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Jack Dorsey Resigns as Twitter’s CEO, Effective Nov. 29; Maintaining FVE; Shares Fairly Valued

Senior Equity Analyst Ali Mogharabi

Ali Mogharabi Senior Equity Analyst

Analyst Note

| Ali Mogharabi | Nov 29, 2021

Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and CEO of Twitter, resigned from his position today, replaced by Parag Agrawal, the firm’s chief technology officer. In addition, Dorsey will leave the Board of the firm in May 2022 when his term expires. Regarding the firm’s operations, Twitter did not make any changes to its guidance and long-term goals which the firm had shared with investors during its last earnings call. This announcement does not impact our view of no-moat Twitter and our Standard capital allocation rating of the firm. We are maintaining our $58 fair value estimate.

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Company Profile

Business Description

Twitter is an open distribution platform for and a conversational platform around short-form text (a maximum of 280 characters), image, and video content. Its users can create different social networks based on their interests, thereby creating an interest graph. Many prominent celebrities and public figures have Twitter accounts. Twitter generates revenue from advertising (90%) and licensing the user data that it compiles (10%).

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www.twitter.com

Sector Communication Services

Industry Internet Content & Information

Most Recent Earnings Sep 30, 2021

Fiscal Year End Dec 31, 2020

Stock Type Speculative Growth

Employees 5,500

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