Silke
12.01.2001, 07:39
....über 10% im nachbörsl. Handel zulegen. Pers. gehe ich hier von einem extremen short squeeze aus!
DoubleClick Cuts Expectations for 2001
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2001 6:52:00 PM EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online ad company DoubleClick Inc. DCLK said on Thursday it broke even in the fourth quarter, a better result than analysts had expected, but warned that a poor advertising climate would hit revenues and earnings in 2001.
The New York-based company said media revenues -- from selling advertising on the Internet -- would be down between 25 percent and 30 percent in 2001, mainly due to the absence of CMGI Inc.'s CMGI AltaVista as a client.
Online ad companies have taken a hit from the collapse of many dot-coms companies, which had previously thrown money into advertising to raise their profiles.
DoubleClick's warning for 2001 followed a similar one from Internet media bellwether Yahoo! Inc. YHOO on Wednesday, which cast a shadow on the advertising and Internet media industries.
``The shake-out has come faster and more brutal than we expected,'' DoubleClick Chief Executive Kevin Ryan said in a conference call with analysts and reporters.
Ryan said he expects to see a tough half year in advertising, but said that DoubleClick is not as dependent as other online ad companies because of strong growth in both its data and technology businesses.
For the first time, revenue from its TechSolutions business, which delivers ads directly to sites, exceeded its media revenue amid strong sales in Asia, totaling $61.5 million. Investors, who had until now focused almost entirely on the media business, were now beginning to pay more attention to DoubleClick's technology business, analysts said.
DoubleClick forecast a pro-forma profit of between 7 cents and 9 cents a share for the year, down from the average 11 cents a share expected by analysts tracked by First Call/Thomson Financial.
<font size=1>[Dieser Beitrag wurde von MaryMeeker am 12.01.2001 editiert.]</font>
DoubleClick Cuts Expectations for 2001
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2001 6:52:00 PM EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online ad company DoubleClick Inc. DCLK said on Thursday it broke even in the fourth quarter, a better result than analysts had expected, but warned that a poor advertising climate would hit revenues and earnings in 2001.
The New York-based company said media revenues -- from selling advertising on the Internet -- would be down between 25 percent and 30 percent in 2001, mainly due to the absence of CMGI Inc.'s CMGI AltaVista as a client.
Online ad companies have taken a hit from the collapse of many dot-coms companies, which had previously thrown money into advertising to raise their profiles.
DoubleClick's warning for 2001 followed a similar one from Internet media bellwether Yahoo! Inc. YHOO on Wednesday, which cast a shadow on the advertising and Internet media industries.
``The shake-out has come faster and more brutal than we expected,'' DoubleClick Chief Executive Kevin Ryan said in a conference call with analysts and reporters.
Ryan said he expects to see a tough half year in advertising, but said that DoubleClick is not as dependent as other online ad companies because of strong growth in both its data and technology businesses.
For the first time, revenue from its TechSolutions business, which delivers ads directly to sites, exceeded its media revenue amid strong sales in Asia, totaling $61.5 million. Investors, who had until now focused almost entirely on the media business, were now beginning to pay more attention to DoubleClick's technology business, analysts said.
DoubleClick forecast a pro-forma profit of between 7 cents and 9 cents a share for the year, down from the average 11 cents a share expected by analysts tracked by First Call/Thomson Financial.
<font size=1>[Dieser Beitrag wurde von MaryMeeker am 12.01.2001 editiert.]</font>