Samsung Declines to Seek iPhone 4S Ban in Korea, Wins Source Code Access

[vvswarup]

ummm no. 81 billion is assets.

paper value is the near 400 billion the company is value. Noticed a differences.

Apple is very valuable on paper but Apple that is it. They have 80 billion in cash. I would say of that 80 billion 20 billion is really would be owed taxes as they will not bring it home.

I'm trying to make sense of your strange comment that Microsoft has more in physical assets.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

I'm trying to make sense of your strange comment that Microsoft has more in physical assets.

do not forget assets include more than just cash on hand. It includes buildings, hardward, patent ect.

You need to remember assets include a lot more than just money. the 80 billion is pretty much money has quick access to. Other assets can take a lot longer to turn into cash.

 

[vvswarup]

do not forget assets include more than just cash on hand. It includes buildings, hardward, patent ect.

You need to remember assets include a lot more than just money. the 80 billion is pretty much money has quick access to. Other assets can take a lot longer to turn into cash.

I do know that thank you very much! And you just said it. Other assets take longer to turn into cash. Shouldn't it be a good thing that Apple has $80 billion in CASH and CASH EQUIVALENTS then? How are physical assets, e.g. buildings, superior to cash reserves?

 

[divinox]

About ten years ago, in the middle of the great internet stock bubble, I had a look for the most overvalued stock around. I found a company with a market caps of >$100,000,000 that actually had fewer physical assets than I had inside my home (physical assets were listed as $18,000). It was a software company with one CEO, 18 managers and VPs, and TWO software developers and they were looking for a third one. I also had more revenue than they had - theirs was ZERO and stayed that way for another five years.

Heh, thats the Swedish mumbo-jumbo "we're gonna redefine the web"-company, right? Oh man, their stocks went up like 40000% percent or something in one year. Good ****.

(But if so, they had some revenue, in fact. Revenue equivalent of a hot dog stand, or something like that).

Addendum:

I looked it up, the company (i am thinking of) was Xcelera. And, it was 76000% in one year. Valued at... 20 billion or so. Now? A wee bit more than nothing.

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I do know that thank you very much! And you just said it. Other assets take longer to turn into cash. Shouldn't it be a good thing that Apple has $80 billion in CASH and CASH EQUIVALENTS then? How are physical assets, e.g. buildings, superior to cash reserves?

Liquidity is good, but you're forgetting about alternative costs. And how? A building (say a factory) can oft-times produce more money than money does. If more money is valued higher than more liquidity (which it oft-times is), then these assets are superior to cash reserves.

Cash reserves in the magnitude of 80bn are actually quite useless for a company like Apple. Heck, more or less for any company.

 

[danahn17]

A tautology is a tautology no matter how the relation is understood. The picture is a fact. No matter how many times it gets posted, it will still remain true and magnify what Samsung really is up to.

As a photographer, one of my favorite quotes is "A picture is worth a thousand words.... but they can all be lies."