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- bacon_skoda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The question is not $500 or $400...the question is it's P/E is at 87.90. and future P/E is at 68.80. Yahoo is 39/55. Looking at the forward, they'll both need to double their current earnings to 1/2 their P/E to justify their current price. That's something GOOG seems to be able to do..double/triple,etc. If they don't double and keep doubling, the price will fall. Their current $400+ means investors EXPECT GOOG to double tehir earnings at a minimum and then continue...which they probably will
high expectations->high P/E->high price
it doesn't matter if GOOG splits or not. - bryancharles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i like how the link is to an msn site ;)
- toliman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1117 billion, completely ludicrous ... also disturbingly cool if it lasts long enough to beat an oil company's value. not entirely interested enough to be dugg, but noteworthy
- zipper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yup, i'm waiting for them to split it, so that I can afford to buy some stocks.. freaking overpriced
- maltb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1save your pennies so you can buy digg stock later.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1jkfan87, and you're not too keen on how businesses work. Google as a brand is as recognizable as Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft. A vast amount of Internet users rely on Google's services on a daily basis. This isn't some 90s dot-com pet store. Google, for millions of people, is as much a utility today as electricity is for home owners. This stock will not crash for the forseeable future. It will likely stabilize, and maybe end up a bit lower than where it is now, but there's no way it's crashing.
- gfors, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google has had incredible growth, so comparisons to the bubble are kinda unedumacated, but it is entirely likely that they will become a new example all together....the internet mega boom & bust...they are in a space that some big brain in a garage could topple, cuz really, they are all about the search algorithm and the ad rev that drives...everything else is just whateve, all monkey see monkey copy. They don't have the leverage that Micro & soft had/sorta has on their business....web base companies are so much more risky than that loud talkin stock sucker on cable has even thought about....what's that guys issue anyway.
- Harry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Stocks only crash if people are speculating when they invest, and hype up the facts. Look at googles numbers. They are growing in sales revenue and profits at an amazing rate. Unlike the dot-coms of the late 90's, google is MAKING MONEY. The only way it would crash is if people stopped using Google, which I, personally, don't see happening any time soon. It could stop the growth rate, in which case the P/E would drop to compensate. It would not crash like WorldCom.
- joshuareeves, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google is now worth more than twice as much as Apple ... (as of 11.17.2005, Apple's market cap is ~$53B)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What bothers me is how people measure google as an investment, sure they are an advertising killing machine, but more advertisement doesn't mean more sales, people pay to get clicks to their site and promote their products, google even shares part of that money with you if you have adsense on your site adn are the source of the click, my question is: how many of those clicks translate into sales?, all advertisement budgets have limits and some of those companies will go belly up, so, how google will keep sustaining this stock value?.
Sure there is a lot of people pulling Martha Stewarts with Google, but with mayor retailers showing conservative numbers, doesn't that mean that minor fish (the one google attract for advertisement) are have not so good times too. - imtigger2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As one who uses Google search services, and still paying more every month as my competitors climb over each other to pay more per click, I TRULY feel that not only can they sustain this grown, it can easily increase 2-4x more in the next year. No joking. Google is a cash-generating machine. I started out paying about $230 per month for my clicks, now I'm paying around $700-800. But you know what? It's worth every penny. I've gotten at least $500,000 in business from my positioning in the last year... easy. (I manufacture plastic sign holders and brochure holders)
- locojones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The point to keep in mind is that, while many of the lesser capped companies have diversified income streams, Google has one - advertising revenue. Sure, it has 27 different services it offers, all for free, but its life depends on the advertising market. If it drops dead, at this point, so too does Google.
- The_Dude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thinking of looking at the put market with long term strike dates, like a year or more out. THis puppy has to fall eventually.
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WOW.
Google is worth more than Apple, right? - jafar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The bubble's gonna burst..
Surely Google's share price is not sustainable for long? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0err metric
- apache2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been watching the GOOG stocks for months, I knew they'd topple 400 soon, and when I saw it happen this morning I knew I'd be writing a review about an article soon. Woo go Google!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Isn't this a matric of the market collapsing?.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice analysis bacon.
- mercury81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is ridiculous, this price is going to crash like a broken plane eventually and investors are gonna be jumping off bridges.
- Livewire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they will get to 450 according to expert jim cramer. investors that bought thousands of shares when they just came out are feeling very happy i can imagine. i mean its already been over a 400% increase. this is the next yahoo.
- bhsx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Holy cow! I knew I should have dumped my SCO stock and went with GOOG!
