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By NICK WINGFIELDJAN. 23, 2014
SEATTLE — Microsoft on Thursday said its profit rose 3 percent as its new Xbox game console and Surface tablet lifted sales during the holiday season.
The company reported net income in the last quarter of $6.56 billion, or 78 cents a share, up from $6.38 billion, or 76 cents a share a year ago. Microsoft’s revenue jumped 14 percent, to $24.52 billion from $21.46 billion a year ago.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters on average expected the company to report earnings of 68 cents a share and revenue of $23.68 billion.
“Our commercial segment continues to outpace the overall market, and our devices and consumer segment had a great holiday quarter,” said Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive officer. “The investments we are making in devices and services that deliver high-value experiences to our customers, and the work we are doing with our partners, are driving strong results and positioning us well for long-term growth.”
Microsoft said revenue from its Surface tablets more than doubled from the previous quarter, rising to $893 million from $400 million.
Sep 6, 2013 at 11:13am ET by Greg Sterling
Yesterday Microsoft and Local Corporation announced a deal in which the latter’s Krillion local product database will be provided to Bing for display in search results. Local Corp. will supply in-stock product data from a range of mostly national-local retailers.
The list of participating retailers includes BestBuy, Costco, Express, Fry’s, Home Depot, Kmart, Lowe’s, Nordstrom, Orchard Supply, Office Depot, Radio Shack, Rite Aid, Sears, Staples, Target, True Value and Wal-Mart.
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Great advantage of Local Corp against companies like Yelp and other extreme overvalued: Bonus-shares of Local Corp will be 10-bagger, but shares of Yelp and other extreme overvalued companies will implode.
Quarterly Data of MeetMe - All numbers in thousands
Period Ending Sep 30, 2013 Jun 30, 2013 Mar 31, 2013 Dec 31, 2012
Total Revenue 10,073 9,483 7,806 11,609
Cost of Revenue - - - -
Gross Profit 10,073 9,483 7,806 11,609
Operating Expenses
Research Development 6,818 6,343 6,383 6,906
Selling General and Administrative 3,413 3,365 5,561 5,705
Non Recurring - 646 1,894 (469)
Others 1,109 1,089 1,083 1,073
Total Operating Expenses - 11,443 14,922 13,215
Operating Income or Loss (1,266) (1,960) (7,116) (1,606 Less
And additional between 15 and 20 million monthly unique visitors comes from the network of Local Corp of 1,600+ sites, because this numbers were count by the newspapers-sites. The 22 million from the flagshipsite and the 15-20 million from the network are together a similar number of monthly unique visitor like by Twitter.
MEET ME HAS ONLY 1,674,961 Monthly Unique Visitors - that are only 7.5% of the 22,101,600 of the flagshipsite of Local Corp and 4.3% of the about 40 million from Local Corp's flagshipsite and the network.
Should You Care About Care.com’s IPO?
By Brian Nichols
January 13, 2014
Care.com is an online home-caregiver marketplace that is soon to be publicly traded. While this might be the first time that you've heard of Care.com, its growth matches high-profile industry peers. And after hard deliberation, investors might find Zillow (NASDAQ: Z ) , Yelp (NYSE: YELP ) , and Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI ) to be somewhat similar. However, does this fact make Care.com an IPO buying opportunity?
What is Care.com?
Care.com is a marketplace of at-home caregivers. It is similar to several other Internet-based companies, but not exactly like any other company.
Yelp is a review site, and earns the majority of its revenue through advertising. Care.com is also a review site to some extent, creating a social network of caregivers and care-seekers (families), and also of various services that the company provides. However, Care.com is not totally reliant upon advertising, having its own niche and revenue-stream that extends outward.
Zillow is a real-estate marketplace. So, both it and Care.com have their own marketplaces. Care.com earns the majority of its revenue through subscriptions/fees by care-seekers; Zillow earns the majority of its revenue by agents via fees/subscriptions for advertising on the site. Therefore, these two companies are very similar in terms of operating approach, but clearly differ in the product being offered.
