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Zynga stock pounded

KenFisherKenFisher Member UncommonPosts: 5,035
in The Rumor Room

For those that follow the business side of social gaming, Zynga stock took a pounding in after hours trading between last night and this morning.  Down 40%.  Currently at $3.05.  Compare that to the 52 week high of $15.91 set in March.

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  • CaldrinCaldrin Member UncommonPosts: 4,505

    thanks for the tip..

     

  • ReizlaReizla Member RarePosts: 4,092

    Was to be expected. It's much like

    Most 'software houses' that are not selling actual physical products might boost their worth on paper when they need money, but in fact, they're not really worth a dime...

  • DeathtognomesDeathtognomes Member UncommonPosts: 155
    Well considering Zynga paid FB huge sums of $$$ fro users private data and got caught, I'm not surprised.
  • thexratedthexrated Member UncommonPosts: 1,368
    Originally posted by Reizla

    Most 'software houses' that are not selling actual physical products might boost their worth on paper when they need money, but in fact, they're not really worth a dime...

     

    Considering that the most software business are moving to the service model, you could not be more wrong. 

    With Zynga and Facebook, you have bloated evalutions. Just like with the Internet Bubble at the turn of the millenium. Their evalution is based on the estimated potential of that business rather than concerete earnings.

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  • waynejr2waynejr2 Member EpicPosts: 7,771
    Originally posted by thexrated
    Originally posted by Reizla

    Most 'software houses' that are not selling actual physical products might boost their worth on paper when they need money, but in fact, they're not really worth a dime...

     

    Considering that the most software business are moving to the service model, you could not be more wrong. 

    With Zynga and Facebook, you have bloated evalutions. Just like with the Internet Bubble at the turn of the millenium. Their evalution is based on the estimated potential of that business rather than concerete earnings.

    Exactly what I was going to say.   The same thing happened with Television industry back in the 50s/60s. 

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  • laseritlaserit Member LegendaryPosts: 7,591
    Originally posted by XAPGames

    For those that follow the business side of social gaming, Zynga stock took a pounding in after hours trading between last night and this morning.  Down 40%.  Currently at $3.05.  Compare that to the 52 week high of $15.91 set in March.

     Great news as far as I'm concerned, sleezy company.

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  • chilipinchilipin Member Posts: 13
    Think this is caused by the cases againist them. For the copyright issue of sim, and other games.

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  • KenFisherKenFisher Member UncommonPosts: 5,035

    Another Zynga exec jumped ship.

     

    http://allthingsd.com/20120919/zyngas-chief-security-officer-nils-puhlmann-stepping-down/

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  • Lethargic_SynapseLethargic_Synapse Member Posts: 67
    Somebody's now bald with hair all over their palms.
  • fenistilfenistil Member Posts: 3,005
    Hope Nexon is next.
  • bigronbigron Member Posts: 42

    I wrote a sell piece on them months ago, got called insane by hundreds of people. LOL

    Horrible company. The scammy company acquisitions (inflates their sheets, like what Enron and crew did) and theft of IP was just the tip of the iceberg. Stock option clawback provision and generally bad management means when that company sinks it's the Hindenberg. They also have no profit, or as far as I could tell, even revenue from their core business.

    Long overdue.

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