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Twitter IPO success, stock up 73% from $26

November 7, 2013 By Mary Duncan Leave a Comment

twitter Facebook has been a big burden on the social networking stock, even though the social network has managed to jump past its initial stock price earlier this year, the first few months were catastrophic for the company and hit a lot of the investors hard.

Twitter has decided to be the second big social network to jump onto the initial public offering bandwagon, setting a price of $24/26 a share for their company, valued at around $14 billion.

Unlike Facebook, Twitter has managed the first day without any problems, despite having a lacklustre revenue stream and no clear motives on how to make profit in the coming years, although the CEO and co-founders have said they have plans for advertisement.

The stock price has went up 73% since the start and now is flying high at $44.90, just $3 under the Facebook stock price. This gives Twitter a $30 billion valuation, pretty impressive for a company that only made $420 million in revenue with no profits in 2013.

The Twitter team managed the IPO better than Facebook did, where Facebook valued themselves too high and made investors nervous about their true value, Twitter laid it almost all out in the plain view and made it as though it was a normal investment.

Now comes the hard part, managing to deliver on the promises set for 2014. Twitter has said they should get around $1 billion in revenue next year and we are not sure how much of that is profit, but if they fail to double their revenue, they may be in serious waters.

Investors are not known for their tolerance with most companies, but are partial to winners like Amazon and Google, who spend billions in R&D and new projects making little profit in one quarter, but still manage to keep investors happy.

We are not sure Twitter is at that stage yet, but right now they are on a winning streak with their current valuation.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Facebook, IPO, social network, stock market, Twitter

Twitter preparing to raise $1 billion with IPO

October 25, 2013 By Micheal Baptiste Leave a Comment

twitter Twitter will be the second social network to file for initial public offering, after an announcement the company will be offering eighty million shares at a price of $17 and $20, going under the four word name TWTR.

The share price points at a value of $10 billion, quite a low estimate compared to what analysts pegged beforehand, some pointed at a possible $20 billion price-tag and the average price was somewhere around $12 billion.

Twitter may have reason for the rather conservative estimate, considering Facebook’s poor performance when they valued their company at $100 billion. Facebook has grown past its IPO price, but it took them almost a year to achieve this value, after a few months of losses.

Unlike Facebook, Twitter is currently not making any profit and last year they had an $80 million loss. They are projecting big things in the next few years, but currently do not have the revenue to actually pay their staff and servers, both growing everyday.

Twitter is looking at new revenue streams, Vine is an obvious winner but still has no real advertisement, even though we can see ways this can be implemented without the userbase getting angry, including Vine-based videos from advertisers that are promoted, similar to promoted tweets.

We have also heard about Twitter developing a TV service, we can place our money on some form of 6-second previews and Twitter may set up deals with content providers to sell the TV programs and movies with the short trailers.

Twitter has not had the best luck at moving into new markets, their music app, #Music, has failed to gain any traction and the company is looking to destroy the app before it becomes a detriment.

With 200 million active users posting 500 million tweets per day, Twitter is in a good position to say they are worth something, even if they aren’t currently making profit. It is all about the end goal for Twitter and with more integration and advertisement, they may become the media source for all types of content.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: social network, stock market, Twitter, Twitter IPO

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