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Sure, but looking at their historic revenue, you're going from ~1.8B between 2007 - 2009 down to ~1.1B 2011-present[1]. In fact, their latest quarter for Mar 20
by joslin01 10y ago
Sure, but looking at their historic revenue, you're going from ~1.8B between 2007 - 2009 down to ~1.1B 2011-present[1]. In fact, their latest quarter for Mar 2016 only netted them 1.08B.
This is a ton of money and I reckon they could last a long time on it, but I believe the investor-mindset is something like "if you're not growing, you're dying" and if you're dying, you should probably sell at your peak. Looking at Yahoo revenue, it's clear they're dying and as a result, I wouldn't paint this as just greedy investors being greedy.
[1] - https://ycharts.com/companies/YHOO/revenues https://ycharts.com/companies/YHOO/revenues
- tim333 10y agoAs an occasional investor if a company isn't growing then I'd say we want it to make profits in the old fashioned manner of sales exceeding expenses. Yahoo was struggling a bit there. If you look at the earnings of the previous years there was quite a lot of funny stuff relating to Yahoo Japan rather than straightforward profits from happy customers.