Facebook IPO

Unless you can get it at the IPO price (which you won't be able to) forget about it.

 

I'm buying 5 shares, ftw!

 

It seems like incredible growth is already priced into the stock. So even if the company has great growth and matches expectations, it doesn't leave a lot of room for appreciation.

It's also ridiculous that something like 15% of their revenue comes from Zynga selling fake farm animals and such in their games. That seems like a fad that's not going to grow at the rate FB needs to grow their revenues - at some point, people will decide buying a virtual cow is not on their list of priorities.

 

are they gonna make us all get timeline

 

probably. i got tricked into getting mine. i hate that timeline ****. then when you want to go back to something that was posted like 2 weeks ago, it's not even there, it will just skip you to the beginning of the month or the middle of the last. ****ing bull****. first world problems.

 

Definitely over hype but i'm catching the wave and sell it before it hit the shore

 

AMZN still has like 182 P/E.

 

So...short it? :grin:

 

Wow, you really overrate people.

 

I haven't seen their business plan or how they're going to monetize their subscribers. Without that, it's hard for me to value it.

They do have a tremendous asset in 900 million users.

 

Last quarter was a 33% increase in revenue over same quarter last year. That's pretty crazy that they're still growing like that. Their operating margin is 1.5% which is also nuts.

 

900 million active users?


My long term projection: overhyped, doomed to become the next myspace within 5 to 7 yrs....or maybe not!

 

There will always be people who play those games and spend that money - but remember, that's already valued into the stock. What FB needs it to grow that group - but it's a fairly limited subgroup of people. Everyone who loves Farmville is probably already playing it.

The other problem FB has is that they are at 900 million users. That has a lot of value, but with only about 2 billion internet users in the world, their potential to grow their base is fairly limited. So they have to grow their revenues at a fairly significant pace without the benefit of a growing userbase.

 

and Apple has a P/E well under 20 and people are saying its overvalued even though they have the cash and sales to back it up.....facebook is literally worthless in less than 5 years book it.....myspace,friendster, and a few more are all gone today

 

I agree. It's an absolute terrible business decision for them. Most people hate timeline, and yet they are forcing people to adopt it. I really don't understand.

 

Anybody know how I can get in on buying some FB stock? (It sounds like a high-risk, high-reward investment that might be worth it)

 

might short it

 

Anyone remember when Google had their IPO? I remember some guys I worked with that the time were saying $60 per share or whatever it was exactly was way too high. Lol.

 

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