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Spot The Bubble
Presented with little comment aside to suspect the answer to our implicit question is something like "it's the new economy" or "you don't understand the new valuation metrics"
Alibaba tops Walmart's Market Cap... Walmart's quarterly sales are 44x Alibaba's - that is all.
Source: Bloomberg
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Well technically those that buy Alibaba share on the NYSE are only owning some shell company stock, which sounds fan-fucking-tabulous take my money!
Boom. Welcome to the "fake" world. Alibaba can be whatever they want it to be...
Buy low sell high, no worries mate.
Reality is for people who actually make real shit.
Hmmm.
Looks like Walmart needs to quit selling stuff, and buy back some stock.
It's the new normal.
Its a Trap!
Thanks man! I just snorted my tea all over my keyboard. Now all my colleagues are looking at me funny...
I stil get shit from my brother who doubled his money on Facebook. I just can't bring myself to trust stocks for social media or e-commerce sites. I mean jesus, if amazon doesn't make money, how the hell is Alibaba going to be any different? This all ends with a loud pop and a bunch of vertically airborne traders.
@BKbroiler
Tell your brother to buy Alibaba stock now while you stack phyzz silver like a maniac.
Turn-about's fair play. Wait a few years. You'll have the last laugh when all his paper is worthless and your phyzz is priceless ;-)
I sold all my gold at $1650 and my silver at $25. Gonna wait for $900 and $12. Not that those prices make any senese intrinsically, but I think we're headed there.
You know things are messed up when a Wendy's value meal costs more than an ounce of silver.
Funny you should mention that, as I recall an article a few months ago by some establishment hack entitled something like "silver headed to $12".
Everyone mocked it at the time, but in retrospect it was probably written so that once the banks manipulate it down to that level, they can trot out the same trolls and say, "LOOK! TOLD YA SO! PM'S SUCK, BUY STOCKS!!" ...and then comes the burst.
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Gawd-Damn-it... I needed an IaT fix right about now and you didn't disappoint...!!!
+1000
I didn't think the Death Star was going to be a Chinese Internet company.
It sounds like the perfect Chinese stock to me.
Only if the government would "buy back" some bonds and dollars. The money supply is way diluted.
Yet another Cayman Islands holding company that downstreams all proceeds to the Chinese subsidiary and guarantees the debt of all Chinese subsidiaries. It is a one way flow of money to China, just like Suntech which is now in bankruptcy proceedings in the Cayman Islands which had all of its Chinese subsidiary assets claimed by provincial governments and reorganized leaving U.S. investors without any claims or recourse against those assets.
The Alibaba that U.S. investors bought is an empty drawer in the desk of a Cayman Islands lawyer.
That is a creative financial arrangement.
I think it should be called the "go pound sand" method of share holder relations.
I spot 2 bubbles.
i looked at alababa, it is just chinese ebay
Jack Ma and his box-shaped head are raughing all the way to the bank.
MUWARARARARARARRARA!!!!
We swindred some forks
You have to wonder how much of the IPO is now sitting safely in a vault, looking suspiciously like gold bars.
We need more mono-dimensional comparisons around here.
WalMart's got a lot of overhead BABA doesn't. WalMart has scillions of employees to support. And, frankly, WalMart is at market saturation and everyone knows it. What's left is beginning the slow descent so many have suffered before it (Sears comes immediately to mind).
Is BABA worth $250 billion market cap? Hell no. But it still doesn't make that simplistic graph a valid way of comapring valuations.
Walmart happily accepts EBT cards. Many local vendors do not.
Interesting times motherfuckers.
Maybe Alibaba should try to work the EBT angle to raise revenue. Everyone else is.
By not accepting EBT, Alibaba is missing out on 47 million american consumers.
Reminds me of a local Ice Cream truck I saw this past summer.
In Giant 3 foot letters EBT .
Walmart employee support is the quintessential snake eating it's own tail ..... donation boxes in its stores for its employees..... come in buy a can of corn drop it in the box so the greeter can eat that night....... what is Pax Americana........... again........ I forget....
Don’t buy that can of food.
