Tesla Motors, the brainchild of the PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the news recently with their award-winning Tesla Model S, a sedan capable of beating out a Viper R/T in a drag race. But how are their finances?
Comparing Google (GOOG) to another technology company like Amazon can cause a great deal of confusion for a finance professional. Google does a fair job at adhering to the basic tenants of finance compared to Amazon, a company with seemingly no regard for financial principals. Still, somehow, Google is treated like an old shoe compared to Amazon. What gives?
We found both good signs and bad signs but, overall, there is huge room for improvement. If Microsoft took our advice, it could revive some of its lost luster and improve its stockholder value.
Yahoo! might be running out of zip but I would not count it out of the race yet. Yahoo! still has financial resources and the ability to wring more cash flow out of its working capital. This company is still able to change course and become a force to reckon with again … but time […]
“Surprise, surprise!” as Private Gomer Pyle use to say. We knew, even before this pre-IPO analysis, that Facebook was bound to disappoint. Between their terrible implementation of critical financial concepts, an extremely inflated valuation, and too much hype over substance for too long, this was the killer trifecta. Online social interaction is an impressive thing […]