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"Ein erfolgreicher Geldanleger vermeidet es, im Konsens mit der Masse zu handeln. Er analysiert Fakten und denkt selber nach. Darauf basieren dann seine Entscheidungen."  

27 million revenue in Q4/2013 are 108 million on a yearly base and by idiotic low 37.55 million market cap extreme idiotic low 0.35-times-revenues.  

Angie’s List has only the 2.8-fold revenues of Local Corp, but with 848.9 million the 23-fold market-cap of the idiotic low 37.6 million of Local Corp. Such a divergence will never lasten. Local Corp has a positive Adjusted EBITDA of 1.3 million – Angie’s List an Adjusted EBITDA loss of 11.3 million.

Local Corp., the company that connects consumers with all local businesses, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013
• Sequential revenue growth up 4% to $23.5 million in Q3-13 from $22.7 million in Q2-13.
• Adjusted EBITDA up 12% to $1.3 million in Q3-13 from $1.2 million in Q2-13.

Angie’s List that for its third quarter it lost $13.5 million, or 23 cents a share, on revenue of $65.5 million, compared to a loss of $18.5 million, or 32 cents a share, on $42 million in sales in the same period a year ago..
 

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Twitter is extreme overvalued in near any compare

For example: Twitter has only the 7.2-fold revenues of Local Corp, but with 31.05 billion the 826-fold market-cap of the idiotic low 37.55 million of Local Corp. Such a divergence will never lasten.

Local Corp., the company that connects consumers with all local businesses, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013
• Sequential revenue growth up 4% to $23.5 million in Q3-13 from $22.7 million in Q2-13.
• Adjusted EBITDA up 12% to $1.3 million in Q3-13 from $1.2 million in Q2-13.

Twitter posted third-quarter revenue of $168.6 million, which compares favorably to its collected $253.6 million in the first half 2013 revenue.
According to its newly refiled S-1 document, Twitter has lost $133.8 million to date in 2013. That compares negatively with its equivalent loss of $70.7 million in 2012. Both loss figures include the results of the first 9 months of the calendar year.
 

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Yelp’s revenues will only growth 5.3 million from 61.2 million in Q3 to 66.5 million in Q4/2013 = a low sequential growth of only 8.7% by this extreme high valuation.

“Yelp released its Q3 2013 earnings report today, posting net revenue at $61.2 million for the quarter ending on September 30, 2013.

Yelp forecasts fourth quarter 2013 net revenue to be in the range of $66 million to $67 million.”
 

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Revenues increase 34% at Blucora, losses grow

November 5, 2013 at 2:29 pmby John Cook0 Comments

The Blucora team ringing the opening bell on Nasdaq last year

Bellevue-based Blucora — operator of the TaxAct online tax preparation business and InfoSpace search business — saw its revenues rise by 34 percent during the third quarter to $124.1 million. Its net loss came in at $6.5 million, up from $2.4 million for the same period last year.

“Our businesses performed well in the third quarter,” said Bill Ruckelshaus, President and Chief Executive Officer of Blucora. “InfoSpace is executing through changes in the search marketplace and TaxACT is readying for the coming tax season. We were also thrilled to add Monoprice to our company in the third quarter. I am pleased with the focus of our teams and optimistic about the many opportunities in front of us at Blucora.”

Blucura has near 500 million revenues in 2013 and a market-cap of 1.13 billion today. That are about 2.4-times-revenues - the 6-fold of idiotic low about 0.4-times-revenues of Local Corp.

Übrigens habe ich vor Jahren hier schon einmal zu Infospace gepostet, die jetzt ein Teil von Blucora sind - damals allerdings nicht unbdingt positiv, weil ich sie mit Unternehmensteilen von ICG Group verglichen habe, die ich damals für wertvoller hielt.  

Libuda, wie kommentierst du den heutigen Rücktritt von CEO .
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...leadership-transition-222800847.html

Gefällt mir weniger, mir ist nicht  klar ist wie es nun um die Patente steht .
Wie beurteils du dieses Handeln von H. Clarke.
Vll.(?) der erste Schritt hin zur Übernahme ????  

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2014-- Local Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading online local media company, today announced that the board of directors has named Fred Thiel as its chairman, effective immediately, following the resignation of Heath Clarke as CEO and chairman for personal reasons. The board intends to appoint an interim CEO in the very near term, while the board conducts a robust executive search for a permanent CEO.

“Local Corporation has a strong and talented team of Internet advertising and technology professionals. The company remains focused on building a best-in-class local and mobile advertising business that consumers rely on to access the local information they need and that advertisers depend on to reach ready-to-buy consumers in their target markets,” said Fred Thiel, chairman of the board of Local Corporation. “On behalf of Local Corporation, I want to thank Heath Clarke for the many years of service, dedication and innovation he has provided to the company. While his day to day presence will be missed, I look forward to continuing to work with Heath through his continued presence on the board and undoubtedly the spirit with which he approached the challenges and opportunities facing the company will endure. We are beginning an executive search for a permanent CEO best suited to lead the company to a future filled with potential.”

