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Vanity: Facebook Down over 6% at opening - below $32 per share
May 22, 2012 | Me

Posted on 05/22/2012 7:15:25 AM PDT by C19fan

Facebook immediately fell below $32 a share at the opening bell.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=fb


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: facebook; ipo
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1 posted on 05/22/2012 7:15:33 AM PDT by C19fan
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Right price is $8-$9 for year and it may drop further.


2 posted on 05/22/2012 7:22:30 AM PDT by jennychase
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Fakebook.


3 posted on 05/22/2012 7:24:45 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: C19fan

IMO, the GM hype of pulling it’s advertising from Facebook, contributed to the price drop.


4 posted on 05/22/2012 7:25:23 AM PDT by duckman (Go Newt...)
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To: C19fan

There was so much hype about Facebook. Now their stock price is sinking.

Well, the market sets the price for stocks, based on the collective opinions of buyers and sellers. Maybe Facebook wasn’t such a great investment at the initial public offering price?


5 posted on 05/22/2012 7:25:38 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: C19fan

Suckers everywhere...


6 posted on 05/22/2012 7:28:51 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It’s only a great investment if you decided to short the stock! LOL!

Short it, short it, short it!


7 posted on 05/22/2012 7:30:16 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: jennychase

I read an analysis of the company yesterday - had lots of numbers and charts and stuff that I sort of gloss over (not htat I would understand really) - and it said between $6 and $7 is just about right.

Owie.


8 posted on 05/22/2012 7:31:05 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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(Photo: NYT- Jim Young/Reuters)

9 posted on 05/22/2012 7:33:12 AM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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Another poster had it right when he coined “Zucker’s Suckers”


10 posted on 05/22/2012 7:33:32 AM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: C19fan

Can’t wait to see the movie they make about this drama.


11 posted on 05/22/2012 7:34:28 AM PDT by stevecmd
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To: Dilbert San Diego

IMO, those who scrambled to get onto the FB train thought they were buying the equal of Apple at $12. A projected 100B market cap for what, a social media underpinned by a hope for retail sales? Wow.

Anyway, the investment houses now are the market, they control the price of the stock...until the revenue numbers begin to increase, they are stuck trying to maintain the price. They also cannot sell: they have a huge loss if they do assuming they find someone to buy their stock. Classic case of where the sellers make the market.


12 posted on 05/22/2012 7:34:30 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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Next month’s “Myspace”


13 posted on 05/22/2012 7:36:55 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Maybe Facebook wasn’t such a great investment at the initial public offering price?”

I think you’re pretty safe on that point!


14 posted on 05/22/2012 7:37:41 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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damm... I said it yesterday- It was a great short opportunity- if I had sold a millions shares short I would have 6 millions bucks in my pocket


15 posted on 05/22/2012 7:38:45 AM PDT by Mr. K (If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in Palin/Gingrich)
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To: jennychase
Right price is $8-$9 for year and it may drop further.

If it gets down there, Fakebook should purchase all the outstanding shares.

16 posted on 05/22/2012 7:45:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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snicker, snicker


17 posted on 05/22/2012 7:55:28 AM PDT by bgill
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They should change their name to Facebubble.


18 posted on 05/22/2012 7:57:46 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!)
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To: BO Stinkss

I think that may be so.


19 posted on 05/22/2012 8:02:15 AM PDT by jospehm20
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What makes me laugh is that California was “counting” on the money facebook would make, to help with the debt... oops.


20 posted on 05/22/2012 8:07:01 AM PDT by justice14 ("stand up defend or lay down and die")
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