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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) on March 4th hit its year-to-date high, followed shortly thereafter by a 20% dip, but Facebook just rose 7.3%, its best day of gains since January 30. Despite the latest fall, analysts are still recommending BUY Facebook, pointing to advertising strength and potential growth. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) shares after opening at $57.60 moved to $60. 31 on last trade day and at the end of the day closed at $58.53. Company price to sales ratio in past twelve months was calculated as 19.06 and price to cash ratio as 13.11. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) showed a positive weekly performance of 3.14%.

Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN) was the recipient of a significant growth in short interest in January. As of March 31st, there was short interest totalling 86,780,441 shares, a growth of 17.5% from the March 14th total of 73,839,906 shares, AmericanBankingNews.com reports. Approximately 19.1% of the company’s stock are short sold. Based on an average trading volume of 16,475,555 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.3 days. Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN) shares fell -1.56% in last trading session and ended the day on $6.95. GRPN return on equity ratio is recorded as -12.40% and its return on assets is -4.80%. Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN) yearly performance is 6.11%.

Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO) is set to post its Q114 quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April 15th. Analysts expect Yahoo! to post earnings of $0.37 per share and revenue of $1.08 billion for the quarter. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) shares moved down -1.59% in last trading session and was closed at $32.87, while trading in range of $32.15 – 33.48. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) year to date (YTD) performance is -18.72%.

With 974 million existing Twitter accounts you might think that Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) just continues to grow, but new research by Twopcharts suggests that 44% of Twitter’s near billion user accounts have never sent a single tweet. Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) weekly performance is -7.16%. On last trading day company shares ended up $40.05. Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is -23.99%. Analysts mean target price for the company is $50.67.