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Is this company legit imploding?
by adamnemecek 8y ago
Is this company legit imploding?
- keyle 8y agoAt this point they might be "too big to fail".
- dlock 8y agodont think facebook is that kind of company yet .... other businesses which are core to our day to day are not built on fb's operations i would think (such as banks manufacturing companies etc). and if this happened could you imagine the influx of engineers available
- arthurofbabylon 8y agoFacebook is very replaceable, from a technical standpoint. (From a social/demographic outlook, its replacement is inevitable.)
- mrweasel 8y agoI think there's a risk that Facebook won't be replaced, because may early adopters won't sign up for any new social network. Both Facebook and Google have severely hurt the trust of many, to the point where they will be reluctant to sign up for any new alternatives in the fear that they will eventually be equally "evil".
- ionised 8y agoThere is absolutely nothing about Facebook that is essential or irreplaceable.
- jzl 8y agoImploding might be extreme but I think it's entirely plausible that 1-2 years from now their stock is at half its current value or at least half the value of its all-time high.
- IAmGraydon 8y agoConsidering the fact that they’ve lost 27% of their stock value in 3 months, I think they may hit 50% a lot sooner than that.
- richardknop 8y agoActually I think Facebook stock is quite undervalued after losing 20-30% of value recently. I believe there is a lot of upside. I would not be surprised if ATH is broken before end of this year.
- cm2012 8y agoNo. Revenue and users are both increasing year over year.
- redial 8y ago> Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit > Revenue and users are both increasing year over year. They wouldn't lie, of course.
- cm2012 8y agoYou don't seem knowledgable about quarterly earnings reports.
- redial 8y agoYou are correct, no company has ever filed a "misrepresenting" earnings report ever, certainly not ones that share the same high moral standards as Facebook.
- mrfredward 8y agoCooking the books is far worse than pushing misleading metrics to customers, at least as far as corporate ethics goes. The risks would be enormous, and the benefit would be temporarily propping up the stock price, which is not all that helpful if you aren't currently raising money. Facebook most likely isn't defrauding investors simply because it goes against Facebook's interests to do so. Of course, companies come up with their own metrics all the time, but they have to be published alongside GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) metrics.
- adtac 8y agoDo shareholders also care whether the revenue is accelerating or will they be happy if it's just increasing?
- cm2012 8y ago