Thiel, age 53, has served on the company’s board of directors since January 2013. Thiel served as managing partner of the Software IT Group at Triton Pacific Capital Partners, a private equity firm making equity investments on behalf of itself and its investors in lower middle market companies, from January 2007 until the end of 2012. As part of his role at Triton Pacific Capital Partners, Thiel served on the boards of four of its portfolio companies: Custom Credit Systems, LP, an enterprise software company providing commercial lending automation solutions to major banks; DB Technology, LLC, an enterprise content management software company providing solutions to healthcare providers; Assetpoint, LLC, an enterprise software company providing enterprise asset management solutions to major corporations; and Vayan Marketing Group, LLC, an Internet media marketing company providing customer acquisition services to major consumer brands. Thiel has been an operating partner with Graham Partners, a mid-market private equity firm since 2008. From January 2004 to December 2006, Thiel was founder and managing partner of TechStarter Ventures, a venture capital and technology incubator focused on developing Web 2.0 technologies and social media, human resources and project management related web properties. Prior to TechStarter, Thiel was CEO of GameSpy Industries from January 2002 through January 2003. Thiel is presently a director of three private companies, including Predixion Software, Inc., B&B Electronics, Inc., and OCTANe LLC. Thiel attended classes at the Stockholm School of Economics in Europe.

“Local Corporation is in strong hands and I am confident in its future. I would like to thank the board, our employees and our business partners for building Local Corporation into a leading local search company, and I remain excited about the many prospects for the company in the rapidly emerging mobile local advertising sector,” said Heath Clarke.

Clarke has entered into a Separation and General Release with the company, pursuant to which his employment relationship with the Company ended today, Jan. 13, 2014.

About Local Corporation

Local Corporation (NASDAQ:LOCM) is a leading online local media company that connects brick-and-mortar businesses with approximately a million online and mobile consumers each day using a variety of innovative digital marketing products. To advertise, or for more information, visit: http://www.localcorporation.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that are based upon current expectations and involve certain risks and uncertainties within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words or expressions such as "anticipate," "plan," "will," "intend," "believe" or "expect'" or variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors, some of which are beyond our control and difficult to predict and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or forecasted in the forward-looking statements. Key risks are described in the filings we make with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as of the date they are made. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason. Unless otherwise stated, all site traffic and usage statistics are from third-party service providers engaged by the company. Traffic and our monetization of that traffic combine to determine our revenues for any given period. Our traffic volume alone for a period should not be viewed as demonstrative of our financial results for such period.



Source: Local Corporation

Investor Relations and Media Relations Contact:
Local Corporation
Cameron Triebwasser
949-789-5223
ctriebwasser@local.com

 

Hallo ICJens,

eine Beurteilung fällt schwer - und mir geht es so wie Dir, dass ich das als Langzeitinvestor nicht unbedingt gut finde, denn der CEO Heath war ähnlich wie bei meiner zwar sehr stark reduzierten mehr als zehnjährigen Langzeitinvestition ICG-Group ein Eckpfeiler. Denn beide CEO's waren über vielle Jahre dabei und hatten selbst in den Anfangszeiten massiv in die Firmen investiert, als die Kurs noch sehr hoch waren -  auch über Schulden, was dann bei ihnen zu Zwangsverkäufen führte. Das gab eine gewisse Sicherheit, dass es hier nicht nur um Abkochen ging.

Kurzfristig könnte das positiv sein, denn Heath dürfte sich massiv gegen einen möglichen Verkauf gestellt haben, der kurzfristig die Kurse sehr stark haben könnte - womit aber das Potential des Unternehmens, das für mich das Zeug zu einem Tenbagger hat, nicht ausgeschöpft wird.  

Seine Spezialgebiete gefallen mir nicht so gut, weil die doch sehr stark nach Verkauf stinken.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredthiel  

, Tenbagger ist doch viel zu wenig...m.M. Abwarten.
Was aber auch gesagt werden muss, ggn. den miesen Kurs hat Clark nicht ggn.Steuern können. Wie auch immer.
Investoren wollen in diesem Bullen Markt  steigende Kurse, irgendwo ist LOCM da zu ruhig.
"Die Pferde wollen einfach nicht saufen."
Natürlich kann man n un alles mögliche spekulieren,  hoffe der neue CEO ist im Verhandeln zu einer ( evtl.)Übernahme da ein clever Hund , verschenken wird er die AG dann hoffentlich nicht.In diesem Sinn sehe ich den Wechsel eher positiv.

Libuda, wie bewertest du nun die Patente - sind diese an Clark gebunden?
 

sind das Patente, die dem Unternehmen zustehen.

Da Clarke Heath schon sehr viele Jahre Chef ist, taucht er logischerweise bei allen Patenten, die nicht bei Übernahmen hinzukamen, sondern von Local Corp selbst eingereicht wurden, als Beantrager im Namen der Firma auf.

