Comments on: 25x revenue is a company valuation? Huh? http://www.marius.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marius.org%2F2008%2F05%2F08%2F25x_revenue_is_a_company_valuation_huh.php%23comment-&seed_title=25x+revenue+is+a+company+valuation%3F+Huh%3F My random ramblings and musings Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:17:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: marius http://www.marius.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marius.org%2F2008%2F05%2F08%2F25x_revenue_is_a_company_valuation_huh.php%23comment-13026&seed_title=25x+revenue+is+a+company+valuation%3F+Huh%3F/comment-page-1#comment-13026 marius Wed, 14 May 2008 06:09:47 +0000 http://www.marius.org/2008/05/08/25x_revenue_is_a_company_valuation_huh.php#comment-13026 <p>Michael - MSFT bought a 1.5% stake in Facebook for $240M - http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2007/oct07/10-24FacebookPR.mspx - which gives them a $15B valuation (higher than Blodgett's $9B valuation for Facebook).</p> Michael -
MSFT bought a 1.5% stake in Facebook for $240M – http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2007/oct07/10-24FacebookPR.mspx – which gives them a $15B valuation (higher than Blodgett’s $9B valuation for Facebook).

]]> By: Michael http://www.marius.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marius.org%2F2008%2F05%2F08%2F25x_revenue_is_a_company_valuation_huh.php%23comment-13025&seed_title=25x+revenue+is+a+company+valuation%3F+Huh%3F/comment-page-1#comment-13025 Michael Tue, 13 May 2008 18:32:55 +0000 http://www.marius.org/2008/05/08/25x_revenue_is_a_company_valuation_huh.php#comment-13025 <p>Being a finance guy as you put it, I would say that 25X revenue is kind of a stretch. If that is the case then ExxonMobil should be worth almost $9 Trillion.</p> <p>Now ExxonMobil and the companies you mentioned don't probably have the growth potential of Facebook but still that is a big hill to climb to justify that type of valuation.</p> <p>What did Microsoft buy part of Facebook for?</p> Being a finance guy as you put it, I would say that 25X revenue is kind of a stretch. If that is the case then ExxonMobil should be worth almost $9 Trillion.

Now ExxonMobil and the companies you mentioned don’t probably have the growth potential of Facebook but still that is a big hill to climb to justify that type of valuation.

What did Microsoft buy part of Facebook for?

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