Comment by cwyers
8 years ago
> The only thing they have are common ownership.
Companies that are actually independent besides common ownership don't share a stock symbol and they don't comingle revenues.
8 years ago
> The only thing they have are common ownership.
Companies that are actually independent besides common ownership don't share a stock symbol and they don't comingle revenues.
Any company that owns 51% or more of another company has to put the owned company on their balance sheet.
It's legally a subsidiary and must have 'co mingled' accounting.
Also there's no reason for Alpha to break out revenues in their reports if they don't want to.
The whole point of Alpha was to in fact treat the sub companies as effectively independent, which is mostly what is going on.
> It's legally a subsidiary and must have 'co mingled' accounting.
Which is the point. They have much more in common than being simply owned by the same owners. They're a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet. And when Verily needs to raise money to cover losses, they don't go to the bank, they don't sell shares, they go to Alphabet.
" And when Verily needs to raise money to cover losses, they don't go to the bank, they don't sell shares, they go to Alphabet."
No.
The sub is totally independant: governance, liability, stock holders etc.
Alphabet just has to report the sub on it's balance sheet, but otherwise it's like owning stock.
Now, Alpha does have a deeper relationship with it's companies, but they are still independent.
Google does not share information, money, talent, office space or much else with most other Alpha companies, so they are essentially separate companies with little to do with on another.