• threetimes@beehaw.org
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      Market capitalization means that every share of MSFT combined at the current price is worth $2.6T. The company has $100B cash on hand. That’s actual cash and investments that could be easily converted to cash. Substantially less than $2 trillion.

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          And as a public company, Microsoft has a lot more options to leverage their equity than a private company or individual does.

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        Isn’t that still a fuck-ton more than what any of their competitors have at their disposal?