Harley Davidson
(don’t get me wrong, the brand will still be around like MG or Benelli - owned by a chinese holding)
Same for
- Sears,
- Target,
- Saks/Neiman,
- Nikon/Canon/Fuji
- Sony…(?)
Twitter / X
Wapo
NYT
Truth Social
Macy’s
And Kmart. According to Wiki, Sears still has five stores. Kmart has only three.
Both brands are, in fact, owned by the same company, which was a spinoff from Sears Holdings in 2019. I have no idea why they are still operating a tiny number of retail locations for both brands, but I suspect that there’s some manner of legal reason why (maybe maintaining a claim on the brand names or something).
Either Lyft or Uber. One will absorb the other.
And Radio Shack will die…again.
Taxi companies for independent ops.
Powerball vs Megamillions are good candidates for merging.
And Toys R Us will die … again.
Edit: I’m not optimistic about Target or Walgreens.
The way Bitcoin has been tanking lately – Microstrategy, the most famous Bitcoin holding company (i.e. whose worth is based on their bitcoin holdings rather than their other businesses, if they ever had one.)
90% of today’s AI companies
…but I have no idea which 10% will survive
Tesla
Just like those stupid “digital token” cr@ppy @ss companies (forgot the 3letter acronym) a couple of years ago …
good call! … I do - however - have the feeling that Elmo is moving into “if you cant convince them, confuse them” territory, with his Company A purchasing his Company B, while also purchasing 100s of Cibertrux.
One thing is sure: he will be going out with a BAAAANG!!!
Spirit Airlines, and possibly JetBlue. Neither has been doing well financially at all in spite of the resurgence in air travel after COVID (Which is why they wanted to merge). If they don’t go under they’ll probably end up merging with some other airline.
Speaking of which, last month Allegiant announced they are buying Sun Country Airlines. So unless the deal gets nixed by regulators, we know for sure Sun Country won’t be around much longer.
Geez, so that family will have to live off the income from Ballerina Farm?
Not hardly.
They’ve just pivoted into “serious” cameras. They’ve actually gone from DSLRs to mirrorless (they use the sensor directly to focus and frame through a viewfinder), and those cameras are pricey, and sell really well.
They may not be making a lot of point-and-shoots (but there’s been a resurgence believe it or not), because phones have mostly dominated that market niche, but they still make pro/enthusiast level cameras just like they always have, and they sell a lot of them. None of them are struggling financially. They’ve also got their printer and other imaging businesses as well.
Maybe certain parts, but overall they’re doing fine. They sell interchangeable lens cameras alongside the companies above, and they also have the Playstation series of game consoles.
The Trump Organization.
Gemini’s answer (did not factcheck as it is not that important to me)
NIKON:
| Fiscal Year | Operating Profit (EBIT) | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | + ¥135.2B | All-time High (DSLR Boom) |
| 2012 | + ¥80.3B | Solid (D800 Era) |
| 2017 | - ¥0.8B | Loss (Heavy restructuring) |
| 2021 | - ¥56.2B | Pandemic + Mirrorless Transition |
| 2023 | + ¥54.9B | Strong recovery (Z9 Success) |
| 2025 (Ref) | + ¥2.4B | Dip (Acquisition & HQ costs) |
| 2026 (Est) | + ¥14.0B | Projected Recovery |
while being profitable, it’s hardly a success story.
I wonder how many young people get into DSLRs vs. owning an Iphone 22 with stellar photo/vid capacity and full AI support (edit Al-128 out of the family photo).
They (Nikon) might manage to convert into a totally different company (think: 1980ies IBM vs. 2025 IBM) … or they might be broken up and sold by business unit.
Partly driven, I imagine, by contexts where phones aren’t allowed, but people still want cameras. A number of my students have gotten themselves point-and-shoot cameras for that reason, because phone use is fairly limited at school.
Speaking of schools, I think they might have more than a decade worth of inertia left in them, but Texas Instruments will probably die soon. For years, the only real selling point for a TI calculator has been “This will be allowed on all of the major standardized tests you’re going to have to take”. But now, all of the major standardized tests have the far-superior and free Desmos built in. I’m already recommending my students not buy a standalone calculator, if they don’t already have one, because Desmos can do everything it can, better.
hmmmm ….
I wonder what portion sales/profits of TI are calculators …
my gut feeling: very little - so there might be a whole iceberg under water that we (the general public) are not seeing, IIRC, TI does a lot of specialty-chips (Wifi/BT for celulars, etc…)
Is the Numworks making any in-roads at all? Is it allowable in standardized tests?