Facebook $15 billion

Microsoft's 1.0 percent stake in Facebook values it at $15 billion. I think that's a little outragous.

Anyone else care to comment?

 

the only thing that pass by my mind now, is wow! lucky guy! i wish i was the owner of facebook!. ok back to reality .
i think it is way too overvalued, in some way all this is some kind of advertising to get lots of people to buy future facebook shares from which microsoft controls 1% for now.

 

Facebook is like the new White Pages

 

Probably microsoft will revive their marketing strategy targeting facebook users for XBox.

 

I really couldn't see it being worth 15 billion because I see myspace being larger and more mainstream and in pop culture and I am pretty sure it wasnt worth that much. Facebook is a harder platform for companies to market on the way it is set up and people on there are on there for more personal reasons and rarely look at or click advertising

 

thats mental - wouldnt that mean they value facebook at 150 billion? surely thats a bit steep for about 40 php pages *lol*

 

My thought exactly.

Yahoo! was offered 80b weren't they? And that's alot bigger than Facebook.

 

$15 billion is just too much. It is way overpriced.

 

Yea its overpriced but so is myspac e they both should be valued at about 60 bucks each...haha..
Ok ok im just jealous. I wish my sites were doing as well. Good for him. The lil harvard bast*rd haha sorry my jealousy is coming out again....

 

overvalued hype

 

15billion is too high. I think not much more than 3billion

 

It would actually value it at 1.5 trillion (1500 billion) if a 1.0% share = $15B

 

$15bn is waaaaay too much.

The thing with 2.0 websites is that they don't actually make much money, certainly not enough to justify anywhere near this sort of figure.

Shades of DotCom boom and bust all over again

 

It is not much if you have enough. As for me it is too much.

 

Wow. The owner(s) of facebook.com is laughing to the bank now.

 

That value does sound outrageous. But maybe they are putting it so high due to the influence facebook carries. I mean if you control facebook, you control how millions of teens spend several hours of their day. And that power is of much greater value than the total ad sales revenue.

 

Microsoft pay: $240,000,000($240m) for 1.6%

100%/1.6% = 62.5.

240,000,000($240m)*62.5 = $15,000,000,000($15bn).....

From those comments^ it would seem you though MIcrosoft paid $15000000000($15bn) for 1.6%. They didn't, they paid $240m, and from that basis, they value Facebook, at $15bn,

 

Hahah... yeah, a quick read of the headline left me initially perplexed
over how Microsoft could conceivably invest $15 billion for a roughly
1% stake in Facebook. Upon closer inspection, it turns out that MSFT
actually paid around $240 million for a 1.6% stake in the company.

That's how they're getting to the approximate 15 billion dollar valuation
for the entire entity. Which is still quite a lot of money!

 

its overpriced , but though mircosoft has their strategies
hehe

 

Yeah.. They think that overnight Facebook has turned from $240 million for a 1 percent share to $15 billion. Who knows