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Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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Re: Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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luckydata wrote: post #9
empath75 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fb seems like a company that’s past it’s peak. Their brand and public image is garbage and they’re just going to extract as much profits from their dwindling user base as they can on the way down.

Social apps are like clubs, they are hot for a while and then nobody wants to go anymore. Facebook the company can beat that by building new apps (open a new club) and keep reinventing themselves that way. It's not easy because being ahead of social trends consistently is difficult, but they can just buy whoever cracks the flavor of the decade. I suspect in some incarnation or another they will be around for a while.

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Re: Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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Post by saberience »

woodpanel wrote: post #2

FB down 7% after-markets, while beating estimates TSLA up 12% after-markets, with not so perfect numbers I'm puzzled. Short-Squeeze? Rockstar- vs. Voldemort-CEO? Or did some options-"whale" just sneezed during order execution?

Err Tesla mega beat earnings, what are you talking about?

Re: Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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Post by stevewodil »

woodpanel wrote: post #2

FB down 7% after-markets, while beating estimates TSLA up 12% after-markets, with not so perfect numbers I'm puzzled. Short-Squeeze? Rockstar- vs. Voldemort-CEO? Or did some options-"whale" just sneezed during order execution?

TSLA beat earnings with $2.14 per share vs $1.72 expected

Re: Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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Post by matchagaucho »

woodpanel wrote: post #2

FB down 7% after-markets, while beating estimates TSLA up 12% after-markets, with not so perfect numbers I'm puzzled. Short-Squeeze? Rockstar- vs. Voldemort-CEO? Or did some options-"whale" just sneezed during order execution?

Regulatory uncertainty. Investors building in risk of potential $1B+ in fines.

Re: Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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Post by alasdair_ »

empath75 wrote: post #3
woodpanel wrote: post #2

FB down 7% after-markets, while beating estimates TSLA up 12% after-markets, with not so perfect numbers I'm puzzled. Short-Squeeze? Rockstar- vs. Voldemort-CEO? Or did some options-"whale" just sneezed during order execution?

Fb seems like a company that’s past it’s peak. Their brand and public image is garbage and they’re just going to extract as much profits from their dwindling user base as they can on the way down.

>dwindling user base

Their report indicates they just passed the 2.5 billion user mark.

Re: Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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Post by bamboozled »

likpok wrote: post #8
empath75 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fb seems like a company that’s past it’s peak. Their brand and public image is garbage and they’re just going to extract as much profits from their dwindling user base as they can on the way down.

User growth is up, even on Facebook alone. If what you say is true you might expect weekly users to be up-or-flat while daily is declining, as people are locked in to the platform but less engaged with it. But daily users are also up.

Are they your numbers, someone else’s or theirs ?

Seems like they’d have a vested interest to claim anything as daily users. Bots, trolls, whatever.

Re: Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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Post by chrisseaton »

dana321 wrote: post #13

They are spending $46 billion a year to keep all that running. Over a million dollars spent per staff member. Wow.

> Over a million dollars spent per staff member.

Are you saying that's a lot, or not a lot?

At somewhere elite like Facebook many of those staff members are probably being paid about half of that in compensation. And then they have massive server farms to run.

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