Thanks to the Chip Shortage, Texas Instruments Is Worth $170 B

It was, it basically hasn't moved as long as the "chip shortage" has been a thing.

Signed: someone who holds TXN stock

Att is worth 177B TMUS is worth 150B VZ is worth 218B

Rivian is worth 87B and just shipped 300 cars…total

Yeah certain segments are in a bubble

They never made sense. They are made by calculating the price * shares in circulation. If you had to do a moment-in-time sale of the company's shares the "real" price would be the integral of all outstanding buy orders for the shares up to the total number of actual sales. So a "reasonable" valuation that "does not take into account the future of the company" would be somewhere between the two (you'd never realistically drill that far into the buy orders without more buys showing up). Of course such a synthetic measure of valuation is equally stupid as the simplistic one we use by convention.

Given the history of "interesting" choices that AT&T has made in the past decade perhaps the 5 Billion isn't all that far fetched. Perhaps, in an attempt to increase growth, they will by a major grocery chain instead of expanding their fiber deployments because we all know how spending 10's of billions of satellites and entertainment companies worked out for them.

Selling something based on a z80 for $100+ in the 21st century is truly an impressive feat.

Now that you mention it, I might try to pawn my old calculator. It’s not doing me any good and some other kid can certainly use a discount used one.