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Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: tHe GaMe on December 16, 2000, 07:32:56 PM
I was at these sites.....

Sony is ranked at number 30
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/global500/csnap/0,5948,CM|6640,00.html

Microsoft is ranked at number 216
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/global500/csnap/0,5948,CM|3063,00.html

Damn I didn\'t know Sony was a big company....I guess since they do make laptops, music, movies, have theaters, have television shows, have ties with restaurants, and most famously videogame consoles.....

[Edited by ddaryl on 12-16-2000 at 10:58 PM]
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: Chrono on December 16, 2000, 07:35:57 PM
Yeah, DDaryl posted this info earlier...
but it is very interesting
but sony does do ALOT of stuff in the entertaiment division of the world
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: tHe GaMe on December 16, 2000, 07:37:24 PM
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Originally posted by Chrono
Yeah, DDaryl posted this info earlier...
but it is very interesting
but sony does do ALOT of stuff in the entertaiment division of the world


Yes they do
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: Shawnimal on December 16, 2000, 07:44:07 PM
Sony is NOT bigger than Microsoft!!!  This year computer sales were down, so revenue for MS, Intel, AMD, Compaq, Dell, and all tech stocks is down this year.

Sony made more money this year even though it\'s a smaller company.  But as soon as PC sales pick up next year....
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: tHe GaMe on December 16, 2000, 07:48:46 PM
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Originally posted by Shawnimal
Sony is NOT bigger than Microsoft!!!  This year computer sales were down, so revenue for MS, Intel, AMD, Compaq, Dell, and all tech stocks is down this year.

Sony made more money this year even though it\'s a smaller company.  But as soon as PC sales pick up next year....


Sony has always been at 20-30 they have never dropped down from these spots.

Microsoft has always been between 100-230, they are not a huge company as they seem, Bill Gates is just wealthy not his company.
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: ddaryl on December 16, 2000, 08:00:23 PM
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Originally posted by Shawnimal
Sony is NOT bigger than Microsoft!!!  This year computer sales were down, so revenue for MS, Intel, AMD, Compaq, Dell, and all tech stocks is down this year.

Sony made more money this year even though it\'s a smaller company.  But as soon as PC sales pick up next year....



Boy aren\'t you making a fool of yourself. Go check the links above, SOny is quite a bit larger than MS in a whole. In fact Sony has about 30 billion more in assets and has less company stock out so its a stronger company. MS makes more profit but all in all SOny is #30 on the Global 500 on MS is #216, and MS has NEVER EVER been larger than SOny NEVER

Alos MS made more profit than Sony did this year last year and the year before but they\'re still not bigger,

Please actually take the time to research before you spout out about some stuff you obviously don\'t know about

[Edited by ddaryl on 12-16-2000 at 11:02 PM]
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Post by: tHe GaMe on December 16, 2000, 08:00:30 PM
Last year Microsoft was ranked at 284, and Sony was ranked at 31...

Now Microsoft is ranked at 216 for 2000
Now Sony is ranked at 30 for 2000
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: Animal Mother on December 16, 2000, 08:05:19 PM
Bill Gates isn\'t the richest man in the world anymore. Larry Ellison is. Gates is only worth $36 billion due to the drop of Microsoft stock. Microsoft is dying. And people will see the peice of **** that windows Whistler is (I have the beta)
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Post by: tHe GaMe on December 16, 2000, 08:07:55 PM
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Originally posted by animal_mother1
Bill Gates isn\'t the richest man in the world anymore. Larry Ellison is. Gates is only worth $36 billion due to the drop of Microsoft stock. Microsoft is dying. And people will see the peice of **** that windows Whistler is (I have the beta)


Oh, learn something new today.
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: Shawnimal on December 16, 2000, 08:22:54 PM
Sony has had greater REVENUE than Microsoft recently.... but Microsoft is BIGGER:

Sony has a Market Cap of $60,770,000,000
MicroSoft has a Market Cap of $262,287,000,000

So even though MSFT has been tanking, it\'s still over 4X larger today.

