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November 21, 2009 5:19 AM 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! Plans to Close Down Research Centre in Grenoble, Southeastern France

Yahoo! said it plans to close down its research centre in Grenoble, southeastern France, thus cutting 78 jobs. The group will reorganise its research teams at four major centres, in the USA, London, Taiwan and India. According to the plan presented to the works council, all the employees will be offered a transfer to sites in the UK, Switzerland, Spain or the USA. At the beginning of the year, Yahoo axed 40 jobs in Paris.

Yahoo! Launches Spanish Mobile Home Page

Yahoo! Inc. launched a Spanish version of its Internet home page for mobile devices in a move to court the growing US Hispanic population. Yahoo! Mobile en Espanol is accessible by smartphones at espanol.yahoo.com. Yahoo! is out to increase its popularity among the more than 46 million US Hispanics with a 'culturally and personally relevant' mobile experience. Yahoo! en Espanol news content includes an 'America Latina' section featuring stories centered on Latin America. Yahoo! mobile boasts more than 35 million US users and reports that the use of its home page has more than tripled during the past two years. Yahoo!'s mobile homepage is available in 32 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Spanish versions of the home page launched last month in 14 countries in Latin America. Mobile Internet use among US Hispanics is outpacing that of all other groups, with 88% consuming content on mobile phones, according to comScore figures cited by Yahoo!.

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2006  #14
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Valuation YHOO Industry Range
Price/Earnings 100.0x
Price/Sales 3.3x
Price/Book 1.8x
Price/Cash Flow 113.9x
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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