[HN Gopher] Amazon is first company in history to have a 1T draw...
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       Amazon is first company in history to have a 1T drawdown in market
       cap
        
       Author : exz
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2022-12-20 20:58 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | patrick451 wrote:
       | And my most conventional metrics, they are still substantially
       | overpriced with a PE ration of nearly 80.
        
       | vt85 wrote:
        
       | imranq wrote:
       | Just goes to show that "value" of a company based on market cap
       | is a highly fickle and unreliable metric to compare companies
       | with
        
         | theGnuMe wrote:
         | It's relative value.
        
       | bradhe wrote:
       | Took Amazon 25 years to go from a $0 market cap to a $1T market
       | cap. Took Amazon 2 years to go from $1T market cap to $2T market
       | cap. Took Amazon like 6 months to go from $2T market cap back to
       | $1T market cap.
       | 
       | Totally healthy economics.
        
         | Spivak wrote:
         | Eh Amazon's P/E has settled down since the wildness of
         | 2014-2016 so this isn't the market being crazy, Amazon really
         | does have the earnings to back it up.
        
         | crazygringo wrote:
         | Unsure what you mean. That's how exponential growth works, and
         | then that's how market downturns work, combined with economic
         | uncertainty of COVID.
         | 
         | Don't see what's "unhealthy" or even out of the ordinary about
         | it.
        
         | ren_engineer wrote:
         | >Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_effect
        
       | __derek__ wrote:
       | This happened last month.[1]
       | 
       | [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-09/amazon-
       | hi...
        
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