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blantonl on Feb 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook's S-1 Filing

Per the S-1 filing, Facebook did $1 billion dollars in net revenue in 2011.

A valuation of $80-$100 billion dollars after the IPO would mean Facebook would be trading at 80 to 100x earnings.

Facebook is going to need to see some serious growth to continue to command a PE ratio like that long term. Serious Growth

jacques_chester on Feb 2, 2012 | [–]

Alpha Centauri is an untapped market.

LearnYouALisp on Feb 2, 2012 | | [–]

Think of all the arcane technology to recover from the ruins!

ldayley on Feb 2, 2012 | [–]

Huge P/E ratio hasn't seemed to hurt shares of Salesforce.com too much.

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