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Facebook primarily competes with Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT) and Aol (AOL) in the display and search advertising markets. Here we highlight three major revenue streams that contribute to Facebook’s value.
We currently peg Facebook’s intrinsic value at $45.1 billion.
The 3 Most Important Revenue Streams for Facebook
1) Text and Display Ads: represents 60% of the company’s equity value
Facebook Social Ads are primarily self-serve ads that can be highly targeted to appear to specific users. The Facebook ad system is largely self-serve and provides real-time feedback on the size of the target audience and the suggested bid range to achieve impressions. Facebook makes money based on how many pages are visited and the bidding rates on these advertisements.
Peruvian transport regulator Ositran will emit a favorable opinion regarding the concession contract for Callao port’s Muelle Norte terminal on Friday (Mar 25), Ositran president Juan Carlos Zevallos told BNamericas.
“We’re making a few small recommendations to improve things like the tariff revision system, to make sure it complies with Ositran regulations. But in basic terms the project’s ready and it’s well formulated,” Zevallos said during an interview at the BNamericas Andean Infrastructure Summit.
The changes proposed by Ositran are largely related to tariffs and quality of service, and ensuring that Muelle Norte implements the same standards as Callao’s Muelle Sur terminal.
While Muelle Sur concessionaire DP World was required to handle 25 containers per hour by the end of its first year of operation, the Muelle Norte contract draft requires 18 containers per hour. Ositran has proposed that the same standards be applied throughout the port, Zevallos said.
Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) has pulled back from its 52-week high of $247.55. At the time of this writing, shares were exchanging hands for about $215. The 52-week low for the stock is $70.05.
We know that this company has been a great performer. Investors who bought at the lower end of the chart have been amply rewarded. But for those who don’t own the name, is it time to buy? And, likewise, for those who do own it, is it time to sell?
This is not an easy question to answer. You don’t want to make a mistake. Being a bear might mean missing out on gains; being a bull might mean losing a significant amount of money. So it goes with highflying growth stocks.
Recent news discusses Netflix’s strategy of investing in original content. Personally, I believe it to be an understandable decision. But does it increase the risk of owning the equity? It might. And that obviously concerns me.
Another thing that concerns me is the bear argument; it can be quite convincing. Read more…
Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem (NYSE: BAK) has suspended its Polimйrica polyethylene (PE) project in Venezuela, which was being carried out in partnership with Venezuelan state petrochemical firm Pequiven, Braskem CEO Carlos Fadigas told a press conference.
The executive said the project is not part of the company’s priorities at the moment.
Startup of Polimйrica, which initially envisaged production of approximately 1Mt/y of ethylene and PE, had been pushed back a couple of times and the latest estimate was that it would come online in 2015.
Meanwhile, Braskem is advancing with its Ethylene XXI PE project in Mexico, as part of a JV with local firm Idesa.
The company’s other Venezuelan JV initiative Propilsur, focused on polypropylene (PP) production, has also been undergoing changes.
Braskem and Pequiven are currently re-evaluating raw material supply, as there is a surplus of propylene in Venezuela that could be used for the project. <
Since a devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck Japan last Friday, investors have been dumping Japanese and U.S. stocks in what can only be called panic selling.
In my view, this is a big mistake. I’m sticking with my disciplined buy-sell strategy, looking to snap up shares of U.S. stocks–and even Japanese stocks–if conditions merit.
Many years ago I bought a one-bedroom condominium in New York as an investment and rented it out. My tenant for several years was a sushi chef from Japan. The rent check arrived each month a week early. He spoke little English, but every December he sent me a Christmas card, carefully hand-written, thanking me for the privilege of being my tenant. I can’t say whether he’s typical of his fellow countrymen, but he left me with an indelibly positive impression of the Japanese.
I have been thinking of him this week as Japan teeters on the brink of nuclear catastrophe, still reeling from the earthquake disaster that so far has taken the lives of more than 5,000 people and left thousands more still missing.