Anxiety Appears to Build on Wall Street Over Facebook Stock

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Wall Street appears somewhat anxious about Facebook’s stock – a week before the company reports its quarterly results.

On Monday, the stock dropped over eight percent and was down over two percent on Tuesday morning. Monday’s results were the biggest one-day drop for the company since May 29, according to news reports.

Facebook fell 17 percent from the high in June and dropped some 27 percent from the IPO price of $38. The IPO was a source of disappointment for the company.

One analyst, Laura Martin of Needham & Co., suggests that some shareholders are trying to get rid of shares before the earnings report next week. She speculates there could be “weaker” earnings. There could be news of slower growth, too.

The company's quarterly results will be released after markets close on July 26.

As it now stands, Facebook is expected to report $1.16 billion in sales during the second quarter, according to average estimates from analysts. The average dropped 3.9 percent in just four weeks.

In other news, Capstone Investments' Rory Maher reports the number of U.S. Facebook users dropped some 1.1 percent over the last six months. The number of UK users basically stayed the same and the number of users in Japan and India jumped over 60 percent and 20 percent percent, respectively, according to Street Insider.

Also, on Wednesday Facebook could face some more unpleasantness with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee holding a hearing about the company acquiring Israeli face-recognition company Face.com. There could be questions presented about privacy and concerns how the technology will be used. In June, Facebook acquired Face.com for $60 million. One of the skeptics about the deal and Facebook’s use of the technology has been U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.), who notes how Facebook has access to content from 900 million users.

“A back of the envelope calculation suggests that Facebook could easily have a face print for one out of every 20 people on the planet," Franken said in a recent statement to the Federal Trade Commission."The key is to ensure that strong safeguards exist for privacy and civil liberties so that the benefits of these biometric technologies aren't outweighed by negative effects on privacy."

In other company news, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is apparently trying to find a way for his company to take advantage of the public’s increased use of mobile devices.




Edited by Brooke Neuman
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