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March 14, 2008 8:40 AM PDT

What makes the most valuable tech companies so valuable?

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How do we value technology companies? Ingenuity and invention, quality of service, brand loyalty, manufacturing muscle, operating efficiency, supply-chain management, price, great place to work. There are lots of metrics.

For those unfamiliar with the wily ways of Wall Street, the stock market has its own way of expressing what it thinks of companies. It's called market capitalization or market cap for short. ... Read more

Topics:: Strategy

Tags:: market cap,; market valuation,; business strategy,; Microsoft,; IBM,; Cisco,; Google,; Nokia,; Intel,; HP,; Apple,; Oracle,; Qualcomm

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