The entire economy is taking a hit from the current financial crisis, and Google is no exception. Today Google shares are trading at $340, which is $100 less or 22% off the price they were on September 25, 2008 ($440). A huge chunk of the options granted to employees (approximately 7.4 million shares) have a [...]

Google’s stock has dropped below $400. So it’s a good time to revisit the company’s value. Google’s enterprise value is about $125 billion and the company will generate about $4.5 billion of free cash flow this year.  Google is therefore trading at about 27X current free cash flow. Not ideal for a confidant “buy” but [...]