The Yahoo stock price surged nearly 7% to $36.07 Wednesday amid reports the company is mulling a sale of its core Internet business, moving ahead with the Alibaba spin-off, or doing both.
Clearly, Yahoo will complete at least one of those moves.
Less clear is CEO Marissa Mayer's fate...
Will Yahoo sell its Internet business? That's the question everyone wants to know this morning.
CEO Marissa Mayer has struggled to increase shareholder value since 2013, and owners of YHOO stock are getting restless.
Activist hedge fund and key Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) shareholder Starboard Value LP has thrown a major snag in the company's Alibaba spin-off plans.
Starboard is pressuring Yahoo to halt the $20 billion Alibaba spin-off and instead sell its sputtering Internet business.
Here's what Starboard wants Yahoo to do instead....
Yahoo earnings for Q3 2015 will be released after the bell today (Tuesday). And analysts are expecting earnings per share (EPS) of $0.17 and revenue of $1.26 billion.
Those estimates represent a year-over-year drop of 67% for earnings and a gain of 14.8% for revenue.
Yahoo stock has climbed 16% in October. Now investors are awaiting the Q3 earnings report on Tuesday, Oct. 20, as a lackluster report could put an end to that run.
And while investors will be focusing on earnings per share and revenue, the most important part of the Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) earnings report will be an update on the Alibaba stock spin-off.
Here's why the spin-off is so important for Yahoo shareholders...
Yahoo stock fell in pre-market trading after a mixed Yahoo earnings report.
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) posted a 14.7% increase in sales, from $1.084 billion in the second quarter of 2014 to $1.243 billion this quarter.
Yahoo earnings will be released this afternoon (Tuesday). But, for all intents and purposes, Yahoo earnings are becoming increasingly irrelevant.
That's because the market values Yahoo's core business at a negative valuation when all holdings are accounted for.
Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) officials announced an Alibaba spin-off this week, which the company expects to complete in Q4.
The new company will be called Aabaco Holdings and will be made up of $32 billion in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) shares and a division named Yahoo Small Business.
Here's the reason why Yahoo is holding an Alibaba spin-off, and what it means for investors...
It's been a frustrating ride for Yahoo stock this year.
When all is said and done, the market values Yahoo's core business at negative $3.3 billion.
But that doesn't necessarily mean it's underpriced and ready for a surge...
Since the September Alibaba IPO, the Yahoo stock price has moved almost in tandem with the Alibaba stock price.
That's where Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) stock derives most, if not all, of its value.
Here's why that may be changing...
For most of the day yesterday (Tuesday), Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) stock was trading up.
That was, until news reports came out suggesting that the Internal Revenue Services was considering changes to tax rules governing spin-offs - fearing it could cut into the expected Alibaba windfall.
One company investors should have their eyes on after this Verizon-AOL deal is Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO).
This Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) announced it was going to acquire struggling internet brand AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) for $50 a share, or $4.4 billion. Yahoo could only dream for someone to come in and swoop them up.
Here's why AOL and Yahoo are more similar than you would think...
The question about Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) is not necessarily, "How does Yahoo make money?" but rather, "How does Yahoo still make money?"
Online advertising is a tough business to be in, especially when other bigger players are dominating. Yahoo is in trouble.
After Yahoo earnings yesterday (Tuesday), investors have to ask themselves, "Is Yahoo stock worth buying?"
The Yahoo stock price got a nice lift in pre-market trading today. Though, Yahoo earnings weren't a ringing endorsement for the company's ailing core business. But it's still worth a buy.
So why is Yahoo stock worth buying? We answer that here...
Tech M&A deals are so commonplace now they often come and go with little fanfare. Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) alone has acquired 44 companies since 2000. Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG, GOOGL) has gobbled up more than three times that, with 144 buys in the last 15 years.
These deals are actually changing our lives - perhaps more than we realize. For instance, Google bought mobile software Android in 2005. Now, Android smartphones account for 78.4% of global market share. There are 76 million Android users in the U.S. alone.
Here are five charts that show the recent M&A deals from American tech sweethearts Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo!, and Google.
In another year or two, chances are some of these buys will have changed the way we live...