Offer the Wal-Mart employees a few dollars for a sex act. Condoms are in aisle four.
When was the last time you saw someone working (or shopping) at Walmart that you wanted to bang? I'd rather make the donation.
Not being a usasian.... Are you taking the piss?
no, he's "leaving the corn"
you talkin' to me????..... well I'm the only one here.....
sorry little deNiro moment there
re Walmart food drive ..... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-19/sign-times-wal-mart-launches-em...
re Walmart Condoms ...... http://www.walmart.com/tp/condoms ..... ribbed for her pleasure ..... but i turn them inside out....
I went to wally the other day (BEER)
There were two people in front of me and the black dude checkin us out moved so slow....I thought he was in a coma
Almost all their empolyees need Government assistance
I have gone in there and half the lights were out
PS....I live in a really nice area and the store is very nice but I think all the black people work there....of course they come from across the freeway
Wasn't there another article on ZH Homepage about Reality in the markets?
What has reality got to do with anything anymore, the fantasy world of Alibaba, WalMart or any other propped up stock confirms the other article.
DaddyO
..........You're gonna need a bigger boat.....
But Alubaba sells cheap Chinese crap over the Internet and Walmart sells cheap Chinese crap out of a big ugly box. Those big ugly boxes are expensive.
And filled with people I'd rather not encounter.
Its Halloween everyday in WallyMart.
Cannus maximus.
annus crackass maximus
#newNormal
Can we get Alibaba at WalMart?
But, but, but they're a teaming up with Apple. Can we order all the Chinese crap on the iTunes store soon?
Its called a Ponzi
There was a reason they wouldn't let this go public in Hong Kong..
That should tell anyone what a snakepit Wallstreet is today. It could not even get listed on the Hong Kong exchange!
Did they try the Tijuana Stock Exchange?
BUY BOTH HANDS...BUY I SAID!
For God's sake, bubbles are round.
RealClearPolitics - Election 2014
Acting as Republicans are in the lead, while Acting as Democrats are losing.
What's the big deal? It is a given that Alibaba will have 100% profit margin for the next 100 years. Or something, trust me.
:) "Trust me" Is exactly what $BABA's boss said to investors at the IPO day
yes, as he muttered in silence......
".... while i fuck all of you..."
but keep eating my shit for now....
dont you mean "trust Ma"
Jeff Bezos: "Profit margins? Who needs profit margins?"
The only way Walmart can grow now is if they increase the welfare budget
And how is Alibaba not relying on the same thing?
Many people believe government isn’t directly responsible for job creation. You just provided demonstrative evidence.
Cramer said BABA's a straight shot to 120... the little beady eyed fucking kyike
now now..leave cramer alone, cramer gives the best ideas...you just have to do the opposite of what he is saying...last trade idea....when gpro was at 68, he said he would wait to 50....the rest is a sucessful trade
WalMart... the largest seller of ammunition in the U.S.
Clearly doing God's work.
If you get their Walmart Master Card you can get 0 interest financing on said ammunition.
One of the guys at our Wally who works the sporting goods ammo etc was at the range this afternoon. Saw him teaching a novice how to use a scope. Knows his stuff.
Such a large spread. Buy walmart, sell alibaba. Hold indefinitely.
Walmart Boxes are not expensive...they are CHEAP buildings, plus they dont pay !@$# to the workers, and actually there are hardly any workers at Walmarts compared to the hundreds or even thousands of customers shopping at any given time.
Walmarts BIGGEST expense is that family of leeches CEO's who buy that cheap chinese stuff ands sell it to their own employees HAHAHAHHA
Brilliantababa.
I'd like to see a similar comparison for Tesla.
Different electrons, both still beastly bubbles.
IMPEACH BARAK ISIS HUSSEIN EBOLA OBAMA FOR TREASON !!!
AMNESTY = CIVIL WAR
The big headed chink will be selling tulips to his sout seas company pretty soon, I cant wait to 4th mortgage the house to load up on the Alibaba mania train wreck, I hope my pension fund money managing chronies didnt buy this moving target stock, I heard they hired Maddoff as a consultant on the IPO and money management.