Post on 31-Dec-2015
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by Shrey Gupta, Sahith Malyala, and Sahil Yedulla
Background Social networking site
1.15 billion users as of March 2013
CEO/Chairman: Mark Zuckerberg Top CEO on Glassdoor for 2013
Summary Closing Price: 50.21
We plan to buy before the next Earnings Report.
Beta: 2.098
52wk Range: 18.87 – 54.83
Market Cap: 122.27B
P/E (ttm): 227.17
EPS (ttm): 0.22
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Ratings Motley Fool:
70.0% All Players say Outperform 73.3% All-Star Players say Outperform 96.4% Wall Street say Outperform Million Dollar Portfolio:
“Facebook’s social advertising platform is transforming the way companies advertise to potential customers. Facebook has a huge advantage over the competition as its growing network generates tons of data it can use to perfect its ads.”
Company Disruptor: Facebook is transforming the way people interact.
Purpose-driven: Facebook exists to make the world more open and connected.
Long-tail growth: Facebook serves a substantial market and will continue to grow.
Plenty of options: Facebook can develop different products over time (for example, it launched Graph Search).
Reasons to Buy Advantage to competition in the amount of user data leads to monetization
using ads to current and potential customers.
Growing company with a lot of room for new products and more profit.
Recommendation Buy 2-4 shares of Facebook (FB) before the next Earnings Report comes out
(around the end of December or beginning of January).