Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, social networking giant Facebook (FB +0.22%) has received the dreaded one-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Facebook, and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Facebook facts
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Headquarters (founded) |
Menlo Park, Calif. (2004) |
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Market Cap |
$65.0 billion |
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Industry |
Internet software and services |
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$5.1 billion |
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Management |
Founder/Chairman/CEO Mark Zuckerberg CFO David Ebersman |
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Trailing-12-Month Return on Equity |
0.6% |
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Cash/Debt |
$9.6 billion / $2.4 billion |
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Competitors |
Google (GOOG 0.41%) Microsoft (MSFT 0.60%) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 41% of the 1,718 members who have rated Facebook believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Earlier this week, one of those Fools, JoeArizona, succinctly summed up the bear case for our community:
Facebook is on top of the social computing world ... for the moment. Personally, I was very turned off by the corruption and dishonesty surrounding the IPO. I feel that the book value of the company has been vastly overstated since the beginning. And if [Facebook] tries to monetize to justify their elephantine valuation, they run the serious risk of alienating their users, driving them to the next big thing. I just don't see how they can keep it going.
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