LinkedIn Corp (LNKD), Zillow Inc (Z) & Facebook Inc (FB): Will Accelerated Growth Lead to Large Gains?

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Clearly, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s growth is accelerating as it becomes a larger company, which is very unusual. Facebook has revenue over $6.1 billion for the last 12 months. LinkedIn is significantly smaller with revenue of just $1.1 billion during the same period.

Facebook has 1.155 billion users, which is 45 million users higher quarter-over-quarter. LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD) grew its users by just seven million in the same period, totaling 225 million users. Thus, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has more users to monetize, and has not bogged itself down to any one industry. Moreover, Facebook earns revenue from advertising, but also royalties from Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) game developers, royalties from Facebook vendors, and revenue from promoted posts among many other sources.

The end result is that Facebook’s outlook is appearing quite enticing for investors. By Internet company standards, the stock is fairly cheap, and its accelerated growth could push it higher to the upper echelon of Internet company metrics.

The big concern with Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) following its IPO was whether they could monetize mobile. In this last quarter, mobile use jumped 51% over last year, and mobile represented 41% of total advertising revenue for the second quarter. As a result, it looks like those concerns of mobile monetization are no longer relevant.

Therefore, Facebook deserves your attention, as this last quarter could be a perception changer, and a value creator. And in this particular space, there is a lot of room for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) to trade higher.

The article Will Accelerated Growth Lead to Large Gains? originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Brian Nichols.

Brian Nichols is long Facebook. The Motley Fool recommends Facebook, LinkedIn, and Zillow. The Motley Fool owns shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD), and Zillow Inc (NASDAQ:Z). Brian is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network — entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.

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