;) - brandonhines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I wish I had the money to buy a few back when they were launched."
They've only been public for a year or so. - mathie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The higher you go, the harder you fall
- digitalbuddha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wont get past $425.
- segdeha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If Google splits 8 times (MSFT has split 9 times since 1987) at 2:1 and the price at the end of it is $100/share (prices tend to go up slightly after a split), then your $432.80 (today's share price) investment is now worth roughly $250,000. I have confidence that Google is going to dominate the internet over the next 30 years. I'm buying.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This stock price is not going to "crash". They'll split the stock soon. This will make the stock price closer to what you would imagine a standard stock price to be ($50-100) while maintaining (and even increasing) value.
- treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wish I had the money to buy a few back when they were launched.
- rysolag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0holy *****.
- directandy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i had the cash to make a serious investment when it first became public last year. and i listened to my wife. damn her. damn her.
- iFindout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0All together now, "Hyyype!"
- DogHumpsMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Man, why the ***** didn't I pick up any of this stock? Hold on a sec while I go beat my own ass and pound my head off the wall a while.
Oh, and you guys posting all the "I posted this first" stuff need to let it go. Getting kind of annoying... - spacenettnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So this is why I woke up and my investment account had gone up 461 bucks haha awesome!!
- mcletter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google is in the serious situation to completely annihilate Microsoft, and I'll bet it's going to happen. You might recall a similar situation years ago when IBM was the big name in tech, then microsoft overthrew them. Google is about to do the exact same to Microsoft.
This is the age of google.. :) - TechManNYC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think they will take on MS, as they are hiring programmers to work for free on the open source project OpenOffice - a direct competitor to MS Office.
With the launch of GoogleBase, they will challenge eBay, CraigsList and all other auction sites.
With the launch of GooglePrint, they will begin to challenge Amazon.
I'm buying Google stock at $430, as I think it will hit $750 in a year's time!!! - jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A handful of analysts peg Google's 12 month price at $450 so according to them the stock isn't overpriced. By "internet bubble" standards, Google could easily be priced at $2000 to $4000 per share. Today's evaluation is aggressive but not too far-fetched. Part of what is priced into Google is their potential to penetrate under-penetrated parts of the world, like China, India and several hundred other million people.
- Mr.White, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I dont think its overpriced. They make a killing in profits and there is tons of room to grow for their ads. Look at their gmail service. There are ads in the emails and as they attract more people to gmail their revenue will grow. Google talk, Google Anayltics, and every new service that comes out requires that you have a gmail account. Services like Analytics will only help make their search engine better. They are still on the up and up big time, and until they have less than 10% increase over revenues from the same quarter the year before, their stock will rise...and I will wish I had money to invest...
- ucf2011, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow, if i bought it when they became public at 85 a share I would be rich now.... thats crazy that their stock is so high, I think it will go to about 450 and start to level and then drop a little
- swoosh_bnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That kinda makes me angry since I sold my shares of google at $341 a share after buying at 288 a share.
- julian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Buy out SONY ... make it a US company.... make it a better, reponsible company
╤) - ashakouri1, on 03/23/2009, -0/+0What is a split going to do for you? If you are goin go to buy $100 for Google than I understand. But if you are going to buy like $1000 or more worth of stock than split doesn't matter, you buy it not or after the split will have no difference. The only thing that might happen is that after the split is annonced it will go to $450 or even $500 a share making it more expensive after the split.
- imprezamatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sky's the limit!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There has got to be a way of passing diggs on to the person who originally posted the story. This person should not have got front page, the story was done at least 3 times before him.
- themachina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Overvalued, pure and simple.
- lambright, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you ever find yourself in a situation that seem unbelievable and you don’t know what to do. Us this simple farmer’s philosophy.
Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.
I hope that google can change the world for the better; I think they have the mindshare and obviously the money to make it happen. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mcletter: "Google is about to do the exact same to Microsoft."
Microsoft is a software and operating system company. Google is an advertising and Internet search company. How does one negate the need for the other? - romper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If they mean "revolutionizing advertising" by treating their advertising sites like criminals, canceling accounts for insanely bogus reasons while providing absolutely no avenue for recourse, then I'd have to agree.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0iamhumble, sell it RIGHT NOW, you fool! SELL SELL SELL!!!
- iamhumble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0each day i thank my lucky stars that i have google stock :)
- Smokezz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It'll be funny as hell when all the stupid people who kept their shares thinking "It'll just keep going up!!!" lose their money. Certainly won't feel sorry for them whatsoever.
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