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Defying Skeptics, Twitter Stock Surges 60% in 2018 (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
Twitter is one of the hottest stocks on Wall Street this year -- and now the company is hoping to cash in by selling $1 billion of bonds that can eventually convert into Twitter stock... Twitter's stock is up more than 60% this year, and prior to Thursday's drop, Twitter shares had been on a 10-day winning streak. Why are investors flocking to Twitter? It looks like Twitter's strategy to embrace live video is a hit with users and advertisers. Twitter reported an actual profit for the past two quarters and user growth has accelerated.
That's why Twitter's stock has easily outperformed top rival Facebook, which is up 6% in 2018, and it's trouncing struggling Snap Inc. The parent company of Snapchat is still down 15% this year, despite a 10% surge in the past week. Twitter was also just added to the S&P 500, which proves that the little blue bird is now a blue chip American firm that is finally starting to grow up.
That's why Twitter's stock has easily outperformed top rival Facebook, which is up 6% in 2018, and it's trouncing struggling Snap Inc. The parent company of Snapchat is still down 15% this year, despite a 10% surge in the past week. Twitter was also just added to the S&P 500, which proves that the little blue bird is now a blue chip American firm that is finally starting to grow up.
And despite the constant negative skeptics, covfefe!
Yep, nearly every day the headlines on the front page of major media say "Trump tweets ..." whatever. Yesterday the top story was he tweeted that he was looking forward the unemployment numbers coming out, which he did two hours before they were officially realised.
Being in the headlines daily has to be very good to Twitter.
This is a good stock to short (along with TSLA). The younger generation doesn't use Twitter and the stock price doesn't reflect reality. Twitter has been a terrible 5 year investment.
It's pretty true... twitter is meaningful at least partly because the media props it up. Trumps tweets are headline news every day... Rosanne got canceled over her tweet. Also meanwhile Facebook is getting some pretty bad rap for selling data etc... making people spend more time on twitter and possibly less on facebook.