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http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Local.com_(LOCM)/Data/Revenue/2010
Und dort sieht man auch, dass bis zu diesem Jahr Local Corp auch in Sachen Umsatzsteigerung sehr erfolgreich war.
Warum ging das nun nicht weiter?
Die Konkurrenz im Kerngeschäft wurde härter, aber noch wichtiger war, dass Local Corp etwas nicht gelang: nämlich die extreme große Userbasis nicht durch weitere Geschäfte in Geld zu verwandeln, weil man hier auf das falsche Pferd setzte. Hier will ich dem inzwischen geschassten Management nicht die alleinige Schuld geben, denn Daily Deals, auf die man ab 2010 zu setzen begann, galten damals als großer Renner. Ähnliches gilt für die personalintensive Konzentration auf SMB (Small Business), Vielleicht wäre das sogar gut gegangen, wenn die Kasse so gut gefüllt gewesen wäre wie bei einem neuen IPO. Und Probieren muss man etwas, und nur das wenigste davon gelingt, auch bei Google und anderen Größen, de das aber besser verkraften können.
Hier hat man inzwischen umgesteuert und nutzt die nachwievor große Userbasis anders, wie hier wiederholt dargestellt wurde. Ob das ein kleiner oder großer Wurf wird, ist bisher nicht abzusehen - aber trotz alledem ist die momentane Bewertung ein Witz, selbst wenn das nur ein kleiner Wurf wird. Denn allein die 13 Patente sind nach meiner Einschätzung ein großes Vielfaches mehr wert als die momentane Marktkapitalisierung von 15,7 Millionen.
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FY-11
FY-12
FY-13
FY-14
FY-15* (Estimate)
Adjusted EBITDA (in Millionen)
$3,041
$13,775
$3,247
$0,777
$4,533
$2,300
$3,500
Welches der aussagekräftigere Gewinnbegriff ist, ist umstritten, meines Erachtens das Betriebsergebnis. Der große Nachteil des Gewinn laut G+V ist vor allem seine Vergangenheitsbezogenheit, weil er z.B. Abschreibungen auf Firmenwerte enthält, die u.U. schon vor vielen Jahren zu kassenwirksamen Ausgaben geführt haben.
Zunächst einmal ist es ein Fakt, dass Local Corp jetzt schon sechs Jahre hintereinander ein positives EBITDA hat und wohl in 2015 haben wird, das bei sehr großzügiger Interpretation in etwa mit dem Betriebsergebnis nach der uns bekannten Rechnungslegung gleichgesetzt werden kann. Richtig ist allerdings, dass der Gewinn laut Gewinn- und Verlustrechnung in dien letzten sechs Jahren nur ein einmal positiv war.
Und hier stellt sich die Frage, warum das so ist. Die mit Abstand wichtigste Ursache ist, dass Local Corp nicht nur organisch zu wachsen versuchte, sondern bis auf die letzten zwei bis drei Jahre Geschäft dazu kaufte. Davon brachte manches das Unternehmen weiter, andere Dinge - inbesondere der Daily Deal Bereich mit Spreebird als Schwerpunkt - erwiesen sich als Flops. Im Daily Deal-Bereich hat man dabei mindestes 25 Millionen in den Sand gesetzt, mit denen Local Corp heute glänzend dastehen würde. Diese nicht aufgegangene Investitionen (ich möchte sie nicht als Fehlinvestitionen bezeichnen, denn im Technologiebereich muss man Fehlversuche in Kauf nehmen, um überhaupt Treffer landen zu können) erforderten bzw. erfordern hohe Abschreibungen, die das positive EBITDA bis auf das auffraßen/auffressen. Dazu kam, dass man massiv in einen Außendienst investierte (nicht nur um Daily Deals zu verkaufen, sondern mehr), was ebenfalls ein Flop war und hohe "Beerdigungskosten" verursachte - eine weitere wichtige Ursache für Diskrepanzen zwischen EBITDA und Gewinn.
Hier stecken also im Wesentlichen die Ursachen für das Abschmelzen des Eigenkapitals, das in Q4 jetzt sogar zum Stillstand gekommen ist, wobei das aber längst verflossene Ursachen sind und wir sollten nicht übersehen, dass wir in diesen sechs angesprochenen Jahren trotz des momentanen Umsatzknicks immerhin noch eine Umsatzverdoppelung im Zeitraum von sechs Jahren haben, die sich aber nicht im Eigenkapital widerspiegeln kann, weil man dabei bisher damit keine Gewinn erzielte.
