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If current investors weren't satisfied with current income, they would sell. Facebook's margins are excellent, and while I will agree their P/E ratio is high, G
by gjmulhol 12y ago
If current investors weren't satisfied with current income, they would sell. Facebook's margins are excellent, and while I will agree their P/E ratio is high, Google's is quite near that of GE (which should have a much lower multiple considering their return on assets is MUCH lower). I'm sure it will happen eventually, but tech companies are making money right now, and they aren't built on broken economics like the dot com bust in 99.
I guess while I agree there is a bubble in startup valuations, I do not think Google, FB, and friends are at huge risk of going bankrupt or losing a substantial portion of their enterprise values.
- matwood 12y agoIf current investors weren't satisfied with current income, they would sell. The market is not about current, but about the future. Stockholders are banking on FB figuring out how to monetize all the users. I do agree with you that companies today are mostly all making money which is very different from the 90s. Whether companies like FB can maintain growth to sustain their valuations is something that remains to be seen.