Morningstar's Grady Burkett highlights the new dynamics in an increasingly mobile-driven sector, the effect of Europe woes on key players, the hallmarks of durability among social media names, and more.
Morningstar's Rick Summer sees Facebook and Google dominating the Internet advertising market as Facebook finds better ways to monetize its massive user base.
Morningstar markets editor Jeremy Glaser sees lots of pluses (and some minuses) in Facebook's IPO filing, recent economic data, market performance, and earnings news.
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Facebook, which is used by 85% of advisors that are using social media, is far and away the most widely-used application, followed by LinkedIn (56%), Twitter (44%), Google (34%) and YouTube (31%).
It's not just that another 1.44 billion shares of Facebook will become available for sale between now and November. Or that Facebook, with its stock down 50 percent, remains one of the better-performing social media stocks. A much bigger problem is confronting the social media world.