So the FB IPO Is Tomorrow...Predictions & Trash Talk
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2012 May 17, 4:04am 23,015 views 48 comments
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permanent_marker
2012 May 17, 6:11am
i say initial frenzy... every 'etrade pro' is clamoring to get in.
we will never hear the end of it in CNBC ..etc
What I am hoping is:
3 months later, stock deflates...
and this goes the way of Zynga / Groupon.
enough hype already.
RentingForHalfTheCost
2012 May 17, 6:18am
FB will be bought out by Yahoo after the horrible crash when the insiders liquidate.
Vicente
2012 May 17, 6:35am
I'll just be happy when it's over, so I can stop seeing the headlines about Fakebook.
A more pointless "investment" it is difficult for me to imagine.
I have a Fakebook account, which I begrudgingly check every 6 months or so. And every time I do, I'm reminded why I hate it. You are not my "friend" if you haven't visited or at least picked up the phone and called me in the last year sorry!
buy as many shares as I can at opening & sell before closing for quick money
I wonder how many people have this philosophy. I was thinking the exact same thing. I'll probably buy a few shares and give it a try.
As for the game, my guess is opens at 50 gets to 98 and closes at 85.
bmwman91
2012 May 17, 6:44am
I wonder how many people have this philosophy. I was thinking the exact same thing. I'll probably buy a few shares and give it a try.
This is why I am not trying it. EVERYONE is thinking it...it is obvious to a 7th grader. When everyone "knows" what the market is doing next, it gets very unpredictable!
As BusinessInsider (IIRC) says, FB stock is muppet bait.
This is why I am not trying it. EVERYONE is thinking it...it is obvious to a 7th grader. When everyone "knows" what the market is doing next, it gets very unpredictable!
As BusinessInsider (IIRC) says, FB stock is muppet bait.
I agree. I just remember back in the late 90's when every .com IPO'd and you could just watch in real-time up, up, up the first day. I feel this has the same frenzy all built into one stock. I don't plan on holding it past day 1, and if things go south I'll cut my losses.
Robber Baron Elite Scum
2012 May 17, 6:57am
Who cares? Fuck facebook. I can't wait for this company to become like AOL. It's so useless & produces nothing that spectacular which makes it worth billions.
I am also sick & tired of the media always talking about how fucking wonderful facebook is.
FUCK YOU MARK... you stole someone else's idea & even their fucking programming software code for the website.
You are not the next Bill Gates. You are just a dumb piece of fuck who stole everything & claimed it as your own. At least Bill added on to something & then turned it into something great.
Facebook is the most dumbest fucking website & completely pointless. The ad service conversion is horrible. Advertisers are not making much ROI compared to Google. Hardly any ROI.
Facebook will probably be bought off & financed by the CIA to steal your personal information & to invade the privacy of you peasants.
If you own Facebook stock, sell out! If you hold a facebook account, stop using it now & delete it!
I have never hated any businessmen more than I hate Mark. All he has Accomplished is nothing but a pathetic little fucking gimmick of a site which is somehow "innovation"... I can't wait for him and his company to go completely bankrupt.
No company has ever managed to produce nothing while be worth billions of dollars. Facebook WILL crash... And many investors will lose all their money.
Patrick
2012 May 17, 10:45am
So it starts publicly trading tomorrow, May 18th, right?
The mechanics of it are still a little obscure to me. I think what really happens tomorrow is that earlier investors (the underwriters) get to dump their stock on the public (later investors) at $38/share. The company itself won't be selling any stock tomorrow. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't think it will up 100+%.
The size is huge (400 million shares, or $16 billions).
I am disappointed that the whole market is down this week.
I expect the broken try to build up the hype early this week.
The mechanics of it are still a little obscure to me. I think what really happens tomorrow is that earlier investors (the underwriters) get to dump their stock on the public (later investors) at $38/share. The company itself won't be selling any stock tomorrow. Correct me if I'm wrong.
yes, in short they are distributors.
No company has ever managed to produce nothing while be worth billions of dollars. Facebook WILL crash... And many investors will lose all their money.
you sound bitter.
Robber Baron Elite Scum
2012 May 17, 7:27pm
No company has ever managed to produce nothing while be worth billions of dollars. Facebook WILL crash... And many investors will lose all their money.
you sound bitter.
You sound like a sucker.
The amount of hate and bitter just amaze me.
This IPO is bigger than the TOTAL of all tech stocks (Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Ebay, etc).
citizen jpp
2012 May 17, 10:11pm
If Facebook is worth 16 billion, Patrick.net should be valued at least a couple hundred million...
Facebook is worth $100+ billion.
$16 billion is the IPO size.
Both are US record during its IPO.
Robber Baron Elite Scum
2012 May 17, 10:39pm
The amount of hate and bitter just amaze me.
