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General => Lobby => Topic started by: Darren Dirt on September 26, 2005, 10:53:33 AM

Title: Stock prices: Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Google
Post by: Darren Dirt on September 26, 2005, 10:53:33 AM
My brother has his OSX Tiger set to have a desktop widget always displaying the stock price of M$ vs. Apple. (Jobs is, understandably, one of his heroes).





Below I include a link to a past-year summary of these stocks, but also include the astounding climb of Google (!) -- very interesting to compare the 3 ain't it...





Microsoft (http://online.wsj.com/mds/mds.cgi?route=H&template=company-research&ambiguous-purchase-template=company-research-symbol-ambiguity&profile-name=Portfolio9&profile-version=3.0&profile-type=Portfolio&profile-format-action=include&profile-read-action=skip-read&profile-write-action=skip-write&p-sym=MSFT&p-type=djn&p-name=&section=stock-charting&profile-end=Portfolio&p-headline=wsjie&the-symbol=MSFT) vs. Apple (http://online.wsj.com/mds/mds.cgi?route=H&template=company-research&ambiguous-purchase-template=company-research-symbol-ambiguity&profile-name=Portfolio9&profile-version=3.0&profile-type=Portfolio&profile-format-action=include&profile-read-action=skip-read&profile-write-action=skip-write&p-sym=AAPL&p-type=djn&p-name=&section=stock-charting&profile-end=Portfolio&p-headline=wsjie&the-symbol=AAPL) vs. Google (http://online.wsj.com/mds/mds.cgi?route=H&template=company-research&ambiguous-purchase-template=company-research-symbol-ambiguity&profile-name=Portfolio9&profile-version=3.0&profile-type=Portfolio&profile-format-action=include&profile-read-action=skip-read&profile-write-action=skip-write&p-sym=GOOG&p-type=djn&p-name=&section=stock-charting&profile-end=Portfolio&p-headline=wsjie&the-symbol=GOOG)





BigCharts.com has much shorter URLs: M$ (http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=MSFT&sid=0&o_symb=MSFT&freq=1&time=8&x=45&y=16) vs. Apple (http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=AAPL&sid=0&o_symb=AAPL&freq=1&time=8&x=45&y=16) vs. Google (http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=GOGL&sid=0&o_symb=GOGL&freq=1&time=8&x=45&y=16) <-- (!) 5 year trend is even more amazing
Title: Stock prices: Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Google
Post by: Shayne on September 26, 2005, 11:32:43 AM
Stock prices mean nothing :)  Market Cap is where the true details are.
Title: Stock prices: Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Google
Post by: Shayne on September 26, 2005, 11:35:48 AM
MSFT: 272,209.89M

GOOG: 93,727.00M

AAPL: 44,678.00M



...ya, so like even though Microsoft has a stock price of near $20, and google at $300, Microsoft is nearly 3 times as large in market weight.



<-- Economics Major.
Title: Stock prices: Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Google
Post by: Thorin on September 26, 2005, 03:50:07 PM
Err, I would have rather invested in Google than Microsoft in the last 12 months...  Market capitalization be damned.
Title: Stock prices: Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Google
Post by: Shayne on September 26, 2005, 04:10:07 PM
Quote from: "Thorin"Err, I would have rather invested in Google than Microsoft in the last 12 months...  Market capitalization be damned.

Who wouldnt ;)  The point is that even if google stock was $1000, they would probably still be worth less overall then Microsoft and that looking at straight stock value is a worthless.



Most of my investements are in Canadian financial sector.  With the Canadian dollar over $0.85/US the economy is red hot (despite what a few exports say).
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