Why is Netflix a FAANG? — Market Mad House

Daniel G. Jennings
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
6 min readDec 19, 2019

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I ask why is Netflix a FAANG stock because the other FANGs have far more money.

To clarify the FAANG members are; Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Netflix (NASAQ: NFLX), and Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL). People buy the FAANG stocks because they supposedly make a lot of money.

Yet some FAANGs are richer than others. For instance, Netflix had $4.435 billion in cash and short-term investments on 30 September 2019.

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Daniel G. Jennings is a writer who lives and works in Colorado. He is a lifelong history buff who is fascinated by stocks, politics, and cryptocurrency.