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Technology Stocks : Altaba Inc. (formerly Yahoo)
AABA 19.630.0%Nov 6 4:00 PM EST
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To: The Vinman who wrote (8932)3/31/1998 9:23:00 PM
From: Michael Collings  Read Replies (1) of 27307
 
I saw the following post on the MF board on AOL and thought I would repost here: William and Craig what do you make of this?

<<First Call states that earnings will be released April 8, and are 4 cents a share.

Yahoo's 10K came out on 3-21-98.

In in they make the following projections for the first part of 98:

As a percentage to revenue:
Cost of revenues to be: 12- 16%
Sales & Marketing 60%
Product Development 17%
General & Administrative 10%

Now the only way you can come out with a profit, is if the cost of revenues is at the 12% level.
If the others are correct. Even using the low number (12%) that would make total expenses 99% of revenue.
In order to make 4 cents a share they need to make $1,833,196.
( 45,829,896 times .04 )
And if that is 1% of revenue, they would need to have revenues of $183 million which isn't possible.
Of course, maybe they were just being conservative in their 10K, and the above percentages are too high.>>





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