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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by smackfu on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @05:38PM (#7266951)
Twitter:

  241,000,000 active users
  30,230,000,000 USD market cap
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  $125 per user
Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by adventured on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @06:30PM (#7267424)
With the caveat being that Twitter isn't rationally worth anywhere near $30 billion. Even if you said their sales was income, they'd be trading at nearly 50 times, and at that point they'd still be worth twice too much.

Here's a prediction: as the easy money QE party comes to an end, the stock market melts, Twitter's growth grinds to a complete halt, investors realize there's only so much time in the day and Twitter has lost the messaging space, Twitter is worth $5 to $7 billion if they're lucky.

Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by jonknee on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @10:22PM (#7268617)
> Here's a prediction: as the easy money QE party comes to an end, the stock market melts, Twitter's growth grinds to a complete halt, investors realize there's only so much time in the day and Twitter has lost the messaging space, Twitter is worth $5 to $7 billion if they're lucky.

It's not the QE money pumping up Twitter, it's a combination of tech being hot and a limited number of shared available (much of TWTR is still in lockup). If it were QE you'd see all sorts of firms with crazy valuations, but the standard blue chips are still pretty standard.

Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by kolbe on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @10:59PM (#7268771)
QE is most certainly responsible for the crazy SV valuations. While the Fed is printing money to solve depressions in Alabama and Illinois, places like SV, which are growing a >10% a year, are getting all capital benefits.