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Netflix Now Bigger than GE

March 26, 2018 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

The market capitalization of Netflix shares is now greater than those of America’s most storied blue chip industrial company, General Electric (GE).

For comparison’s sake, in 2017 GE generated free cash flows of $5.6 billion, and Netflix had negative free cash flows of $2 billion.

Despite that disparity in actual business success, GE is going through management and legal turmoil, while Netflix is riding high on its status as one of the FAANG stocks. Time will tell whether investors care more about potential future cash flows, or those that actually exist today.

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Jeremy Jones, CFA is the Director of Research at Young Research & Publishing Inc., and the Chief Investment Officer at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. Jeremy is a contributing editor of youngresearch.com.
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