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[Klingone2001]

Welcome in Pennystock land!

Und wieder eine Depotleiche weg!

[MAJORHEALEY]

Wieso,warum,weshalb - gabs Zahlen ?

[Sir_Mike]

Nein, es gab keine Zahlen.
MdV Galli hat sich verabschiedet. Dies belohnte die Börse
mit einem Abschlag von 30%. Meiner Meinung nach war der Mann sowieso nicht so gut. Deshalb ist das Minus für mich etwas unerklärlich. Ich hoffe auf einen Rebound.

Sir_Mike

[Guru-Schreck]

Die führende B2B-Community VerticalNet wird nicht wie
geplant mit der Internetfirma SierraCities.com fusionieren.
Aufgrund der aktuellen Marktbedingungen wird der
geplante Zusammenschluss beider Unternehmen nicht
vollzogen, hieß es.

VerticalNet wollte ursprünglich 7$ für den Betreiber von B2B-Finanzplattformen bieten. Aufgrund des
drastischen Kursverfalls der VerticalNet-Papiere schien die übernahme derzeit offenbar nicht mehr möglich –
die übernahme sollte in Form eines Aktientausches erfolgen. Dennoch wollen beide Firmen weiterhin in
Kontakt bleiben und nach möglichen Alternativen in Form einer Kooperation suchen.

[hanser]

Aktuellzu 6 Euro, wenn die Nas. auf die 3000 geht, ist Vert schnell bei
15 USD. Vert kann sich dem NAS.-Chart nicht entziehen.

mfg

[genya]

VERT wird als erstes B2B Unternehmen das jahr 2001 höchstwahrscheinlich nicht überleben.

[beatnik]

@genya: gewagtes statement, vorallem bei deiner facettenreichen begründung... deshalb habe ich mich gefragt was für ein typ soetwas behauptet. um für behauptungen auf die fundiertheit schließen zu können habe ich mich nach anderen beiträgen von dir umgeschaut und bin auf folgendes gestoßen:

von genya 02.12.00 00:55:19 3812286539
Jetzt haben wir den absoluten break!
Wer jetzt nicht einsteigt und verbilligt, ist selber schuld.
Absolute Kaufkurse. Nie wieder so billig.
Heute haben wir nach oben gedreht. winterrally!
In 2 Wochen Nasdaq auf 5000!
Wer es nicht glaubt, der ist selbst schuld.


hmmm... also wiederholt unfundierte behauptungen...
nichts für ungut kerlle aber bemühe dich doch um hintergründe und laß das "bla bla" sein:
vorsicht vor genya!

[Klingone2001]

Deutliche Verluste bei VerticalNet
Der B2B eCommerce Anbieter VerticalNet meldete seine Zahlen für das abgelaufene vierte
Quartal.

Die Umsätze stiegen demnach im Vergleich zum dritten Quartal um 18 Prozent auf 40,7
Millionen Dollar. Im Vorjahresvergleich beträgt der Zuwachs 420 Prozent. Der Cash-Verlust lag
bei 32 Cents je Aktie oder 28,5 Millionen Dollar nach 35 Cents je Aktie oder 29,9 Millionen Dollar
in der entsprechenden Vorjahresperiode.

Nach Angaben des Unternehmen können diese Zahlen nicht mit den Konsensschätzungen
verglichen werden, da die Geschäfte des verkauften VerticalNet Exchanges Segmentes NECX
mit eingerechnet wurden.

Im Gesamtjahr stiegen die Umsätze um 510 Prozent auf 112,5 Millionen Dollar.

Nachbörslich gibt die Aktie leicht nach auf 3,25 Dollar.



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22.02.01 22:38 -ps
So, nun ist Vertical am Ende! Kursziel fürs erste 1$

[boerseaugsburg]

Sunday, April 8, 2001 Go to: S M T W T F S

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Internet CEO still hopeful in slump

Michael J. Hagan expects VerticalNet to turn a profit by year`s end. It could lose $70 million this quarter.


Michael J. Hagan stepped in as chief executive in January.
By Wendy Tanaka
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER


With the business-to-business e-commerce sector crumbling around him and his own company`s stock down 99 percent from last year`s highs, VerticalNet Inc. cofounder Michael J. Hagan insists he is still a B2B believer.

Although more tense in a recent interview than he was in a similar meeting six months earlier, Hagan remained upbeat about prospects for the Horsham-based company, which helps businesses connect with one another online.

VerticalNet, he said confidently, will turn a profit by the end of the year.

"We must focus internally and ignore what`s happening in the capital markets," he said.

Wall Street lost faith in virtually all the major players in the business-to-business sector months ago. VerticalNet has fallen lower than most - from an all-time closing high of $138.88 on March 9 of last year to $1.36 Friday - but its competitors are not faring much better.

Former highfliers such as Ariba Inc., Commerce One Inc. and Ventro Corp. have also seen their shares drop into the single digits.

Wall Street lost confidence in the sector because profits were rare and because software sales slowed as businesses cut back on technology purchases.

"There were very unrealistic expectations on the role e-marketplaces would play," said David Hope-Ross, an analyst with Gartner Group Inc., a Stamford, Conn., consulting firm. "Couple that with the overall stock market moving upward rapidly [early last year]: What goes up, must come down."

Against that backdrop, Hagan is working to turn around a company that lost $311.3 million last year on revenues of $112.5 million. A cash loss of $60 million to $70 million for the first quarter is expected when results are posted later this month. The loss does not include goodwill and amortization of assets.

