5 Social Media Stocks to Buy Instead of Facebook

Facebook is one of the few social media stocks that technology investors should hold in their core portfolios.

Still, diversification within this subsector offers a margin of safety, which means considering other stocks is also a good idea.

Negative media coverage that undermines the site’s security and privacy issues could convince addicted users to finally quit the site.

Those users may opt to use Facebook’s WhatsApp or Instagram, but that will still hurt the company’s profits.

Cleveland Research wrote that encouraging feedback from advertisers would justify an increase in revenue estimates for Twitter.

Getting users to view ads in exchange for the free use of Snap’s messaging and camera features is a more than fair compromise.

Sina spent more for the year, although some of the increase is due to accounting changes and goodwill and an acquired intangibles impairment charge for its non-core business line.

Although Alphabet has no real pure play in social media, investors cannot ignore its giant presence as a search engine, which makes it notable among social media stocks.

Now that it is refocusing its growth on advertising revenue on the search engine, investors should consider holding GOOG stock.

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