You must be kidding me! By your logic, Apple (or any company) would be a worse company if it did a ten-for-one stock split just because it now has more shares. After all, more shares is bad, right? So, Facebook would be a better company if it did a one-for-ten reverse split? Incredible!
Earnings won't change. Earnings per share will change but actual share count doesn't make any difference to value. I don't know where you went to college or got your experience (if you are out of college or even have any experience) but I think you need to check out some of those basic books again. Look at used ones if you want to see what someone else highlighted. I'll check in from time to time in case you need some advice.
Sentiment: Buy
Whether the company has 2 billion shares outstanding or 2000, the earnings will be the same. If you have ever read a basic book on investing, you would know this to be true.
Sentiment: Buy
Just this morning you were calling it a buy at $25. You really should ask your doctor to adjust your meds. The current combination isn't working.
Sentiment: Buy
Gosh, just 18 hours ago you were shouting "SHORTED 20K @ 25.17; WILL BE MY BEST SHORT IN MAY." It is still May. You must be one of those folks who flip flop more than politicians!
Sentiment: Buy
... wouldn't a deal with iTunes be better? At least there's some revenue to share that way.
Sentiment: Buy
Sure hope so. Would be nice to get some news from the company to reverse this downward trend. Maybe something is in the works since the 25.50 mini options were super active today.
Sentiment: Buy
...and the epic battle continues. Market is showing lots of strength in this last 90 minutes. Only hope FB trends higher too. I might think about selling covered calls on it to pocket some of that optimism!!
Sentiment: Buy
June week 2 25.50 options now trading at 52 cents. That means $26.02 for those buyers to break even by two weeks from this Friday. There must be some news about to come out and somebody already knows. Just plan accordingly.
Sentiment: Buy
Hope you're right. Optionmonster showing the 25.50 mini's that expire next Friday are selling briskly ... currently at 42 cents. That indicates big money betting on a price of 25.92 by next Friday just to break even!!
Sentiment: Buy
Did you see the optionmonster article pointing out that today there is oversize buying of 25.50 mini options that expire next Friday? Investors are paying 22-40 cents each. That means there is serious money betting that the price will be 25.72-25.90 by next Friday.
Sentiment: Buy
Dow just turned green. If it closes green look for the mother of all buying in international markets overnight. That might carry over to US markets tmw.
Sentiment: Buy
Looks like program selling to me. As soon as that program runs out of shares, buyers will gain price moves back up.
Sentiment: Buy
And the stock sells off because
1) Fed minutes discuss tapering QE... like cutting back on bond buying is going to cut people off from Facebook.
2) One year anniversary of IPO so some shares have a lockup expire. That selling pressure will be gone at some point (unfortunately we don't know when).
3) Some teens are complaining about FB... but they are actually spending MORE time on it anyway. Any parent knows that teens just like to complain!
I think FB is still a BUY.
Sentiment: Buy
Actually the volume is more likely due to lockup expiration of shares since FB just passed its' first anniversary of its IPO within the past couple of days.
Sentiment: Buy
According to Yahoo Finance, FB has over $9 billion in cash and short term investments. Seems their financing methods are just fine. As for accounting, well that is a commodity skill. People who can't do anything else can still count the things that other people CAN do. If the company focuses on more DOING, then the COUNTING can be done by a wide range of folks.
Sentiment: Buy
Last time the stock sunk below 25 it recovered to 29 fairly fast. I hope it is as fast this time too.
Sentiment: Buy
Actually the articles say that teens are griping about FB but are using it more. Seems like that's grounds for the stock price moving up!!
Sentiment: Buy
Almost half of the people on the planet who have access to the Internet are on Facebook. If the company can just monetize that a little better, the stock price will soar!
Sentiment: Buy
Not so hard for FB to have a green day tmw since it got killed today. Needs to swing back up near 26.50 like it was four days ago.
Sentiment: Buy
Yep, down about 10% in the last two weeks. When this has happened before it bounces back up to $29 or so. Pretty darn frustrating watching this price action. FB was weak today when the market was up 150 points. It only got worse when the market sold off heavily. There must have been millions of shares sold after the one year lock up expired within the last couple of days.
Sentiment: Buy