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Overview of companies on the stock market

Baidu Company – How it works ?

Baidu's market cap is "only" $67 billion against $368 billion in Alibaba Group and $340 billion in Tencent. Revenue for 2017 year - $12 billion in growth 20%, EBITDA profitability - 32%. The multiplier to revenue is two times lower, than Alibaba and Tencent: On the one side, due to not so fast growth, but most importantly, investors are much less optimistic about future success. It could seem, that the company is "so-so", but firstly, $67 billion is seven "Yandex", and secondly, she has or has had products in major online markets, without Baidu, the entire Chinese Internet would be completely different. Separately, it can be noted, what did Baidu cost in the summer $98 billion, but Chinese companies are having a hard time due to trade wars, and IT companies too, you can write a separate article on this topic.

Google Finance – google finance stock screener website

  Google Finance is a financial information provider, owned by Google Inc. History Google Finance provides access to financial information about most multinational companies. Information on quotations and ratings of securities is available, press releases and financial statements of companies. For each company, aggregator results from Google News and Google Blog Search are displayed. Historical data is available in the form of graphs, implemented using Adobe Flash technology.  

Amazon – The world's largest e-commerce company

Amazon is the largest American company in the world in terms of turnover among those selling goods and services over the Internet. It was created in 1994 year by American entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, and in 1995 the website was launched. The company was named after the Amazon River, the deepest in the world. Let's see what the warehouses of this company look like.. Impressive. Like any major company, Amazon has its own legend. It reads, that the founder of Amazon.com put together his first desktop out of doors. Today in the company, some tables are also made of doors., but not for the sake of economy, and to remind you of the need saves.

Microsoft will trade iPhone for Windows Phone

Starting this Friday, you can return a used iPhone 4S or iPhone in Microsoft stores 5 and get a discount from 200 dollars for the company's products, according to Forbes. This promotion has already been in effect since 5 September on iPad. For the surrendered tablet they give a discount 200 Dollars, which you can use to buy any product in the store. Microsoft consultants recommend purchasing instead of Surface, but the buyer is not forced to do so.

Qiwi shareholders will sell 9,427 million shares of the company for $305,4 million

A number of top managers and major shareholders of Qiwi will sell on the Nasdaq before 9,427 million company shares, stated in the Qiwi prospectus; the total value of the shares is estimated at 305,4 million dollars. According to the prospectus, offered for free purchase on the exchange 8,197 million class B shares, yet 1,23 million shares will be offered as an option for purchase by the organizers of the placement - banks Credit Suisse and VTB Capital. The price of shares offered for placement, based on their Nasdaq average price as of 20 September, amounted to 305,4 million dollars.

Citadel Securities: Computers, stock market managers

Citadel Securities trading platform has quietly become one of the largest forces in the US stock market. From the 35th floor of an office building in downtown Chicago, Citadel closes one stock deal in every eight in the United States. She trades approximately 900 millions of lots of shares per day. More promotions go through Citadel systems, than through the New York Stock Exchange (New York Stock Exchange, NYSE), which trades approximately 700 millions of lots of shares per day. If you own a retirement account or have ever used the services of an online broker, then your trades almost certainly went through Citadel. The most striking fact about the floor of the exchange is, how eerily quiet he looks. The trading floor is "run" by approximately 40 human, but they only watch computers, which use algorithms to fill in and send exchange orders.

HES : Hess Corporation

Hess Corporation is an American vertically integrated oil and gas company. Headquartered in New York. The company owns over 1200 Gas stations mainly on the US East Coast. The company occupies 263 place in Fortune Global 500 behind 2011 year. History The company was established in 1919 year. It was originally called Amerada Petroleum Corporation. During the first half of the 1920s, the company was growing steadily, reaching a peak to 1926 year, which Amerada Petroleum completed with a net profit in $4,9 million. but, The Great Depression hit the company hard. The sharp rise in the post-war years allowed the company to achieve the volume of sales of products in $100 million. Hess Oil and Chemical, founded by Leon Hess, acquired 10 % Amerada Petroleum's shares 1966 year over $100 million. A few years later the merger of the companies, despite the protest of some of the shareholders of Amerada Petroleum, was completed. IN 2001 year the company takes over Triton Energy Limited for $3,2 billion, one of the largest independent US oil and gas companies, also actively operating abroad. IN 2005 year the company enters the Russian market with the acquisition of the Samara-Nafta company.

Zynga queued up for IPO

The series of IPOs of Internet companies continues - this time the largest developer and publisher of games for the social network Facebook gathered on the exchange, Zynga Company Zynga Company is going to apply for an IPO very soon. The placement is organized by Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, reported the newspaper The Financial Times. Various sources claim, that the company plans to sell no more 10% shares in the amount of 1 to 2 billion dollars. The valuation of the entire company also differs - from 10 to 20 billion dollars. Zynga is a developer and publisher of social games for the social network Facebok. Among her most popular projects is FarmVille, Mafia Wars и CitiVille. The monthly audience of all Zynga games exceeds 215 million people. The company's annual income is estimated at over $ 1 billion. The company earns mainly from the sale of "virtual values" - game weapons, ammunition, etc.. P. Unlike many other internet companies, Zynga is profitable and its revenues are growing - already this year the company can earn up to 1,5 billion dollars, foreign analysts say.

NFX : Newfield Exploration

NFX : Newfield Exploration Компания: Newfield Exploration Co. Economy sector: Basic materials Industry: Independent Oil & Gas Abbreviated name: NFX US industry has a special place in the international division of labor. Diverse Industries Newfield Exploration Co. Basic NFX Materials, provision of various raw materials and qualified personnel, highly developed research base has allowed the American industry to ensure the mass production of a variety of serial products and the release of unique devices and equipment for both internal, and for the world market. Over the past two decades in the US manufacturing industry, Newfield Exploration Co. Basic materials NFX increased the share of knowledge-intensive industries of mechanical engineering and metalworking, chemical, нефтеперераба­тывающей, petrochemical industry. The role of traditionally important industries has decreased – metallurgy, light and food industry, production of building materials.

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