[BlackRain]

Why didn't anybody on this thread reference Google's income and profits? Though I am a naiif to Wall Street Finance lingo, the Yahoo site shows Google making a 1.73 billion gross profit and a 3.79 billion income. That seems pretty good to me, but it pales in comparison to Time-Warner's stats.

Let's get this straight. Time Warner is makes $13 billion more in profit than Google but Google is worth more?

Time Warner Inc (TWX) Stock

Revenue (ttm): 42.39B
Revenue Per Share (ttm): 9.275
Qtrly Revenue Growth (yoy): 2.90%
Gross Profit (ttm): 17.64B
EBITDA (ttm): 10.05B
Net Income Avl to Common (ttm): 3.46B
Diluted EPS (ttm): 0.72
Qtrly Earnings Growth (yoy): 0.20%
Share Price: 17.02

[discostu]

Their revenue to profit ratio is lower. And probably the biggest thing holding their stock back is that they're primarily an entertainment company and according to all the talking heads every avenue of entertainment is suffering from major drops in revenue. And what they have that isn't entertainment is old media news which is taking on water worse than entertainment. Add to that the fact that it wasn't that long ago that they needed to merge with AOL to fill some revenue holes and you can see why in our current highly emotional market T-W just doesn't look very sexy, they were in trouble in the past and look like they'll be in trouble again in the future, they just don't have a compelling story for the market.