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... the limelight after the close on Wednesday. Finally, online retailing giant __link__, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN ) joins the fray after the close on Thursday. Facebook Inc (FB). FB stock saw a wellspring of call option activity on Friday at a time when many traders were seeking protection ahead of the weekend. Total volume on the stock rose to 755,000 contracts, with calls snapping up an impressive 71% of the day’s take. Call buying was the order of the day, as traders appear to be anticipating a post-earnings rally from Facebook this Wednesday. Following Friday’s close, the 3 Feb put/call open interest ratio slipped from 0.82 at the beginning of the session to 0.75 as calls were added at a faster rate than puts among options most affected by Facebook’s quarterly report — implying rising expectations for a bullish post-earnings move. Implieds are still pricing in a move of about ...

Facebook Inc Fb Stock Cracks All-time Highs With A Big Q4 Beat

... report that has FB stock primed to set new all-time highs. Source: Shutterstock. Facebook stock was up 2% in Wednesday’s after-market trading, adding onto 16% year-to-date gains to make it one of the best-performing blue chips on the market. You can thank FB’s unrelenting operational growth, which took center stage Wednesday afternoon. For its Q 4, Facebook posted a sizzling 53% surge in revenues to $8.83 billion, and earnings that came to $1.41 per share. Wall Street was looking for sales of $8.52 billion and profits of $1.31 per share. That marked the seventh straight beat for Facebook, which had plenty of highlights in its Q 4 report. Daily active users (DAUs) jumped 18% to 1.23 billion. Mobile DAUs rose 23% to 1.15 billion. Mobile advertising revenue came to 84% of all advertising revenue, up from 80% in the same period a year ago. The cash ...

Mjn Esio Fb Higher; Avir Sfly Mlnx Lower More

... the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to 3,000,000 additional common shares. Cirrus Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRUS ) 11% LOWER; reported Q 3 EPS of $1.87, $0.25 better than the analyst estimate of $1.62. Revenue for the quarter came in at $523 million versus the consensus estimate of $495.22 million. GUIDANCE: Cirrus Logic, Inc. sees Q 4 2017 revenue of $300-340 million, versus the consensus of $333.94 million. Qorvo (NASDAQ: QRVO ) 7.8% LOWER; reported Q 3 EPS of $1.35, $0.09 better than the analyst estimate of $1.26. Revenue for the quarter came in at $825.4 million versus the consensus estimate of $821.3 million. Financial Outlook: Qorvo currently believes the demand environment in its end markets supports the following non-GAAP expectations for the March 2017 quarter: Quarterly revenue in the range of $610 million to $650 million; Gross margin of approximately 46%; A tax rate of approximately 8% Diluted EPS in the range of $0.70 to $0.90; (Street sees Q 4 EPS of $1.03 on revenue of $718.1 M). Manitowoc (NYSE: MTW ) 6% LOWER; reported Q 4 EPS ...

Asia Will Take Over The World, And Facebook Inc Fb Wants In

... Too Bigly for FB Stock to Ignore. As Investor Place contributor Craig Adeyanju notes, the Facebook stock price is all about the numbers, and the numbers look amazing! Adeyanju writes that with “Facebook on course to reach 2 billion users this year without China, the opportunities become bigger once China allows FB in its country again. Keep in mind that China currently has the largest number of internet users globally.”. He is so right — the number of China’s internet users exceed that of the U. S. by a more than 150% margin. Those are bigly consumers that FB stock desperately wants to tap into. But they’re not that desperate. China is often overused as a justification for buying Facebook stock or any number of investments. However, just scale up the picture a bit and you’ll see why Mark Zuckerberg is so excited. The majority of ...

