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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- DoubleClick made no profit on a per-share basis in the fourth quarter on revenue of $132.3 million, with the latter representing a 41 percent increase from the same period last year, the company reported after the bell Thursday.
In the year-ago quarter, DoubleClick reported a loss of 2 cents a share with revenue of $93.6 million.

Shares in the leading online ad server slipped Thursday in advance of the report. DoubleClick (DCLK: news, msgs) stock closed down $1.18, or 9.5 percent, to $11.25, after dipping as low as $10.93 earlier in the session.

In after-hours trading, the company briskly made up some of that loss, rising $1.12 to $12.37.

The company, which issued a fourth-quarter warning in mid-December that it would likely lose 3 cents per share instead of the then First Call consensus for a profit of 2 cents, had been under a revised estimate of a 2 cent loss per share.

Investors probably "shouldn`t expect any big surprises from the report" said Chris Hansen of Banc of America Securities in San Francisco before the report. "But they should be carefully watching for the breakdown by segments."

While DoubleClick`s media business and ad business has suffered from the same weakness that has sucked down the rest of the sector, "people are expecting a strong quarter out of their technology business and that will be the critical takeaway today."

And the company has seemingly come up with a good one, reporting that its "TechSolutions division reported record revenue of $61.5 million in the fourth quarter, an increase of 114 percent over the same period last year [and] revenues exceeded Media Revenues for the first time."

The company served 185 billion ads during the fourth quarter, a 140 percent increase over the same quarter of 1999.

Media was no slouch either in the revenue department either, posting $60.4 million for the quarter, an increase of 19 percent over the same period last year.

Perhaps more important, "the proportion of revenues from traditional advertisers continued to grow, from about 50 percent in the third quarter, to over 55 percent in the fourth quarter," the company said.

As for the future outlook, Hansen described the company`s projections as "cautious and vague for 2001," a good thing because it is an indication that it "has been much more honest this time around about the visibility they have into their revenues. Any projections that are stated with any certainty [on Thursday], I would discount heavily as an investor."

In a conference call, CEO Kevin Ryan said the company expects "a difficult environment, although the shakeout has come faster and more brutally than we expected."

Still, in 2001, while he expects a loss for the first quarter, Ryan is confident DoubleClick will move "from a full-year loss to a full-year profit."

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