Everyone I know uses Yahoo, but it's price in the market is flat. I don't want to hear that it doesn't have a dividend, either.
2006-09-11 23:24:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Investing
Sorry if I seem a little flip on this one, but it's almost a rhetorical question. (And I agree, it has NOTHING to do with a dividend)
Yahoo competes in the same sector as GOOGLE for many of the same advertising dollars. So just start ticking off what you use on each and why.
Email - googlemail (virtually unlimited storage, multiple tagging, sorting, prioritizing) awesome. Yahoo mail (so 1990's). Even it's new beta version has been regurgitated by most beta users as being completely pathetic (and that's their newest product!)
Yahoo!Answers - I'll let you judge for yourself on that one.
Finance - long the stallwart, Yahoo finance was once the go to site for most things finance! Alas, but have you checked out finance.google.com yet? You decide for yourself.
Maps - yahoo maps vs. google (and satellite) maps
Pictures - Google Picassa product vs. ?
Search engine - not even a contest. There's even new words in the dictionary now. When was the last time you've Googled a topic? :-)
Anyways, that's just a primer. In the market, it's perceived that Google's a tad ahead of a flailing Yahoo. And until such time Yahoo can pick itself up and either form stronger partnerships, or get some REAL creative juices to develop (AND TEST) new products, Yhoo will probably continue to lag the industry.
That said, it doesn't mean that if GOOG finds a way to expand the universe, that YHOO might not get a bump on the coattails, but overall YHOO needs to realize that things have changed and that they need to change too!
Hope that helps!
2006-09-12 08:39:40 · answer #1 · answered by Yada Yada Yada 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The market perceives them to be in competition with Google for advertising dollars and Google is receiving the largest chunk of that pie.
Of course it does not help matters any that the stock is very high priced in relation to its earnings and earnings potential either. Stock is actually worth about 12-18 a share.
2006-09-12 00:47:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have not been able to capture the market in any of the key segments. They also have yet to produce a product which is dominant in the market. They have such a wide variety, but I feel they should focus more on perfecting than mass product dumping.
Until they refocus their business, I doubt the stock will do much.
2006-09-11 23:35:38 · answer #3 · answered by Jon H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
properly yahoo became down the bid they sense its to cheep and undervalues the business enterprise.microsoft might furnish 35 money a share. yet yahoo needs 40.00. google makes up fifty six% of on line seek yahoo 26% and microsoft purely 10%.
2016-11-07 04:01:34 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