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Title: Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: WindyMan on September 24, 2007, 07:55:59 PM
NCL is now only behind Toyota in overall Japanese market value.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=14466

 The Wii-sponsored car finishing in second was an appropriate event given this new information out of Japan: Nintendo is now the second largest company in all of Japan.    


Due to a 2.6% increase in Nintendo's stock prices at the close of Tuesday's trading on the Osaka Stock Exchange, the company now has a market value of 8.34 trillion yen, or 72.7 billion dollars.  The latest corporation to be washed away by the wave of Wii and DS success was Canon, maker of high-end cameras, printers and other optical devices.      


If Nintendo hopes to become the king of Japan, it's going to need to sell a lot more Wiis.  Automotive giant Toyota is currently the most valuable company in the country, with a market worth of 24 trillion yen (209 billion dollars), or three times that of Nintendo.

Title: RE:Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 24, 2007, 08:42:31 PM
Who would have thought a company that only a few years ago was worth around 15-20 billion would now be one of the biggest companies in Japan. So now is everyone going to hate Nintendo for being a corporate behemoth like they do MS? Only time will tell.
Title: RE: Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: Rize on September 24, 2007, 09:24:03 PM
If they start acting like a corporate behemoth everyone will.

What am I saying, Nintendo has always acted like that!
Title: RE: Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: IceCold on September 24, 2007, 09:55:57 PM
They always had billions in the "war chest", but this is just incredible..
Title: RE: Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: Deguello on September 24, 2007, 10:54:03 PM
You know I've been wondering.

How is Sony NOT on this list?  They're huge!  Are they that unpopular?
Title: RE: Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: Dirk Temporo on September 24, 2007, 11:41:48 PM
This is astounding, to be honest. I mean, Sony or Microsoft I can see being so huge, but Nintendo is strictly a video game company. The fact that they can do so well just being a video game company says something about where the industry is headed.
Title: RE:Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: Karl Castaneda #2 on September 25, 2007, 03:13:30 AM
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Originally posted by: Deguello
You know I've been wondering.

How is Sony NOT on this list?  They're huge!  Are they that unpopular?


Well, keep in mind that, up until a few years ago, the only department at Sony that was making any money was its video game division. These days their HDTV line is doing a lot better, but since the PS3 is sagging, it's still about even. Needless to say, Sony's a company with many, many problems.
Title: RE:Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: MaryJane on September 25, 2007, 04:12:43 AM
This seems almost impossible. But you know what? Nintendo told us they were going to do it. Their blue ocean stratgy is paying off, they were completely right about there being an untapped gaming market, they tapped into it, and are now bigger than Canon. I mean come on... Canon, you know how much business they do?? It's incredible, truly incredible that a company that only sells 2 (major) devices can beat out companies that have hundreds of devices. (Like Sony )

Now they just need to create an operating system that is packaged in with every major computer purchase and they overtake Microsoft and Toyota!!
Title: RE: Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: KDR_11k on September 25, 2007, 07:41:15 AM
Keep in mind that this is stock value, its worth as much as people are paying for it, has nothing to do with how they're doing in the market.
Title: RE:Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 25, 2007, 07:46:51 AM
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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
Keep in mind that this is stock value, its worth as much as people are paying for it, has nothing to do with how they're doing in the market.


Well usually people don't buy your stock if you are doing poorly in the market.
Title: RE:Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: MaryJane on September 25, 2007, 08:45:23 AM
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Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenix
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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
Keep in mind that this is stock value, its worth as much as people are paying for it, has nothing to do with how they're doing in the market.


Well usually people don't buy your stock if you are doing poorly in the market.


Ditto. Also remember this is money going into Nintendo's pocket.
Title: RE: Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: Entroper on September 25, 2007, 01:33:26 PM
They're still behind Mitsubishi with 11 trillion yen at last tally.  Mitsubishi trading is temporarily suspended this week due to a stock split.  At the rate Nintendo is growing, though, they can probably get to 11 trillion before too long.
Title: RE: Nintendo Second Largest Japanese Company
Post by: King of Twitch on September 25, 2007, 09:33:21 PM
It's a good thing they don't have their hotel business anymore; otherwise they could blow all that extra yen on booze and hookers as a write off!