A Warning For Facebook Shorts Before Earnings

... to bet on FB. In FB's case, somewhat surprisingly, there is little causal connection between Earnings Surprise (ES) and the reaction of the stock immediately after earnings announcement. FB's reported EPS has consistently topped consensus EPS estimate in recent quarters, but the movement of the stock price has been rather unpredictable. In Q 4 fiscal 2015, FB's "ES" was 18% and the stock gained about 16% the following day. Last quarter, however, FB's stock tanked 5.5% despite the fact that the company's reported earnings beat analysts' consensus estimate by ~14%. So I believe that predicting the direction or magnitude of the change in FB's stock price based on "ES" alone is not possible. Nevertheless, it is likely that we'll see significant movements in FB's price after Wednesday's close because the stock is susceptible to large movements following earnings release. (Source: Nasdaq , Author's Calculations). Regardless of what Facebook reports this quarter, we feel confident buying the company's stock at current prices for reasons that'll be discussed below. Facebook has multiple growth avenues at its disposal and the company is moving in the right direction. Since last ...

Facebook Inc Fb Stock Is Going To Record Highs

... $8.49 billion. Those are impressive year-over-year gains for a company with heavy market saturation. But expectations don’t stop there. According to Earnings __link__, some on Wall Street have set their sights even higher, with the whisper number for Facebook’s fourth-quarter coming in at $1.37 per share. If the company tops this figure, it could go a long way to offsetting concerns about ad growth, especially is subscriber and monthly user numbers rise as well. Taking a closer look at Wall Street’s expectations, Thomson/First Call reports that 44 of the 49 analysts following FB stock rate the shares a “buy” or better. That said, the brokerage bunch is only expected FB stock to rise about 16% in the next year, with the consensus price target resting at $153.72. A solid report next week could help lift this figure and boost FB stock. Click to Enlarge  Facebook stock options traders, meanwhile, are showing some signs of concern on the shares. Currently, the February put/call open interest ratio comes in at a ...

Analysts Love Facebook Inc Fb Stock For All The Right Reasons

... is so bullish on Facebook stock. Facbook’s Expansion Into China. China banned FB in 2009 in the wake of Urumqi unrest in July 2009 in order to control flow of information about the unrest. RBC Capital Markets’ Mark Mahaney predicted that China would reopen  its door to Facebook in 2016, but it didn’t happen. He believes it could happen this year, given reports in November 2016 that FB had developed software with the capability of controlling posts that appear in certain geographic regions. Aegis Capital’s Victor Anthony is also upbeat of Facebook’s chances in China. With Facebook on course to reach  2 billion users  this year without China, the opportunities become bigger once China allows FB in its country again. Keep in mind that China currently has the largest number of internet users globally. FB Stock and Growing Ad Dominance. Cowen Group recently published its 2017 ...

3 Reasons Facebook Inc Fb Stock Will Keep Delivering In 2017

... Facebook proved that first isn’t always best when Instagram Stories became nearly an overnight success. It took FB just five months to amass 150 million active users compared to the six years Snapchat needed to gain the same number of users. Now, Facebook is rolling out live video streaming on its platform, a function that will compete with Twitter Inc’s (NYSE: TWTR ) similar offering. The live-streaming option is still in the early stages of a rollout, but my guess is that FB will be able to outdo Twitter in just a few months as well. FB: The Advertising Goliath. Perhaps the most valuable thing about Facebook is its user base. This is true for all social media companies, but FB’s 1.79 billion monthly active users are not only online constantly, but they are easy to profile because they share and interact with things they like — all things that Facebook is capable of tracking. This allows FB to sell advertising space at a premium, ...

Fb Stock Soars On Q4 Eps, Revenue Beat

... said mobile MAUs totaled 1.74 billion, a 21% rise year over year. "Our mission to connect the world is more important now than ever," said CEO Mark Zuckerberg. "Our business did well in 2016, but we have a lot of work ahead to help bring people together.”. For the three months that ended in June, the company reported adjusted earnings of $1.41 per share. Not only did that easily beat Wall Street estimates by 10 cents, it marks an almost 80% rise year over year. Fourth quarter revenue came to $8.81 billion, which climbed 51% year over year and beat consensus estimates of $8.51 billion. Revenue was driven by a 53% year over year rise in ad revenue, reaching $8.6 billion. The company said mobile ad revenue was $5.42 billion, 81% year over year, topping the $4.84 billion expected. Mobile ads now account for 84% of ad revenue, compared to 76% in the a year ago. Notably, the company’s mobile advertising revenue now accounts for 84% of total revenue, up ...