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November 22, 2009 12:49 PM ET

Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO:NASDAQ)

LAST $15.38 USD
CHANGE TODAY -0.23 -1.47%
VOLUME 16.1M
As of 4:00 PM 11/20/09 All times are local (Market data by Reuters is delayed by at least 15 minutes).

Snapshot of Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)

OPEN
$15.60
PREVIOUS CLOSE
$15.61
DAY HIGH
$15.74
DAY LOW
$15.36
52 WEEK HIGH
10/21/09 - $18.02
52 WEEK LOW
11/20/08 - $8.94
MARKET CAP
21.5B
AVERAGE VOLUME 3 mo
19.4M
DILUTED EPS TTM
$0.09
SHARES OUTSTANDING
1.4B
YHOO Does Not Pay Dividends
P/E TTM
162.4x
K = Thousands  M = Millions  B = Billions
BUSINESS EXCHANGE RELATED TOPICYahoo

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YHOO Details

Yahoo! Inc. provides Internet services to users, advertisers, publishers, and developers worldwide. The company owns and operates online properties and services, and provides its advertising offerings and access to Internet users through its distribution network of third-party entities, as well as offers marketing services to advertisers and publishers. Its Front Doors offerings include Yahoo! Front Page, My Yahoo!, and Yahoo! Toolbar; Communities offerings consist of Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, and Flickr to organize into groups and share knowledge and photos; and Search products comprise Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Yellow Pages, and Yahoo! Maps to navigate through the Internet and search for information. It also offers Communications offerings comprising Yahoo! Mail, Zimbra Mail, and Yahoo! Messenger that provide communication services to users and small businesses through its broadband Internet access partners. In addition, the company’s Audience offerings include Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, and Yahoo! Sports, as well as Yahoo! Autos, Yahoo! Food, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Health, Yahoo! Kids, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! Music, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! Real Estate, Shine, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Tech, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! TV, and omg!. Further, its Connected Life business includes Yahoo! Mobile and Yahoo! Connected TV that offer services designed to provide users with access to the open Internet and their Yahoo! content and communities across various Internet-enabled devices, including mobile devices and television. The company also offers Yahoo! HotJobs, which provides comprehensive solutions for employers, staffing firms, and job seekers; and Yahoo! Small Business that offers a comprehensive and integrated suite of fee-based online services, including Yahoo! Domains, Yahoo! Web Hosting, and Yahoo! Business Mail, as well as e-commerce platform called Yahoo! Merchant Solutions. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

13,600 Employees
Founded in 1994

YHOO Top Compensated Officers

Co-Founder, Chief Yahoo and Executive Directo...
Age: 40
Total Annual Compensation: $1.0
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice P...
Age: 44
Total Annual Compensation: $850.0K
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and...
Age: 40
Total Annual Compensation: $562.5K
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2008.

Key developments for Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)

Yahoo! Inc. Launches Yahoo! Mobile en Espanol for U.S. Hispanic Market

Yahoo! Inc. released Yahoo! Mobile en Espanol, a Spanish-language mobile homepage that is customized for the specific needs of the U.S. Hispanic consumer, delivering a highly engaging mobile Internet experience and setting a new industry standard. Available across more than 1,900 mobile device models, Yahoo! Mobile en Espanol simplifies and enhances the mobile Internet experience for Hispanic consumers. Users can bring together their favorite content and services from across the Internet to create a personally relevant mobile experience, keeping the things they care about at their fingertips, and enhancing their ability to: Discover via results from Yahoo!'s award-winning mobile Search, editor-selected content, and U.S. and global news content presented in Spanish, including the 'America Latina' news section, which provides relevant content from the Latin American region. Stay connected through access to email and social networking accounts from the most popular Web providers, as well as instant messaging, address book, and calendar functions. Stay informed by bringing favorite Web content--sports, news, local information, RSS feeds, weather, stocks, horoscopes, and more--to a single location.

Yahoo! Inc. Provides Revenue Guidance for the Full Year 2009

Yahoo! Inc. provided revenue guidance for the full year 2009. The company expects revenue to fall in 2009 by 11% to $6.4 billion, despite trimming its work force by 13%, or 2,000 jobs in the past year.

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Valuation YHOO Industry Range
Price/Earnings 100.0x
Price/Sales 3.3x
Price/Book 1.7x
Price/Cash Flow 112.2x
TEV/Sales 2.7x

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YHOO transactions

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Date
Target
Merger/Acquisition
September 14, 2009
Alibaba.com Limited
Merger/Acquisition
August 25, 2009
Maktoob.com Inc.
Merger/Acquisition
July 22, 2009
Xoopit, Inc.
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