Monday, May 6, 2013

LNKD: Post Guidance Bomb, LinkedIn Is Still Insanely Expensive

Post Guidance Bomb, LinkedIn Is Still Insanely Expensive
by Cory Renauer

Shareholders of LinkedIn (LNKD) have been partying like it's 1999. Before the company dropped a guidance bomb on Thursday, its shares were trading at about a zillion times earnings, give or take. It's hard to pin a P/E ratio to a company that has been growing at the pace of LinkedIn. Total diluted per share earnings from Q2 2012 through Q1 2013 were $0.35. At a price of 200, that's a PE of 571.4, at a price of 175, that's a modest PE of just 500. read more »

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