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The technology sector is doing everything to revive the Initial Public Offering market in the US. The latest data shows that the concentration of IPO is more in the technology sector, breathing life into the stock market. Eight technology companies went public in the third quarter ended September 30. Both financial and technology sector had […]
The Facebook went public on May 18, last Friday and over the period of six days a lot has happened. At the close of business at Nasdaq, FB was trading at $32.05 a share. The stock was made open for the public at the book value of $38 a pop. This is a huge loss […]
Advertisements on a social network is completely understandable and very consistent for the likes of LinkedIn and Facebook. However, that is the only ‘business’ that Facebook does to date other than charging third-party app developers like Zynga. Though advertisements on Facebook have been embraced by many marketers all over the world, but it is still […]
These are all the plans that the company could come up and what might realize in the future. But, what about the interim time? The company is in the stock market, not planning to do so. There are risks of high proportions in the stock market that have been beefed up by the 2008 crisis. […]
Google, the value can be calculated by determining the worth of Android, presence of Google.com and its position, value of its other ventures like Google Map, etc. For Facebook, everything stops at Advertisement and third-party apps like Farmville. This is tricky but can be calculated. Terminal Value is where the mind game starts for real. […]
Facebook’s upcoming Initial Public Offering (IPO) is tipped to be the most awaited and speculated offering not just in this year but since Google went public in August, 2004. This is not because both belong to the same online/internet industry but because Facebook might make a huge business against all odds. At first, Google was […]
Orkut was in the market before Mark Zuckerberg even hatched the idea of Facebook. But even in the presence of a social network, which was a big hit in Asia, the most populated continent in the world, Facebook surpassed its number of users in a matter of few years. Google’s network by the name of […]
Facebook is on the verge of going pubic this summer. The new name, Facebook, Inc., will certainly help the company in getting to the dazzling heights with extra cash worth around $5 Billion. On the other hand the social network also has other tricks up its sleeve to compete not only on internet but also […]
Zynga’s rally fizzled Wednesday, and if you’d listened to Sterne Agee’s Arvind Bhatia, it never would have happened at all. Bhatia began to question the business model behind the world’s biggest social-games creator even before its public debut last December. Zynga then spent much of January below its IPO price, but now enjoys an average […]
Bhatia will look at Zynga’s daily traffic, too, which was down some 6% in December and up just 2.8% for the year, according to Appdata.com, which tracks Facebook applications’ traffic. If Zynga fails to bring in new users—people possibly more willing to pay—it must turn existing users into payers. Bhatia doubts Zynga could do that […]
With Facebook now in registration for an initial public offering, the question is top of mind for investors in technology stocks. Facebook generated $3.7 billion in revenue in 2011, and a cool $1 billion in net income. If the conventional wisdom is right, and Facebook goes public with a $100 billion market cap, that makes […]
But let’s do a little more math. In calendar 2011 – not their September fiscal year – Apple had revenue of $127.8 billion, and profits of $33 billion. Ergo, the company is trading at 3.4x trailing revenues, and 13x trailing profits. Back out the $100 billion or so Apple now has in cash, and the […]
