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I found John Gruber's roundup of tech company profits (not revenue) interesting: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/30/apple-q4-result...

- Google (a.k.a. Alphabet): $35B

- Microsoft: $27.7B

- Apple: $27.5B

- Nvidia: $26.4B

- Amazon: $21.5B

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Is it a coincidence that 3 of 5 are so close?

Pretty much coincidence, yes

Yes, completely different revenue sources.

MANGA is the new FAANG.

Just use BigTech, then you don't have to keep shuffling letters nor inserting Netflix to prevent it becoming a slur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech

I suspect they meant Nvidia, not Netflix; after all, the letters in MANGA are exactly the initials of the companies listed in the post they were replying to.

The N was really Netflix originally when it was the poster child for AWS consumption before NVIDEA/AI was even in the conversation. But, yes, "Big Tech" is probably the best term these days to avoid debates about whether this company or that company really belongs in the category--especially given that certain companies have done very well in terms of stock relative to the the historical FAANGs.

FANG (notice the missing A) was always a meaningless term. Cramer initially left Apple off and it was already the most valuable company, Microsoft was already in the top 5 most valuable and Netflix was t really that valuable then.

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