Stock prices: Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Google

[Darren Dirt]

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 vs. Apple vs. Google





BigCharts.com has much shorter URLs: M$ vs. Apple vs. Google <-- (!) 5 year trend is even more amazing

[Shayne]

Stock prices mean nothing  Market Cap is where the true details are.

[Shayne]

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.

[Thorin]

Err, I would have rather invested in Google than Microsoft in the last 12 months...  Market capitalization be damned.

[Shayne]

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).