Is Facebook worth more than McDonalds?

[Uncle Pennybags]

That's what I heard on the news this morning, that at $38 a share, Facebook has a higher market cap than McDonalds.

I really find that difficult to believe in the real world. Sure Facebooks has a Billion friends. But McDonalds sells billions of burgers each year, plus has huge assets.

[?]

well im not sure if you take into account there assets but as far as stock works facebook is worth more.

[Ed Fox]

In the real world, I'm wondering if you are drunk or is this really a genuine question

[Goodfella]

Well McDonalds has a market capitalization of 92 Billion, while facebook will do its initial public offering at a little over 100 billion. They are VERY different companies in the sense that McDonalds has a huge amount of tangible assets while FB has intangibles to last for decades.
There are many unknowns when making a market valuation for a company like facebook, but that's what the market "thinks" its worth as of today. Let's see how their IPO plays out!

[Tom Z]

Facebook's Market Capitalization is 109.67Billion

McDonalds Market Capitalization is 92.05Billion

So from the stanpoint of the total value of the stock Facebook is worth more.

[Applex]

I wish death upon Facebook
I wish death upon your overfed fat american ass

[who is #1?]

During an interview years ago the founder of McDonalds said he is not really in the hamburger business, he is in the real estate business. That's how a failing K-Mart bought Sears: K-Mart realized it was sitting on a lot of expensive real estate.

What's facebook got? etherware; it produces nothing, you can't eat it and it exists only in people's minds. Now that everyone is cashing in and cashing out, I figure its days are numbered.