Linked In
Transcript: Company History The Future Financial Condition Company Industry Current Ratio: 4.29 4.89 Cash Ratio: 1.25 1.27 Total Debt Ratio: .22 .04 Company Market PE Ratio: 714.29 45.66 PB Ratio: 8.8 2.6 PS Ratio: 14.9 3.2 PEG Ratio: 0.6 2.3 Forward PE Ratio: 64.5 15.6 Recent Acquisitions Growth In 2011 Linkedin experienced a 600% growth in overall company operations. Newsweek claims "Linkedin is the Social Media of the Future". Linked in is now considered, among many other things, a top ranked recruiting service. Company History Started out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in 2002, and it officially launched on May 5, 2003. (Happy 11th Birthday!) Hoffman is now Chairman of the Board, and Jeff Weiner has taken over as CEO Filed for an initial public offering in January 2011 and traded its first shares on May 19, 2011 In the same year LinkedIn earned $154.6 million in advertising revenue alone, surpassing Twitter, which earned $139.5 million Price & Valuation Analysis Their mission: Connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. When you join LinkedIn, you get access to people, jobs, news, updates, and insights that help you be great at what you do. LinkedIn is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from member subscriptions (such as premiums), advertising sales, and talent solutions. In 2012, it launched an iPad app, in addition to updated iPhone and Android apps. The company bought a slide-show presentation platform, SlideShare for $119 million, and also acquired the email service Rapportive. 2013 acquired Pulse a moblie newsreader, and in 2014 Bright, a job matching application. There are 161 million professionals worldwide who have connected with Linkedin since its official launch in May 2003. Every second that number grows by two more memberships, according to company stats. As of April 18th, there are now more than 300 million LinkedIn members in the world! More than half of these members come from outside of the U.S., while there are 100 million members in the U.S. The company is constantly growing, not only with memberships, but also with other business ventures like the ones spoken about earlier in the presentation. Linked In Connected by: Christie Fleming and Jessica Marcus