Nvidia Surpasses Germany
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Nvidia Surpasses Germany
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Re: Nvidia Surpasses Germany
#2Not directly related, but still reminds me of the recent Kurzgesagt (they are famous for well-researched content and are originally from Germany) video[1] about the bleak future Germany is facing in upcoming decades.
Re: Nvidia Surpasses Germany
#3Yes, I'm sure Germany has plenty of problems that need addressing. But -
> Nvidia’s market capitalisation ($5.7 trillion) has overtaken Germany’s GDP ($5.45 trillion).
- is about like saying "my orange tree is taller than the pile of apples harvested from your apple tree".
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#490% of NVDA revenue is one segment — data center. Germany has 83M people and industrial output across dozens of sectors. All that market cap rests on a single product cycle.
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#5“A stock is measured at one specific time, and represents a quantity existing at that point in time (say, December 31, 2004), which may have accumulated in the past. A flow variable is measured over an interval of time. Therefore, a flow would be measured per unit of time (say a year)” [1].
Equity value is a stock metric. GDP is a flow. Put another way, Germany outputs about one NVIDIA every year. (The total value of the German stock market is about €3tn. A better comparison would be that NVIDIA and Anthropic are worth as much as all of Germany’s public equity.)
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#6Meaningless comparison and category error.
I challenge you to put the information in this article to use.
Market cap is the number of shares multiplied by whatever (some small number of) those shares traded for lately.
GDP is actual economic activity. Money changing hands for goods and services.
A better (but still ultimately meaningless) comparison between the two would be economic activity.
Germany 2025 GDP: 5T USD
Nvidia 2025 revenue: 130B USD
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#7“A stock is measured at one specific time, and represents a quantity existing at that point in time (say, December 31, 2004), which may have accumulated in the past. A flow variable is measured over an interval of time. Therefore, a flow would be measured per unit of time (say a year)” [1]. Equity value is a stock metric. GDP is a flow. Put another way, Germany outputs about one NVIDIA every year. (The total value of…
Indeed. When people make bad comparisons it usually indicates they have no clue what they’re talking about
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#8“A stock is measured at one specific time, and represents a quantity existing at that point in time (say, December 31, 2004), which may have accumulated in the past. A flow variable is measured over an interval of time. Therefore, a flow would be measured per unit of time (say a year)” [1]. Equity value is a stock metric. GDP is a flow. Put another way, Germany outputs about one NVIDIA every year. (The total value of…
Indeed. When people make bad comparisons it usually indicates they have no clue what they’re talking about
> When people make bad comparisons
It’s not a stupid comparison. Just one that requires nuance. There is a valid observation in China and America consistently producing companies that, with tens of thousands of employees, create wealth rivaling that produced by millions of others.
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#9well folks it has finnaly happened, and Germany will now have to issue shares/citizenship stock, and allow people to sell and trade there nationalities.
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#10Meaningless comparison and category error. I challenge you to put the information in this article to use. Market cap is the number of shares multiplied by whatever (some small number of) those shares traded for lately. GDP is actual economic activity. Money changing hands for goods and services. A better (but still ultimately meaningless) comparison between the two would be economic activity. Germany 2025 GDP: 5T USD…
> Meaningless comparison
The comparison isn’t meaningless. (The headline is nonsense.)
> comparison between the two would be economic activity
I almost hate comparing revenue to GDP more than market cap! Production measures finished goods. Revenue mixes intermediate and finished goods. So yes, you’re comparing two flows, but the complexity hidden therein is actually less intuitive to wrap one’s head around than a stock-versus-flow comparison, which we all understand with speed-versus-distance.