Thread: Maybe the unpleasant truth is that MeeGo really was too late and/or not good enough?
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2011-02-14 , 21:34
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Originally Posted by Rugoz View Post
As a company you don't loose money if your stocks are going down. A high equity price is useful in the case you want to issue new shares, companies don't do that very often. So short-term fluctuations are no big deal.
Of course you don't lose that in cash in real time, but stock works in mysterious ways. Including as currency in stock-swap based acquisitions and a part of remuneration packages.

If I still rooted for Nokia I'd be worried by them losing a quarter of their market valuation (what you call a "short-term fluctuation") practically overnight as the market's opinion to elop's eloping with ms.