Im sure this isn't a surprise, but do you know - Page 2

theholycow · 07-10-2008, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Beyond Limits

Exxon is worth nearly half a TRILLION dollars... you can't even imagine that kind of money. I mean think about it. If you born today with a bank account with that much money it in and you were to spend one million dollars a day from the day you were born until the day you turned 100 you would only have spent 36.5 billion dollars which means that you would still have 430 Billion in the bank (assuming you made no interest on the money since you would making more then a million dollars a day in interest at this point as well).

Damn, that's one hell of a way to put it into perspective! Kinda like this...

stovt001 · 07-10-2008, 10:29 PM

I just want to say sheer size doesn't equal profit. It just means size.

NOODLESgoneWILD · 07-11-2008, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Beyond Limits

Hey... I hate to burst your bubble but it is actually worse then you think it it. Here is the top ten largest companies by market cap as of the close of the markets on 7/3/08.

Name Symbol Mkt cap in millions
Exxon Mobil XOM $466,392
General Electric GE $268,223
Microsoft Corp MSFT $241,959
Wal-Mart Stores WMT $223,215
Chevron Corp CVX $202,598
Procter & Gamble PG $194,384
AT&T Inc. T $193,558
Johnson & Johnson JNJ $183,521
Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A $180,746
Google Inc. GOOG $168,668
Int'l Business Mach. IBM $164,186
Apple Inc. AAPL $149,982
ConocoPhillips COP $141,658
Cisco Systems, CSCO $136,573
JPMorgan Chase JPM $120,994
Pfizer Inc. PFE $120,082
Coca-Cola KO $119,578
Intel INTC $118,226
Hewlett-Packard HPQ $107,131
Oracle ORCL $106,791

Exxon is worth nearly half a TRILLION dollars... you can't even imagine that kind of money. I mean think about it. If you born today with a bank account with that much money it in and you were to spend one million dollars a day from the day you were born until the day you turned 100 you would only have spent 36.5 billion dollars which means that you would still have 430 Billion in the bank (assuming you made no interest on the money since you would making more then a million dollars a day in interest at this point as well).

Ha...Funny, this remainded me of that movie, Brusters Million where the guy had to spend a million bucks in a Month...or something like that (someone please google this) What a joke now...could do that in 10 min.

lafountain · 07-11-2008, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by NOODLESgoneWILD

Ha...Funny, this remainded me of that movie, Brusters Million where the guy had to spend a million bucks in a Month...or something like that (someone please google this) What a joke now...could do that in 10 min.

In the movie he had to spend $30 million in 30 days and have no monetary assets. He could only give 5% to charity and could only lose 5% gambling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewste...281985_film%29

NOODLESgoneWILD · 07-11-2008, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by lafountain

In the movie he had to spend $30 million in 30 days and have no monetary assets. He could only give 5% to charity and could only lose 5% gambling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewste...281985_film%29

OH S*$t! I guess I was alittle off the mark there...that would be tough to do!

CaptianSam · 07-11-2008, 01:33 AM

sorry to burst your bubbles but these numbers are revenue not profits... divid most of those numbers by 100... profit is est. 10 points of that... in certian cases it is more/ less but good to know these companies... now if this a world list... how many are northamerican?

*DGthe3* · 07-12-2008, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by CaptianSam

sorry to burst your bubbles but these numbers are revenue not profits... divid most of those numbers by 100... profit is est. 10 points of that... in certian cases it is more/ less but good to know these companies... now if this a world list... how many are northamerican?

Are you referring to the list with revenue and profit or the other one?

MCPOAJ · 07-12-2008, 12:02 PM

umm... WTFH???

Toyota Motor 230,201 15,042 <Look at the profit
General Motors 182,347 -38,732 <Look at the profit

Does this seem right to you guys???

NOODLESgoneWILD · 07-12-2008, 01:23 PM

Maybe Scott could sheed some light on this subject!

EARTH CALLING SCOTT...ARE YOU OUT THERE?

Zieke · 07-12-2008, 07:41 PM

HOLY CRAP!
we've got stock in Oracle. i didnt know it was doing that good.
i hope my dad does, and is watching it. we've been waiting to sell the shares for a long time.

sorry if im off topic and being random.

*DGthe3* · 07-14-2008, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by MCPOAJ

umm... WTFH???

Toyota Motor 230,201 15,042 <Look at the profit
General Motors 182,347 -38,732 <Look at the profit

Does this seem right to you guys???

It doesn't seem right, but it sounds accurate. GM lost 38 billion last year, Toyota made a profit of 15 billion.

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