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Old 12-04-2011, 07:32 PM  
Houdini
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Originally Posted by DVTimes View Post
Soon Facebook will be floated as shares, and its believed its valued at billions.

But is it?
Have you even bothered to look at their revenue? They're estimated to do $4.2 billion this year and $5.78 billion in 2012. Given a 20 P/E (Similar to Google, which is 21), next year when they IPO their value will be $100 billion ($5 billion x 20 P/E). Took 2 seconds to figure that out.
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