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AOL has insane expenses, negating all the revenues. They netted negative billion dollars in Q2 (in just one quarter!). Their revenues are steadily declining: h
by olegkikin 16y ago
AOL has insane expenses, negating all the revenues. They netted negative billion dollars in Q2 (in just one quarter!).
Their revenues are steadily declining: http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/aolq2slide.jpg http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/aolq2slide.j...
Buying AOL would be just dumb. I don't see them being profitable any time soon (if ever).
- cvg 16y agoBut most recent quarters have been positive with income in the tens of millions. Q2 had a large one time write down from restructuring. Financially, AOL isn't looking too bad: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:AOL&fstype=ii http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:AOL&fstype=ii
- olegkikin 16y agoYou're right. However their margins are razor-thin in the previous quarters. Like Q4 of 2009 - net income of 1.4M (with 809M revenue). We'll see how the restructuring goes.
- bl4k 16y agoYou may be looking at the quarter where they wrote of Bebo, ICQ and a bunch of other assets