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Snap's Q4 Points To 'Material Multiyear Growth' Ahead, BofA Says In Upgrade
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - 10:23am | 395Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) reported after Tuesday's market close its first-ever better-than-expected quarterly earnings report since becoming a public company nearly one year ago, which turned at least one Wall Street analyst bullish on the social media company's outlook. The Analyst Bank of...
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Snap Wins An Upgrade Following Lock-Up Expiration, Q2 Results
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - 10:30am | 363Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald turned bullish on Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) to reflect a "significant shift" in the stock's risk to reward profile after the lockup expiration and the company's second-quarter earnings report. The firm's Kip Paulson upgraded Snap's stock rating from Neutral to Overweight...
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5 Takeaways From Snap's Q1
Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 10:37am | 473JPMorgan's Doug Anmuth maintains a Neutral rating on Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) but with a price target lowered from $24 to $20 after the company reported its first ever earnings report as a public company. Anmuth's revised price target and Neutral stance are based on five key takeaways from the...
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Facebook Takes A Page Out Of Snap's Book... Again
Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 2:10pm | 353Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) copied one of Snap Inc's (NYSE: SNAP) most notable features to great success -- so why stop there? Facebook poached Snapchat's Story function last year and added it to its Instagram platform. On Thursday, the company announced the availability of a new Snapchat-...
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Less Than 2 Years Since It Debuted The Feature, Facebook Is Now No. 1 In Live Streaming
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 - 1:30pm | 415Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) had a path to become the internet's leading provider of live video — only to see Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) reign supreme. According to Statista, Twitter's May 2015 acquisition of Periscope gave the social media platform the ability to stream live video. At that time...
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State Of Social Media: Bright Spots And Blemishes
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 - 10:48am | 529The social media space had a mixed year, with Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) shares cooling off after a stellar 2015 amid the fake news and ad metrics scandals. Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) found itself in a mess, and Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, is preparing to offer its shares to the public. Even amid...
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Instagram's New Feature Copies Snapchat's Stories
Tuesday, August 2, 2016 - 11:05am | 345Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) introduced a new feature for its photo and video sharing social media property, Instagram called "Stories." Stories is a new feature that allows Instagram users to "share all the moments of your day, not just the ones you want to keep on your profile....