| Do You?: Business the Yahoo! Way by Anthony Vlamis, Bob Smith Click now to buy! |
Coming Oct. 1, 2000 |
This report is dataed 10/1/00
Our stock of the week is not a recommendation to buy or sell, just an interesting company you might want to follow. Please see our disclaimer at the end of this newsletter.
Our stock of the week is Yahoo! ticker (YHOO). Yahoo's home
page is at http://www.yahoo.com/.
Get a quote at yahoo at http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=yhoo&d=v1
Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet communications, commerce and
media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services
to more than 120 million users each month worldwide. As the first
online navigational guide to the World Wide Web, www.yahoo.com
is a major guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and
business user reach, and is one of the most recognized brands
associated with the Internet. The Company also provides online
business services designed to enhance its clients' Web services,
including audio and video streaming, store hosting and management,
and Web site tools and services. Under the Yahoo! brand, the Company
provides broadcast media, communications, and commerce services.
Company has 5,200 advertisers. Has acquired GeoCities, Broadcast.com.
Yahoo! has also entered the free ISP arena by participating in
Kmart's BlueLight.com. SOFTBANK owns nearly 22% of Yahoo!; founders
and "chief Yahoo!s" David Filo and Jerry Yang own nearly
9% and about 8%, respectively. Also recently started expert.yahoo.com
which will allow you to get expert advice from their system. Their
Finance content is top rated and they are the number 2 site with
52 million view for the month of August behind AOL.
If you invest in this stock please use only an amount you are willing to lose as it is risky. We also recommend entering the stock when it's in an up-trend and above its 200 day moving average as it's currently in an MACD down-trend, and below it's 200 day moving average. If you do enter it you should cut your loses at 8% of your original investment which is a stop price of 83.72 at its current price of 91. Stock is down 26.5% in the last 3 months, 47% in the last 6 months and up 3.7% in the last 12 months and its performed better than stocks in its industry group over the past year, but worse over the last 3 and 6 months. Its 52-week high is $250 1/16 and it's currently trading at 91 which is 63% from its high. Resistance at $120 and support at $90. According to their 10Q there are no substantial legal proceedings against Yahoo. Their revenues for the previous 12 months was $854.7 Million with $203 Million in income. Morningstar.com rates Yahoo as an "A+" for Growth, "C" for profitability, "A-" for financial health, and an "D-" for valuation which is a great rating but a bit overvalued. Barchart.com rates 100% short term sell, 100% Medium term sell and long-term 100% sell which is as bad as it can get. Stock has a 1.53 rating on Yahoo, which is good. VectorVest rates it good value, poor safety, very poor timing. for an overall rating of poor and they have a sell recommendation on the stock. To do a complete analysis go to http://StockG.com/q.htm?em. . Stock is one of the Motley fools Rule Maker stocks.
Find out more about Yahoo in the book at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1841121118/etopinvestorcom
One risk of many is that this stock is very overvalued, and
the Nasdaq has been performing poorly, ad revenue risk, poor performance
of Internet sector and stock is currently in a steep down trend,
ad-blocking software can prevent users from seeing ads on Yahoo.
Click below for research link on yhoo:
* Motley Fools at http://quote.fool.com/uberdata.asp?symbols=yhoo
* Money Central at http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/research/wizards/srwfund.asp?Symbol=yhoo
* Morningstar.com at http://quicktake.morningstar.com/Stocks/StockGrade/_gern.html
* Barchart.com at http://quotes.barchart.com/texpert.asp?sym=yhoo&code=1
* SmartMoney.com at http://smartmoney.com/si/tools/eqsnaps/index.cfm?story=competition&symbol=yhoo&fk=7272
* ClearStation.com at http://www.clearstation.com/cgi-bin/details?Event=peek&Symbol=yhoo&Refer=http://www.clearstation.com/
* Yahoo at http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=yhoo&d=b
* Second Opinion at http://suretrade.stkwtch.com/Suretrade/Secop/yhoo.asp
* Thomson I-watch at http://iw.thomsoninvest.net/iwatch/cgi-bin/iw_page?ticker=yhoo
* Raging Bull at http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=yhoo
* 10Q at http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/sec/mda.asp?Symbol=yhoo
* Broker Reports at http://www.cnetinvestor.com/reports-single-company.asp?symbol=yhoo
* Momentum report at http://www.cnetinvestor.com/momentum-rating-single-company.asp?symbol=yhoo
* Vector Vest at http://www.vectorvest.com
Please note that author doesn't own any shares of this stock.
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