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A Decade Of 'Tech'tonic Shifts

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How times have changed for the top 20 biggest companies in the world by market capitalization...

 

 

The question now is, will 'old' become 'new' again?

 

Source: Goldman Sachs

 

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Sun, 12/20/2015 - 23:08 | 6947697 Cognitive Dissonance
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Did Walmart disappear in 2015?

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 23:14 | 6947715 Kassandra
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Yes.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 23:26 | 6947739 euphoria
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BHP appeared twice in 2011 though...

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 00:41 | 6947911 Implied Violins
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No, it is simply undergoing a name change to 'Martial Law'.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 02:25 | 6948041 Sudden Debt
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And Toyota was once Japans backbone

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 23:13 | 6947713 nosam
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Is it just me or is Alphabet Inc a ridiculous name for a giant company? Sounds like some kind of inside joke.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 23:17 | 6947720 Midas
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Same guys that came up with Google....

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 00:27 | 6947872 idontcare
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I was just about to say the same thing.  Go back to GOOGLE already.  Inside joke?  Maybe the founders think that we are all on the level of Spot and Jane and coloring with crayons, but c'mon.... This is the worst name for any company - ever!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 01:23 | 6947972 nosam
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Maybe they are telling us that the alphabet agencies are running the company...hidden in plain sight.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 03:11 | 6948073 hxc
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It came from the number called a "googol:" 10^100.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:44 | 6948657 bamawatson
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correct; and way back when i was a kid in grade school i was told the  'largest' number in the universe was googol plex

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 01:27 | 6947980 Urban Roman
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'Bpftsplk' was already trademarked by Al Capp.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 01:57 | 6948016 acommenter
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Too creepy to call themselfes Alpha-Omega... Which is more appropriate as the know-it-all company.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 23:36 | 6947748 wisefool
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I missed the CBS 60 minutes interview with Tim Cook (apple CEO) earlier today but the previews showed him getting his panties in a bunch when asked about taxes. He's normally cool as a cucumber ... He needs to take some PR/composure lessons from waren buffet.

Its also nice to see that toyota made the 2015 list, even if some of that revenue is from the ISIS folks.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 00:22 | 6947854 sun tzu
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I suppose the knife makers should be ashamed about making money off ISIS when they use knives to behead people. I'm sure ISIS contacted Toyota directly and had those trucks shipped to Iraq.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 03:20 | 6948077 hxc
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Too bad Cook is a liberal hipster idiot.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:43 | 6948658 bamawatson
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and fudge packing goober gobbler

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 01:30 | 6947835 ebworthen
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Skittle shitting Unicorns, Rainbows, and Leprechauns!

U.S.S.A. in the 21st Century.  Foreward!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 00:37 | 6947901 83_vf_1100_c
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Facebook? wtf!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 04:01 | 6948102 CHX
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Yep, an extremely "productive" enterprise. Lots of value in Farcebook, 4 LOL.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 06:48 | 6948195 R.R.Raskolnikov
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Same thought here. Some numbers: $300 bil. of market cap and around $15 bil. in annual revenues. Nothing strange?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 02:38 | 6948049 J Pancreas
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Whats with the random shading in of some companies? Crappy illustration.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 03:04 | 6948072 IronForge
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Looks like a good deal of Bloat, Options Postdating, and Bond-Funded Stock Buybacks.

FB shouldn't be there. 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 04:13 | 6948113 HamSandwich
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This chart perfectly demonstrates why we have not advanced to a 100% nuclear (LFTR, et al.) power market. These same companies would rather throw away $500 Million on algae biofuel nonsense year after year than $250 Million to create a working prototype that would change the world or $1 Billion on an initial production model.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 07:50 | 6948243 spanish inquisition
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Keep punching different stawks to into the Dow to keep it going MOAR as long as possible.

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