![]() ![]() The company was founded in December 2002 by Reid Hoffman and the founding team members from PayPal and (Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Lee Hower, Konstantin Guericke, Stephen Beitzel, David Eves, Ian McNish, Yan Pujante, Chris Saccheri). History Founding from 2002 to 2011 įormer LinkedIn headquarters on Stierlin Court in Mountain View, California LinkedIn filed for an initial public offering in January 2011 and traded its first shares in May, under the NYSE symbol "LNKD". Based in the United States, the site is, as of 2013, available in 24 languages. Īccording to a 2016 The New York Times article, US high school students were creating LinkedIn profiles to include with their college applications. Since January 2011 the company had received a total of $103 million of investment. LinkedIn reached profitability in March 2006. It was funded by Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and the European Founders Fund. Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, is chairman of the board. Jeff Weiner, previously CEO of LinkedIn, is now the Executive Chairman. In May 2020, the company had around 20,500 employees. Company overview įounded in Mountain View, California, LinkedIn is currently headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with 33 global offices. LinkedIn can also be used to organize offline events, join groups, write articles, publish job postings, post photos and videos, and more. ![]() Members can invite anyone (whether an existing member or not) to become a connection. LinkedIn allows members (both workers and employers) to create profiles and connect with each other in an online social network which may represent real-world professional relationships. As of March 2023, LinkedIn has more than 900 million registered members from over 200 countries and territories. Since December 2016, it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. From 2015 most of the company's revenue came from selling access to information about its members to recruiters and sales professionals. The platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows jobseekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs. LinkedIn shares have lost nearly a quarter of their value in the last three months.LinkedIn ( / l ɪ ŋ k t ˈ ɪ n/) is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps. “Given those macro concerns and LinkedIn’s recent execution issues, we expect investors will demand financial outperformance before there is meaningful recovery in LNKD’s multiple,” Goldman Sachs analysts wrote in a client note. LinkedIn has been spending heavily on expansion by buying companies, hiring sales personnel and growing outside the United States, but is now facing pressure in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific due to macro-economic issues. Facebook, Alphabet and Inc are better picks for investors than LinkedIn, Evercore analysts wrote. LinkedIn should be trading at $71.79, a 35% discount to the stock’s Friday’s low of $75.54, according to StarMine’s Intrinsic Valuation model, which takes analysts’ five-year estimates and models the growth trajectory over a longer period. “We were wrong,” they said in a client note.Īs of Thursday, LinkedIn shares were trading at 50 times forward 12-month earnings versus Twitter’s 29.5 times, Facebook’s 33.8 and Alphabet’s 20.9, making it one of the most expensive stocks in the tech sector.Įven after the selloff, LinkedIn’s shares may still be overvalued, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine data. RBC analysts said they had thought LinkedIn was on the cusp of “fundamentally positive” change. Underscoring the slowdown in growth, LinkedIn said online ad revenue growth slowed to 20% in the fourth quarter from 56% a year earlier. ![]() “This would imply that LinkedIn will grow around 15% in 2017 and 10% in 2018,” the Mizuho analysts said. LinkedIn forecast full-year revenue of $3.60-$3.65bn, missing the average analyst estimate of $3.91bn, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. At least 22 brokerages cut their price targets on the stock, with RBC slashing its target by almost half to $156. Raymond James, Cowen and Co, BMO Capital Markets, JP Morgan Securities, RBC Capital Markets and Suntrust Robinson also downgraded the stock. Mizuho downgraded the stock to “neutral” and slashed its target price to $150 from $258. “With a lower growth profile, we believe that LinkedIn should not enjoy the premium multiple it has grown accustomed to,” Mizuho Securities USA Inc analysts wrote in a note. ![]()
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