Why Facebook Is Hitting New Lows -- and Could Go Lower

In the video below, Senior Technology Analyst Eric Bleeker looks at Facebook hitting new lows yesterday after a lock-up expiration led to about 270 million shares becoming tradeable yesterday. The problem, as Eric sees it, is that there's plenty of lock-up expirations ahead. On Nov. 14 alone, around 1.2 billion shares will once again have their lock-ups expire. Granted, many of those shares belong to insiders like Mark Zuckerberg, but the end result is more downward pressure on a stock where negativity seems to be feeding upon itself.

As Eric warns, many theses for investing in Facebook seem to rely on the assumption that the company will figure out a way to monetize their users. That could prove true, but in the meantime Eric says he'd rather stick with a proven model in the social media space like LinkedIn, as Facebook has plenty of negative pressures on it in the next six months.

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