>Snapchat and Pinterest are worth around $4 billion dollars each. Evernote and Airbnb are each worth over $2 billion. Path is worth $550 million. By comparison, Peabody Energy, the largest coal company in the world which owns almost 10 billion tons of coal, is worth about $5 billion.

I see fewer and fewer comparisons like these between tech companies and brick and mortar/commodity companies and I think it is a shame. To me such comparisons do more to highlight how broken the financial markets are, though I am not exactly sure why. It seems like investment priorities or consumer demands are out of whack when electrical utility companies (PEPCO) are valued less than social media platforms (FB).