JSEDirect with Simon Brown

Is Facebook ex-growth? (#480)


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  • Great Sappi (JSE code: SAP) results.
  • Strong Hudaco (JSE code: HDC) results.
  • Top40 is trading at all-time highs, as is Resi10 and MidCap is almost there.
  • Kastle back to work barometer shows office attendance in the US is still not back to levels from before the most recent pandemic wave and around 33% (on average) of pre-pandemic levels. Back in November, the average was just over 38%.
  • IPO process explained.
  • Ashburton ETFs have moved over to FNB.
  • Meta Platforms (Nasdaq code: FB); Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp
    • Down 25% on the day of the results. Fell further and now off 43% from September 2021 highs and back at May 2020 levels.
    • Market cap below US$600billion, that happens to be the number House legislators picked as the threshold for a "covered platform" in a package of competition bills aimed at Big Tech.
    • Active users declined
    • $10billion lost revenue due to new iOS privacy rules
    • $10billion on metaverse.
    • Regulatory issues.
      • Meta threatens to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe over proposed regulations. The EU says, 'please do'.
    • All said this is just one quarter, the next few quarters will tell us the true story.
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