LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD, Financial) is the #1 professional networking platform, with over 350 million registered members. Shares declined 17.4% due to worse than expected quarterly results. The company also lowered guidance due to foreign exchange rates, an internal sales force transition, display advertising weakness, and the negative accounting treatment of a recent acquisition. We believe LinkedIn is a unique platform asset in the early days of capturing a $27 billion talent acquisition market and a $25 billion B2B advertising market, with interesting additional positive optionality.
From Baron Funds' second quarter 2015 commentary.
