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May 17, 2012
The Facebook IPO Facts: The Good, The Bad and
The Ugly
By Shah Gilani, Capital Waves Strategist
Face it, you want it. It seems that everyone wants a piece of the Facebook IPO.
But, can you handle the truth? Will the hyped sensationalism be a boon or a boondoggle?
I’m not going to tell you what to do, whether you should buy Facebook sooner rather than later. That’s up to you.
However, I will tell you that I won’t be buying it right away, but, I will be buying it if…
First though, here’s the good the bad and the ugly truth about the company, the IPO and owning “FB.”
The Good News About the Facebook IPO
The good news is overwhelming if you’re Mark Zuckerberg, any of the company’s founders, executives, or venture capital backers, many of whom own Facebook stock (Nasdaq: FB) at a dollar a share.
So far, the target range the stock is expected to be priced at–which was originally $28-$35/share– has been raised to between $34-$38.
And it could very well go higher before tonight’s pricing deadline. The amount of shares to be floated is being raised too.
That’s all good news for the insiders, the underwriters and the company itself.
FB is causing its own IPO hype, partly because it will be the largest IPO in U.S. history, in terms of the value it will put on the company, which will likely approach $100 billion. However, Visa in 2008 and GM in 2010 will have raised more money on their IPO debuts. (I know, calling GM’s IPO a debut is strange to me too.)
Facebook will raise at least $13 billion (at the lowest end of the price and share offering range) and bank some $9 billion in cash on its balance sheet. That’s good news.
But better than that, the company will now have a huge hoard of stock as currency to use to buy up companies and technology to advance its master of the social media universe status.
The other good news is that…
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The China Catastrophe
China is about to make an announcement that will shake the world to its foundations – and that will destroy everything you’ve ever worked for. So says a renowned financial journalist on assignment in Asia – and the crazy thing is, he’s famous for being right. He was one of the few to warn of the great tech stock meltdown of 2000 … the housing and banking bust of 2007 … and the recent boom in gold and commodity prices. Is he right again? Watch this shocking video for free and judge for yourself.
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If I Were a Yahoo Investor, I’d
Be Pissed
By Keith Fitz-Gerald, Chief Investment Strategist
It’s no wonder Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) investors are pissed. I would be too if I owned Yahoo – but I don’t.
Why not?
Maybe it’s the four CEOs in five years, the botched sale to Microsoft in 2008, or a Chief Executive Officer who can’t be bothered to verify his own credentials in SEC filings.
Or maybe it’s the dysfunctional board of directors and the erosion of massive amounts of shareholder value over the years.
Add it all up and you have an unmitigated disaster on your hands.
Activist shareholder Daniel Loeb, who owns 5.8% of the company through his hedge fund, Third Point, LLC, has every right to be angry and vocal about it.
The way I see things, Yahoo is following what I call the Christopher Columbus School of Management: it has no idea where it’s going, has no idea where it’s been and has no idea what to do when it arrives.
The Search for an Identity at Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO)
Yahoo was ostensibly a search engine in the beginning. The latest outgoing CEO, Scott Thompson, had been trying to rebuild the beleaguered Silicon Valley company into one more reflection of his own strengths in data personalization as opposed to the bloated advertising-driven business it has become.
Whether or not Thompson would have succeeded is now a moot point. Incoming interim CEO Ross Levinsohn has an advertising background. Talk about a conundrum.
Here’s the thing…
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Yesterday’s “ASCO Effect” Payday Was Just the Beginning
Yesterday we told you how to make some stunningly fast profits on biotech stocks.
I’m talking about the “ASCO Effect“… the yearly phenomenon that comes and goes in a flash – yet has the potential to double – even triple – your money just as quickly.
Well, I hope you were listening. The “ASCO Effect”is playing out just as we predicted.
In fact, one of the biotech stocks we recommended jumped more than 7% yesterday. And there’s still more to come.
To grab these gains, however, you need to act now. to find out how.
Apple’s “Store Within a Store” Strategy Bold But Risky
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor
Hoping to expand its reach, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) is testing a store-within-a-store concept with both Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT).
Although both retailers have already been selling Apple merchandise, the new “micro-stores” will expand the current offerings (with the exception of Mac computers) and create a product experience more akin to an Apple Store.
Several dozen more micro-stores are planned, though the rollout will be gradual.
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said Apple’s long-term goal isn’t so much to stuff a micro-store into every Wal-Mart and Target, but to place them strategically in rural areas many miles from the mostly urban, wildly successful mall-based Apple Stores.
“We always talk about growth outside the U.S.,” Munster said on CNBC recently. “The reality is, just look in our backyard. There’s still a growth opportunity that no one’s talking about, which is kind of outside the urban areas.”
The allure for Wal-Mart and Target is the extraordinary foot traffic Apple products can generate. They’re hoping that customers who come to shop for Apple products will stick around to buy other merchandise.
If the strategy works, both Apple and the big retailers win. But, as the saying goes, the devil is in the details.
In fact, Apple is no stranger to what can go wrong with the store-within-a-store concept.
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