Facebook Is Worth More Than ... - Interactive Feature

Let's play this game again in 7 days.

While I'm not going to say that facebook is worth 100 billion (or even the 66 billion it's at right now), it's easy to forget one fact: facebook is operating in almost every part of the globe. The companies that are referenced in the feature may be large and well established, but few if any have the global penetration of facebook.

  Ford Motor Company: $38.4 billion
  Public Storage:     $23.6 billion
  Whole Foods:        $15.4 billion
  Sara Lee:           $12.4 billion
  Campbell Soup:      $10.7 billion
  JetBlue:            $1.2 billion
  EarthLink:          $897.4 million combined

I think this does a better job of showing that stock prices are about future expectations rather than current assets than just about anything else I could find. Just have Ford Motor Co. on here typifies that.

The real question is whether it can possibly live up to that.

Given the fact that stock valuations are highly volatile I think the current drop os FB as well as comparisons of market caps is kind of pointless.

Things have the value people are willing to pay for them, and no matter what stock experts say this has imho nothing to do with actual values or assets a company might have. It maybe enough for some analysts to not understand your business model and your stock value drops way down. On the other hand, if analysts like it stocks go up. And that doesn't tell anything about the actual quality of your business model.

Equaly pointless but at least more entertaining were the list of what Apple could buy with its 100 bn in cash.

Interessting point in case: The soaring stock price of the german TV set maker (Loewe I think it was) after someone claimed they where about to de bought by Apple. Did the value of their assets change over night? No.

Now, FBs stock drops because people say they don't see any actual value behind and the stock was actually overvalued right from the start. Maybe it was I don't know. But nobody complains when stock drop because some banks say they don't belief in future prospects. So it seems to me the same people choose their arguments only to fit the current situation.

Not all of them of course, the really good ones (W. Buffet among others) act diffrently.

Shouldn't this say "Facebook is valued more than..."?

Fun way to generate a bunch at once: for(var i = 0; i< 100; i++) jQuery(".nytg").find("a").click()

I have to agree with the sentiment - why is this an interactive?

Why not just stick all of the data in a single table or create a cool info graphic.

News sites also enjoy creating photo carousels. Why?

Unfortunately, Facebook is worth only $66 billion now...so about two Pricelines.

Actually, Facebook is not worth more than Google ($195.7 billion)

I'd venture that none of the brands mentioned in this comparison are used by as many people as Facebook. Everybody you know uses Facebook. How many people do you know that drive a Ford? 1 of 10?

Pointlessly interactive.

How many bitcoins is that?

The JS that drives that is awful. Why are they not using an array?

    nytg.buttonText="What else is facebook worth more than?,What else is facebook worth more than?,What else is facebook worth more than?,Keep going?,One more time?,Another one?,Again?,It might be time to stop,I can generate thousands of these".split(",");