Gewinnerzielung war und ist selbst momentan zumindest kurzfristig auch nicht im Vordergrund, denn selbst unter den momentanen Umständen arbeiten laut der letzten Presentation immer noch 47% der Beschäftigen im Bereich Research und Development. Und bei diesen Investitionen in diesen Bereich sind nicht ausschließlich Flops entstanden, sondern auch Werte geschaffen worden, die z.B. nicht in der Bilanz auftauchen, weil die hohen Aufwendungen bei der Entwicklung des Know Hows nicht aktiviert werden und somit nicht in der Bilanz auf der Aktivseite erscheinen. Die 13 Patente werden zum Beispiel in der Bilanz bisher mit einem Wert von 0 angesetzt - obwohl der CEO Thiel allein das Volumen des ersten Patents, wo man mit der Verwertung gerade begonnen hat und beim ersten Lizenznehmer 0,7 Millionen kassierte, auf 100 Millionen bezifferte.
• Launched our advanced traffic quality solution nTegrityTM
• Building and monetizing our Local audience with proprietary traffic quality tools
Source: Presentation of Q3/14-report
nQuery is already powering millions of user searches per month and is expected to grow significantly with the onboarding of new partners.
We also continue to explore new ways to monetize our proprietary assets including our Krillion data ingestion and localization technology. We believe the value of Krillion is that it seamless ingests normalizes and localizes various types of data and presents relevant content across multiple channels in customer use cases. The most recent use case was a launch of new ad formats and where-to-buy solutions for web, social and mobile in the shopping space. We look forward to discussing this more in the future
48% of employees will work in reseach & development by the end of 2014
Intend to continue making significant investments in initiatives to diversify our revenue sources and promote our future growth "As we continue to diversify our technologies and traffic sources, we remain focused on technology and advertising offerings that will improve the experience for our end users, and allow our network and other third party partners to enhance their service offerings and lower their costs. While we are still very focused on the local search industry, we believe there are additional opportunities in technology and advertising that we and our customers can benefit from, while diversifying our revenue sources. We intend to continue making significant investments in initiatives to diversify our revenue sources and promote our future growth."
Source: Last Q10-Filing to the SEC
Fiscal Year 2014 of Local Corp
Full year 2014 revenue is expected to be between $82.8 million and $83.3 million, compared with prior guidance of $87 million to $90 million. Full year 2014 net loss is expected to be in the range of $5.5 million to $5.7 million. Adjusted EBITDA* is expected to be in the range of $2.2 million to $2.4 million, in line with previous guidance of $2.0 million to $2.4 million. (Quelle: Letztes Filing von Local Corp an die SEC/Preeliminary Results)
If you buy potatoes for $10 and sell it for $15, you win $5. And if you buy potatoes for $7 and sell it for $ 12, you win $5. Same happened by Local Corp: Local Corp had lower revenues from bought traffic and must pay less for this traffic.
Because a lot of idiots don't understand this simple interdependence, the situation of today is a reason for a strong buy.
Now w have an Ebitda-range of $2.2 million to $2.4 million against $2.0 million to $2.4 Million in the previous guidance. Local Corp has through the Pigeon-Update of Google a lower RUV, but must pay on the other site a lower amount to Google for the from Google bought traffic. The result are lower revenues of Local Corp, but a little bit better EBITDA.
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We own our audience and have a nearly complete end-to-end.-solution:
Publisher-Side:
- First party search data (in place)
- Quality controls (in place)
- Smart segmentation (in progress)
Advertiser-Side
- Media bullying expertise (in place)
- DMP platform (in progress)
- Optimization platform (in progress)
Source: Company Overview - January 2015
We move to further monetize our audience through programmatic advertising and predictive retargeting across devices
“In 2014, we have been transforming the company to focus on our core initiatives of building and monetizing our Local audience with proprietary traffic quality tools and growing our mobile search market share in North and South America. Our over 200 million unique visitors annually across our O&O properties, including our flagship site, provide us with a significant pool of premium, first-party data with contextual search intent, which is a key differentiator in attracting advertisers as we move to further monetize our audience through programmatic advertising and predictive retargeting across devices.”
Source: Read the complete transcript of the last Conference Call direct at Seeking Al
U.S. Programmatic Ad Spend To Top $10 Billion In 2014 And Double By 2016 [eMarketer]
Vast majority of programmatic spend flows via real-time bidding on open exchanges, but programmatic direct is expected to grow significantly.
Ginny Marvin on October 16, 2014
Programmatic — automated digital ad buying — is on fire in the U.S, with adoption rising quickly this year. New data from eMarketer pegs the programmatic display market in the U.S. at $10 billion this year, and estimates it will top $20 billion by 2016.
