Microsoft's Debt is Growing and Apple's Sales Are Falling
THE GAFAM 'complex' is boasting about its supposed 'value' or 'valuation' or 'market cap', which is nothing short of a Ponzi scheme, faking alleged 'worth' to justify taking more and more and more loans, sometimes while actively operating at a loss (lessening any prospects of ever paying back the growing debt). We've given many examples of such companies over the years; such practices don't "create job", they lead to austerity through bailouts (saving the lenders and/or the bankrupt) and similarly unfair measures, benefiting those who take huge risk at other people's expense. It's nothing other than organised plunder, passing wealth from the taxpayers to few private pockets of reckless speculators.
Microsoft’s "Total Debt" over the last four quarters continued to grow, based on official sources:
Quarter Ending | Total Debt |
2022-09-30 | 77.136 B |
2022-12-31 | 77.985 B |
2023-03-31 | 79.312 B |
2023-06-30 | 79.441 B |
So Microsoft's debt continues to grow and in many areas Microsoft is losing money, not earning money, but it's engaging in accounting fraud to hide the truth.
There are lots of puff pieces about the supposed "value" of Apple, boasting about it like it's the most "valuable" company, but based on what? Apple now openly admits that the company's sales collapsed [1]. In recent months so did the market share of Apple [1, 2]. The growth area seems to be GNU/Linux, not GAFAM.
An associate took note of the situation in Greece, where GNU/Linux has surged to (by this estimate) 1 in 10 desktops/laptops. This associate said "that is almost certainly below the margin required to maintain monopoly rents, which is where Microsoft really made its software money, [so] the bubble may have popped..."
Later today we'll do some more articles to that effect. █
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Are Apple’s best days behind it?
This has already caused some to step back. KeyBanc Capital Markets recently cut its view on the stock to the equivalent of a hold rating, citing concerns about the valuation and growth potential.