the extent the company is leveraged. > > Regardless, from the little I know about it (2 friends who work there and > a slew of interviews a decade ago), they have/had very little tolerance for > constituents setting their own agenda. My interactions with Google were > drastically different. They seemed willing to entertain literally _any_ > idea (the overwhelming majority of which are selected against immediately, > of course). I chalked this up to their sources of money, which is a > type/kind of liquidity. If you have more ways of making money (selling > products to rich hipsters vs. advertising to anyone), you'll be more > willing to let the constituents try out their own pet project, build their > own sub-org. > > > On 03/15/2017 06:05 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > It's beside the point, but Apple has a low stock price. PE < 17. > > > -- > ☣ glen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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