October 27, 2022 @ 7:43 pm | Breaking News |
Okay, quarterly revenue and earnings reported yesterday after the market close stank up the joint. Revenue at Facebook’s parent, fell 4.5% in the quarter, a second consecutive drop in quarterly revenue to $27.7 billion. Wall Street forecasts called for $27.4...
October 30, 2018 @ 7:41 pm | Breaking News, FB, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update |
It really, really helps if lots of traders and investors hate your stock going into earnings. Then you can, as Facebook (FB) did today, announce quarterly results that fall short on revenue ($13.73 billion versus consensus projections for $13.8 billion), and daily...
July 26, 2018 @ 7:39 pm | Breaking News, FB, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update, Volatility |
Golly gee, what could be the big story in the U.S. markets today? How about the rout in Facebook (FB) shares–down 18.96% or $41.24 to $176 at the close. That $112 billion dollar drop in the market value of Facebook gives the company the record for the largest...
March 19, 2018 @ 7:00 pm | Breaking News |
As of 11:30 a.m. New York time this morning, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock index was down 1.15%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 1.02%. And the technology heavy NASDAQ was lower by 1.84%. Much of the talk this morning has centered on news from...
November 1, 2017 @ 7:20 pm | Breaking News, FB, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Facebook (FB) announced third quarter earnings of $1.59 a share today after the market closed. That was 31 cents a share better than the Wall Street consensus. Revenue climbed 47.3% year over year to $10.33 billion, ahead of projections for $9.84 billion. Last quarter...
October 30, 2017 @ 7:50 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
Another very heavy week for earnings will reach a crescendo on Thursday, November 2. The excitement isn’t surprising after the huge earnings that Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), and Intel (INTC) delivered this past Thursday, October 26. This...
September 26, 2017 @ 7:52 pm | Breaking News, FB, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update |
The good news is that Facebook (FB) has cancelled plans to create a new C class of shares. Let’s be very clear, Class C shares like these that give a seller, such as CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the ability to sell millions of shares while continuing to control voting...
September 25, 2017 @ 7:57 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
The conventional wisdom at the end of last week was that we were witnessing a rotation out of tech shares and into financials and small cap stocks. In other words, nothing to get  too concerned about. Apple (AAPL) was a special case as surveys of retail channels...
July 31, 2017 @ 6:26 pm | AMZN, Breaking News, FB, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
Let’s try to put together a few events from last week into a coherent (or, if that’s too much to hope, at least a semi-coherent) explanation for where the equity market stands now. What events, you ask? How about Friday’s report on second quarter GDP...
April 10, 2017 @ 7:07 pm | Breaking News, FB, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update |
Facebook (FB) Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg told Reuters that the company now had 5 million active advertisers on its network each month. That’s up from 4 million advertisers in September and 3 million in March 2016. The number of businesses with...
November 3, 2016 @ 7:56 pm | Breaking News, FB, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update, You May Have Missed |
Facebook (FB) crushed Wall Street expectations for the third quarter when it announced earnings after the close yesterday. And yet the shares closed down 5.68% today to $119.95. How come? Some of it is the general market nervous that I spelled out in my Morning...
November 1, 2016 @ 7:13 pm | Buy, FB, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, You May Have Missed |
How high are expectations for Facebook’s (FB) third quarter earnings report after the close on November 2? The report comes with the stock at an all-time high. (Shares closed at $130.99 on October 31.) Wall Street is looking for 96 cents a share, up from 57...