1-Star Stocks Poised to Plunge: Facebook?
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, social networking giant Facebook (NAS: FB) has received the dreaded one-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Facebook's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Facebookfacts
Headquarters (founded) | Menlo Park, Calif. (2004) |
Market Cap | $45.4 billion |
Industry | Internet software and services |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $4.3 billion |
Management | Founder/Chairman/CEO Mark Zuckerberg |
Trailing-12-Month Operating Margin | 13.8% |
Cash/Debt | $10.2 billion / $706.0 million |
Competitors | Google |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 58% of the 1,186 members who have rated Facebook believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last month, one of those Fools, jjgbm, succinctly summed up the Facebook bear case for our community:
I look at [Facebook] as a fad stock, wrapped up in legal and privacy issues, with revenues based entirely on advertising. That business model works fine, except that no one wants to see ads on [Facebook]. Further, [Facebook] currently has no way to push ads through to its mobile apps. It's a business model I don't trust, in a company that is consistently plagued by privacy issues. I look for it to go the way of Zynga.
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