We’ve seen this film before. Before our pivot to AI, we wrote about cryptocurrency fraud. A crypto initial coin offering would start with a white paper made of impossible lies. Nobody cared because…
  • CinnasVerses@awful.systemsEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Who’s going to buy this profit-free stock selling for 100 times earnings?

    I think its worse than a P/E ratio of 100. It is 100 times revenue. Earnings in this context mean profits, so a company which is losing money has no P/E ratio. The argument is that if $100 of stock corresponds to $10 of profit last year (P/E 10), that is probably a better buy than if $100 of stock corresponds to $5 of profit last year (P/E 20).

    And yes, this looks to me like a crypto rugpull crossed with all the tricks which keep Tether prices and Tesla shares floating in midair.