“2014 has proven a pivotal year, and with the majority of infrastructure now laid and testing well in progress, we’ll see programmatic ad spending explode from 2015 into 2016,” said Lauren Fisher, analyst for eMarketer.
In 2014, eMarketer predicts programmatic buying will account for 45 percent of total digital display ad spending. The pogrammatic display market includes banners, rich media, sponsorship, video and other digital display formats, though eMarketer notes that the vast market in programmatic is currently focused on banners and will likely continue to be in the coming years.
Source: Read the complete article direct at MarketingLand
"In any given month, Local Corp. creates billions of advertising impressions, holding approximately 10 percent of the U.S. Internet population who search for products and services offered by the company’s clients."
Source: Fred Thiel instills an open culture at Local Corp. in order to stay ahead of the competition
Thursday, January 01, 2015 (Smart Business)
Pubmatic = 1 billion (2013)
Rubicon = 591 million (2015)
Local Corp = 18 million
Admeld (aquiered from Google) = 400 million (2011)
The Rubicon Project has the 20-fold multiple of Local Corp.
The Rubicon Project has 2014-sales of 123 million (estimate) and a market-cap of 552 million, this are 4.4-times-revenues.
Source: Company Overview 2015 - January
Period Ending Sep 30, 2014 Jun 30, 2014 Mar 31, 2014 Dec 31, 2013
Total Revenue of MeetMe 11,605 10,687 9,504 13,016
Zahlenangaben wurde dem message-board von financeyahoo.com entnommen
Last Five Real-Time Trades
NLS Time (ET)
NLS Price
NLS Share Volume
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09:47:18 $.81 1,900
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09:47:18 $.81 2,000
09:41:57 $.8049 1,700
Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/locm/real-time#ixzz3Q290IsuI
Owner* Short Title Country Status
Issuance
Number
Filing
Date
Searches Assisted by Multi-Level
Menus
Issued
7,062,453
08/31/2000
Search Selections with Supplier
Information
Issued
7,890,378
12/14/2005
Dynamic adjustment of Telephone
Listings
Issued
7,596,218
05/30/2003
Dynamic adjustment of Telephone
Listings
Issued
8,306,208
08/07/2009
Directory assistance using keywords
Issued
7,200,413
07/30/2003
Bidding for directory assistance
Issued
7,715,857
03/23/2006
Bulk Web Domain Generation
Issued
8,312,125
03/12/2010
Geocoding related Webpages
Issued
7,231,405
01/10/2005
Indexing Found Geocodes with
Webpages
Issued
7,822,705
06/11/2007
Indexing Found Geocodes with
Webpages
Issued
8,176,082
09/22/2010
Provision Of Localized Shopping
Based On Geocodes
Issued
8,032,427
04/03/2007
Methods and systems for enhanced directory assistance using wireless messaging protocols
Patent number: 8359049
Filed: March 25, 2010
Issued: January 22, 2013
Technique for locating relevant advertisements through the use of semantic keyword searches with claims directed to software, systems and methods in which semantically related keywords may be used to locate relevant fee generating advertisements that may monetize better than other available response ads.
Patent number 8,725,572
Issued on May 13
Quellen: bei Google "Patent number ..........." eingeben (diese Übersicht war auch für mich eine Mehr-Stunden-Arbeit)
Owned and Operates: 42 million queries monthly and 17million unique users monthly
NQUERY: 10 MILLION queries monthly, 26 million mobile subscribers
Soon to = 200M+ global monthly searches
Corporate Overview – January 2015 - on local.com
Source: Fred Thiel instills an open culture at Local Corp. in order to stay ahead of the competition
Thursday, January 01, 2015 (Smart Business)
“We touch a lot of people, and that gives us a lot of insight into what people are looking for, what they want to buy, where they want to buy it,” Thiel says.
They are leading the charge in giving consumers the ability to interact with pertinent advertising in unusual places, like refrigerators and shop windows.
“Consumers can interact with devices in ways we have only begun to imagine,” Thiel says in a video on the company’s YouTube channel.
"We touch a lot of people, and that gives us a lot of insight into what people are looking for..."
The only thing they touch is their private parts, creating a bit of self-excitement...
“Patents don’t have to be secrets so much as it’s a way to protect something you invented. If other people want to emulate it, that’s great!” Thiel says.
Thiel explains that each company is at a particular stage in its life cycle, and that the company needs a certain leader at varying points along each stage.
