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Hi all:

Sun has
. annual sales of USD 14 billion
. vast intellectual property portfolio
. USD 2 billion of cash reserves

and yet has a market cap of just USD 4 billion (stock price: $ 5.29).

How come market cap is less than market sales ?
or am i missing something about Economics here ?

An interesting article about Sun Microsystems at NYTimes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/technology/companies/31sun.html?ref=technology

thanks
Saifi.



Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:44 pm

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Hi all: Sun has . annual sales of USD 14 billion . vast intellectual property portfolio . USD 2 billion of cash reserves and yet has a market cap of just USD 4...
Saifi Khan
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Oct 31, 2008
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Negative revenue trends and net losses every quarter will hammer market value, regardless of the stock. As a sector, Sun is part of the tech group and...
Zubin Wadia
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Oct 31, 2008
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Thats a fantastic write-up Zubin, just in one line "good technology but bad marketing" I always wished Java could do better on the desktop, but kept waiting...
Satish Vellanki
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Nov 1, 2008
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... Should Apple acquire SUN microsystems ? Interesting read at http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/11/would_apple_acq.html thanks Saifi....
Saifi Khan
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