Comments on: Wall Street and the incredible shrinking newspaper industry http://blog.agrawals.org/2008/09/17/wall-street-and-the-incredible-shrinking-newspaper-industry/ Rocky Agrawal's blog on search, wireless, maps and Web 2.0 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:08:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Evil Pundit http://blog.agrawals.org/2008/09/17/wall-street-and-the-incredible-shrinking-newspaper-industry/#comment-24554 Evil Pundit Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:25:24 +0000 http://redesign.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-24554 I suspect that if you had made the same comparison 10 years ago, the newspaper industry would have looked much bigger than it does now. I suspect that if you had made the same comparison 10 years ago, the newspaper industry would have looked much bigger than it does now.

]]> By: Google guys = 2(newspaper industry) « reDesign http://blog.agrawals.org/2008/09/17/wall-street-and-the-incredible-shrinking-newspaper-industry/#comment-24546 Google guys = 2(newspaper industry) « reDesign Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:50:43 +0000 http://redesign.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-24546 [...] a bit less than the $20 billion I estimated for the U.S. newspaper industry as whole. But I was being generous and not subtracting out non-newspaper [...] [...] a bit less than the $20 billion I estimated for the U.S. newspaper industry as whole. But I was being generous and not subtracting out non-newspaper [...]

]]> By: robert http://blog.agrawals.org/2008/09/17/wall-street-and-the-incredible-shrinking-newspaper-industry/#comment-24543 robert Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:17:10 +0000 http://redesign.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-24543 A couple of notes: XON is off about 21% from its 52-week high. In the last four months, XON's lost in market cap is about 8 times the value of the entire newspaper industry. Newspapers are still worth more than Ford, and twice as much as GM. Perhaps a better comparison would be against another flailing industry: Airlines. The newspapers industry's market cap equals that of the legacy carriers. A couple of notes:

XON is off about 21% from its 52-week high. In the last four months, XON’s lost in market cap is about 8 times the value of the entire newspaper industry.

Newspapers are still worth more than Ford, and twice as much as GM.

Perhaps a better comparison would be against another flailing industry: Airlines. The newspapers industry’s market cap equals that of the legacy carriers.

]]> By: robert http://blog.agrawals.org/2008/09/17/wall-street-and-the-incredible-shrinking-newspaper-industry/#comment-24542 robert Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:16:43 +0000 http://redesign.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-24542 A couple of notes: XON is off about 21% from its 52-week high. In the last four months, XON's lost in market cap is about 8 times the value of the entire newspaper industry. Newspapers are still worth more than Ford, and twice as much as GM. Perhaps a better comparison would be against another flailing industry: Airlines. The newspapers industries market cap equals that of the legacy carriers. A couple of notes:

XON is off about 21% from its 52-week high. In the last four months, XON’s lost in market cap is about 8 times the value of the entire newspaper industry.

Newspapers are still worth more than Ford, and twice as much as GM.

Perhaps a better comparison would be against another flailing industry: Airlines. The newspapers industries market cap equals that of the legacy carriers.

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