Thinking About Thinking

I was curious about which companies are worth less than Facebook’s purported $50 billion valuation – so I decided to look it up.  Here are some of the blue chip names (and market caps) you can get at a lower valuation than Facebook without paying Goldman Sachs’ exorbitant transaction fees:

• EMC – $47.2B
• Bristol-Myers Squibb – $45.1B
• France Telecom – $42.5B
• Target – $42.5B
• BMW – $42.4B
• Grainger – $42.3B
• Nike – $41.6B
• Morgan Stanley – $41.4B
• Dow Chemical – $39.9B
• UnitedHealth Group – $39.4B
• News Corp – $39.2B
• Colgate-Palmolive – $39.1B
• Eli Lillly – $38.9B
• Nokia – $38.0B
• AIG – $37.3B
• Halliburton -$36.7B
• VMWare – $36.6B
• BlackRock – $36.3B
• Walgreen – $36.1B