In the early stages, a company must have someone who has a vision and is not going to budge. As it matures, the company should focus on its customers and meeting their current and future needs. As a company expands, its leader needs to understand potential, fatal risks.
Being a 15-year-old company, Local Corp. has moved to the last cycle. It continues to grow in size and stature, allowing Thiel to guide his team while handling the risks and threats that come its way.
“It’s really been a very rewarding experience to get everybody very focused and passionate about a common vision and achieving a common outcome. And we’ve been marching in that direction ever since,” Thiel says
Third Quarter Business Highlights
Intellectual Property Update: In September, the lawsuit against Fry’s Electronics, Inc. regarding the infringement of Local’s U.S. Patent No. 7,062,453, which covers “methods and systems for dynamic networked commerce architecture” was settled to the mutual satisfaction of the parties, and Fry’s Electronics, Inc. agreed to license the patent. Local Corporation is continuing its efforts to enforce its intellectual property rights.
http://ir.local.com/...c=181515&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1989073
Zunächst dachte ich, da keine Zahlen genannt wurden, dass da vielleicht 50.000 Dollar herausgesprungen seien, da es ja hier nur um ein Unternehmen von vielen ging, die das Patent verletzen und auch keine Summen genannt wurden.
Umso überraschter war ich, obwohl ich das erst übersehen hatte, was sich in zwei Zeilen auf den vielen Seiten des letzten 10Q-Filings an die SEC verbarg:
"Income from settlement and patent licensing
During the third quarter of fiscal 2014, we reached a settlement agreement in the patent infringement action against Fry’s Electronics, Inc. As part of the
settlement agreement, we received a one-time patent license fee payment of $700,000 related to prior infringement of our patent."
We are lowering projections for LOCM to
meet the updated guidance. In line with this, we are lowering our
valuation multiple for LOCM resulting in our price target for LOCM
dropping from $4.00 previously to $2.00. LOCM stock is currently
trading ~$0.75 levels giving the company a market cap of ~$18M
and EV of ~$23M. This translates to an EV/Rev multiple of ~0.3x
to our $86.7M revenue expectations for FY2015 (~4% y/y growth).
This compares to peer average EV/Rev multiple of ~3x. Our price
target of $2.00 translates to an EV/Rev multiple of 0.6x (vs. our prior
1x EV/Rev multiple), which we believe is conservative relative to its
peers and accommodates for the early stages of various new strategic
initiatives underway at the company. LOCM is in the early stages of
implementing a new business strategy that over time should make the
business less dependent on its traditional partnership-driven, search
monetization model. Some of the big changes that have taken place
over the last few quarters include a new CEO and new strategic
initiatives that should boost organic traffic and revenues and allow for
stronger margins. We believe some of the mobile related initiatives
are not being factored into the story. The pull back in the stock
after weaker-than-expected 3Q14 results now followed by lowered
guidance is not surprising, and we think management will have to
deliver on several fronts to regain investor confidence. We believe
the traffic quality control steps being implemented currently should
yield stronger margins for the company. The company has also begun
using programmatic exchanges to further monetize its audience of 200
million annual unique visitors allowing better targeting opportunities for
advertisers. The company is also still in the early stages of deploying
various mobile centric services and traction on this front, we believe,
could be an important catalyst
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http://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/...540710839#.VMjG8Gc5AdU
Melder: JaminGottfried
Zeitpunkt: 28.01.15 12:27
Grund: "SEC charges two college professors in naked short selling scheme - Similar will happen by Loclal Corp, it he SEC take any control" Dass bei Local "nackte Shortseller" am Werk sind ist eine reine persönliche Vermutung von Libuda ohne Belege, das (jetzt schon seit 4 Jahren) als Fakt darzustellen ist unseriös. Es werden Vermutungen als Fakten verkauft.
Data Analysis by SEC Staff Breaks Case
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2014-20
Washington D.C., Jan. 31, 2014 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a pair of college professors in Tallahassee, Fla., with perpetrating a complex naked short selling scheme for more than $400,000 in illicit profits.
Abusive naked short selling occurs when shares are sold without having the shares to deliver, and then intentionally failing to deliver the securities within the standard three-day settlement period. An SEC investigation found that Gonul Colak and Milen Kostov repeatedly engaged in a series of sham transactions designed to perpetuate a naked short position as part of an elaborate options trading strategy. Colak and Kostov were required to deliver the securities underlying their short positions within the standard three days. Instead, their sham reset transactions created the illusion that they had delivered the underlying securities when in fact they had taken no steps to do so. They maintained the uncovered naked short positions and profited.
Colak and Kostov agreed to settle the SEC’s charges by paying more than $670,000."