The shares of Snap Inc was a success in the beginning of its IPO. Just like many other IPOs. But now, the story is different. Snap Incs stock has seen a big selloff for weeks now, and the price has fallen down to $13,65 after reaching a top of nearly $30 on high volume.
The market cap is $15,99 billion, which means the company has lost about $16 billion of market cap so far. To put that number in perspective: Twitter is worth about $12 billion. GoPro reached nearly $90, but now GoPro stocks is trading at about $10. Snap has lost about 10 GoPro companies. That`s a lot.
How can Snap survive in a market like it is today? Facebook is the biggest rival and they have more than 2 billion DAU`s while Snap has about 173 million. The question is why people should sign up to Snap when they know they have the same tools on Facebook?
This is what investors are looking for. How many DAU`s is it and are the number rising or declining? Quarterly revenues per user grew per user by 180% during Q1. People spend about 30 minutes vs 25 minutes it highlighted prior to its IPO.
Investors should know that there are a normal situation when an IPO stock is falling like Snap Inc. First of all, it is the lock-up expiration which means about 1,2 billion of Snap stocks will be available for sale in the near future.
Many Snap stocks are owned by VC`s and Executives, but it is a bad sign when insiders are selling their own stocks in their own company. On top of that you have short sellers. This is why Shares of Snap Inc fell about 23% in July. But not only that.
Profits are more important than users and users gives profits. Right now you shouldn`t mearsure the value of the company by users but by profit. If you do that, the stock will fall below $10 and end up similar to Twitter which is having the same problem; user growth.
Snap Inc was a bubble that burst with just 166 million DAUs compared to Instagrams 250 million. It`s funny to see that Snap is worth more than Twitter. How is that possible with only $150 million in revenue for the quarter?
Snap is also burning a lot of cash. They earn $150 million and spend more than $200 million.
Analysts are concerned about Snaps volatile growth and the fact that Snaps insiders would be able to unload some of their shares after a lock-up period expired at the end of July. Snap`s underwriter, Morgan Stanley, downgraded the shares from overweight to equal weight.
Snap Inc is expected to report earnings on Thursday, and investors need impressive results to be convinced about their marketing strategy in the future. A big surprise like that can also stop the negative sentiment at the moment.
Snap Inc will report earnings on 08/10/2017 after market close. Earnings forecast for the quarter is $-0,29 vs $-2,31 in May this year.
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