The Price You Pay Does Not Matter - How Microsoft reflects poorly about the return prospects of investing in the stock market
Microsoft is the most valuable company in America. You probably didn't know that. Few people know that Microsoft commands the largest valuation in the S&P 500. It is an economic powerhouse, returning to shareholders substantially well over 100,000% return since IPO. Microsoft isn't a hot stock anymore, business schools probably have moved on from teaching about Amazon to Lyft or Uber at this point, not Microsoft. Maybe they've even moved on from them to talk about fake meat companies like BYND. Goodness forbid they teach about anything related to WeWork or... Ok I'll stop while I'm ahead. Microsoft commands a truly impressive market capitalization of over 1.1 Trillion dollars. This pales in comparison to our national debt, but is an impressive figure. They have 38 billion dollars in INCOME, each year. They have 130 billion dollars in sales (revenue) each year. The Price to Sales ratio is 8.3x, a truly ridiculous figure. ...