The VP Marketing & Bus. Part. of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), David Fischer Sold 25000 Shares

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David Fischer Insider Sell Transaction

In consideration of trade David Fischer made he is in in the stock market eye today. The VP Marketing & Bus. Part. of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) 86.06 -4.50 -4.97% and an insider, unloaded 25,000 shares worth $2,366,250 USD. The average price was $94.7 per share. In the last month, he also unloaded 42,651 shares that are worth approx $4,007,255 USD. The dated August 21, 2015 transaction’s filing that was filed with the (SEC) is freely available here. The chances that this deal stays hidden are nil because of the massive amount of money involved. Presently, David Fischer owns 295,262 shares which make up around 0.01% of the Company’s market capitalization.

Facebook Inc Stock Rating, Sentiment and Fundamentals

Since this was such a enormous transaction, it may signal that Mr. David is a pessimist about Facebook Inc’s future or the increase of its stock price. Fifty top financial analysts expect the stock to have 41.60 forward PE, $2.07 earnings per share and 28.90% eps growth.

Rating & Sentiment
PsychSignal Social:	SELL
Analysts Rating:	BUY
Hedge Funds Sentiment:	BUY

Stock Fundamentals
Earnings + FCF Trend:	BUY
Sector/Industry Macro:	BULLISH
Valuation Models:	–

Technical Analysis
ST Trend:	UP
MT Trend:	UP
LT Trend:	UP

OctaFinance Rating*:

NEUTRAL

Facebook Inc’s stock chart indicates it has risen 0.32% in the last 25 days and the strong and smooth up trend is expected to continue. This uptrend plus David Fischer’s insider selling and our trend-following model force us to rate the stock “NEUTRAL”. Look at the chart below.

Price Chart of Facebook NASDAQ:FB Stock

Source: RightEdgeSystems, Yahoo Split & Dividend Adjusted Data and OctaFinance Interpretations

Hedge Funds Ownership

According to 13F filings from SEC for Q4 2014, 1126 hedge funds have shares of Facebook Inc. The tracked institutional players have traditionally had an extremely high interest in the company, and that was also the case in Q4 2014. The institutional ownership was 51.38% of the stock’s outstanding shares. They increased by 63.29 million the total shares they hold. As of that quarter these institutional investors owned 1.45 billion shares. There were 77 funds that closed their positions and 330 that reduced them. A total of 181 funds opened new positions in Facebook Inc and 490 increased their holdings.

This stock is held by 143 institutional managers in their Top 10 stock portfolios. Some of them are: Ah Equity Partners Iii L.L.C., Alpinvest Partners B.V., Alydar Partners Llc, Ao Asset Management Llc, Atika Capital Management Llc, Buckingham Asset Management Llc, Capital Planning Advisors Llc, Cmt Asset Management Ltd, Ems Capital Lp, Hamilton Lane Advisors Llc.

Accuvest Global Advisors is the most positive institutional investor on Facebook Inc, with ownership of 17,460 shares as of Q4 2014 for 0.29% of the fund’s portfolio. Avalon Advisors Llc is another positive asset manager owning 153,355 shares of the company or 0.55% of their stocks portfolio. The stock is also 0.29% of the fund’s AUM. Moreover Balasa Dinverno & Foltz Llc have 0.06% of their stock portfolio invested in the stock for 5,795 shares. Beck Mack & Oliver Llc revealed it had purchased a stake worth 0.01% of the fund’s stock portfolio in Facebook Inc. The Texas-based fund Belmont Global Advisors Inc. is also very upbeat about the California-based company, with ownership of 10,200 shares or 0.79% of their stock portfolio.

Facebook NASDAQ:FB Company Profile

Facebook, Inc. is a social networking company. The Company is engaged in developing products that enables users to connect and share through mobile devices and personal computers. It offers various services focused on people, marketers and developers. It offers various platforms for people to share their opinions, ideas, photos and videos, and to engage in other activities. Its products include Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. The Facebook mobile app and Website enables people to connect, share, discover and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers. Its Messenger is a mobile-to-mobile messaging application available on iOS and Android phones. Instagram is a mobile application and Website that enables people to take photos or videos, and share them with friends and followers. WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging application and allows people to exchange messages on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Nokia devices.

