๐๐๐ FORTUNE – In June Rolfe Winkler, writing for the Wall Street Journal’s MarketBeat, and posted an item called Big Apple, Bigger Google. I am not an Investment Banker; I could write Book on what I do Not Know about Investment Banking, nor what drives Investment Brokers with their clients.
๐๐๐ Big Apple vs Bigger Google vs Amazing Amazon. We would rather rename the article, Big Apple vs Bigger Google vs Amazing Amazon, Really? Sooner or Later, the "Markets" will come to their senses, as in sum, its All About Earnings, Growth. When the Markets Smell the "stuff they are shoveling" these Graphs will Invert for Amazon and Google, with Apple at the Top.
๐๐๐ Winkler had calculated that Google’s (GOOG) value had just surpassed Apple’s (AAPL). Not in market capitalization, mind you, (i.e., share price times number of outstanding shares), which is the way these thing are usually measured, but in enterprise value (market cap plus debt minus cash and cash equivalents).
๐๐๐ You can think of enterprise value as what it would cost to acquire a company: The buyer would have to take on the company’s debt, but would pocket its cash.
๐๐๐ Nobody is about to buy either company, of course, but Winkler’s story generated some excitement – and flurry of copycat headlines – because it fit the dominant narrative on the Street that Apple is doomed.
๐๐๐ Apple’s shares have bounced back a bit since Winkler posted that piece, and the company is once again more valuable than Google in pretty much every measure except sentiment on Wall Street (see the stock fever charts above).
๐๐๐ "The Street sees Amazon as the world’s biggest (online) global retailer with almost limitless growth. [It] sees Apple as a (mobile) device maker that because it is wholly dependent on its ability to innovate nonstop, expand its (ultimately saturated) markets while fighting off competition and controlling its very unstable supply chain, has limited growth."
๐๐๐ FORTUNE – In November, the last time we compared Apple’s (AAPL) and Amazon’s (AMZN) price-to-earnings ratios, the simplest and most widely used metric to gauge the relative value of a pair of stocks.
๐๐๐ Apple’s trailing PE was 13 and Amazon’s was 2,767. We haven’t been able to repeat the exercise because while Apple PE has drifted with its stock price to between 10x and 11x, Amazon’s trailing PE has reached, as Buzz Lightyear might put it, infinity and beyond, (Or, as the stock charts politely have it, NA.)
๐๐๐ Amazon, gets an NA, on its PE ratio, which reported its June earnings on Friday, hasn’t turned a profit, all Red Ink, for three quarters in a row. What does Wall Street react for this dismal performance, Wall Street rewarded Amazon by pushing its stock to an all-time-high of $312.01.
๐๐๐ The Apple vs Google vs Amazon can best be told with Graphics. Reviewing these sets of statistics, which reflect actual results… However, the trading values are apparently based on the Company’s Performance by any standard.
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