According to the U.S. not listed equity trading platform SharesPost latest forecast, the market value of social networking site Facebook has soared to 82.9 billion U.S. dollars, far exceeding the previous estimate of 50 billion U.S. dollars of Goldman Sachs, the nation's second only to Google's second-largest Internet market technology enterprises.
However, this is not the highest market valuation of Facebook estimate. It is reported that, SharesPost deal in early January 2011 price of $ 60 a share, the Facebook share transaction, if the price is calculated accordingly, Facebook has reached the overall valuation of $ 136,000,000,000.
As of June 2010, Facebook has surpassed the number of online users 500 million, advertising revenue prospects for the future, the related revenue in 2011 is expected to be more than doubled to 40.5 billion U.S. dollars. Although not yet listed, Facebook stock has draw for investors. As SharesPost active on the valuation of the company to new heights recently.
But a survey, most investors do not think that Facebook has with such a high valuation of strength. Bloomberg News was 21 to 24 January 1000 on the global investors, traders and analysts in the survey, 69% of the respondents think that Facebook is not worth 50 billion U.S. dollars, and that its market value of 500 billion U.S. dollars by Only 10% of the respondents. Fund managers believe that part of the pursuit of Facebook investor hopes the company become another Google, which allows them to ignore some of the negative factors.