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How Much is Twitter Worth?

“Learn More About Your Followers” = Spend Ad Dollars on Twitter To figure out how much Twitter is worth, you need to know how many “Twitterers” (“Tweeters?” “Twits?”) will bite on the company’s email invitation to learn “more about their followers” and “what resonates with their followers to drive better engagements” (whatever that means — both phrases are excerpts from...
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Investors’ Quirky Earnings Calculus: Twitter vs. Apple

Putting a Premium on Potential — and Discounting the Present Any would-be stock market geniuses first have to wrestle with this seeming conundrum. Newly-public Twitter has negligible revenue (never mind earnings), but is valued at an astronomical $32 billion. The rationale? The revenue and earnings will come later. Meanwhile, Apple Computer’s $40 billion(!) in net...
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To Buy Intel (or not) . . that is the question

Investors’ Conundrum, circa 2010 In a nutshell, here is the problem confronting the stock market: World-famous, blue chip stocks — companies like Intel, to pick one example — certainly look cheap. At $18 a share, Intel, the world’s leading manufacturer of microprocessors at the heart of every PC — is trading at a surprisingly conservative...
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