This IPO is bigger than the TOTAL of all tech stocks (Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Ebay, etc).
And that is exactly our problem. Those companies have produced something of immense value which has completely changed the world in so many ways in business, education & technology. Especially Microsoft & Google.
But has Facebook really contributed? Nothing. It hasn't introduced anything new. It hasn't innovated any special technology which completely changing the world.
All it has done is create a chat service. Millions of other sites including dating sites have the same basic technology.
It is all hype, speculation & misguided optimism. Facebook is a horrible long-term investment as the company will NEVER reach the heights of Google or Microsoft.
It is just another classic pump & dump corporation. History repeats itself. The tech .com boom & bust in the 90's is the same thing happening with Facebook.
Robber Baron Elite Scum
2012 May 17, 10:45pm
Facebook is worth $100+ billion.
$16 billion is the IPO size.
Both are US record during its IPO.
Be fearful...
Facebook produces nothing that valuable & what it does provide is just intangible.
A very big bubble is forming & it is going to collapse big time.
Facebook has 800 million active users?
The whole world only has 6 billion people. Not everyone has internet access.
NorCalBear
2012 May 18, 2:55am
And that is exactly our problem. Those companies have produced something of immense value which has completely changed the world in so many ways in business, education & technology. Especially Microsoft & Google.
So, you are saying that Words with Friends and Farmville have no value?
Agreed.
FB's product is users and they will wander away as fast as they came in.
Anyone feeling nostalgic over MySpace or AOL yet?
But has Facebook really contributed?
It's changed the way nearly a billion people use the internet with a current ARR over $4,000,000,000 a year. Before Facebook social media was for kids. In the age of Face Book 22% of the average user's on-line time is with social media
Nothing. It hasn't introduced anything new. It hasn't innovated any special technology which completely changing the world.
The overwhelming majority of tech startups are nothing really new, just solid engineering combined with some business acumen, competent marketing, decent sales, some schmoozing, and some luck.
One bad business decision is all that separates going out of business with the VCs getting back 4M out of 20 and a 360M exit on 160M of investment+debt and fizzling where your competitor IPOs to a 2B market cap.
Facebook seems to have avoided that and if they don't continue to do so it won't matter for everyone who cashed out.
The amount of hate and bitter just amaze me.
This IPO is bigger than the TOTAL of all tech stocks (Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Ebay, etc).
Even Roger Mcnamee, as do many others in finance see it... its alot of hype and emotions. If you have the experience and maturity, you understand this.. if not.. you have a lot to learn.
It's changed the way nearly a billion people use the internet with a current ARR over $4,000,000,000 a year.
No it hasnt.. FB is the byproduct of 50 years of REAL tech innovation related to SW, Semis, and Storage. The three S's is what changed everthing. FB is a toy for idiots to fondle with.
bmwman91
2012 May 18, 3:47am
Man, aaaaaaand this is why I don't gamble on stocks. Had I loaded up at opening, I would be pretty unhappy about now. Seeing as how everyone was probably trying that, and the NASDAQ seems to be having technical difficulties (lol)...the price is remarkably steady. What was with the huge dip shortly after opening...all the folks with non-locked options dumping like crazy?
Had I loaded up at opening, I would be pretty unhappy about now.
guy at the office piped CNBC this morning ...here is the short on the reaction by CNBC staff at open...
Shock it didnt open higher... 50-60-70 per share
Confused why its falling. whats going on ?
Fear as it approached 38. WTF!
This isnt what many expected (hype)
Some are going to have a stiff drink after trading hours...
Watch what happens after 3pm est
Man, aaaaaaand this is why I don't gamble on stocks. Had I loaded up at opening, I would be pretty unhappy about now. Seeing as how everyone was probably trying that, and the NASDAQ seems to be having technical difficulties (lol)...the price is remarkably steady. What was with the huge dip shortly after opening...all the folks with non-locked options dumping like crazy?
I'd chalk this one up as another Y2K. Waah waah...
For some reason my limit order was never triggered, so when I finally got in this morning, I just canceled it. It certainly did not have the momentum I was expecting. Maybe the offering was just too big.
Tenpoundbass
2012 May 18, 4:18am
No company has ever managed to produce nothing while be worth billions of dollars. Facebook WILL crash... And many investors will lose all their money.
you sound bitter.
Well could you cite an example of a productive billions of dollars company?
NorCalBear
2012 May 18, 4:24am
$40 a share puts it at a market capitalization for FB at $109B
Can anyone tell me with a straight face that FB is in the same league as these companies (and they pay dividends)?
BP $117B
MCD $91B
ABT $96B
GSK $109B
MRK $114B
VZ $117B
CL
2012 May 18, 4:28am
Can anyone tell me with a straight face that FB is in the same league as these companies (and they pay dividends)?
