Yahoo! Given a Pass on a Miss (YHOO)

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published

Yahoo_logo_2We have earnings out of Jerry Yang and friend, a.k.a. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO).  The troubled internet search and content posted $0.10 non-GAAP EPS (which looks more like about $0.095 on the total when you add up items) and $1.35 in ex-TAC revenues.  First Call had estimates pegged at $0.12 EPS (rounded up from $0.11+) on $1.37 Billion in revenues. 

The company put its guidance for next quarter at $1.78 to $1.98 Billionwith operating income of $405 to $465 million and put 2008 revenueguidance of $7.35 to $7.85 Billion with operating income at $1.825 to$1.975 Billion.  Unfortunately, those look like ex-TAC revenues

For next quarter estimates are $0.12 EPS on $1.4 Billion in revenuesand Fiscal December-2008 estimates are $0.48 EPS on $5.72 Billion inrevenues; but again, our estimates were ex-TAC revenues rather thantotal revenues.

Shares closed down 1.25% in regular trading at $21.40 and the initialresponse in after-hours trading has shares trading up marginally byalmost 1% at $21.59.  Whether or not that holds will depend on how wellJerry Yang and friends are able to handle the Q&A session fromanalysts in the conference call.

Jon C. Ogg
July 22, 2008

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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