Just about now I would like to see Google's share price punished for all of the spam sites that are suddenly above me in the SERPS. But noooooo... ------------------------------------------------------- Google Shares Surge to New Highs Wednesday, June 01, 2005 NEW YORK — Shares of Web search company Google Inc. (GOOG) hit fresh highs on Wednesday after a CSFB analyst report raised the company's price target and advised investors that the stock has "further to go." Google's share price rose $12.05, or 4.35 percent, to $289.32 following the report from CSFB. CSFB raised its target to $350 from $275. "While there will certainly be plenty of volatility in the stock price ... we believe shares have further to go given the momentum in the company's core advertising business, the growing impact of new business like Gmail, Froogle and Local, and a valuation that, relative to the company's growth rate, is far from stretched," CSFB's note said. Google, which debuted last August in the most highly anticipated initial public offering in recent memory at $85 a share, has set a series of new closing records over the last month, rising 30 percent in the process. U.S. Internet advertising surged 33 percent in 2004 to a record $9.6 billion -- topping dot-com boom levels -- and is forecast to rise some 34 percent in 2005 to $12.7 billion. Google has been a prime beneficiary of that growth, as evidenced by a recent quarterly profit report that showed surging ad revenue. Shares of its closest publicly traded comparable competitor, Yahoo Inc. (YHOO), also rose in early trading on Wednesday. Yahoo was up 88 cents, or 2.37 percent, at $38.08 on the Nasdaq. Another Internet giant, eBay Inc. (EBAY) rose $1 to $39 a share.
Read some of these articles to see that history is ready to repeat itself, this is the same Wall Street game that worked before the last Dot Com Bust. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Ya...+Search&fr=FP-tab-web-t-228&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8 Wall Street is pushing it up, then when the time is right they will short it and you will see history repeat itself, don't get left holding the hot potato, last one out is the fool
Come on anthony, you have been predicting Google is going to drop within a few weeks and become a penny stock since the IPO. Do you think investors care about search results? At this point Google (as a company) would be just fine if they shut off their search engine completely.
Qtrly Earnings Growth (year over year): 477.10% Revenue (ttm): $3.79 Billion Gross Profit (ttm): $1.73 Billion Forward P/E (fye 31-Dec-06)¹: 43.59 How could you not want to own a piece of that company? I think it's just now reaching a reasonable price, but will probably go higher with this momentum. Plus, if they blowout their numbers this quarter, sky's the limit imo.
Yeah, everyone said the same thing about Yahoo when it hit $250.00 before the dot com crash that took out Netscape, Yahoo, Lycos and just about every other tech stock. Yahoo went from $250.00 a share to about $3.50 within 1 year. If anyone needs a chart, I will be happy to supply them
In 1999 Yahoo's P/E was 623. That means their market valuation was 623 times what they earned. Right now Google's estimated P/E for 2006 is 43, extremely reasonable considering their incredible growth and the fact that they could very likely beat those numbers. Comparisons other than P/E also show almost no relevance between the two stock prices.
Wall Street analysts can send out all the hype they want, they did the same thing to push up internet stocks before the dot com crash. Wall Street moves em up, then when they got enough idiots in and the insiders out, they sell the stocks short making money on the downside movement. Mark my words, Google will start moving down quickly in the next few weeks. Wall Street traders are always ahead of the news on the street and they will pull the short trigger soon. GOOG Google Inc (NASDAQ NM) 6/1/2005 3:06 PM Last: 285.80 Change: +8.53 Open: 283.20 High: 292.89 Low: 282.51 Volume: 29,003,535 Percent Change: +3.08% P/E Ratio: 113.86 52 Week Range: 95.96 to 266.05
Sounds familiar... if you keep saying it, you will be right for sure at some point. Check here, here, here, here, etc...
They should have called the original investors Theivery Corporation I was close to right when the IPO almost did not go off, right Shawn ??? They did screw up the IPO, right Shawn Then Wall Street said what the hell it is the only show in town in a declining market and pushed it up to where it is today, right Shawn How much longer can musical chairs go on PS: Those threads give a lot of links to articles, this is one I pulled and it is interesting showing that Google market capitalization at $125.00-$135.00 is Giant, at $285.00 do the math and find out if an 80 Billion Dollar market cap. is sustainable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://news.com.com/Google+sets+its+IPO+price+range/2100-1032_3-5283465.html?tag=html.alert From the above link: QUOTE: If Google begins trading at $135 a share, it would have a market capitalization of $36.3 billion, according to its SEC filing. That would put it in range with Yahoo, which had a market cap of $37.8 billion in early-morning trading Monday, but far short of Microsoft's $308 billion. After its IPO, Google expects to have 268.5 million shares outstanding, largely consisting of its series B shares. After a long, listless period following the dot-com downturn that began in 2000, the market for tech IPOs has been heating up recently. Google's planned venture into public trading has been one of the most anticipated of the bunch. ------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah, Shawn will hang his hat on this one and rub it in my face forever, you have to give him credit, his slam on me with those 4 links is funny as hell, I am sure he will laugh when he reads this thread 40 years from now also. Man I hope he made some big money also, just hope you all are aware that those that hang on if it does fall big can lose quick. If it has a 15 year run like Microsoft did then hanging on for another 10 years may in fact be a good move. No one knows the future, "no one has a crystal ball" is an old saying on Wall Street, that is why the big Wall Street firms all play the game together, it is an insiders game, they push stocks up at the same time for momentum, then they sell them short all at the same time to make money on the downside. The question each investor has to ask is, is it worth the risk for additional upside? I say not right now, because another saying on Wall Street is: "Trees Don't grow into heaven"
I've enjoyed the GOOG ride. I sold some into the momentum today but still hold a position. I would love to see it go higher... but would consider picking up shares again if it pulled back to the $230-$240 level. Now, if only my FASRF (Fast Search & Technology) would break out.
Yeah man, it is a real problem, do you go long or short the stock at this point, that is the question with every stock. http://news.com.com/Google+shares+s...eport/2100-1030_3-5727922.html?tag=html.alert Story is above..........................
If I may pitch in my 2 cents, Go long. The great thing about Google's AdSense program (from their perspective) is the "black box" percentage they give to webmasters. If they need to make more money to meet estimates, etc., they can simply up the percentage of CPC that they keep. And since there's really no major AdSense competitor, they don't have to worry about webmasters jumping ship. Plus, if it goes down I lose my shirt, so please- Go Long!
Now it's only up 295% in the last 9 months, what a piece of trash! http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GOOG&t=1y