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The Value of X

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The company once controlled about 20% of the smartphone market in 2010 with a market capitalization of $40 billion. Three years later, the market share dropped to 0.6%, and the market cap fell to $4 billion. BB ignored consumer interest in cameras and social media integration and convenience.

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Formula 1 in Las Vegas: The Race That Hopes You Don’t Sleep

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billion in 2016 by Liberty Media. It’s current market capitalization is approximately $15 billion. Formula One Group, founded in 1950, was purchased for $4.4 It operates as subsidiary of Liberty under the Nasdaq ticker FWON.K. The subsidiary reports $2.8 billion of annual revenue and $560 million of EBITDA.

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Valuation of Microsoft Inc.

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Microsoft posted its slowest revenue growth since 2020 in the quarter ended 30 June, at 12% year-on-year, and earnings per share were below consensus for the first time since 2016, with net income rising 2% to $16.74 We arrived at a result that is well below the market capitalization of about USD 2.02 billion to $50.25

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Tesla's Trillion Dollar Moment: A Valuation Revisit!

Musings on Markets

If you are interested, you can see my valuations from 2014 , 2016 and 2017. In sum, the company's market cap has risen from $2.8 In sum, the company's market cap has risen from $2.8 Tesla: The Back Story I first valued Tesla in 2013 , as a "luxury automobile company" and I have valued almost every year since.

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Tesla in November 2023 : Story twists and turns, with value consequences!

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It was after one of these downturns in 2019, when the stock hit $180 (with a market cap of $32 billion), that I bought Tesla for the first time , albeit labeling it as my corporate teenager, an investment that would frustrate me because it would get in the way of its own potential. of the company's revenues in 2022 to 6.2%

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The Indian Smartphone Revolution: Paytm's Coming of Age IPO!

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The second is that cell service costs have also dropped , and in India, the drop in costs has been precipitous, after Reliance Jio entered the game in 2016, and quickly acquired 100 million subscribers by offering free voice and data calls over its 4G network. As mobile access improved, Paytm has relentlessly added to its suite of products.

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Wachtell Lipton Discusses Larry Fink’s Annual Letters to Investors

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This is the conception of corporate purpose articulated in The New Paradigm (issued by the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council in 2016), supported by the Business Roundtable beginning in 2019, and widely accepted by corporate leaders, investors, companies, and practitioners.