PCQuote.com, Inc. is an Internet-based provider of real-time and delayed market quotes, timely business news and comprehensive tools for researching and analyzing financial information. Through a relationship with CNNFN, PCQT provides users with access to timely news headlines and stories published by CNNFN.
pcquote.com is a free Web site that provides access to delayed quotes, research and analytical tools. The site also serves as the primary marketing and promotions engine for the rest of the services provided by PCQT.
A subscription-based Web site, www.marketsmart-real.pcquote.com, which is targeted toward a more active investor, provides the content of the free site as well as real-time quotations and uses sparse graphics, text indices and creative advertising to speed download times and give users faster access to the site's content.
The objective of PCQT is to strengthen its position by building brand awareness to attract additional traffic, to capitalize on user demographics that are attractive to advertisers, to create up-sell opportunities through its service offerings, to leverage its relationships with providers of global financial news and other content and services, to expand its Web sites as comprehensive financial information destinations and to maintain what it believes to be a superior technological platform.
For the first six months of 1999, PCQT derived approximately 88.9% of its revenues from the sale of subscriptions to its services and approximately 7.7% from advertising.
The Hoover's profile can be found at:
hoovers.com
The Form S-1/A filed August 31, 1999 can be found at:
sec.gov
Original filing date: June 9, 1999
Exchange: Nasdaq
Proposed symbol: PCQT
Proposed offering price: $11 to $13
Shares being offered: 7,750,000 [including 1,950,000 being offered by Hyperfeed Technologies (PQT)]
Post-offering shares: 15,728,948
Underwriters: Prudential Securities; U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, FAC/Equities; E*Offering
Fiscal year end: December
Sales for the six months ending June 30, 1999: $6.944 MM
Pro forma net loss for the six months ending June 30, 1999: $(2.729) MM |
