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Firms

Unlike the Realm's groups, firms are organisations with the specific purpose of generating wealth for their owners. They were part of a player-run economy, documented here mainly for 2008 and 2009. Firms could be privately held, held by mobiles, or publicly traded on the Via Pecunia Exchange. They belonged to industries including financial services, arcane enhancements (consumer cyclicals), defence, "contractors", mining, construction, publishing and media.

The figures below are a historical snapshot from December 2008 / January 2009 and are no longer updated.

The market in 2008 #

The total market capitalisation of all publicly traded stocks was 4,986,299,296. The Bank of Rome had the largest market capitalisation, 2,172,216,248. These figures include nearly 2,000,000,000 in paid-in equity; the rest of the value was driven by innovation and expected earnings growth. As of December 10, 2008, every firm except WPD had 100 shares outstanding, so a stock's market capitalisation was its share price times 100.

Markets had been benign, apart from a recession in early November triggered by a collapse in TSM prices, which led to the bankruptcy of Ubojica Laboratories (UL). Some economists believed that at those valuations the only way for the market to move was down. Others held that, with strong and sustained growth, markets would keep their overall upward trend through the business cycles.

Price quote as of 28 Futility 539 #

BRC Pr P/E  8.00 Beta  0.91    16,000,000  18,930,000
HC  Co P/E 85.88 Beta  3.03     2,500,000   3,020,000
MMM Pr P/E 19.91 Beta  0.15     2,500,000   2,890,000
PPP Pr P/E 30.52 Beta  0.50     1,500,000   1,680,000
TSM Co P/E 15.88 Beta  0.52     1,500,000   1,620,000
UC  Co P/E 13.87 Beta -0.35     4,500,000   4,590,000
VAP Co P/E 39.91 Beta  1.10     2,500,000   2,970,000
WPD Pa P/E 21.95 Beta  3.27     6,000,000   6,550,000

ERIETF P/E 32.95 Beta  1.00    15,720,000  15,740,000

Chart of publicly traded firms #

 1.0     October 1, 2008
32.0     November 1, 2008
62.0     December 1, 2008
93.0     January 1, 2009

Chart of market returns #

The index is an equally weighted average of the returns of all publicly traded stocks: an average return of 10% across the firms raises the index by 10%.

Private, public and notable mobile firms #

Ticker symbols of publicly traded firms are given in parentheses. The firm pages are for members of this website.

Last edited by Odo on 12 Oct 2026, 14:18