Shares of Facebook reached an all-time high of $230.75 on Wednesday, soaring as much as 6.4%, with Wall Street being bullish on the company’s focus on e-commerce.
The social media giant announced Facebook Shops on Tuesday, which will make listing products to Facebook and Instagram easier.
Investors rallied on Facebook’s announcement, with Morgan Stanley writing in a note Wednesday that this could make Facebook a competitor to Amazon and Alphabet’s Google. Shops also presents itself as a multibillion dollar opportunity, the analysts wrote.
Deutsche Bank also sees the opportunity for the company to rake in billions.
“We think Facebook Shop in a simplistic bull case could drive up to as much as a $30 [billion] revenue opportunity, across a combination of take-rate driven transactional and advertising revenue,” the analysts wrote.
AB Bernstein said in a note to clients early Wednesday that Facebook Shops could unlock a $1.3 trillion market.
“We have long viewed FB as the ‘rent’ to the digital economy and a core component of the online retail ecosystem,” the analysts wrote.