thecrashingisles Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 or, who has boasted about their new car, their extension, whatever....cross check with tax returns et voila. You're 'avin' a laugh... That would require competent people in HMRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Loo Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 You're 'avin' a laugh... That would require competent people in HMRC. It would only take one competant person....Zuckerberg and his team would love to help.....for a fee. I think the US is actually a lot more damaged than we are from the tax point of view, so starting there would be good. And as the old saying goes, why have one Government project when you can have two for twice the price. Wheres my broker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone baby gone Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 or, who has boasted about their new car, their extension, whatever....cross check with tax returns et voila. Since 2009, or earlier if you were a special investigation. http://www.ion.icaew.com/itcounts/17003 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash4781 Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/facebook-the-antisocial-network-branded-disingenuous-and-immoral-8206123.html The antisocial network branded disingenuous and immoral ""Facebook was not originally created to be a company," Zuckerbeg said at the time of the stock market float. "It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected." Sounds like ******** to me based on this report. Also UK staff costs tripled (though not sure if the revenues also tripled) with according to that article £275K average per employee head. I like the new experimental in th US pay $7 to promote events to friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/9630860/Facebook-shares-soar-22pc-on-mobile-hopes.html Facebook shares look set for their best ever day after signs the social networking site can make money from its mobile users sparked a buying frenzy. The shares soared 22.3pc - or $4.34 - to $23.84 at the start of trading on Wall Street on Wednesday. Investors were scrambling for shares after Facebook last night revealed much faster growth in mobile advertising revenues than anyone had expected. Adverts on mobile devices accounted for 14pc of the $1.09bn in advertising revenues that Facebook made in the third quarter. The appetite for Facebook shares in in sharp contrast to the company's troubled track record on Wall Street since its much hyped $104bn flotation in May. Before last night's third-quarter results, Facebook shares had slumped 50pc from the $38 for which they were first sold. Mark Zuckerberg, the company's founder and chief executive, has been under severe pressure to convince investors that it can generate profits from the more than 600m people who access their Facebook page on mobile devices. There is concern that adverts on phones and tablets, rather than desktop PCs, will prove irritating to users and therefore less valuable to advertisers. "The mobile 'problem' may be put to rest," said Brian Wieser, an analyst at analyst at Pivotal Research. "We think the narrative put forward by many observers around problems monetising mobile consumption of the Facebook platform may be put to rest with these figures." Making money from its mobile users is an increasingly urgent priority for Facebook because they are its fastest-growing group of customers. They accounted for 600m of the just over 1bn users the site had at the end of September, a jump of 61pc from the same quarter in 2011. On a call with Wall Street analysts, Mr Zuckerberg insisted he was out to explode the "myth" that Facebook cannot make money from people who visit the site on mobile devices. He said the company had overhauled the way it integrates adverts into the site. "What we're bascially doing is we've told every product team that they are responsible for coming up with ads in their products," he said. The encouraging advertising sales overshadowed the $59m loss the company made in the quarter Hurrah!! they have worked out how to make money from people who use their "free" service. they have now put on record that they are just in it now to make money from its users, nothing else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Last month the short squeeze was Netflix. Today it is Facebook. Brilliant pump & dump to the suckers? Next month a vast number of staff stock options become available by them to finally be sold - what do you think they will do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Loo Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 http://www.telegraph...bile-hopes.html Hurrah!! they have worked out how to make money from people who use their "free" service. they have now put on record that they are just in it now to make money from its users, nothing else. makes you wonder why Zuckerperson took it public when it is making over a billion in revenues per quarter..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 $59m loss That's all you need to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Facebook worth between 13 and 16 bucks. http://live.wsj.com/video/are-facebook-shares-finally-worth-buying-2012-10-24-111153848/04C694F5-9BDC-49EB-ACA8-76160293ECE7.html#!04C694F5-9BDC-49EB-ACA8-76160293ECE7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 http://www.businessinsider.com/sheryl-sandberg-just-got-a-790-million-paycheck-2012-10 Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg joined the company in April 2008.She built it into a business generating $5 billion per year, worth $55 billion. And now she's very, very rich. On Friday, at 9:30 PM, 34 million restricted stock units vested in Sandberg's name. At $23.21 per share, the paycheck was worth $790 million. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryrot Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Hi FB is back to ~$24, from the $19 low. Still may below the $38 IPO price. This (long) article describes said IPO and the Wall Street sharks. "Facebook, One Year Later: What Really Happened in the Biggest IPO Flop Ever After Facebook's disastrous debut, the preferred clients of big banks walked away with huge profits. How? Public documents and interviews with dozens of investment bankers and research analysts reveal that the Street caught wind of something the public didn't. The social network and the banks told half the story. Here is the other half. " http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/facebook-one-year-later-what-really-happened-in-the-biggest-ipo-flop-ever/275987/ I dont have much sympathy for Uma Swaminathan who is snivelling that her purchase tanked and is (vainly) squealing for compensation: however interesting to see the whole IPO scam in full. