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To: andy58-in-nh

That’s a pretty good take. What is the typical P/E for this type of business?


45 posted on 05/22/2012 7:50:12 AM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Boiler Plate
It's difficult to make direct comparisons, since no other true "social networking" sites are publicly-traded. But if you look at internet information providers like Yahoo (forward P/E= 14); Google (P/E = 12), Zynga (19), or Groupon (18), you can see the neighborhood more clearly.

With a last quarter earning per share of .43, FB priced at $10.00 would still have a P/E of about 23; a much more realistic number in the absence of stable growth prospects and management experience, among other things.

47 posted on 05/22/2012 8:19:50 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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