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wasoxygen  ·  3234 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Are Corporations Hoarding Trillions?

$80 billion in cash holdings is 16% of the valuation given for Google/Alphabet. Is 16% unusually high?

    These companies would be better off investing in anything — a product, a service, a corporate acquisition — that would make them more than 2 cents of profit on the dollar

This is pretty obvious, but it's not all that obvious which product, service, or acquisition will make more than 2%. Google could buy Uber, but Hubski thinks Uber is a blister ready to pop.