If P/E of IT industry is 30 and that of Yahoo is 20: what it signifies? Should Yahoo stock move up or down??
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P/E of 30 refers to the average of the whole industry. some of the player like yahoo would have P/E lower than average, some others higher. you can't try to predict yahoo stock only based on industry P/E.
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Initial Public Offer.  Yahoo has a great service to track the companies just filed and just released an IPO.  See link below ...
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Yahoo doesn't make the rates the companies yuo research or brought up do. and information on companies change daily.\nBut so far all dividend rates i've seen on yahoo matched the ones  paid me.\nYOu should be getting a check form the company right after the rates are announced by the company.  That is all the company does is announced the rate which brokage reporters  than put on yahoo finance. Companies always want the public to see they are  paying a dividend as it improves their image, but sometimes some  companies will exaggerate their dividends (which yahoo has no control over) to entice investors to buy their stock, These are usually companies in trouble.
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yahoo site is blank sometimes. Sometimes the graphs don't pop up or the "real time ECN" is flaky, and i think this is only a "real time indicator" with a caveat that it is only an estimate.\n\nI us my brokerage firms website for REAL real time quotes.
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You can get that info from Yahoo Finance, linked below
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If you know the Symbol for the stock they're in, go to yahoo finance, put the synbol in, and go from there. Good luck.
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"Yahoo in its quarterly announcement said that it used $54m in cash for acquisitions. Given that they have been selectively buying back stock and adverse to issuing new stock, I assume both transactions would have had a small equity component. The variable is how well TeRespondo is doing and what multiples they had to pay, both of which I have no idea. But a brash assumption could peg Flickr at $20-30m."
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I would not even bother with something like this.\nBut if you really want, goto yahoo finance and use their java based stock screener.
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Yahoo is a publicly traded company (on the stock market).  They have a fiduciary duty to show a return on equity for their shareholders.  All advertising can be broken down simply into eyeballs. The more eyeballs, the more money, advertisers would be willing to pay for spots reaching the eyeballs.\nAs I type this, there are no advertisements on the page, YET.  Believe me, at some future point, Yahoo will be selling advertisements on the side of these answer blogs to potential clients.  Yahoo's sales presentation will include the number of users, demographic info. on the users (compiled from our registrations), and time spent reading and answering these questions.  It'll result in another online revenue stream for the company. In the corporate world, it is almost always about the money.
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Yahoo is being taken to the cleaners by Google.  Google is a better managed more diversified company that is beating them in every area right now.\n\nYahoo does have value, it has a large cash holding and I might even buy some if the price drifts down to the low $20's.  They are working on a new algorithm for their search engine which will make it work more effectively and allow them to take some ad dollars back from Google.  The project has been delayed a couple of times but should be live by early next year.  That means the first couple of quarters next year should be more impressive than this year.  \n\nThere is also a floor under the stock - if Yahoo falls too far there will be a takeover bid.  There are not that many search engines out there.  Microsoft is normally mentioned, but companies like Disney, Viacom or even Time Warner would be interested.  However whatever happens Yahoo will NOT be going back to $356.  Those days are over.
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yahoo might have a database going that far back,  http://finance.yahoo.com/\n\nit depends on what stock you want to look up though.
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They should Clorox yahoo answers and get rid of the pervs lol. You should try their company website and look at forecasts and press releases. Also, investing info could be a good indicator.
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It could mean 2 things - they are still going down or they have hit bottom. If a stock is at or near its 52-week low, I like that it has been there for a while to know that it might have bottomed.  Also, I want to see some peice of positivie news to indicate that the stock can recover. \n\nIf you are looking for cheap "value" stocks, you might want to consider magicformulainvesting.com.  Also, here is a portfolio of stocks that meet the MFI criteria:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/ViewPortfolio.aspx?userID=92\n\nThis portfolio is from http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx \n\nGood luck!
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Yahoo's price is incredibly volatile.  If you are the type that wants to see good performance every year, you shouldn't buy Yahoo.  Stocks are a long term investment, you can't get hung up on short term trends.  Look what it did in 2000.\n\nSee Yahoo's chart below.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^IRX&a=4&b=1&c=2006&d=4&e=18&f=2006&g=d
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Looks ok to me.  eg:\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT\non Sunday 7th March 2006 shows:\nTrade Time: May 5 \nDay's Range: 23.52 - 23.95\n\nWhich stocks were you looking at, and when?
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Neither a high nor a low p/e ratio is technically better than another.  Currently, Google is trading at a P/E ratio of 104.94, which is pretty high.  Microsoft is trading at a P/E ratio of 23.1 which is pretty stable, Yahoo is trading at a P/E ratio of 39.18.  \n\nTypically a company will have a higher P/E ratio when the public expects big things in the future, and a lower P/E ratio, when expectations are not as high and their earnings have become more stable. This is certainly not a bad thing at all, this just means that the public is valuing this company like it can depend on their future earnings, it has a lower P/E because people have decided that they feel confident about what the future earnings will be.  \n\nYou may have heard the term that a stock is "cheap" right now, and that could be because it is an established company, that has historically traded at a P/E ratio of 25, and then, for seemingly no good reason, it is currently trading at 15.  Many experts think this is the case right now with many big dependable stocks, because they feel people may be over-valuing and expecting too much from many small company stocks.  \n\nSo unfortunately there is no short answer, it is relative to other companies in the same industry at the same point in time, and it is relative to the company's prior P/E ratio.  Also, it depends on your risk aversion, a stock with a very high P/E ratio may be more risky than a stock with a lower, and a more dependable, P/E ratio. If they have a high P/E ratio, that means that today's value is based on the fact that the trading public expect big things from this company in the future, and if those big things don't happen (dot.com bust comes to mind) then the stock prices will depreciate as a result of not meeting those high expectations. \n\nThis is not the case every time, and you should always do your research before making investment decisions.  Hope this helps!\n\nA good link for more information on this subject is http://www.investopedia.com/university/peratio/