Sentence examples for an extraordinary valuation from inspiring English sources

Facebook came out of the box last May with an extraordinary valuation of over $100 billion.

However, Bloomberg does quote an experienced analyst, Alex DeGroote of Peel Hunt, who gives the claims some credence by saying he does see Pearson as a seller while scorning the £1bn tag as "an extraordinary valuation".

It's tempting, of course, for FedEx to fashion itself as an Internet play given the extraordinary valuations of Internet stocks.

Easy and cheap access to all the off-the-shelf components needed for a startup is fuelling the rise of "weightless companies", firms that can attain extraordinary valuations with minimal staff and capital.That is a very good thing in the eyes of those who see the rich world's problems as a matter of too little innovation rather than too much.

"Market valuations stopped representing the fundamentals," he continued, "and we had companies that had no profits, and no prospects for profits, with these extraordinary valuations".

First, these companies have extraordinary valuations but suspiciously light balance sheets: Uber doesn't need to employ drivers and Airbnb doesn't need to own houses.

The economic stimulus, Friedman says, should also focus more on high-tech companies like Google, Apple, Intel and Microsoft, all of which enjoy extraordinary valuations.

An extraordinary talent, an extraordinary human being, an extraordinary friend.

There was no mention in Chinese state media, of course, of the real story - that over the course of a year, China's authorities manufactured an extraordinary bull market that was bound to collapse because valuations reached absurd levels.

Indeed, if you can build an extraordinary company, it has never been easier to go from single-digit millions to single-digit billions in valuation in a shorter period of time.

So, an extraordinary performance.