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How Much Does Big Tech Make Every Minute?

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4 months ago

March 31, 2021

Aran Ali

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The Briefing

The FAATMAN stocks have a collective market cap of $8.3 trillion
On average, these Big Tech companies generate a whopping $416,768 of revenue each minute

Big Tech Just Keeps Getting Bigger

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to wrap your head around just how massive some big tech stocks are getting, especially since they keep outdoing themselves.

The pandemic has pushed even more activity online, and the FAATMAN stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Netflix) have benefited immensely.

With many of these companies experiencing record breaking quarters, how much revenue do the big tech stocks generate per minute?

Company	Revenue Per Minute	Market Cap ($B)
Amazon	$955,517	$1,560
Apple	$848,090	$2,040
Alphabet (Google)	$433,014	$1,370
Microsoft	$327,823	$1,750
Facebook	$213,628	$733
Tesla	$81,766	$648
Netflix	$50,566	$238

Data as of March 2021. Revenue per minute figures based off SEC filings, and market caps from Seeking Alpha.

Milestones Across The Board

Facebook

Facebook continues to face considerable headwinds as privacy matters garner more political attention. But this is yet to have any material effect on the business.

Their most recent quarter was a company best, generating $27 billion in revenue, and hosting an average of 2.8 billion monthly-active-users (MAUs) on the flagship platform.

Alphabet

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is a behemoth. They finished 2020 with $182 billion in revenues, with approximately $20 billion coming from YouTube.

Furthermore, almost 4 billion Google searches occur every single day, making it the most popular website in the world.

Amazon

Although the U.S. remains their most prominent market, Amazon does considerably well in other parts of the world. For example, in 2020 they generated $20 billion in revenues from Japan, and $29 billion from Germany.

Tesla

The growing EV narrative is a large part of what’s driven Tesla to new heights. The company graduated to the prestigious S&P 500, and along the way has made Elon Musk among the richest people in the world.

Microsoft

Microsoft is the second largest Big Tech stock with a whopping market cap of $1.75 trillion. Their diversified business holdings include Bing, LinkedIn, Xbox, and their cloud computing service Azure.

Apple

Apple is no longer just about the iPhone. In the first quarter of 2021, Apple’s services segment of the business made $15.7 billion in revenue, greater than both Mac and iPad, which each contributed about $8 billion to the business. In addition, their wearables, home, and accessories category made $12.9 billion in revenue.

Netflix

The pandemic has been kind to Netflix and Reed Hastings. The streaming giant wrapped up 2020 adding 52 million new subscribers—taking the total tally to 203 million.

Netflix’s breadth of content routinely dominates the Golden Globe awards. And with 42 nominations in 2021, this year was no exception. Their original content is a driving factor behind the impressive subscriber growth and revenue generation.

No End In Sight

The combined market cap of the FAATMAN stocks is now over $8 trillion. To put it into perspective, that’s about equivalent to Germany, Canada, and France’s GDP combined.

Despite their gigantic valuations, the growing topline figures from their SEC filings suggests they are not done yet. So while the current value may appear bloated, no one can quite rule out FAATMAN getting fatter.

Where does this data come from?

Source: seekingalpha.com and SEC Filings
Notes: Financial data uses the most recent quarter figures for per minute calculations

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Olympics 2021: Comparing Every Sports Ball

Here are the different sizes and weights of each Olympic sports ball used in the Tokyo Olympics.

Published

1 week ago

July 19, 2021

Omri Wallach

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The Briefing

Table tennis has the smallest sports ball used in the Tokyo Olympics at just 4cm in diameter and 2.7g in weight.
The biggest by size is the basketball at 24.35cm in diameter, but the shot is more than 10 times heavier at 7.26kg.

Olympics 2021: Comparing Every Sports Ball

It might be strange having the Olympics in 2021 (an odd year), but 2020 was anything but normal.

After facing a 12-month delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo are set to kick off from July 23 to August 8.