Im übrigen sind die selbst eingereichten Patente nicht aktiviert, was das in Bilanz augewiesene Vermögen unterzeichnet. Bei zugekauften Unternehmen können sie in noch aktivierten Vermögenswerten, die aber schon radikal abgeschrieben wurden, drinstecken.  

der vielen kleinen nackten Shortsellern sein, die hinter den Lügen- und Manpulationsgeschichten des The Street Sweeper hergelaufen sind.

Da ist eine Prognose sehr schwierig.

Sollten die Angst bekommen, dass das Unternhmen z.B. in Kürze für $3 verkauft werden, wird sich der Kurs erhöhen, was in einem Shortsquezze enden würde. Obwohl ich von kurzfristigen Käufern im Prinzip nichts halte, würde diese Entwicklung trotzdem begrüßen, da ein höhherer Kurs eine Übernahme unter Wert reduziert.

Aber wie schon in anderen Postings angeführt, wäre ich über eine schnelle Übernahme nicht erfreut.  

Alibaba - no other US-company offers a better entry in the strong growing US-local-search-market.

For example: Alibaba win similar US-Monthly-Unique Visitors like Twitter has today: Monthly unique us-visitors of Twitter and Local Corp near equal, but the market-cap of twitter is with 32,960 million the 890-fold of the idiotic low 37 million of local corp.

The monthly unique visitors of Twitter (Market-cap = 32,960 million) are with 42,261,821 less than double of the flagshipsite of Local Corp. The flagship-site of Local Corp (market-cap = 37 million) has 22,101,600 unique visitors. And additional between 15 and 20 million monthly unique visitors comes from the network of Local Corp of 1,600+ sites, because this Monthly Unique Visitors were count by the newspapers-sites. The 22 million from the flagshipsite and the 15-20 million from the network are together a similiar number of monhtly unique visiitor like by Twitter.

The increase of Monthly Unique Visitors of Twitter was only 5,26% and Twitter had a decrease year over year of 1,83%. For compare: The numbers of Local Corp are increases against the last month of 12.28% and against the last year of 17.90%.
 

über 3 mrd $ ......welche Kopf pauschale wird man dann wohl bei Locm aufrufen müssen ?

Hätte ich nie mit gerechnet,  das Google Feuermelderhersteller kauft , Börse ist völlig irre!

http://www.iknews.de/2014/01/14/...d-feuermelderhersteller-nest-labs/  

war der nicht der richtige Thiel, bei dem da wäre die Kursreaktion wohl besser ausgefallen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

Mein erster Gedanke war: vielleicht ein Verwandter? Scheint aber kein Zusammenhang zu bestehen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thiel

Man weiß ja nicht, was hinter "personal reasons" steht, aber mir gefällt an dem Wechsel der Zeitpunkt nicht. In den nächsten 6-12 Monaten wäre zu beweisen gewesen, dass LOCM wieder profitabel werden kann. Ich baue doch nicht viele Jahre eine Firma auf, gehe durch Höhen und Tiefen und kurz vor dem (seit längerem angekündigten) Durchbruch mache ich mich vom Acker? Seltsam.  

vll. muss er sich vom Acker machen ? z.b. Aufkäufer oder Kapitalgeber stellt Bedingungen ?
Letztlich wissen wir es nicht,aber zu einer schnellen Steigerung im Kurs kommt es so nicht.

Wen erforderlich , stellt dann eben "xy"  1mill Stücke in den ASK . Der Kurs ist gedeckelt und keine Nachfrage in Sicht.
Die Aktie bleibt weiter spannend,  nächsten Monat kommen Zahlen.  

denn existiert jetzt 14 Tage nach Quartalsende keine Korrektur des Guidance.

Revenues in Q4/2013 will be 27 million, because two weeks after quarter-end the guidance of 95 million for 2013 were not corrected

Revenues in 2013
Q1/2013: 21.8 million (reported)
Q2/2013: 22.7 million (reported)
Q3/2013: 23.5 million (reported)
Q4/2013: 27.0 million (result of the last guidance of 95 million, if you subtract from this 95 million the revenues of Q1 - Q3).

27 million are 108 million on a yearly base and by a market-cap of 36 million of today only 0.33-times-revenues.
 

Local Corporation offers an engaging work environment, competitive compensation and excellent benefits. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Ours is a vibrant working environment that encourages every member of our team to grow, give back and thrive. As a result, we have formed a powerful team of professionals who are dedicated to making Local Corporation the gold standard in the online local media industry.

Local Corporation also takes tremendous pride in supporting charitable initiatives that connect the company to the surrounding community. Our employees have donates thousands of hours of community service every year.

Local Corporation is a truly unique organization that offers a rare combination of benefits, making it an amazing place to challenge your mind, exercise your talents, and expand your career boundaries.

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