FB - Facebook, Inc.
198.00 +0.51 (0.26%)
Pre-market: 5:15AM EDT
| Previous close | 198.31 |
| Open | 196.24 |
| Bid | 198.12 x 800 |
| Ask | 198.45 x 800 |
| Day's range | 193.79 - 197.96 |
| 52-week range | 147.80 - 199.58 |
| Volume | 17,313,700 |
| Avg. volume | 32,257,620 |
| Market cap | 571.661B |
| Beta | 0.81 |
| PE ratio (TTM) | 32.69 |
| EPS (TTM) | 6.04 |
| Earnings date | 24 Jul 2018 - 30 Jul 2018 |
| Forward dividend & yield | N/A (N/A) |
| Ex-dividend date | N/A |
| 1y target est | 219.73 |
- Bloomberg•6 hours ago
Web Giants Gird for Legal Headaches Under New EU Copyright Rules
Europe is proposing to do away with key legal protections enjoyed by Google, Facebook Inc. and other internet giants. When users upload content to social networks, video websites and other digital platforms, the companies running those services aren’t responsible for checking if the material violates copyright. New European Union rules, set for a vote on Wednesday, could upend this long-standing approach by forcing web services to actively prevent copyrighted content from appearing on their sites and apps.
- Market Realist•12 hours ago
Inside Facebook’s Delicate Balancing Act
Facebook (FB) wants to curb the spread of fake news online. Media publishers agree with that initiative, which would allow professional journalism to flourish. However, media publishers disagree with Facebook on the approach to counter online misinformation.
- Motley Fool•12 hours ago
Top Stocks for Beginner Investors: Ready to Start Investing?
If you’re new to investing in stocks and have a long-term outlook, one or more of these top stocks might be a good choice for you.
- Bloomberg•14 hours ago
GoPro Names Facebook Executive to Board, Boosting Media Heft
GoPro Inc. named a Facebook Inc. executive to its board, aiming to draw on his experience in new media and consumer electronics. Ty Ahmad-Taylor is vice president of product marketing at Facebook where he manages strategy and financial analysis. Prior to joining Facebook last year, he was chief executive officer of consumer electronics company THX Ltd. He has also held executive roles at Samsung Electronics Inc. and Viacom Inc, GoPro said in announcing the appointment.
- MarketWatch•15 hours ago
State Street’s new Communications Services Select ETF has notables Disney, AT&T, Facebook and Netflix
State Street Global Advisors on Tuesday launched the latest in its popular series of U.S. sector-based exchange-traded funds, in anticipation of a major reclassification that will be finalized later this year. The new fund, the Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund (ARCX:XLC), was created in response to upcoming changes to MSCI’s and S&P Dow Jones’s Global Industry Classification Standard. The changes bring about the creation of a new communications services sector, which the new fund will track.
- Bloomberg•15 hours ago
Facebook Follows Users Into Every Nook With Ads
Facebook Inc. keeps finding new and potentially annoying places to sell advertisements in its digital hangouts. Along with Facebook's controversies of late have been a steady drip of disclosures about fresh spots for Facebook's paid commercial messages. The company recently started testing different types of ads in Marketplace, its Craigslist-like section for people to buy and sell merchandise, and in Facebook Stories, its Snapchat-like video diaries.
- Bloomberg•15 hours ago
Cambridge Researcher Kogan Disputes Facebook’s Data Leak Story
Facebook Inc. has explained many times how personal information from as many as 87 million people was collected by a researcher and then sold to Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy. Facebook has said Aleksandr Kogan collected user’s data through a personality quiz app called This Is Your Digital Life.
- Market Realist•17 hours ago
Users Can Shop with Instagram’s New Stories Feature
Instagram, which is controlled by Facebook (FB), has been releasing new features to retain and grow its users. Recently, according to TechCrunch, Instagram has added the shoppable tag feature to Instagram Stories. Instagram launched this feature earlier in 2016 through 20 select partners, and it allows users to click on the photo with a tag on it, which would lead it to the product they want to buy.
- Bloomberg•18 hours ago
Facebook Misses Another Senate Deadline on Privacy Questions
Facebook Inc. missed a deadline to respond to questions from two top U.S. senators on its sharing of user data with device makers, the latest delay by the social network in addressing lawmakers’ queries about its privacy lapses. Senators John Thune and Bill Nelson, respectively the Republican chairman and top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, asked the company in a June 5 letter to answer five questions on data sharing with telecom companies by the end of the business on Monday. Facebook has said it needed to share the information to power versions of its service that were common before it deployed formal phone apps, and that the data was largely stored on the phones that accessed it.
Market Realist•19 hours agoInstagram’s Popularity Keeps Rising
Facebook’s (FB) photo and video sharing platform, Instagram, is rapidly growing and has an active advertiser base of around 2 million, which doubled in just five months. In fact, according to one Wall Street analyst, Instagram is likely to contribute a significant chunk to Facebook’s advertising revenue, which relies mostly on advertising growth.
Market Realist•20 hours agoCan Facebook’s Memories Page Help Win Back User Confidence?
Facebook (FB) recently announced a new Memories page on the platform where users can see content from the past. Facebook’s Memories page will be similar to the “On This Day” feature, which is seen in the News Feed. Facebook believes that the page will allow users to look back over events that took place, and that users will want to share posts and photos from these events with their friends.
