why is Linkedin stock doing so well and facebook stock is falling?

[nadia]

[lex_824]

Facebook has been losing money in the past few years. It is also facing a multi-billion dollar lawsuit which will obviously take profits away from the company. Also, it is worthless. From my research facebook is only really worth about $10. So even if facebook wasn't facing a multi-billion lawsuit the stock price would fall when investors learn that it is losing money.

Personally, I think Mark Zuckeberg is a genius for fooling everybody into believing it is worth billions of dollars when it really isn't. I also think Zuckerberg knows that the company is failing and that is why he recently decided to sell the company to investors.



**UPDATE


@zuma- you can't prove that facebook made 2 billion last year because that was based on analyst estimates. Not real data. I don't really trust analysts as their attempts to forecast revenues
are fundamentally speculative and usually optimistic estimates.

Facebook has a troubled business model and still an uncertain future. It's current business model relies on advertisements. In the past few years more and more of it's user have begun to mainly access and update their profile through a mobile device. The company has no advertisement on mobile devices due to the expenses. It's unprofitable.


@joeyv-
The first time that facebook made any real profit was in 2010 it had profit margins of about 43%. It has been dramatically dwindiling since then.

2010- 43% profit margins
2011- 38.46% profit margins
2012- 24% profit margins

at that rate profit margins could be less than 15% this time next year.
Google (GOOG) has a current profit margin of over 27%. A mature company. Investments
in this direct competitor is safer.

Also, the recent Quarterly Earnings Growth has shown that facebook lost 12%.




@joeyv- I don't have any research regarding the existence of the Higgs Boson simply because I do not think it exists because I think that the standard model is flawed. The standard model is unable to explain gravity and there are too many loose ends and two many phenomena that cannot be explained.

I believe that matters are not particles but tiny vibrations. If one is to see matter as tiny vibrations or waves it is able to include the full theory of gravitation as described by general relativity.

If true, it can explain why scientist are having trouble finding something that doesn't need to exist.


In regard to the Riemann Hypothesis. I haven't researched or really thought about it. It just seemed like something useless to know.

Although, I am convinced that proving the hypothesis, if it all possible, will not come by direct confrontation of the zeta function. I suspect the secret will be discovered through explorations of other
mathematical experiments with the primes. In other words, we will know Riemann's zeroes line up as they do because another theorem predicts it.

[JoeyV]

This is hilarious.

"Facebook has been losing money in the past few years. It is also facing a multi-billion dollar lawsuit which will obviously take profits away from the company. Also, it is worthless. From my research facebook is only really worth about $10. So even if facebook wasn't facing a multi-billion lawsuit the stock price would fall when investors learn that it is losing money. "

Facebook has been losing money? Well, for the last 12 months it made $1B which isn't chump change. But the funny part is the "From my reesearch....". So this guy didn't even bother to look at the fundamental line from the income statement - the single most important line in the financial statements - but his "research" says [blah].

I wonder if he would share his research into the the existence of the Higgs Boson or the Riemann hypothesis.

[zuma]

can't prove it but Facebook made 2 billion last year, and is projected to make 5 billion this year..

The IPO Facebook was floated with too high a ...Valuation....,Obviously Zuckerburg's advisers steered him wrong..

Why do people think they can compare different IPO's,..Especially the news media...Consider Linkedin's totally ..different business model,..and another reason the.. Size.. of Facebook..

Zuckwerburg is not to Blame..(That's passing the blame from corrupt Investment bank/ brokerage house)..

Hold the Bloody Crooks accountable..stop defending crooks..ows was right..