[profeta]

why do people keep bringing up the alibaba and other assets when discussing the market cap?

this is like buying someone body shop, looking at the body shop revenue, and then subtracting the price of the current owner paid-for porsche.

[mywittyname]

Because Yahoo owns $30B+ worth of Alibaba stock.

To use your analogy, it's like buying a body shop, but subtracting the $10,000,000 in real estate they own because it's not included in the sale.