It doesn't matter whether the rest of the world will do anything with it if we enjoy theorizing about it on the internet in our free time :)
I don't think reported actual figures are enough to form a good enough image of the worth of a company. The proverbial example would be of buggy whip companies (selling whips for horse drawn carts) reporting record profits the year that Ford opened his first automobile factory. Clearly the buggy whip companies did not have a bright future ahead of them, but you wouldn't be able to tell from reported figures.
I don't think reported actual figures are enough to form a good enough image of the worth of a company. The proverbial example would be of buggy whip companies (selling whips for horse drawn carts) reporting record profits the year that Ford opened his first automobile factory. Clearly the buggy whip companies did not have a bright future ahead of them, but you wouldn't be able to tell from reported figures.