A Look at Facebook’s Valuation Multiples
On February 28, 2018, Facebook (FB) was the third-largest Internet player worldwide with a market cap of ~$518.0 billion. However, March wasn’t kind to Facebook following revelations that data company Cambridge Analytica had improperly collected the personal data of ~87 million Facebook users and influenced President Donald Trump’s election campaign, sparking a US regulatory inquiry and an outcry from lawmakers in several countries.