{"id":52,"date":"2012-09-29T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T21:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-11-18T23:25:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T06:25:43","slug":"dont-them-because-they-arent-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/2012\/09\/29\/dont-them-because-they-arent-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Kick Them, They Aren&#8217;t Down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softechebs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/facebook-like.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-54\" title=\"Facebook Like\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/files\/2012\/09\/facebook-like-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/files\/2012\/09\/facebook-like-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/files\/2012\/09\/facebook-like.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Often there is a misconception about the relationship between the status and health of a particular company and its&#8217; share price. <a title=\"Ryan Un's Blog\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Un<\/a>\u00a0in his blog recently noted that as <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0share price has nearly\u00a0halved since its<a title=\"IPO Definition - Investopedia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/i\/ipo.asp\" target=\"_blank\"> IPO<\/a>, the company&#8217;s revenue&#8217;s have also fallen. This could be farther from the truth. Investors had difficulty valuing Facebook, because simply another company of its size, and in this sector of the market does not exist.\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"P\/E Ratio Definition - Investopedia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/p\/price-earningsratio.asp\" target=\"_blank\">P\/E<\/a> ratios and <a title=\"Profit Margin Definition - Investopedia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/p\/profitmargin.asp\" target=\"_blank\">profit margins<\/a> are difficult to compare with other technology companies such as <a title=\"Google Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> and <a title=\"Apple Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>, as they are entirely different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Facebook&#8217;s marketing customers have re-evaluated the relationship, and company&#8217;s including <a title=\"General Motors Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gm.ca\/gm\/\" target=\"_blank\">General Motors<\/a> dropped Facebook. General Motors has now come back to Facebook to <a title=\"Facebook, GM Talk New Friendship\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303933404577503250882932454.html\" target=\"_blank\">negotiate a new deal<\/a>. Since the IPO Facebook has actually increased revenue, and better positioned itself to grow in the future. A new mobile app\u00a0platform\u00a0has allowed Facebook to tap into <a title=\"Facebook mobile ads going strong, but supply limited\" href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/2012\/09\/26\/facebook-mobile-ads-going-strong-but-supply-limited\/\" target=\"_blank\">mobile\u00a0advertising\u00a0revenue<\/a>. As well, Facebook most recently launched a <a title=\"Facebook launches gift service, ventures into Amazon\u2019s territory\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/technology\/facebook-launches-gift-service-ventures-into-amazons-territory\/article4573963\/\" target=\"_blank\">gift service<\/a> that allows users to send items to others users. This service allows Facebook to compete with <a title=\"Amazon Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> and others. Facebook does not need to recover, the company has only bettered itself internally since the IPO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often there is a misconception about the relationship between the status and health of a particular company and its&#8217; share price. Ryan Un\u00a0in his blog recently noted that as Facebook&#8217;s\u00a0share price has nearly\u00a0halved since its IPO, the company&#8217;s revenue&#8217;s have also fallen. This could be farther from the truth. Investors had difficulty valuing Facebook, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110958,270339,41,73,338353,319,386069,455052,576425,574057],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amazon","tag-app","tag-apple","tag-facebook","tag-general-motors","tag-google","tag-ipo","tag-pe","tag-profit-margin","tag-ryan-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devandass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}