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That's just simply valuing each user by dividing Facebook's estimated valuation by the number of users. I'm sure Facebook will not only continue to improve thei
by firefoxman1 15y ago
That's just simply valuing each user by dividing Facebook's estimated valuation by the number of users. I'm sure Facebook will not only continue to improve their revenue to constantly please the pencil pushers, but is it so crazy to value each user at $125? Remember, that's not revenue; it's just value per user.
Most public companies trade for at least 12 times their earnings. Google is 20x earnings and their market cap is $190 billion. Your math would be assuming that Facebook will have $0 in assets and will be trading with a P/E of 1. Earnings of $6.25 per year, per user (at 800 million users) justifies a $100B valuation at a 20x P/E with $0 in assets and no expected future growth.
- kunle 15y agoI wonder what google's user equivalent value would be (vs FB's $125)
- catch23 15y agoif all 7B people in the world used google, each one would be worth $27. If google only had 800M users like facebook, each one would be worth $237. So maybe FB stock is actually undervalued if one thinks that Facebook provides an equal amount of value compared with Google.
- firefoxman1 15y agoMe too. It doesn't look like Google discloses their worldwide user count. It's got to be over a billion.