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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Fidelity’s Blue Chip Growth Fund cut the value of its position in X by 5.7% in February, implying a 73% decline in the former Twitter Inc. since Elon Musk bought the social-media company.

Fidelity, which gained a stake in X by helping Musk complete his $44 billion purchase in October 2022, valued the position at $5.28 million as of Feb. 29, according to a report posted Saturday listing the fund’s holdings. A month earlier, the value was $5.6 million.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago

I wonder how Elon feels about his "go fuck yourselves" statement to the advertisers who left now?

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 86 points 1 year ago

He'd double down if you'd ask him.

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Let's. Just to drive the point home to any remaining advertisers.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I hope he does

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

He doesn't "feel" any of this except in the ego, and the ego would hurt more if he admitted he was wrong. He can private jet around all day and not run out of money for the rest of his life. Maybe it delays his plans to be able to more fully buy people, but that's not a feeling I'm curious to feel.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 60 points 1 year ago

So the claim is twitter is now worth 11 billion. LOL More like 11 million. Elon & trump sure know how to kill a business.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

73% fucking lol. Shit’s worthless.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

There are people out there still claiming that Elon has proven you can run Twitter and similar companies with fewer employees so all tech companies should be laying more people off.

[-] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If anyone wants to take a stab at how twitter at 44bil was a blue chip growth stock, I am allll ears because it means I’ve been doing this wrong whole life .

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not investor, but as far as I can tell, tech stock prices are based on magic. Look at the IPOs of Reddit and Truth Social.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I didn't mean literal magic. I meant magical thinking.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

it’s so insane to me that he titled his book “*The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”. so much confidence in his ideas.

[-] big_slap@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

my answer: stock market prices are set at what people "feel" the stock price should be at. and that's all there is to it.

see: gamestop

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily people. In this case a person. It only takes one sometimes.

[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

or truth social at billions. or any bobble before it burst

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Blue chip growth fund" is just the name of a Fidelity mutual fund. It invests at least 80% into blue chip stocks like Coca Cola and American Express, and the rest into companies it hopes will grow.

The latter category includes X, Lyft, Roblox, lululemon, Rad Power Bikes and many others. Notably, a few investments in that category (like Sonder) are now completely worthless.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

'the attention economy' was based on growing the quantity of eyeballs, and assumed advertising would carry everyone.

then advertising money fizzled.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Probably didn't help when musk literally said "go fuck yourself" to advertisers.

Elon is a fucking clown. Ruined such a promising website.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

Once it went public in 2013, it was ruined.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I can't believe that Musky can't make enough money from his blue checkmark simp army. What a shock.

[-] RalphFurley@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I really hate this prick.

[-] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Here is to another %27

[-] vegeta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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