The short version

Brian Wieser predicted on July 31, 2017: “Pivotal Research lowers its rating for Facebook to sell from hold. The firm says the company is facing decelerating growth and that its ad load on the core News Feed is at saturation.” Verdict: Partially right. Wieser was early — Facebook stock kept rallying through Jan 2018 before the Cambridge Analytica drop. The…

Prediction by

Brian Wieser

On July 31, 2017

“Pivotal Research lowers its rating for Facebook to sell from hold. The firm says the company is facing decelerating growth and that its ad load on the core News Feed is at saturation.”

Follow-up

Wieser was early — Facebook stock kept rallying through Jan 2018 before the Cambridge Analytica drop. The ad-load saturation thesis was vindicated in 2022 when growth turned negative for the first time.

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