One thought...if/after Musk brings free-speech to the platform... Google is very liable to ban it from their app store like they did with Truth Social?
The drama of the deal significantly raised publicity for Twitter, for months. Musk played it brilliantly. Free pr for months.
IMO it is important to take a look at the Tech Sector as a whole. The entire sector is down near 40% over the past year; while the S&P 500 is only down 15%. Looking in at the Internet Index -- it is down over 52% over the past year. The picture is not pretty for the Tech / Internet sector and is very reminiscent of the first dot.com tech sector bust.
The drop in technology spending by companies in the second half of this year --- coupled with fewer individuals using Zoom and other remote support technologies --- does not paint a good picture moving forward into the first half of 2023.
This does not even touch on the significant drop in digital ad spending and the associated chaos at Meta, Twitter, and other social media firms.
The drop in the Tech sector is structural and there will not be a quick rebound in the next six months. 40% down already and continuing. The situation is even worse with companies within the Internet sector. Many of these companies are not trading higher than they did before Covid.
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Naz Tech giants AAPL, AMZN (yes them too - July 2021 they topped), GOOGL, MSFT, TSLA had negligible benefit from Covid and they have been knocked down a peg or two.
Notice you didn't mention AMZN (where all that ordering wound up), down something like -47% from ATH.Googl and MSFT had negligible benefit from covid? Really? Are you kidding me?? All those searching for up-to-the-second update on covid on Google, downloading apps to cope with covid, buying stuff online using google wallet all produced negligible benefits for Google? Using skype for remote working arrangement, teleconference, using MS Office Suite products like Sharepiont and Outlook for interactively sharing work online produced negligible benefits for Microsoft?? Really? Were you in a coma during covid or did you just come back from space? TSLA is different. The company is on its way down especially with its unstrategic purchase of TWTR and the price-cutting efforts by Chinese EV copycats, the company is going through "adjustments". If you ask me, the move of his EV plant to his dumbest move so far. It's like voluntary technology gifting. LOL TSLA's competitive advantage is dropping, so of course the company's share price is dropping accordingly.
Honestly I don't really see the tech. industry changed negatively let alone crashing in any way.
Notice you didn't mention AMZN (where all that ordering wound up), down something like -47% from ATH.
Meanwhile GOOGL down -36%, MSFT -32%
All subject to further downward revision in price percentages ... if trend continues.
Look at their financials: MSFT for example
Revenue
2020 143,015,000
2021 168,088,000
2022 198,270,000
EPS
2020 5.82
2021 8.12
2022 9.70
Like I said negligible or basically on trend.