Chinese and American technology giants are fundamentally changing the way we go about our daily lives. But they’re also changing global commerce, and this is rewriting the playbook when it comes to the way investors view them.
Technology titans can be split into two camps: the American FAANGs (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet, which owns Google) and the Chinese BATs (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent). Microsoft should also be in there, as the world’s most valuable company, but “M” doesn’t seem to lend itself to the acronym, so it misses out. Electric vehicle maker Tesla also deserves a special mention.
The FAANG companies should be familiar to readers of Money. The BATs are less known. Baidu is a search engine, like Google, and it is also heavily invested in a range of internet-related products. Alibaba is a retail and eCommerce business, like Amazon. Tencent is another conglomerate of varied Internet-related services but is most notable as the world’s largest video game company.
To give some idea of the scale of these companies, the FAANGs have a combined market capitalization of more than $US5 trillion ($7 trillion) at the time of writing. That’s more than three and a half times Australia’s entire gross domestic product (GDP) for 2019.
They are also popular with investors, meaning they’re expensive. Many of these companies have share price-earnings (PE) ratios, at times, in triple digits. That compares with an average of 30 for the whole of the NASDAQ, the stock market where the FAANGs are listed.
Same but different
The FAANGs and BATs share many similarities. Both leverage technology and massive market reach.
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