Finally, Angie's List, which is also a review site but charges members via subscription, is much like Care.com.
Is Care.com being offered at a fair price?
Care.com has filed its S-1 and is prepared to price at $14-$16 per share, or a market cap between $469 million and $536 million. This expected market capitalization would imply a price-to-sales ratio around 6-7, which isn't bad compared to most of its peers.
As you can see, Yelp and Zillow trade at multiples that far exceed seven times sales.
Angie's List, on the other hand, is very cheap, which is mostly due to a particularly high short ratio of 16.4 due to questionable business practices. In particular, famed short-sellers from Citron Research have often detailed Angie's aggressive accounting, declining revenue-per-member numbers, and reviews that can't be trusted, due to service providers paying fees and receiving great reviews on the site. As a result of these widely debated complaints, Angie's List has not traded with the same level of momentum as its peers.
With the exception of Angie's List, you can see that a the expected Care.com sales ratio would be a highly attractive valuation for the company. It definitely beats the 58 times sales that we've seen with Twitter.
However, as all investors know, an Internet-based company's valuation or premium is a reflection of its growth and upside potential. With that said, let's take a look at how the four companies stack-up in the growth department, or at least in 2013.
Company
2013 Revenue Growth
Care.com
81%
Yelp
63.6%
Zillow
67.1%
Angie's List
59.4%
Clearly, Care.com is the fastest grower in a booming bunch of companies. And what's even more impressive is that according to its S-1, its sales/marketing expenses rose just 57% in the same period, far less than revenue growth. This signals that Care.com is growing at a faster rate than its spending, which is a good sign for long-term profitability. Thus, if we use just what we've discussed, it seems reasonable to suggest that at $14-$16 per share, Care.com is a great opportunity, and that it's actually worth a lot more based on its peers.
Is Care.com a value opportunity?
2013 was really a breakout year for Care.com, putting the company on the map. But as all investors know, if you're going to pay a high premium for an Internet-based company, then you have to know that there are solid long-term growth opportunities.
With that said, Care.com is in a good place: It earns most of its sales through one service (membership fees), has large advertising capabilities with 6.4 million monthly unique visitors, and operates a service where all members benefit. To specify, families looking for caregivers can post jobs, interview, and find an employee, while caregivers can find work. Hence, the business model benefits all involved.
Moreover, what's really encouraging is that Care.com is a young company, and the IPO will bring a lot of attention to its services. But also, aside from child and senior care, the company could always branch out into other career-related services, much like LinkedIn has accomplished. Therefore, the ceiling appears high for Care.com, and with 20 times sales being the standard for online companies, its valuation has a lot of room to run before being called expensive.
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Care.xxx, a Waltham, Mass.-based caregiver services marketplace, on Thursday publicly filed plans for an initial public offering of stock which aims to raise $80 million.
Among the details revealed in the filing with the SEC:
Care.xxx generated $59 million in revenue during the first nine months of the year, up 81 percent from the $32.6 million generated during the same period a year earlier.
The firm saw revenue of $48.4 million and a net loss of $20.4 million for 2012 as a whole.
Care.xxx's net loss during the first nine months up the year was $24.6 million, compared to $17.8 million during that period of 2012.
Growth of the revenues of the network-division of Local Corp (now 61% of all revenues of Local Corp) beats the growth-rates of the revenues of Twitter and Yelp and had go on in Q4/2013 and will fastening in 2014.
Revenues of the Network-Division of Local Corp:
Q3-12 5.0 million
Q4-12: 7.6 million
Q1-13: 8.3 million
Q2-13: 11.6 million
Q3-13: 14.5 million
Read by Seeking Alpha:
Care.xxx sets IPO price range, eyes ~$500M valuation
Jan 10 2014, 14:33
Care.xxx has set an IPO price range of $14-$16. After factoring options, warrants, and preferred shares, that spells a valuation range of $469M-$536M for the online home caregiver marketplace, which plans to trade under the symbol CRCM. (S-1)
Given Care.xxx's recent top-line numbers, the company may end up going public at 5x-6x trailing sales.
