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title: "Ben Crunches the Web 2.0 Numbers"
date: 2005-11-14
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# Ben Crunches the Web 2.0 Numbers

The Hard Man of 2.0, [Ben Barren](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315003038/http://benbarren.blogspot.com/), takes out his nutcracker and [starts crunching the numbers](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315003038/http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2005/11/gemaya-crunching-numbers-start.html) of Internet companies. Wielding financial methodologies, Ben intends to get some REAL analysis happening in the hot-air-o-sphere. Things like profit, revenue and unique user multiples relative to market cap. Not for the faint-hearted then.

Ben’s made a start with the big Internet companies:

G (GOOGLE) – $109B, 86 P/E E (EBAY) – $61B, 61 P/E M (MICROSOFT/MSN) – $290B, 23 P/E A (AMAZON) – $17B, 35 P/E Y (YAHOO) – $54B, 35 P/E A (AOL/TIME WARNER) – $83B mkt cap, 31 P/E incl Time Warner

Others. IACI – $9.2B mkt cap, 6.6 P/E NEWSCORP : $48B, 21 P/E APPLE : $51B, 39 P/E

See also [my ZDNet post on Alexa stats](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315003038/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=56), where I mention that Yahoo and Google’s market cap was essentially equal in May this year. But Google has since grown to over double the size of Yahoo!

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ben_crunches_th.php))*