AND...

If you go by employees, Sony is all small small Asians, while Microsoft employees are all overweight computer geeks like ddaryl... so by sheer tonage, MS is bigger. ;)
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: on December 16, 2000, 08:34:30 PM
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If you go by employees, Sony is all small small Asians, while Microsoft employees are all overweight computer geeks like ddaryl... so by sheer tonage, MS is bigger.


Now that is just hitting below the belt.  A debate between the sizes of two companies all of a sudden turns into a personal attack.  How childish.....
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Post by: Halberto on December 16, 2000, 08:36:06 PM
What\'s the #1?
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Post by: ddaryl on December 16, 2000, 08:36:10 PM
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Originally posted by Shawnimal
Sony has had greater REVENUE than Microsoft recently.... but Microsoft is BIGGER:

Sony has a Market Cap of $60,770,000,000
MicroSoft has a Market Cap of $262,287,000,000

So even though MSFT has been tanking, it\'s still over 4X larger today.

AND...

If you go by employees, Sony is all small small Asians, while Microsoft employees are all overweight computer geeks like ddaryl... so by sheer tonage, MS is bigger. ;)



Do you make this stuff up as you go along. MS is and was never larger than SOny the Global 500 doesn\'t lie.

Sony has total revenues of  60.052 billion as of March 2000 and 189,700 employees

MS has total revenues  of 19.747 billion. as of March 2000 and 31,396 employees.



Now if you want to debate this then provide links to your information from a reputable website like I have
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Post by: tHe GaMe on December 16, 2000, 08:37:41 PM
Sony is bigger and that\'s it.
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: Shawnimal on December 16, 2000, 08:42:30 PM
So if Sony has a bad year and reports losses for the year, and my neighborhood bakery makes $1,000.

Then my local bakery is a larger company than Sony???
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: ddaryl on December 16, 2000, 08:46:37 PM
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Originally posted by Shawnimal
So if Sony has a bad year and reports losses for the year, and my neighborhood bakery makes $1,000.

Then my local bakery is a larger company than Sony???



Profit losses and total assets and company revenues are completely different things

SOny reports losses of 250 million but they still own the 2 5 billion dollar silicon manufacturing plants they built.


SOny has billions of dollars invested into themselves,
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Post by: Shawnimal on December 16, 2000, 09:06:02 PM
http://screen.morningstar.com/StockSearch/allcurmktcap.html?stockSector=all&screen=curmktcap&Select.x=52&Select.y=11

[Edited by Shawnimal on 12-17-2000 at 12:09 AM]
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: Shawnimal on December 16, 2000, 09:07:51 PM
If you won a contest and had your choice, you could take either of the follwing (and I assume you\'d want the "bigger" prize):

20% of Sony OR
10% of Microsoft

Which is the "bigger" prize?

You should take Microsoft because that prize would be worth more, it\'s bigger!!!!

I\'m not saying that the "global 500" is lying or wrong.
Does SONY have greater revenues: YES
Is SONY more profitable than MS: YES
Should SONY be ranked higher than MS in the Global 500: YES
Is SONY BIGGER than MS: NO

Here is a list of the BIGGEST companys:
1. GENERAL ELECTRIC
2. CISCO
3. EXXON-MOBIL
4. PFIZER
5. MICROSOFT

Check this Morningstar list:
http://screen.morningstar.com/StockSearch/allcurmktcap.html?stockSector=all&screen=curmktcap&Select.x=52&Select.y=11
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: Black Samurai on December 16, 2000, 09:44:31 PM
WTF? Apparently you do not know anything about stock and business. Market Cap has nothing to do with the Size of a company. Market cap is found by taking the number of stock a company has and multiplying it by the stock price. If you read ddaryl earlier post, he said:

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In fact Sony has about 30 billion more in assets and has less company stock out so its a stronger company.


