Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Facebook 廢書的股票 FB



每個熱門股票,如果這家公司的業績,有驚人的成長率,就像FB,到了每一季要報業績的時候,都會出現稀奇古怪的傳言或說法。

最直接了當的,就說股票會漲到多少,或會跌到多少,不必有原因,證據或任何說詞,說了算,因為他敢鐵口直斷;等到事後,如果連我都不記得他是誰,我看也沒有人會去法院告他擾亂民心或訴求賠償;你們說,像這樣子亂講亂講的有沒有影響?當然有,有人會虧到,但是我經常就撿到了,因為我不聽信這種謠言。譬如在2012年的第三季,那時FB每股在$20 ~ $21上上下下,那時有人預測要跌到$15以下,有人更精準的說$11。結果我在晚市賣到$24.94/股。

今早01/22/2014FB開足了馬力,從 $58.80上衝 $59.31,眼看著要衝破 $60。我要價$2.14/股月底$62.5, $1.95/2月初$63的期貨都被搶購一空:代表著$64.5/股還是有利可圖;等我去打完球,上午11點回來一看,怎麼跌到$57.10/股?

原來有個大嘴巴的,在上午9點的時候在Hot Stock Minute宣稱:根據兩名普林斯頓博士班的學生Joshua Spechler John Cannarella的研究報告(教授還沒給評鑑),廢書到了2017年,會只剩下20%的使用者。根據我的直覺,如果像這樣子慘稀稀的真的是廢書了,FB會只值$2/股。

我喜歡把這種事寫下來,到了月底,到了2017年,再來對照結果。

【後記】

有人針對普林斯頓大學展開還擊,說這個很有名望的大學,到了幾多年後就招不到學生,會完了蛋;這種情緒性的言語,只是暴露自己的腦筋不好,找錯了對象;學生做研究、寫報告,做得好不好,對不對?自有教授去評斷,打分數。不該的是那些在報章電視把學生的報告炒得沸沸揚揚的專家和評論員。FB果真被炒下到$52,星期三關門時停在$53.53

01/29/14星期三市場關門後,Facebook宣告第四季的業績,好到無可挑剔,FB又衝到了$60。通常碰到這類咭咭歪歪的鬧劇,我就是以平常心看待,感謝上天賜給我這種好機會。

01/22/14 b   500 @57.51
01/24/14 b   500 @55.51 01/29/14 s   500 @59.49 net $1,970
01/27/14 b   500 @53.51

3 comments:

  1. Interesting... this certainly indicates FB is now under close scrutiny of investors and any negative prediction can shake investors' confidence significantly. Seems like damage is already made by these two Princeton PhD students. True test should come from it's earnings to be reported next week.

    A few doubts to this controversial PhD thesis - first, it's written by students from mechanical and aerospace engineering department of Princeton. Second, it's using epidemiological model to estimate the trending of FB and MySpace and treating social media site usage as infectious disease. There may be similarities but definitely not the same. Infection of a disease is fairly passive without much voluntary control of individuals. There are probably some stickiness to keep one on the social media site unless something better comes around, maybe wechat. Lastly, the demise of MySpace was pretty much inflicted by FB. So the MySpace case wasn't very credible.

    Just some thoughts to entertain this group:). Future is rarely predicted, and more made.

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    1. Very good! 125 grade points (100 is perfect).

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  2. 10/27/2017 FB 的股價到了$178/share。現在有多少人還記得那些胡言亂語?

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