Thursday, November 07, 2013

Stock | Twitter busts into the billion-dollar club

Twitter's stock soared 80% to $47 a share this morning on its first day of public trading, giving the seven-year-old San Francisco company a $25 billion market value after debuting its closely watched initial public offering at $26 a share.

Market capitalizations for Twitter, Gannett and other companies:

$341.8 billion


$163.0 billion


$119.6 billion
Facebook


$68.9 billion
eBay


$25.5 billion
Twitter


$19.9 billion
Netflix


$6.7 billion
Groupon


$6.4 billion


$2.0 billion


$1.4 billion

4 comments:

  1. And you ar comparing us to google, amazon and ebay because???

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    1. Because these are companies in the industry where Gannett now competes.

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    2. I didnt know ebay and netflix are in the news business. What about Yahoo? We have plenty of yahoos at Gannett.

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  2. If you don't understand competition and innovation, then you're next in line to be CEO of a major media company.

    There's an old story about two hunters being chased by a bear. The bear is gaining on them, and one guy says: "We're both gonna die!" The other hunter says: "No WE'RE not. I don't have to outrun the bear - I just have to be faster than YOU."

    Turns out the internet bear didn't eat Gannett - it IGNORED Gannett. None of the listed companies more valuable than Gannett is over 20 years old.

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