Is the collapse of Facebook shares really a fall or the first step towards rapid growth?
I can congratulate the newbie investors who hold Facebook shares in their portfolios on the first wound.
- 25% in 1 hour moment, it's not for the faint of heart, especially if Facebook is a significant part of your portfolio. Unpleasant.
However, FB is not the only issuer that has crashed with such thunder, while the company actually reported again in record revenue. Recently, Netflix, PayPal, Amazon, Exelon, and many others have leaked quite well.
Makes the final decision, either he remains an investor, or goes into alternative methods of earning.
Therefore, let me help you understand the picture more broadly, what happened, what led to such a collapse?
- Earnings per share was $3.67 vs $3.85 expected.
- The number of daily active users was fixed at 1.93 billion against 1.95 billion in the forecast, which by the way was the first stagnation in history. They also reported a growing threat from the TikTok platform.
- The number of monthly users also turned out to be lower than analysts' forecasts, 2.91 billion versus 2.95 billion predicted.
- Due to changes in Apple's privacy policy, Facebook could lose a potential $10 billion in revenue in 2022.
- Well, the moment, which I think it was the collapse of the company's shares, that the company predicted revenue growth in the first quarter of 2022 by 3-11%, which is several times lower than the usual 20-22%. This is where investors freaked out.
Also, we must understand that the company is currently undergoing a strong rebranding and plans to develop in a different direction. Actually, the costs in the amount of 10 billion for the "Metaverse" for 2021 state this very strongly. When FB sent the “huge” money at that time to Instagram in the same way, when everyone criticized, now this platform generates more income every month than the entire transaction as a whole in 2012.
Long-term investors - get used to it, this is normal, and it will happen very often. Personally, this year I saw my portfolio outperforming the SP500 index by 20-30%, and now it is clearly already lower, maybe even by 10% or more. This is fine.
Your opinion?
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