So say I start IcebergSlimCo. If our IPO is $1.00 and (for the sake of argument)We have 265,000,000,000 shares out we will have a higher market cap than Microsoft.

I hope this has taught you something, if nothing else DON\'T EVER DISAGREE WITH DDARYL. I did and now I must live with one arm and half a leg. He does not play. :D
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: Black Samurai on December 16, 2000, 09:49:16 PM
I know I just posted but I didn\'t feel like editing. :D

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Originally posted by Shawnimal
If you won a contest and had your choice, you could take either of the follwing (and I assume you\'d want the "bigger" prize):

20% of Sony OR
10% of Microsoft

Which is the "bigger" prize?

You should take Microsoft because that prize would be worth more, it\'s bigger!!!!


Like I said before Sony has less stock so their stock is a lot more valuable. I would come up with an analogy to compare it to but Team Fortress is calling......
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: Shawnimal on December 16, 2000, 09:58:20 PM
Fine, Sony\'s bigger... I concede.  I feel like Al Gore... enough recounts.

[Edited by Shawnimal on 12-17-2000 at 01:09 AM]
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: ddaryl on December 16, 2000, 10:04:14 PM
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Originally posted by Shawnimal
Stock IS one part of a companies assets... so are name recognition, warehouses, elmployees, etc...

If you could get people to buy 265,000,000,000 shares of your company at $1.00 a share you\'d be HUGE... that would go down in Financial History... Gates would kiss your ass, People would say Bill Gates was small potatoes... IcebergSlim was a freakin genius.

But no one would buy that many shares of a small company, only a large company (actually, people wouldn\'t buy that many shares of GOD if he went public... and he\'s really big)


Please, define: "BIG"



A company sells stock to generate revenue to invest in themselves, BUT all major company\'s will buy back there stock when they can to make there COmpany stronger. Outstanding shares can also weaken a company


This is getting a little rediculous Shawnimal Sony is bigger and the Fortune 500 tells all. Its obvious you don\'t want to believe the truth so its a wasate of our time
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Post by: AlteredBeast on December 16, 2000, 10:08:00 PM
I thought General Motors was first.

Eric Jacob
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: Shawnimal on December 16, 2000, 10:11:00 PM
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Fine, Sony\'s bigger... I concede. I feel like Al Gore... enough recounts.
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Post by: ddaryl on December 16, 2000, 10:18:57 PM
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Originally posted by AlteredBeast
I thought General Motors was first.

Eric Jacob



They are

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/global500/
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Post by: tHe GaMe on December 17, 2000, 12:08:06 PM
Some people just cannot handle the truth.
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on December 17, 2000, 12:12:32 PM
Think about it, what does microsoft make? (software, OS)
What does sony make? (practically every consumer electronic known to man!)
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: MeTaL=DeaTh on December 17, 2000, 05:37:45 PM
i wanted so much to post here with figures but everyone said all that needed to be said. as stated,stocks don\'t make a company,yearly revenue does...some people do not understand this for whatever reasons
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: Animal Mother on December 17, 2000, 06:05:51 PM
you guys know why Wal-mart is so profitable? because they sell everything, and they open up shop in small towns, villages if you will. Small towns revolve around their walmarts! But seriously, stepping into walmart is like setting foot in west virginia or something.
Title: Sony is bigger than Microsoft.......???????......???????
Post by: tHe GaMe on December 18, 2000, 06:23:10 AM
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Originally posted by Animal Mother
you guys know why Wal-mart is so profitable? because they sell everything, and they open up shop in small towns, villages if you will. Small towns revolve around their walmarts! But seriously, stepping into walmart is like setting foot in west virginia or something.


Number 2 compnay in the world
Title: BWAH!
Post by: GmanJoe on December 18, 2000, 07:58:19 AM
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Originally posted by Animal Mother
But seriously, stepping into walmart is like setting foot in west virginia or something.


Now I don\'t feel so bad knowing that I\'m not the only one who noticed this. Heh....I wonder how many homeless people live in those 24 hour Wal-mart stores. :D