Earlier today, Facebook unveiled its third pillar, Graph Search. While the announcement was highly anticipated, the unveiling didn’t live up to the hype from the investors’ perspective, as the stock (NASDAQ:FB) is currently down 3.23 percent at 29.95 – below $30 again.
For the past two weeks, investors have been anticipating a big announcement coming from Facebook. It explains the recent uptrend. Depending on what was actually announced, shares could have held steady at $31 or could have dropped slightly. Today’s scenario seems to be the latter.
There was a slight chance that the new product would have been much better than everyone’s dreams, but a very tiny one. A phone would probably have had such an effect.
Facebook shares are just readjusting to a more accurate level. As a company, Facebook still suffers from high volatility on the stock market. Investors care about Facebook and still like to follow each and every product update.
Facebook’s IPO price was $38 a share on the company’s first trading day in May. Yet, in August, the stock dropped to its lowest price at the time — $19.69 — as the initial lockup expiration kicked in.
Trading above $30 was a major milestone for the company. Even though today’s downturn is a setback, Facebook shares are following a positive trend these days. It should go above $30 a share once again in the near future — maybe even later today.
What’s interesting is that Facebook does not shy away from introducing radical changes to its products. As always, it focuses on what’s best for the user and will stand behind an innovation if it believes that it will improve the user experience.
Yet, investors have different needs in mind. They like conservative choices, security and stability. That’s why they should adapt to Facebook’s way of doing things if they want to understand the company’s long-term perspective, because Graph Search is clearly an important move for Facebook.
Check out more of TechCrunch’s coverage of Facebook Graph Search:
Facebook Announces Its Third Pillar “Graph Search” That Gives You Answers, Not Links Like Google
Watch Out Foursquare And Yelp: ‘Places’ Really Shines On Facebook Graph Search
How Facebook’s Graph Search Just Replaced A Major Chunk Of Google
Here Is The Ex-Googler Dream Team That Built Facebook’s New Graph Search Tool
If It’s Not In Graph Search, Facebook Hands Your Query Off To Bing
Zuckerberg Says “I Would Love To Work With Google”, But Bing Was More Flexible On Privacy
Facebook Takes On Google, But Private, Personalized, Social Search Has No Clear Winner Yet
Graph Search Ads Could Be A Goldmine For Facebook
With News Feed Unable To Handle All Of Our Content, Graph Search Will Lift Facebook Engagement