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Meta Platforms Inc / FacebookMETADON'T BUYApr 16, 2013Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 18, 2026. Market Open.
It made new highs in November and is the leader in the space. It will never be cheap unless something is broken. It is spending big in the augmented reality space which is great for more revenue. There there are big expectations for earnings growth and it is good at beating estimates. Use a trailing stop loss. Tech is 20% of their portfolio.
He sold it and has never bought it back. Trading at a decent 20x earnings. Sold it because the metaverse spending, which they got religion on that, and they reduced their workforce. Amazon is catching up quickly in digital ads, though. Meta has good opportunities in Instagram and Whatsapp, but have to monetize that. Shares have moved up because of cost cuts. Not sure about their future earnings, but their cost structure is much better.
Long ZYNGA (ZNGA-q) and Short Facebook (FB-Q)? A pairs trade that he would probably not put on in his funds. Zunga is interesting but its business model has run into a lot of problems and come under a lot of pressure. One of those sort of failed tech IPOs but is a very beaten up stock. Has quite a bit of cash on their balance sheet. This one, on the other hand, is a really good business, great company but expensive. Has always found with pairs trade that trying to buy a value, kind of “not great” company at a low price and short a really good company at an expensive valuation to play that spread, typically does not work out well.