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Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by belltaco »

usui wrote: post #23
pedalpete wrote: post #13

MAGMA (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon). I've never understood why Netflix was equated with the bigger companies. It's market cap is $300B the others (excluding Facebook) are all above $1T, and Facebook/Meta has a chance of breaking the $1T in the next year.

Welcome to the opinion zone. You mention market caps, but I don't think that is really the reason why certain companies enter the mindshare of people. I think the reason that Netflix became a part of the acronym is because, like its counterparts, all of them are leaders in a big space that others have a hard time competing with, with products that seem innovative (also explains why the giants of FinTech don't have mu…

FANG was created by the stocks analyst guys, i.e Jim Cramer, to reflect high growth tech stocks. Apple wasn't even in it originally and got added later and became FAANG. So it has almost nothing to with your reasons. Check Microsoft's growth since 2017 and its on par with or exceeds others.

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

#65

Post by usui »

belltaco wrote: post #64
usui wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Welcome to the opinion zone. You mention market caps, but I don't think that is really the reason why certain companies enter the mindshare of people. I think the reason that Netflix became a part of the acronym is because, like its counterparts, all of them are leaders in a big space that others have a hard time competing with, with products that seem innovative (also explains why the giants of FinTech don't have mu…

FANG was created by the stocks analyst guys, i.e Jim Cramer, to reflect high growth tech stocks. Apple wasn't even in it originally and got added later and became FAANG. So it has almost nothing to with your reasons. Check Microsoft's growth since 2017 and its on par with or exceeds others.

Are the only people who perpetuated the acronym stocks people? I'd like to know what other acronyms competed then, if they existed

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

#66

Post by rsj_hn »

usui wrote: post #65
belltaco wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FANG was created by the stocks analyst guys, i.e Jim Cramer, to reflect high growth tech stocks. Apple wasn't even in it originally and got added later and became FAANG. So it has almost nothing to with your reasons. Check Microsoft's growth since 2017 and its on par with or exceeds others.

Are the only people who perpetuated the acronym stocks people? I'd like to know what other acronyms competed then, if they existed

I think I remember a few of them:

    PIGOU
    Paypal Intel Google Oracle Uber
    
    SUP
    Square Uber Paypal
    
    PAIN
    Palantir AirBnB IBM Nvidia
    
    SAURON
    Square Apple Uber Roku Oracle Netflix
    
    FAM
    Facebook Apple Microsoft

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

#67

Post by rektide »

Armisael16 wrote: post #16
rektide wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or DCA airport, maybe "National" if you insist. Or perhaps more close to home here: Alphabet.

DCA and National are more-or-less interchangable. It's Reagan that's the own-of-towner one.

yeah dont know what my unenthusiastic non-national stance was. agreed. thanks. this is accurate & correct.

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by lostmsu »

mjirv wrote: post #44
tmp_anon_22 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netflix has a reputation for providing high up front compensation packages instead of equity and other compensation models. For this reason it gets lumped into the larger technology companies with vastly higher head counts. FANNG is largely a descriptor of compensation levels.

I've always thought that comp at Microsoft is similar to Amazon (i.e. slightly lower than F/Apple/N/G). Am I wrong?

Amazon pays more since AWS got popular.

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by quantified »

biscottigelato wrote: post #26

I have no idea why FAANG is still a thing. Of the trillion dollars companies, Meta/FB is no longer one of them. Netflix no idea how they even got part of the league. Should be ATAMA - Apple, Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet. But really, it will be BTS - Bitcoin, Tesla and SpaceX. The $10T club.

Is Bitcoin hiring?
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