Company Website: Facebook

Facebook Inc has 10955 employees. As of writing its market worth is: $242.48 billion and it has 2.68 billion outstanding shares. At the moment it has 55.08% shareholders and the institutional ownership stands at 55.08%. Facebook Inc was founded in Delaware on 2004-07-29. The stock closed at $90.559998 yesterday and it had average 2 days volume of 11664642 shares. It is up from the 30 days average shares volume of 7341388. Facebook Inc has a 52 weeks low of $70.32 and a one year high of $99.24. The stock price is above the 200 days SMA. Facebook Inc last issued its quarterly earnings stats on 07/29/2015. The company reported 0.3 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of 0.31 by 0.01. The company had a revenue of 4.04 billion for 6/30/2015 and 3.54 billion for 3/31/2015. Therefore, the revenue was 500.00 million up.

* The sales reported were effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the reporting person.

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The VP Marketing & Bus. Part. of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), David Fischer Sold 25000 Shares

Lord David Puttnam: online voting would cheapen democracy

Lord Puttnam took to the stage last month at The Marketing Society Annual Lecture at BAFTA to discuss his view on leadership and call on marketers to use their position to drive social change.

One of Lord Puttnam’s primary concerns is the “serious” level at which younger people are becoming disengaged with politics.

Should you make democracy that simple? Should you make it inexpensive?

“A lot of people try to pretend there isn’t a problem or that it will go away. What I am showing is that there is a problem with young people and disengagement with politics. It really has now set in and it is really serious,” he said.

Social media generation

The answers offered to the problem of engaging millennial voters may sound familiar to marketers, particularly the focus on digitising services and communications to fit with the ‘social media generation’.

However, Lord Puttnam is sceptical about the idea of introducing online voting: “There’s no question that you’d increase participation if you could do it electronically and we have this conversation all the time at House of Lords. Wouldn’t it be lovely if you could press a button to vote and not get in a taxi or walk in and do it? “

“But there is a flipside to that… should you make democracy that simple? Should you make it inexpensive?”

Did he fight a war to make it a push button democracy? I don’t think he did

He added: “It’s easier for me to say than for [most] to remember but I didn’t meet my dad until I was five because he was away fighting a war. He was fighting a war to be sitting here as we do now. Did he fight a war to make it a push button democracy? I don’t think he did.”

None of the above

His answer for how to engage with an increasingly disinterested youth is ‘trust’, something which he also urges brands to think about. He draws a parallel with the ‘none of the above’ movement – which is growing because people don’t like any of the party leaders – to the problems behemoths such as Tesco are experiencing as alternative brands steal market share.

With regards to the party leaders, he claims Cameron could have had an opportunity to gain trust but lost it with the way he responded to the Leveson inquiry. In contrast, Puttnam said that Cameron was “absolutely brilliant” with Hillsborough and Bloody Sunday because he spoke honestly.

The problem with Cameron is he thinks tactically all the time. People aren’t tactics, they have to believe that you believe in something

“The problem with Cameron is he thinks tactically all the time. People aren’t tactics, they have to believe that you believe in something,” he said.

I will never forgive Blair

Similarly, Puttnam’s trust was ‘unforgivably’ dented by Blair. Reflecting on his experiences voting for the Iraq war, he said: “People were prepared to be quite forgiving with Blair but the tragedy there is that, having reached a point that people were giving him the benefit of the doubt, he then manipulated us to a point where our natural good sense was removed from us.”

He added, “I remember thinking – I guess we have go to war because he clearly knows something we don’t – and it simply wasn’t true. It absolutely wasn’t true and I will never forgive him. I voted. I went through the lobbies at the House of Lords and voted for us to go to war. Much brighter people than me didn’t. How instant it is to give out trust?”

There are brands that, as a result of behaving well, are developing trust

His advice to brands is to develop trust by doing actions that show you mean what you say. In a social media world, the stakes are higher and Puttnam believes trust is lost easily.

“There are brands that, as a result of behaving well, are developing trust. They understand that trust, in the social media sense, is very quickly lost and they know that to sustain trust is almost a daily activity in which you have to prove that you are the trusted brand you said you were. You now have a social media pack out there that are more than happy to put you down if you are not,” he added.

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Lord David Puttnam: online voting would cheapen democracy