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[somewhat OT] RHAT wealth monitor
It is somewhat OT, but I think of some amusement/trivia value for this
forum, bent as it is on world domination, and further inspired by
Maddog ;-)
Red Hat (RHAT) did an IPO on Aug 10 at $14 per share. The current
share price is $284 1/8, actually down from yesterday's $290 3/4. The
market capitalization is 19,546.27 million dollars (yes, almost 20
billion). To compare:
Company Ticker Market Capitalization
(in millions USD)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Kodak EK 19,370.18
Apple AAPL 18,953.71
Xerox XRX 16,938,67
Sears S 12,496,10
Natl Semiconductor NSM 8,093.55
Silicon Graphics SGI 2,090.76
Novell NOVL 7,348.28
All of these companies are smaller than Red Hat at this moment.
Not too shabby for free software, eh? The road ahead (smirk):
Amazon AMZN 29,329.01
Compaq CPQ 44,547.06
Sun SUNW 112,521.29
Dell DELL 115,793.07
AOL AOL 180,795.00
IBM IBM 210,228.69
Microsoft MSFT 479,882.28
There were no sophisticated criteria in compiling the lists. The
first list consists of household names (prompted by a colleague), the
second list consists of computer industry T-rexes to put things into
prospective.
The above numbers are from Bloomberg. On the 'net, see
http://prosthetic-monkey.com/RHWM/
--
Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | oleg@bfr.co.il
"A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out
unequally at birth." [F. Scott FitzGerald]
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