"It`s a business climate no one has seen in 10 years," Hagan said. "It is awful in all industry sectors. It`s going to last a couple of quarters, but it`s not like the end of the world. You have to preserve cash and make prudent decisions."

Hagan, who cofounded VerticalNet in 1995 with Michael McNulty, his former roommate at St. Joseph`s University, stepped in as chief executive officer in January when Joseph Galli left after just five months on the job.

Galli, a former Black & Decker and Amazon.com executive, became chief executive officer of Newell Rubbermaid Inc., the consumer-goods company.

Hagan immediately slashed 150 jobs - more than 8 percent of his workforce - and sharpened VerticalNet`s focus on two businesses: VerticalNet Markets, the company`s online industrial exchange, and VerticalNet Solutions, its Internet software-development unit.

VerticalNet Markets, the core business dreamed up by McNulty and Hagan, manages 59 online exchanges, with names such as Solid Waste.com and Foodservice Central.com, where companies in a given industry can link up with suppliers, get leads, and even complete transactions over the Internet.

VerticalNet Markets generates revenue by taking a share of any online transaction and also by charging subscription fees to companies that want to set up virtual storefronts on its site.

The number of transactions, however, has fallen far short of expectations, and it remains to be seen how many companies will renew their storefront subscriptions at a full annual cost of $9,400 each. Many of the existing 19,000 storefronts on VerticalNet Markets are subsidized by a three-year, $100 million investment by Microsoft Corp.

During the fourth quarter of last year, the Markets division accounted for $34.6 million, or 85 percent, of VerticalNet`s $40.7 million in revenues.

AC Paper & Supply and A&D Engineering, two California-based companies taking advantage of subsidized storefronts on VerticalNet`s Foodservice Central.com site, said they probably would not renew, because the returns would not justify the investment. A&D Engineering said VerticalNet`s online exchange has simply not brought it enough customers.

"We got one hit right away," said George DeZiel, product manager of A&D, a Milpitas, Calif., maker of scales and other measurement devices for the food-processing industry. "That was the only hit we ever got. We have not made any money, not one dollar" from the storefront.

DeZiel, who has also tried in vain to sell his company`s scales through eBay, the online auction service, said his industry is dominated by small, family-owned businesses that are used to doing business face to face.

"E-commerce is just not ready for what we do," he said. "People are used to the service they get" in person.

Yet some companies have been satisfied with their results from VerticalNet`s exchanges. Air Products and Chemicals Inc., of Allentown, for example, has storefronts on 32 VerticalNet industry sites.

"We rely on the storefronts to supply us with leads as a means to reach prospective customers," Steve Cameron, Air Products` Web systems manager, said. "VerticalNet has been able to last this long because they have a broad reach. We depend on them for that."

Patricia Hume, president and chief executive officer of VerticalNet Markets, said she is aiming for at least a 20 percent renewal rate this year.

To encourage renewals, she said, VerticalNet is trying to get a better handle on the intricacies of the supply chains for the industries the company serves online.

For instance, "when the widget comes off the line, what`s the process?" she said.

Hagan said VerticalNet`s newer software business, however, will be the company`s primary growth engine in the years to come. The software lets buyers and sellers set up private exchanges; that way, only the participating companies are privy to pricing structures and volume discounts that the participants might not want publicized on a public exchange.

For the fourth quarter, VerticalNet`s sales from software totaled $6.1 million from 13 customers. But in time, Hagan said, software sales and online transaction fees should dwarf revenues from storefront subscription fees.

The move toward software sales puts VerticalNet squarely in competition with more-established software providers such as Ariba, Commerce One, and i2 Technologies Inc., but Hagan discounted the perception that VerticalNet had only recently become a software maker.

"We didn`t just open our eyes and say we want to be a software company," he said. "We`ve been a software company for the better part of two years. Our biggest acquisitions were software companies. We`ve spent hundreds of millions" buying and developing software products.

"I`m bullish on software," he said.

But George Santana, an analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc., is skeptical about VerticalNet`s ability to compete in the business-to-business software arena.

"Software is a very difficult business," Santana said. "For a business running 59 Web sites, there`s a huge jump to get there."

And those more-established software firms are not exactly golden anymore, either. The slowing economy has stalled sales of all technologies, and in many instances business-to-business software programs still have too many bugs.

Nike Inc. recently blamed i2 Technologies for its fourth-quarter losses. The shoe company said i2`s software fouled up ordering and shipping systems.

Because the whole business-to-business concept is so much more complex than Wall Street - and perhaps the companies themselves - realized at first, all agree that it will be years before many traditional business processes are successfully automated.

But Hagan notes that VerticalNet has enough cash - $145 million - to keep it afloat. Some of the cash came from the sale of NECX, VerticalNet`s electronics components business, to the tech-industry consortium Converge for $60 million and a 19.9 percent stake in Converge.

Converge is an online exchange where 15 technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard Co., Canon Inc., and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., buy and sell goods from one another.

VerticalNet provides the software and operating systems for Converge`s online trading systems - a contract that VerticalNet expects will generate $108 million in revenues over three years. Last year, no revenues were generated from the agreement.

"Converge will be a big [initial public offering] one day, and a value for VerticalNet shareholders," Hagan said.

Above all, he said, he is keeping his eye on the bottom line.

"Our focus is on profitability. We`ll continue to assess the business design based on where we`re going with software."

wenn die das einhalten sehr ich im nächsten jahr wieder zweistellige kurse.

gruss ba