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Quiet Period Ending: Facebook Analysts Unleashed... Like !/?
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The company’s $100+ billion market value after the IPO was a bit much, but if these brokers come out with Buy, Outperform, and even Market Perform ratings they can still justify that $38.00 price target. Will that happen? We will know in the next 48 hours. It is important to remember that analysts at the underwriting firms generally rate stocks at or above the initial offering price. It is considered to be a slap in the face when a price target is under the official IPO price regardless of the underlying formal rating.
Perhaps the single most important call will be that from Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) as it was the head cheese of a really bad IPO. We wanted to give a synopsis of the non-syndicate brokerage and research shops covering it, followed by the syndicate brokers. Other important calls will come from Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) and more than 25 others.
Calls already in existence with price targets if seen, but we did not include the pre-IPO valuation calls:
Here are all of the firms which were in the syndicate which will be able to initiate coverage, and there are more than 30 of them:
Get ready. There are soon to be a flood of Facebook research calls. By the way, both PUT and CALL options trading is active ahead of the Facebook quiet period expiration.
JON C. OGG
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