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Don’t Buy Twitter Inc Stock for This Simple Reason

Twitter can’t defend its business model and investors shouldn’t buy it

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInLeft”]The recent earnings surprise at Twitter Inc. (NASDAQ:TWTR) (it almost broke even) generated a quick gain of nearly 25%, as the shares rose from just over $17 per share to nearly $22.

By Nov. 1, however, this had already begun to reverse, and as trading opened the stock looked set to open at $20.67. From a technical perspective, the fight is on to hold $20 per share.

But should it?

Since it came public in 2013, at the height of the social media boom, Twitter has never made a profit. Its first trade back then was at about $41 per share, and it now trades at half that. Its peak price of $69 per share, achieved as 2014 opened, now looks as remote as any of the highs achieved during the Internet bubble at the turn of the century.

Twitter as Media Without Media

Like Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) and Alphabet Inc.(NASDAQ:GOOGL), which also had their lawyers on Capitol Hill for Halloween, Twitter is a media company that pretends to be a tech outfit so it won’t have to take responsibility for what it puts out.

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