In addition to hosting traditional sports like running and aquatics, some sports are being introduced for the first time (karate, skateboarding) or returning after an absence (baseball).

One thing that many Olympic sports share in common? There are 17 different sports that use balls or spheres of some sort, ranging in size and weight. Here are the different balls used in the Tokyo Olympics.

Olympic Sports Balls by Size and Weight

The 2021 Olympics, which are still officially called the 2020 Olympics to keep the four-year cycle and branding consistent, are hosting 339 events across 33 different sports.

17 of those sports use balls or spheres. The official sizes and weights vary from a small diameter of 4cm for table tennis to the largest ball, a basketball with a diameter of 24.35cm.

Sport	Diameter	Weight
Table Tennis	4.00cm	2.7g
Golf	4.27cm	45.93g
Tennis	6.70cm	57.7g
Field Hockey	7.48cm	163g
Baseball	7.50cm	149g
Softball	9.55cm	177g
Shot Put	12.00cm	7,260g
Handball (Women’s)	17.51cm	350g
Handball (Men’s)	18.78cm	450g
Rhythmic Gymnastics	19.00cm	400g
Volleyball	21.01cm	270g
Water Polo (Women’s)	21.01cm	425g
Beach Volleyball	21.33cm	270g
Soccer	21.96cm	432.5g
Water Polo (Men’s)	22.28cm	425g
Basketball (Women’s)	23.24cm	538g
Basketball (Men’s)	24.35cm	608g

Even within the same categories of sports, balls have different size and weight rules based on event or gender. Water polo, handball, and basketball all have slight variations of a few centimeters in diameter and up to 100g in weight for different gender events.

But sorting the balls by weight shows that the shot is far and away the heaviest. At 7.26kg, the shot is more than 10 times heavier than a basketball. That’s because while most sporting balls are made of light material filled with air, shots are typically constructed entirely of metal.

Where does this data come from?

Source: Wired, Official Sport Rulebooks.

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Top 50 Companies Proportion of World GDP

The world’s top 50 companies are becoming more valuable, especially compared to global GDP.

Published

1 week ago

July 19, 2021

Omri Wallach

The Briefing

The combined market cap of the world’s top 50 companies was proportional to 27.6% of global GDP in 2020, up from just 4.7% of global GDP in 1990
Tech’s role continues to grow, now accounting for 21 of the top 50 companies

Top 50 Companies Proportion of World GDP

The world’s top 50 companies have become increasingly more valuable, and more powerful, over time.

As global GDP has grown over the last four decades, from $23.6 trillion in 1990 to $84.5 trillion in 2020, the proportional share of the world’s top companies by market capitalization has grown over five-fold.

Year	Global GDP	Top 50 Companies Market Cap as a % of GDP
1990	$23.6T	4.7%
2000	$34.0T	22.1%
2010	$66.2T	12.7%
2020	$84.5T	27.6%

Though the world’s top 50 companies change year-to-year, there’s also a lot of overlap.

Which Companies Dominated Each Decade?

2020’s largest company by market cap, Apple at $2.26 trillion, was the third largest company in 2010. Likewise, 2010’s largest company was Exxon Mobil, which was the second largest company in both 1990 and 2000 (but has since fallen off).

The top 50 companies in the world also highlight the increasing role of tech in the modern market. 1990’s largest company IBM was just one of three tech companies that made the ranking that year. Even in 2000, when the world’s largest company was GE, tech companies like Cisco and Microsoft only made up three of the top 10 companies by market cap.

Fast forward to 2020, and tech accounted for 42% of the top 50 companies in the world. It also plays a more prominent role on the high end of the spectrum, as six of 2020’s seven largest companies were tech-based, with only oil giant Saudi Aramco the odd one out.

Though digitization is a primary driver of current economic growth, will these trends remain steady in 10 or more years from now? Or will companies from other booming industries such as green energy take over the leaderboard?

>>Like this? You might find this article interesting, 23 Years of Shifting Tech Market Caps

Where does this data come from?

Source: Bloomberg, IMF.