Facebook is valued at $ 70 billion

An investment fund called GVS announced on Monday that disbursed $ 6.58 million for a small package of 225,000 shares of social networking site Facebook, valued at U.S. $ 29.28 unidade.Considerando that the information obtained in the secondary market give realize that the site is Mark Zuckerberg 2.4 billion of securities in its inventory, the site was evaluated in healthy U.S. $ 70 billion (U.S. $ 111.6 billion, or 2.33 Eikes Baptists, according to the Institute of Tecnoblog Economics).


In March 2010 a company called VCExperts had valued the site at $ 35 billion, and in January of that year another company, SecondMarket, had stipulated that the site was worth "only" $ 14 billion.

Just by way of comparison, data collected in Wolfram Alpha show that the site is still behind some of the world's technology giants such as Google ($ 155 billion), Apple (U.S. $ 87.45 billion) and HP ($ 72, 55 billion). But social networking is already evaluated by a value greater than giants from other sectors such as automotive Ford (U.S. $ 51 billion) or Nike ($ 38 billion), for example.

Although Facebook is still a privately held company, some of its executives say it is "inevitable" that the company open its capital "in the future", without risking giving any date.