Facebook Earnings: 3 Things to Watch
Short-Term Investors
Short-Term Investors
Revenue: $2.8 BFY 2014: $11.9 B
EPS: $0.32FY 2014: $1.43
Wall Street Expectations
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• Though Facebook is a more mature stock in terms of its overall market cap, missing or beating analyst estimates can have huge sway over short-term price movements.
• This is largely because the stock trades for 62 times trailing earnings.
Medium-Term Investors
Medium-Term Investors
Many will closely follow the company’s daily active users and engagement metrics.
Usage Trends
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Because investors want to see that Facebook is still popular with users, they will focus on two key metrics.1. Daily Active Users. If the company is able to grow
this figure by 18% to 825 million, it would mean continued ability to gain traction with users.
2. Using Alexa.com, you can monitor average daily time on site at any time. It currently stands at 28 minutes and 20 seconds.
Long-Term Investors
Long-Term Investors
Listen in to the conference call to see how new acquisitions of WhatsApp and Oculus Rift are developing.
Bigger Projects
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Comments by businessmen I highly respect have made me excited for the company’s two new acquisitions.• Zuckerberg: “[WhatsApp] could be as ubiquitous as
Facebook one day.”• Our CEO Tom Gardner recently tweeted: “I believe
that [Oculus Rift] will be the most gamechanging consumer technology since the iPhone. The impact may be more profound.”
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