Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), Twitter initiate action against dangerous content

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Twitter and other social media platforms agreed to take further steps to stop the spread of violent extremist content in Australia as global pressure increases following the live-streaming of the New Zealand massacre in March. An Australian task force that also includes YouTube and Australia’s biggest mobile-phone operators on Sunday released a report with nine areas for action, including efforts to prevent, detect and remove such material.



The stock Earnings per share (EPS) and the diluted EPS are the profitability measures used in the fundamental analysis of companies. The figure of EPS only takes into account a Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)common shares, whereas the very important diluted EPS take into account all the convertible securities such as convertible bonds/convertible preferred stock, which are changed into equity or common stock. Dilutive effects occur when the number of shares increases, for example, through a new issue. If a company issues more shares to shareholders and other investors, this increases the number of shares outstanding and decreases the company’s earnings per share. Ultimately, this can decrease the stock price. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Diluted EPS is 6.73, whereas the EPS Estimate for next year is 9.36. The Annual EPS Growth of past 5 years is 66.30% and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) yearly performance is -1.45% and net profit margin is 33.20%. 

Key Performance indicators for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), in last 4 months the performance of FB was 15.78% while its price to sale ratio is 9.18 and price to book ratio is 6.37. Company gross margin stands at 82.60% whereas its return on investment (ROI) is 25.80%. 

On 28 June 2019, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), a Technology sector firm, traded 16.36 Million shares in last trading session and stock moved up 1.85% with closing price of $193.00 per share. with Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) traded 16.36 Million shares. The FB distance from 20 day simple moving average is 6.93% and distance from 50-Day simple moving average is 4.84%.The relative strength index for stock is 60.93 and Average true range of FB is 4.48. 

Analyst’s mean target price for FB is $222.52 while analysts mean recommendation is 1.90. The Stock value has moved between $122.93 – 219.32 in last one year. FB market capitalization is 540924.96 with beta of 0.96. Company has 1.43% insider ownership. 

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is under coverage by number of analysts. Stock has got OUTPERFORM rating from 21 of Thomson Reuters analysts, 4 given HOLD rating to the stock and 1 given UNDERPERFORM rating. Buy rating has been given by 20 analysts to the company stock. 

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