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@Timmy Okay, a few basics.

1) #MarketCap is not "what a company is worth". Market cap is what the fraction of the company *owned by stockholders* is worth. Stockholders are near dead-last on the pecking order of corporate assets. Things like debt are near the top. Old-school #automakers
are loaded up in debt and other obligations, and those creditors own most of those companies - thus leaving less available for stockholders.

The question to ask yourself first off is thus...