Facebook Trading forecasts and signals

Mark Zuckerberg has been actively selling shares of his company since 2016. As the founder of Facebook himself states, the money is sent to charity, but is this really the case?All in the same 2016, Zuckerberg and his wife founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative charity organization. At the same time, the billionaire promised to donate 99% of his Facebook shares to the development of education and medicine.  To date, Zuckerberg has already sold $ 15 billion worth of securities, and his share in the company has decreased from 28% to 14%. In general, Mark reduced his share evenly, but in 2018 he dropped shares by $5.3 billion, and then, since November 2019, there was a lull in his sales. Only a year later, Zuckerberg again began to sell off shares of his company and since then he has already sold them for $2.8 billion.  Where does all this fabulous money go?  According to Forbes estimates, out of 15 billion, the businessman put “only” 2.1 in his pocket. All the rest was sent to charitable organizations, mainly to his own Chan Zuckerberg Initiative foundation.By the way, Zuckerberg's fortune is still estimated at $127 billion, 98% of which remains in Facebook shares.  Is Zuckerberg the only one who sins like this?  Among the founders of large IT companies, it is very often practiced to sell large blocks of shares. Agree, it's stupid to have several tens of billions of dollars in your account and not use them. So, the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, for 9 years after the IPO, reduced his share in the company from 42% to 24%. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin also did not abstain and reduced their shares from 16% to 7%. Despite all this, their companies continue to grow and become more expensive every year.  ConclusionSelling shares among company founders is not always a bad sign. The money can be directed to charity, the development of new projects, personal needs, and so on.  You should not change your opinion about the company if its founder or managers sell a certain number of shares. They will not be allowed to speculate on the available information by the legislation, which very strictly controls this process.  That is why, before investing in shares of any company, it is better to focus on the fundamental indicators of its business, and also do not put “all your eggs in one basket” so that one paper does not affect the entire portfolio so ...

Since the beginning of 2021, Facebook shares (FB) have risen by more than 18%. This was also facilitated by the good figures for the first quarter of this year. The social network turned out to be one of the few technology companies whose financial report did not disappoint investors, but the potential for further growth in quotations looks limited. The shares are traded at Forward P/E - 26x. Given the dynamics of quotations, enthusiasts may have the opportunity to purchase FB at more attractive prices.Instagram Facebook's main risks have been known for a long time: Apple's privacy policy update (iOS 14), which will negatively affect marketing campaigns on Facebook and Instagram, as well as competition from other social networks. In addition, it is worth highlighting the weak growth in the number of users in the United States (they bring the most revenue) and the expected decline in margins due to the high costs of improving the platform in 2021 to $70-73 billion. All this can have a negative impact on EPS.Let's take a closer look at the growth of DAU (Daily Active Users): at the end of the first quarter, the indicator increased by 8% y/y, to $1.88 billion. This happened due to the connection of new users in Asia and the” rest of the World". At the same time, in the United States and Europe, there is stagnation: for example, if in the second quarter of 2020, the DAU in the United States and Canada was 198 million, then in the first quarter of 2021 – 195 million. As already mentioned, residents of these regions are monetized at the highest rate: Americans account for 10% of the total customer base and about 47% of all ...

The American company Facebook, which owns the world's largest social network of the same name, published a report for the first quarter. According to the report, all quarterly financial indicators of the company exceeded the forecasts of economists. Annual sales growth was recorded at 48%. The number of active users of the network amounted to 2.85 billion people, an increase of 10% compared to the first three months of the previous year. The experts' forecast assumed this figure at the level of 2.83 billion users. Quarterly revenue was $26.2 billion, also beating market expectations. Net income for the quarter jumped to $9.5 billion. On a per-share basis, it was $3.3, while economists had expected it to be $2.34. The price for advertising in the social network has increased on average by 30% over the year. The number of ads shown in April increased by 12% year-on-year. After the release of the quarterly reports, Facebook shares on the premarket reached $331.56, having increased in price by almost 8% over the day. Since the beginning of the year, the company's shares have increased by ...