The man on the teevees told me so. He had a straight face.
RentingForHalfTheCost
2012 May 18, 5:39am
Facebook has 800 million active users?
The whole world only has 6 billion people. Not everyone has internet access.
Correction: active accounts, NOT users. I have 4 facebook accounts already.
- One has me as a 28 years old hacker and bodybuilder that has over 2000 friends
- One has me as a 19 years old student that drinks heavily and gets money from the parents to survive
- Another I am a 40 years old mother of 2 that was recently divorced but wealthy.
- And the last is suppose to be the truth, but like everything I do I lie repeatedly just to confuse the directed ads.
:)
It looks like it was priced right and the company was able to maximize the amount of capital it raised. For all intents and purposes, FB stock had already been trading on a closed market. Insiders were responsible of over 50% of the shares being offered in the IPO. For comparison, when Amazon and Yahoo went public, 0% of the insiders sold.
I predict cannibal anarchy in the last 5 minutes until close when Zuck offers to sell personal profiles of users in an attempt to juice the stock and appease the underwriters.
FortWayne
2012 May 18, 6:13am
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303448404577411903118364314.html
There is serious manipulation going on to prevent facebook from falling below it's IPO.
NorCalBear
2012 May 18, 6:43am
NorCalBear says
Can anyone tell me with a straight face that FB is in the same league as these companies (and they pay dividends)?
The man on the teevees told me so. He had a straight face.
my teevee is broken like that too... ;-)
RentingForHalfTheCost
2012 May 18, 8:07am
FB to hit $20ish by end of next week, then sit in the teens for months. Greatest short in the history of the market! If I had a BA house I would refi and take out some of the funny money to do this short. I would then have enough to move to China and seek out a good education for my kids. ;)
bmwman91
2012 May 18, 8:54am
LOL well, my initial guesses were so f***ing far off...which is exactly why I don't gamble with stocks. GS & MS must be shitting bricks right now considering how much stock they had to buy back to prop up the price at $38. Will they unload on Monday, or hold-out hoping for muppet masses to go all-in?
NorCalBear
2012 May 18, 9:24am
FB to hit $20ish by end of next week, then sit in the teens for months. Greatest short in the history of the market! If I had a BA house I would refi and take out some of the funny money to do this short. I would then have enough to move to China and seek out a good education for my kids. ;)
LOL well, my initial guesses were so f***ing far off...which is exactly why I don't gamble with stocks. GS & MS must be shitting bricks right now considering how much stock they had to buy back to prop up the price at $38. Will they unload on Monday, or hold-out hoping for muppet masses to go all-in?
Predictions, particularly abut the future, are hard, but were I more of a gambler I would certainly short FB.
However, before I took out a HELOC to cover that short, I'd remember the Keynesian quote, something like "Markets can stay irrational longer than investors can stay solvent".
I am a pebble in this hurricane, but I'm watching the FB train wreck from safe a distance.
bmwman91
2012 May 18, 10:24am
However, before I took out a HELOC to cover that short, I'd remember the Keynesian quote, something like "Markets can stay irrational longer than investors can stay solvent".
I am a pebble in this hurricane, but I'm watching the FB train wreck from safe a distance.
Me too, me too......
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According to the SJ Murky News, and most of the intertubes, Facebook is going to have its IPO tomorrow. Just for fun, let's get some guesses going in here. I'd suggest a betting pool, but that's sort of illegal in CA and I am not sure how we'd handle the money anyway.
OK, so put down your guesses for what the stock price will do relative to the opening price at future dates, and your explanation of WHY in 10 words or less for each. Use the dates in my guesses as the template. Either guess higher/lower (feel free to add adjectives), or as a percent of tomorrow's initial offering price.
@Closing on 5/18: 250% - Initial frenzy by anyone with an account
@Closing on 5/21: 300% - Continued frenzy by anyone with an account
@Closing on 5/25: 150% - Many initial buyers selling for quick profit, uninformed masses panic
@Closing on 6/18: 125% - Uninformed buyers are mostly out, large players remain
@Closing on 8/18: 125% - Large players holding still
@Closing on 11/18: 80% - Lock-up ends, employees & pre-sale buyers liquidate
@Closing on 5/18/2013: 50% - Earnings not amazing, more employees liquidate, approaching company's actual valuation
And of course, we can get some good trash talking going in here. My guesses may well be full of shit, or yours, or everyone's. There's no need to be bashful about it.
I will NOT be trying to buy any FB shares. While it seems like a "sure thing" to buy as many shares as I can at opening & sell before closing for quick money, there is no such thing as a "sure thing." Honestly, anything could happen tomorrow since this is probably the most hyped market event ever.
Cheers!