Zu Yahoo (YHOO) dem einstigen Börsenliebling wird wie jetzt zu Google nur noch gehässiges Geschnöde publiziert. Ganz unbeobachtet hat sich Yahoo hierbei in eine Range ziemlich fairer Bewertung mit PE ca. 25 herangeschlichen, selbst wenn der Ausblick nicht soo roosig dargestellt wird wie auch schon. Hab mich jedenfalls zur Abwechslung mal entschlossen auch aus charttechnischen Überlegungen eine halbe Portion einzubuchen.
Zahlen von YHOO. Nachbörslich unwesentlich leicht im minus.
Gruss Rich
Yahoo Profit Falls on Options Expenses; Sales Rise 15 Percent
By Jonathan Thaw
Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. said fourth-quarter profit dropped 61 percent after delays in its newest Internet advertising software and costs from employee stock options.
The company, which trails Google Inc. among Web search engines, said net income fell to $268.7 million, or 19 cents a share, from $683.2 million, or 46 cents, a year earlier. Sales excluding revenue passed onto partner sites rose 15 percent to $1.23 billion, Yahoo said today in a statement.
The revenue forecast for this quarter missed analysts' estimates. Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo faced mounting competition from Google and new sites such as MySpace, and the company didn't win as many ad sales over the holidays as investors had anticipated.
``Branded advertising, which was growing 35 percent plus a year, has faltered a little bit,'' Youssef Squali, an analyst at Jefferies & Co. in New York, said before the report. Squali, who got StarMine Corp.'s top ranking for the accuracy of his estimates, rates the shares ``buy'' and doesn't own them. ``That kind of spooks people.''
Profit, excluding some items, was 16 cents a share. Analysts in a Bloomberg survey had estimated profit of 14 cents. A survey by Thomson Financial had profit at 13 cents.