THB #3: Wednesday Roundup: Market Caps, Bond, and Rebuilding PayCock

Put A Number On It: These days, coverage of the industry seems to be obsessively single serving. Cover the event, analyze it to death, put the company and the situation on the back burner until there is another event. So, some simple, factual perspective.

MARKET CAP - “Market capitalization refers to the total dollar market value of a company's outstanding shares of stock. Commonly referred to as "market cap," it is calculated by multiplying the total number of a company's outstanding shares by the current market price of one share.” (ht/Investopedia)

Disney - $315b
Netflix - $267b
Comcast - $260b
Discovery/HBOMax - projecting $75b @ launch
Viacom - $25b
Fox - $23b
Sony Pictures - approx $11b
Lionsgate - $3b
AMC Networks - $2b
IMAX - $1.2b

So this should give you a simple picture of why there is endless conversation about the whales eating the guppies… and this doesn’t even include Amazon or Apple, whose content arms are not significant enough or under any threat of purchase to consider here.

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