Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, social network platform operator MeetMe (NYSEMKT: MEET ) has received the dreaded one-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at MeetMe and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
MeetMe facts
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Headquarters (founded) |
New Hope, Pa. (1997) |
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Market Cap |
$148.4 million |
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Industry |
Internet software and services |
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$31.4 million |
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Management |
Chairman/CEO John Abbott |
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Trailing-12-Month Return on Equity |
(24.5%) |
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Cash/Debt |
$5.9 million / $11.9 million |
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Competitors |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 52% of the 155 members who have rated MeetMe believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those Fools, AygHead, succinctly summed up the MeetMe bear case for our community:
This stock is surging because of speculation that this will be the next [Facebook]. In the meantime, it is burning cash at an extremely fast rate and is not profitable. Facebook will surely be pulling market share from these guys, or will buy them. No need for two players in the unimportant "post my pictures and tell my friends what [I'm] doing online to pass time" business.
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Report this Comment On November 08, 2012, at 9:41 PM, RENGACORP wrote:
Blue Horseshoe loves MEET.
Report this Comment On November 08, 2012, at 10:03 PM, RENGACORP wrote:
I signed up to Meetme.com and am very impressed with the architecture, especially the freedom of near-total profile customization, including allowance for animted GIFs in background fields. They seem more like what facebook was originally designed to do, get people dates. Facebook has become a place to share our art, catch up with friends and self-promote. Also, Mobile is taking off worldwide and the stock price has just been greatly discounted as it came back to touch both the 200 day and the 50 day SMA. Any chartist worth his/her salt would admit it's a perfect time for accumulation.
Report this Comment On November 08, 2012, at 10:40 PM, RENGACORP wrote:
The #1 stock picker here has more than a handful of one-star rated picks that are soaring.
Report this Comment On November 10, 2012, at 7:29 AM, innpact wrote:
How can you even consider this an article when you clearly do not even know what this company is about. The goal of this company is to be the opposite of Facebook. It is all about Meeting NEW people. Do you even know what Social Discovery is?
Have you looked at the numbers this company is putting out?
My respect for Fool articles had been diminished a long time ago, but after this article it is now clear that this is the Faux News of finance.
MAU up 24%
Registrations up 80%
International MAU up 147%
Andriod App Broke into top 50 in Brazil, Mexico and Spain
Launching a subscription based platform and two freemium services
New Feed Advertising Rollout in Q1
3 new languages in Q4
7 more in Q1
Non- Affiliated Revenues up 1.5 Million. WITHOUT MATT!
Mobile Revenue up 72% Q2 - Q3
Cross Platform Revenue. Pay attention. Without MATT up from 1.2M to 2.6M. This is social Theater folks kicking it in the #$%$. Up 116% without MATT!
Total Cash and A/R 20.4M with 5M cash
Average Mobile DAU from 605k to 678k Q over Q
Total MAU Q over Q 3.18M to 3.94M
Total Mobile MAU Q over Q 1.67M to 1.95M
Registered Users Q over Q 85M to 89M
Visits Q over Q 338M to 384M
Page Views Q over Q 9.8B to 10.9B
Mobile Registrations Q over Q 3.65 to 4.99M
Mobile Average Revenue per user Q over Q .80 to .91
So tell me again how Facebook is eating up their market share.
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