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Re:Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price by whatok on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:04PM (#14563911)
Snapchat's financials are atrocious compared to any of the companies you listed and growth by all sorts of metrics is slowing. There's a difference.
Re:Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price by wonder_bread on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:13PM (#14563966)
You're telling me Amazon's financials were beautiful when they IPO'd? They're barely pretty now.
Re:Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price by whatok on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:25PM (#14564057)
Amazon IPOed at $438mm in 1997. Inflation adjusted that's $668mm. Snapchat's current market cap is $20bn. Not even in the same remote universe.

https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-com-ipo-skyrockets/

Re:Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price by wonder_bread on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:54PM (#14564273)
So because Snap has a higher market cap means there's no excuse for the messy financials? Show me all the money Amazon was making when it was worth $20B.
Re:Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price by JumpCrisscross on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:32PM (#14564561)
> Show me all the money Amazon was making when it was worth $20B

The last time Amazon was worth less than $20 billion was back in March of 2007 [1]. The month prior, they announced results for FYE 2016 [2]. That year, Amazon had net sales of $10.7 billion on which they made a profit of $190 million (page 47). Amazon's operations, meanwhile, produced over $700 million of cash from operations (page 46).

Snap shows $150 million of Q1 2017 revenues. They managed to turn that into a $2.2 billion loss [3]. Next to that, the $150 million of cash their operations lost looks like chump change. (Snap incurred a $2 billion one-time non-cash expense in Q1, so the revenue and cash-from-operations numbers are better for comparison purposes.)

Keep in mind, too, that $1 in March 2007 bought as much as $1.19 bought in March earlier this year [4].

[1] http://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/market-cap/ama...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312507...

[3] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ASNAP&fstype=ii&ei=f_...

[4] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

Re:Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price by acchow on Friday June 16, 2017 @04:46AM (#14567489)
> They managed to turn that into a $2.2 billion loss

To be fair, a big chunk of that loss was due to many years worth of equity-based compensation (stock options) all booked at once.

Re:Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price by mdorazio on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:25PM (#14564503)
Ok. Amazon's market cap first reached $20B in mid-2007. At that time they had about $475M in net profit on revenue of about $15B.

Snapchat's total revenue for 2016 was $405M, with net loss of $514M.

The two are not even remotely comparable in terms of financial soundness.