Who has the money to buy who?
Okay, with all the buyout rumors, could someone like make a list in order of what companies can buy who, like who has the most money. Like:
Company A
Company B
Company C
That would mean A can buy out B or C and B could buy out C.
Here is what I think, but it is probably wrong.
0 Disney (i just threw them in because of their rumors of buying Apple)
1. AOL/time-warner
2. IBM
3. Microsoft
4. Intel
5. Dell
6. AMD
7. Apple
8. Adobe
9. Macromedia
Company A
Company B
Company C
That would mean A can buy out B or C and B could buy out C.
Here is what I think, but it is probably wrong.
0 Disney (i just threw them in because of their rumors of buying Apple)
1. AOL/time-warner
2. IBM
3. Microsoft
4. Intel
5. Dell
6. AMD
7. Apple
8. Adobe
9. Macromedia
Comments
Put AOL over MS, MS over IBM, IBM over Intel, Intel over Disney, Disney over Adobe, Adobe over Apple, and throw Sony at the top of the list with RJR Nabisco, GE and Viacom.
By the way, IBM is in the top 10 on the Fortune 500 and Microsoft is somewhere down in the bottom 1/2 of the top 100. Ergo, IBM could more easily by Microsoft than vice versa.
INTC's m.c according to CNNfn: ~$218.3 B
MSFT's m.c according to CNNfn: ~$328.4 B
Numbers rounded to nearest tenth of a billion.
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1. AOL/time-warner
2. IBM
3. Microsoft
4. Intel
5. Dell
6. AMD
7. Apple
8. Adobe
9. Macromedia<hr></blockquote>
I think you need to add Gateway to the list. Their latest cow-n-geek commercials are signs of a wounded and desperate animal.They're bleeding with no end in sight, and have only retail consumer presence. And they have all of those STORES......
And of course I would be CEO of the new company
note: m cap doesn't necessarily correlate to buying power. it's one of many ways to measure a company's size.