- Market Realist•21 hours ago
Apple Heightens User Protection with Data-Sharing Curbs
Apple (AAPL) has banned developers who write apps for its devices from selling or sharing the data collected from its users, according to Bloomberg. Specifically, Apple has prohibited App Store developers from turning people’s address books into a database of contacts for the purpose of sharing or selling the database to third parties. The move to restrict how developers obtain and handle data they obtain from the App Store seems aimed at preventing the abuse of Apple’s products or services.
- Financial Times•22 hours ago
[$$] Capitalism works best in the Old World
For evidence, take a look at Jason Furman’s recent observations on increasing market concentration in the US economy. Furman demonstrates an increased concentration in revenue across companies in many important sectors.
- Motley Fool•23 hours ago
3 Growth Stocks That Could Put Facebook's Returns to Shame
Facebook shares have more than doubled since coming to market, but these three stocks could be better buys for growth-seeking investors.
- Market Realist•2 days ago
Why Would Apple Want to Go after Facebook?
Apple (AAPL) has created new privacy tools in its Safari browser that would restrict how companies such as Facebook (FB) collect personal data from iPhone users. Data and ad-driven social media companies such as Facebook need to build user profiles in order to deliver relevant advertising messages to them in what the industry calls targeted advertising.
- Barrons.com•2 days ago
Facebook Shares Hit All-Time High
Bash Facebook (FB) all you want, but the stock not only hit an all-time intraday high earlier today but is flirting with $200 per share. Of 44 analysts with recommendations on Facebook shares, only one had serious reservations. Complain as they may about Facebook's handling of their data, the addictive qualities of social media, and the escalating power of the company, consumers show no signs of voluntarily posting personal photos, information, and opinions.
- The Wall Street Journal•2 days ago
For the Ad Industry, What a Difference a Year Makes
When the first digital data miners churned out the first primitive profiles of advertising readers and viewers a couple of decades ago, the landscape of marketing—the business of promoting your products, services and message to a receptive audience—was transformed. Data about consumers, their tastes and habits, and the ability to manipulate it so that you could target exactly who you were looking for, finally offered an answer to that age-old marketer’s complaint about wasting half the money you spend on advertising but not knowing which half. This application of the digital revolution to marketing not only improved the efficiency of advertising, of course.
- Bloomberg•2 days ago
Snap CEO Spiegel Deflects Facebook Threat; Says ‘Innovators Win’
Speaking in an interview on CNBC from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France, Spiegel said the company remains focused on the camera and stressed that Snap is a technology company, rather than a media or social-networking service. The CEO said Snapchat’s "friend graph" will help keep Facebook at bay.
- Barrons.com•2 days ago
Facebook: Amid the Discontent, Investors Are Smiling
Everyone, it seems, hates Facebook (FB) these days. The latest evidence: A Monday article in The Wall Street Journal, which notes that despite an early-2018 surge in bad publicity—much of it, to be sure, earned—there’s strong demand for the services of the Barron’s Next 50 company and other digital advertising powerhouses. From Alexandra Bruell’s story: While some brands have pulled back in spending on Google and Facebook due to issues that range from brand safety to performance challenges, ad buys from small and local businesses are more than making up for the cuts, said Vincent Letang, executive vice president of global market intelligence at Magna.
- Zacks•2 days ago
Is FB-GOOGL Ad Duopoly Under Threat as AMZN Gains Steam?
Facebook (FB) - Google (GOOGL) hegemony in the digital advertising space faces threat from Amazon's (AMZN) growing presence.
- Market Realist•2 days ago
In Video Push, Facebook Takes On Amazon
Facebook (FB) has launched a program aimed at nurturing startup video game content creators. Creators under the Level Up program would also receive advice from established video game creators and broadcasters. In addition to building a program for startup creators, Facebook has also launched a dedicated landing page to make it easier for users to search and discover game-related content.
- Market Realist•2 days ago
Facebook Paying for News Content from Fox and Others
Facebook (FB) is paying television networks and other news organizations to produce original news content for its Watch platform. 21st Century Fox’s (FOX) (FOXA) Fox News Channel, Time Warner’s (TWX) CNN, Walt Disney’s (DIS) ABC News, and Univision are among Facebook’s news programming partners. The partners supply Facebook with a variety of content, including breaking news coverage, daily briefings, and long-form weekly series, according to a company announcement. ...
- Market Realist•2 days ago
Facebook Launches Marketplace Advertising as Apple Threat Looms
Facebook (FB) is rolling out Marketplace advertising to businesses and individuals just as Apple is making moves that could give it a hard time growing its advertising business. Apple is introducing new privacy tools in its Safari browser designed to limit the amount of personal data social media companies can collect from people who use devices such as iPhones and iPads. For their lucrative, data-driven, targeted advertising businesses, companies such as Facebook and Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google rely on personal data they collect from people who use their services. Therefore, limiting these social media companies’ ability to collect data from iPhone users through the Safari browser, for instance, could starve them of crucial data they need to deliver more relevant advertising messages.
- Zacks•2 days ago
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: NIKE, Under Armour, Alphabet and Facebook
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: NIKE, Under Armour, Alphabet and Facebook
