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Yahoo tops targets
--4:37 pm - By August Cole
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (CBS.MW) -- Yahoo`s second-quarter results beat Wall Street expectations by 2 cents a share. First Call expectations put the results at 10 cents a share. Quarterly revenue also came in at the high end of expectations, at $270 million. In the year-ago quarter, Yahoo earned 5 cents a share.

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Tuesday July 11, 4:42 pm Eastern Time
Yahoo reports higher earnings, revenue
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 11 (Reuters) - Internet media giant Yahoo Inc. (NasdaqNM:YHOO - news) on Tuesday reported higher than expected earnings in the quarter and said its revenues more than doubled.

The company reported pro forma net income, excluding certain unusual items, of $74 million or 12 cents per diluted share, compared with $27.1 million or 5 cents per diluted share in the year-ago period. The latest earnings exceeded the consensus analyst forecast for a profit of 10 cents per share.

Yahoo also said that sales grew to $270.1 million from $128.6 million the year before.

It said page views rose to an average 680 million per day in June, up from 625 million in March.

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Tue Jul 11 YHOO Yahoo! Q2 Earnings Call scheduled for 5:00 pm today - Yahoo! Broadcast

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Yahoo beats estimates by 2 cents

Sales surge 109% to $270 million; earns 12 cents

By Bambi Francisco, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 4:59 PM ET Jul 11, 2000

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Shares of Yahoo surged in after-hours trading to 113 1/8 on Instinet after the company beat even the most optimistic revenue projections.

While earnings matched the highest expectations, traffic growth was not as robust as some analysts had hoped

“It was a solid quarter,” said Carolyn Trabuco, an analyst at First Union Securities, who had among the highest sales projections on the Street.

Shares of Yahoo (YHOO: news, msgs) closed down 4 1/2 to 105 1/2.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based Web media giant earned $73.9 million, or 12 cents a share, excluding acquisition-related charges. That surpasses the 10 cents a share expected by analysts, and is up from 5 cents in the year-ago period. It also matches the most bullish unpublished projections of 12 cents a share.

Quarterly sales grew to $270 million, up 109 percent from the same period a year ago, and up 18 percent from the previous quarter. The top-line number also surpassed the most optimistic forecasts of $265 million.

“We made significant progress in five key areas of focus,” said Yahoo Chief Executive Tim Koogle in a release. Those include “mobile services, rich media and voice services, enabling transactions, business and enterprise services, and globalization.”

Traffic numbers just matched projections. The number of daily page views climbed to 680 million, up from 645 million in the previous quarter. But some analysts had hoped that traffic numbers would top 700 million or even hit 750 million.

As for registered users, estimates ranged from 152 million to 157 million. The number of unique users globally grew to 156 million, which include 20 million in Japan.

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July 11, 2000 4:56pm

Another strong quarter for Yahoo!

By Larry Barrett ZDII

Yahoo! predictably topped analysts` estimates in its second quarter Tuesday, earning $74 million, or 12 cents a share, on sales of $270 million, temporarily calming investors` worries about the world`s leading Internet portal.

First Call Corp. consensus expected it to earn 10 cents a share in the quarter.

The $270 million in sales marks a 110 percent jump from the year-ago quarter when it earned $27 million, or 5 cents a share, on sales of $128.6 million.

Ahead of the earnings report, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) shares closed off 4 1/2 to 105 1/2. In after-hours trading, the stock shot up to 112 3/4.

The impressive sales growth surprised analysts who were expecting total sales of between $221 million to $251 million, according to First Call Corp.

Including a variety of one-time charges, Yahoo! earned $65.5 million, or 11 cents a share, in the quarter.

"This quarter`s better-than-expected financial results underscore the strength of our global franchise business," said CEO Tim Koogle in a prepared release. "We will continue to focus on key growth areas to maximize the inherent leverage and scale in our business to deliver the best services available on the Web."

Yahoo! recorded 680 million page views a day in June compared to 625 million page views in March, including traffic at Yahoo! Japan. Yahoo! Japan accounted for 85 million daily views while Yahoo! Europe accounted for 33 million page views per day.

Company officials said it enabled over $1 billion in Web-based transactions through its network of sites, including its Japanese operations.

Last quarter, Yahoo! topped analysts` estimates, earning $63.2 million, or 10 cents a share, on sales of $228.4 million.

However, analysts were grumbling about Yahoo!`s margins of late, worried that deteriorating online advertising sales would crimp Yahoo!`s impressive growth.

Also, some analysts were concerned that its plans to expand its offerings for wireless devices would erode profit margins.

"There aren`t as many people spending dollars to advertise like they were six or eight months ago," said Lise Buyer, an analyst at CS First Boston. "But for every dotcom that goes away there`s another established company that will find a way to work with Yahoo!."

Following its first-quarter success, several analysts raised their fiscal 2000 earnings estimates while simultaneously expressing concerns about its operating margins.

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst Mary Meeker raised her 2000 earning estimate to 44 cents a share from 38 cents a share following the report while boosting her revenue estimate 8 percent to $1.025 billion.

At the time, Meeker said Yahoo!`s "key metrics were awesome, again," noting the increase in its user base, number of unique visitors and daily page views.

"For 2000, we expect to see the stock move sideways through the summer and then rally to a new high at the end of the year," said Henry Blodget, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, in a research note. "Yahoo!`s core businesses appear strong and the company is successfully expanding into new arenas (wireless, devices, international). We continue to consider YHOO a core long-term holding."

Yahoo! shares clearly haven`t been as proficient as they were just six months ago.

On Friday, Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown analyst Andrea Williams Rice cut the stock from a "strong buy" rating to a "buy" due to slower-than-expected revenue growth and valuation issues.

After moving up to a 52-week high of 250 1/16 in February, the stock has slipped back to around $117 a share. It also split 2-for-1 in February.

"I`d be startled if Yahoo! doesn`t meet or beat the published estimate," Buyer said ahead of the earnings report.

Twenty-nine of the 33 analysts following the stock rate it either a "buy" or "strong buy."

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