Will Facebook achieve another earnings beat?

For the last few years Facebook (FB) has beaten earnings steadly. Now however the bar is so high that they need to increase revenue and earnings by about 60% year over year.

Is buying Facebook stock a gamble infront of earnings today?

I believe it is a gamble worth taking so I am still positioning myself infront of the earnings by buying a good amount of shares.

It seems to me that they are properly monetizing Instagram even if there is a slight decline in the monthly active users (MAUs). Instagram is still the pre-eminent photo app out there and it is great if you have a good feed.

Mark Zuckerburg said that Facebook Messenger achieving over 1 billion monthly active users will begin to be monetized. WhatsApp is just chuggling along and will eventually be a huge addition to earnings.

The worry on the street is that Facebook is losing the teen-generation to Snapchat. This is a big worry but Snapchat doesnt have the depth that Facebook.com has. Snapchat would make a good addition to Facebook.com if they were ever able to buy it.

With the new development of Steemit.com, the social networking ecosystem is about to be put on its head. It is true you can make money having an active page on Facebook or a lot of followers on Twitter, but there has never been a direct feedback loop on earnings that Steemit.com brings to the table.