Morgan Stanley, BofA/Merrill, JPMorgan, Allen & Co., and Stifel are underwriting. Prospective IPO buyers are likely to play close attention to both Care.xxx's rapid growth (+81% Y/Y over the first nine months of 2013) and heavy sales/marketing spend (77% of revenue over the aforementioned timeframe).
$ in millions in the quarters
Q3-11
Q4-11
Q1-12
Q2-12
Q3-12
Q4-12
Q1-13
Q2-13
Q3-13
Network Revenues after GAAP
$4.4
$5.1
$4.2
$4.1
$5.0
$7.6
$8.3
$11.6
$14.5
TAC (Traffic Aquisition Costs)
1.6
1.5
1.5
2.0
2.1
3.7
4.2
6.8
7.7
Network Revenues Ex TAC
$2.8
$3.6
$2.7
$2.1
$2.9
$3.9
$4.1
$4.8
$6.8
Network:
• Revenue – Third quarter 2013 total revenue related to the Network business unit was $14.5 million, up 25 percent from the $11.6 million Network revenue recorded in the second quarter of 2013 and up 190 percent from the $5 million Network revenue recorded in the third quarter of 2012. The increase in Network revenue is mainly due to the increase in the number of Network sites during the quarter from over 1,600 in the second quarter 2013, to over 2,100 for the third quarter of 2013 as we executed on our stated goal to expand number of sites via our business development team.
• Network Revenue ex-TAC – Third quarter 2013 total Network revenue ex-TAC was $ 6.8 million, up 42 percent from the $4.8 million Network revenue ex-TAC recorded in the second quarter of 2013 and up 134 percent from the $2.9 million Network revenue ex-TAC recorded in the third quarter of 2012.
Source: Report of Local Corp about Q3/2013
• Yelp has only the 2.6-fold revenues of Local Corp, but with 5.03 billion the 138-fold market-cap of the idiotic low 36.40 million of Local Corp
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.
Yelp Inc., the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013.
• Sequential revenue growth up 11.3% to $61.2 million in Q3-13 from $55.0 million in Q2-13.
• Adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter of 2013 was approximately $8.1 million.
•§Zillow bad in compare
Zillow has only the 2.3-fold revenues of Local Corp, but with 3.25 billion the 89-fold market-cap of the idiotic low 36.4 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.
Financial Highlights of Q3/2013 Zillow
• Total revenue for the quarter was just over $53 million.
• Our EBITDA for the quarter was $4.1 million
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Source: Hubspot
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Very interessannt is the follwoing text from October 2011 in Seeking Alpha (read the complete text direct in Seeking Alpha):
Local.Corp's New Patent Could Offer Company Significant Opportunities
Last week, the USPTO granted a patent to Local Corp (Nasdaq: LOCM) that appears to have significant implications for location based product and deal search offerings in the local space and has the potential to be the most valuable among a growing and increasingly valuable stable of local and directory search patents owned by Local Corp.
Patent #8,032,427 related to location based product search appears to encompass core aspects of services being offered by Groupon (GRPN) (Groupon Now), Living Social (Instant) and Foursquare; and is part and parcel of the product search functionalities offered by eBay's Milo (Nasdaq: EBAY), Gannett's ShopLocal (NYSE: GCI), Jiwire's NearbyNow, Retailigence and Goodzer. This patent could offer LOCM one of its most significant opportunities for near term licensing revenue, as we believe that the patent encompasses core aspects of the local product search offerings of these companies. This niche is growing rapidly, attracting significant capital and most importantly for Local.Corp's purposes, the key players emerging in the space are not partners/revenue sources for Local.Corp.
provided with online information for specific products sold by local retailers
using location-based information to determine relevance. The patented system
also provides for the display of relevant advertising along with the
sought-after local shopping information.
