Wednesday, August 17, 2016

I'm a beginner and I'm looking for advice on investing in Facebook

I just started getting interested in investing yesterday, and I've read everything in this subreddit's and /r/investing 's sidebars. I'm looking at FB as my first stock to invest in, and from everything I've looked at it seems like a great investment. But I probably don't know shit, because how could it be this easy. I made up a basic Pros and Cons list for investing in this company:

PROS:

Constant growth over the years of it being public

Very good management team

Very few competitors

Massive userbase

27% profit margin last year

Owns a variety of businesses

Recommended by many big analysts

Has a monopoly in the tech industry

Owns Instagram and Whatsapp

Has potential to grow exponentially if they popularize Oculus Rift

Cons:

Userbase might be partially inactive

Myspace became irrelevant very quickly

90% ad revenue

May lose relevancy over the next few years

Has no idea how to monetize Oculus Rift

Tech industry is constantly changing

Google + has 500 million users and is Facebook’s competition

So my question is, am I missing anything? Are there any signs that FB might tank over the next few years? I might just be very naive, but FB looks like a good long term investment, and I can see it growing a lot



Submitted August 17, 2016 at 10:54AM by NOT-HASHMON http://ift.tt/2bxKLK2

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