Kinda weird Google is lowest. Puzzle: How can the provider of the world's most popular phone OS not profit from it? Maybe they do but it is small compared to the rest of their work.
-- Owen On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > ============================================================ > 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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