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fuzzyyo
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31 months
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Mermaid
12,676 posts
41 months
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NinjaPower
2,348 posts
50 months
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Mermaid said: single digit price? Before reading the above article I would have said no and guessed at around $15 as others have done... but now I'm thinking a single digit is actually possible. It's almost lost almost 50% in value over a few months. It may still slide more. Some will argue that large drops over the first few months was always going to happen whatever they did because it was over-hyped and over valued. I can see their point but I don't see how things are really going to get much better.
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DonkeyApple
12,324 posts
39 months
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NinjaPower said: Before reading the above article I would have said no and guessed at around $15 as others have done... but now I'm thinking a single digit is actually possible.
It's almost lost almost 50% in value over a few months. It may still slide more.
Some will argue that large drops over the first few months was always going to happen whatever they did because it was over-hyped and over valued. I can see their point but I don't see how things are really going to get much better. I wouldn't say it had lost 'value' but surrendered 'premium' 
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Oakey
13,828 posts
86 months
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20.88
-0.83 (-3.82%)
below $20 tomorrow?
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coyft
3,040 posts
81 months
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August 16th could be interesting, first time some employees are allowed to sell their shares.
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Chrisw666
21,093 posts
69 months
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If the share price dropped below $10 and those who were in rushed to get out causing the price to crash further what would happen to facebook?
I appreciate this a dumb question but I have very little understanding of how stock trading works.
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Mermaid
12,676 posts
41 months
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coyft said: August 16th could be interesting, first time some employees are allowed to sell their shares. & I heard because of the tax structure (not sure how it works), many will sell rather than retain.
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coyft
3,040 posts
81 months
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The price would drop until the market decided it was at a price worth buying.
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Oakey
13,828 posts
86 months
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Could Facebook buy back nearly all the shares they sold if the price hits rock bottom? Would that put them back in the same position as pre-IPO?
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Chrisw666
21,093 posts
69 months
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coyft said: The price would drop until the market decided it was at a price worth buying. Even if that price was $0.01 a share?
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Mermaid
12,676 posts
41 months
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Oakey said: Could Facebook buy back nearly all the shares they sold if the price hits rock bottom? Would that put them back in the same position as pre-IPO? Much better - many shareholders sold/liquidated at the high.
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DonkeyApple
12,324 posts
39 months
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coyft said: August 16th could be interesting, first time some employees are allowed to sell their shares. They'll be needing a fireman or nurse's pension fund to soak up the liquidity. Double fees and comms for the bank that can supply the sucker fund.
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coyft
3,040 posts
81 months
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DonkeyApple said: coyft said: August 16th could be interesting, first time some employees are allowed to sell their shares. They'll be needing a fireman or nurse's pension fund to soak up the liquidity. Double fees and comms for the bank that can supply the sucker fund. I'll have a bit more of it. 
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DonkeyApple
12,324 posts
39 months
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Oakey said: Could Facebook buy back nearly all the shares they sold if the price hits rock bottom? Would that put them back in the same position as pre-IPO? No, because they would have to publish and then they'd learn there were more sellers than they had cash and trade at zero within a fortnight. Even if they didn't have to publish the market would know who the buyer was and take them out.
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munky
5,259 posts
118 months
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coyft said: Plotloss said: coyft said: Perhaps they'll reinvent the mobile. As I said time will tell. Zuckerberg has said today, no phone. That doesn't mean they won't reinvent the mobile phone. I think maybe there's something in the works, and so maybe that something is why they haven't been focussing on rebuilding their existing mobile app properly. However that something in the works, I seem to recall involved not building their own phone (which would be a huge investment in something they have no experience of) but partnering with someone that already makes phones and/or mobile OS. Building FB into the very fabric of a mobile OS would be a lot more powerful than a simple app. However it may backfire and piss users off (like various software on PCs that try to install Chrome unless you untick a box, or the abysmal BT/Yahoo venture), or it may attract the attention of the anti-competition authorities, like internet explorer in Windows.
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Oakey
13,828 posts
86 months
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Facebook is pretty much integrated into Windows Phone.
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speedy_thrills
5,733 posts
113 months
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Oakey said: Facebook is pretty much integrated into Windows Phone. That’s a good point, what could FaceBook offer that other major manufactures couldn’t? FaceBook integration onto phone (FacePhone?) seems to be pretty well covered by manufactures already. So are we full circle yet back to "I like FaceBook but it's difficult to see how they can make money from it"?
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JonnyFive
26,914 posts
59 months
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munky said: I think maybe there's something in the works, and so maybe that something is why they haven't been focussing on rebuilding their existing mobile app properly. However that something in the works, I seem to recall involved not building their own phone (which would be a huge investment in something they have no experience of) but partnering with someone that already makes phones and/or mobile OS. Building FB into the very fabric of a mobile OS would be a lot more powerful than a simple app. However it may backfire and piss users off (like various software on PCs that try to install Chrome unless you untick a box, or the abysmal BT/Yahoo venture), or it may attract the attention of the anti-competition authorities, like internet explorer in Windows. I've already noticed on the new Mac OS they've started integrating Facebook into it.
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fuzzyyo
77 posts
31 months
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