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBigBean Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Research a few years ago showed that if you invested in every IPO for one day you would have made a 16% return, so surely they are great investments? However, research also showed that if you invested in every IPO that a normal investor was actually able to invest in then the return would have been 0% i.e. exactly what you would expect - some wins and some losses. It is this sort of thing that banks should be held accountable for not a lot of the other stuff that people go on and on about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Loo Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Facebook shares jump 28% http://uk.reuters.co...E96N18C20130725 fools to the pumps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 My own personal experience is that I'm using it less and less and people I know are using it less and less. Then again, it could be because more and more of the stuff reaching my feed is advertisements which I hardly ever used to see .. presumably exactly what's making investors happy. It's just making me use the service less and I've never followed up on any advertisements that I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 fools to the pumps Also goes for the advertisers too! You don't go onto a "social" site to be sold stuff! I don't think a hydraulic fittings manufacturer in Sheffield is my "friend"! Google might be different! I go there to find out about buying stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little fish Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I keep getting chased by a woman who apparently lives near me. She has amazed doctors with her revolutionary wrinkle removal trick. I am so sick of the sight of her, Barbour coats and Interflora that my posting on fb has dropped to about a third of what it was a year ago. Same for many friends also. I will not buy anything that greets me on fb. That is not what it is for... :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkwell Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 The article says: "FB's massive audience should be irresistible to brand advertisers as the company preps to launch 15-second video ads, which could be Facebook's next billion-dollar business," analysts at Jefferies & Co wrote in a note. I'm thinking: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/12/facebook-video-ads/ Just google 'is facebook dead' and it's clear that the site is already in the process of a big demographic change and falling in reputation with younger generations. It will no doubt remain profitable for some time, but the increasing amount of advertising and old fashioned design will take it's toll eventually. Competitors have been poaching users for some time and facebook know it considering their purchase of Instagram. I'd hate to be a shareholder - wishing it would hit $39 just so I could get out unscathed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I think the share price has soared merely because the usual suspects have decided they can pump and then dump the stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryrot Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Hi $39 today -.back in profit - did,not think I'd see it and as I was an uber-bear on FB stock I'd better admit my error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryrot Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 (edited) Delete d . Double-post Edited August 6, 2013 by dryrot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Do the accounts justify this shareprice turnaround? Is facebook making billions in profit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash4781 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 (edited) We're now over 50$ a share . Now showing on Google finance with a market cap of 124,785.80M (say 124bn$). Oh my a P/e of 193.31. https://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ:FB&sa=X&ei=AptGUtCdKYGM7Qa58YGABg&sqi=2&ved=0CEAQ2AE Edited September 28, 2013 by Ash4781 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie_George Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 We're now over 50$ a share . Now showing on Google finance with a market cap of 124,785.80M (say 124bn$). Oh my a P/e of 193.31. https://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ:FB&sa=X&ei=AptGUtCdKYGM7Qa58YGABg&sqi=2&ved=0CEAQ2AE Almost 10x the average p/e! Bubblicious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venger Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Jul 16, 2014: $67.5752 week low: $25.6052 week high: $72.59 Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) second-quarter results are widely expected to reveal strong performance when the company reports July 23.SunTrust's Robert Peck reiterated a Buy rating and $72 target Wednesday, forecasting second-quarter earnings of $0.33 per share on revenue of $2.86 billion. The Street consensus calls for $0.32 and $2.8 billion in revenue.Facebook shares are up nearly 30 percent year to date, notwithstanding Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen's remarks Tuesday that social media stocks are "stretched."in full: http://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/14/07/4706025/suntrust-facebook-looking-at-strong-q2-future-growth I don't think the Fed should even hint to market participants about what is value or not - (including apparent comments about social media and bio-science sectors). It's for market participants, including the all the victim buyers in other markets who have been bailed out. Yellen should just be ensuring financial institutions have enough capital, haven't overleveraged to borrower victims, to cope when markets turn. Doesn't seem like her comments have had that much of an effect on the markets, who may doubt the Fed's view. I've got no handle on valuing social media stocks, at all; advertising and all other theories about how they monetise userbase for future revenue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Bankers getting exciting about Line - Japanese Whatsapp which is reckoned to be worth 20 billion. Probably gone up a few billion since I typed this. http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKKBN0FK0KL20140716?irpc=932 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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