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Internet and media businesses monetize attention — through advertising, subscriptions, or a cut of the transactions they host. Their economics turn on engagement and the cost of acquiring and keeping users, which makes advertising demand and content spending the numbers that move them.
Aggregates cover the 4 of 7 names with live data.
| # | Company | Price | Day | Market cap | P/E | Health | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GOOGL Alphabet Alphabet sells ads against Google Search and YouTube, which fund everything else: Google Cloud, Android, Chrome, and the Waymo robotaxi unit. | $357.18 | -0.48% | $4.33T | 33× | 5/8 | Open → |
| 2 | NFLX Netflix Netflix charges around 300 million households a monthly subscription for streaming video, spending north of $15 billion a year on originals, licensed series, and live events. | $73.37 | -2.78% | $309.1B | 29× | 5/8 | Open → |
| 3 | DIS Disney Disney's biggest profit center is its Experiences segment: theme parks, cruise ships, and merchandise. | $95.62 | -0.57% | $166.0B | 14× | 7/8 | Open → |
| 4 | UBER Uber Uber operates a ride-hailing marketplace in roughly 70 countries and pairs it with Uber Eats food delivery and a freight brokerage. | $74.54 | +0.26% | $151.7B | 15.8× | 5/8 | Open → |
| 5 | META Meta Platforms Nearly all of Meta's revenue is advertising sold across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. | $669.21 | +5.97% | — | 28.5× | 3/7 | Open → |
| 6 | ABNB Airbnb Airbnb runs a marketplace where hosts list homes, apartments, and spare rooms for short-term stays, plus an Experiences business for tours and activities. | $148.62 | +1.18% | — | — | 5/7 | Open → |
| 7 | SHOP Shopify Shopify sells subscription software that lets merchants build and run online stores, then earns a larger share of revenue from payments processing, shipping labels, and merchant lending layered on top. | $122.54 | -0.51% | — | 130.4× | 6/8 | Open → |
Company groupings are curated; figures are real — market caps and prices from EOD market data, health from SEC XBRL filings, and the smart-money activity from Form 4 and STOCK Act disclosures. Educational only, not financial advice.