According to BIA/Kelsey, approximately 97 percent of consumers who use the
Internet have used it to research goods or services they purchased offline.
“Consumers are increasingly using mobile devices and apps to research products
that are ultimately purchased at brick-and-mortar retailers. As a result of
this, we believe that location-based services will play a growing role in
connecting retailers with ready-to-buy consumers who are searching for those
products,” said Heath Clarke, chairman and CEO, Local Corp. “We believe this
new patent, acquired as part of our acquisition of Krillion, provides
Local Corp with important new intellectual property in this space.”
Acquired by Local Corp in April, 2011, Krillion is a leading location-based
product search service that connects online shoppers with products available
in stores locally, with current discount, pricing and product information.
Krillion's localized shopping data adds local relevance at the product level
and enables national campaigns to reach web-influenced local shoppers across
the U.S."
Yelp is bad for real consumer-products, you can it only use for restaurants and similar. But if you had found an excellent restaurant, you will ignore Yelp in the future.
But by every buy of a new product, you want to look at the inventory of some shops around you and use an offer of Local Corp, especially since Krillion was intergrated in hte most offers of Local Corp.
And therefore a rational investor will hurry with a change from extreme overvalued Yelp with the big danger of a fast saturation to the extreme undervalued Local Corp with a lot higher sustainabilty than Yelp
Yelp is bad for real consumer-products, you can it only use for restaurants and similar. But if you had found an excellent restaurant, you will ignore Yelp in the future.
But by every buy of a new product, you want to look at the inventory of some shops around you and use an offer of Local Corp, especially since Krillion was intergrated in hte most offers of Local Corp.
And therefore a rational investor will hurry with a change from extreme overvalued Yelp with the big danger of a fast saturation to the extreme undervalued Local Corp with a lot higher sustainabilty than Yelp
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2014-- Local Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading online local media company, today announced that it will release financial results for its fourth quarter and full year 2013 after the close of market on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014.
My estimate for the EBITDA are positve 4.5 million.
My estimate for the cash flow form operations in 2013 are positive 1.1 million.
My estimate for the revenues in 2013 = 94.6 million.
eine ganze Weile, von Chart her (3 Jahre) nicht gerade der Burner. Kanabbern grad mal an der 38 Tage durchschnitt, der 100+200er sind noch weiter entfernt.
Trotz guter Zahlen seit Jahren nur abwärts im Kurs
Monthly Unique Visitors: Over 30 million
Monthly Page Views: Approx. 50 million
Page Views Visit: 2.5 views average
Click Through Rate: Up to 8x more than industry standard
Und das alles für 37 Millionen Dollar, das ansonsten in dieser Konstellation zwischen 300 Millionen und einer Milliarde kostet.
Mir ist das egentlich auch egal, da ich an diesen Hokuspokus nicht im geringsten glaube - und schon gar, wenn massives nacktes Shortselling vorliegt.
Monthly Unique Visitors: Over 30 million
Monthly Page Views: Approx. 50 million
Page Views Visit: 2.5 views average
Click Through Rate: Up to 8x more than industry standard
Local Corp partner with over 120,000 stores nationwide to capture the most robust and accurate data — including product, pricing and inventory availability — across thousands of consumer brands.
2 billion + retail inventory products
1,600 + partner sites
Für einen Nasdaq-Wert ein Trauerspiel.
Das zeigt eigentlich nur:
Keine S.... interessiert sich für den Wert, dass Geschäftsmodell stagniert, keine Kohle in der Kasse um perspektivisch reagieren zu können !
Sieht so aus als würde die Aktie noch auf Jahre in der Range von 1,5-2 Dollar rumdümplen.
Aber wie bereits mehrfach hier erwähnt:
Es reicht alle 3 Monate mal einmal hier reinzuschauen, außer ständige Wiederholungen eines Users findet man hier nichts neues.