Yahoo - Management Finally Unlocking Asset Value
by Sneha Shah
Introduction
Yahoo (YHOO) has been the perennial under performer in the Internet segment despite having a head start in the 1990s. The company has one of the most popular web portals and gets a huge amount of traffic at its properties like Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports etc. The company has also got the 3rd most popular search engine after Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) Bing. Despite having such valuable assets, Yahoo has never really managed to realize its potential with the stock price essentially going nowhere in the last 10 years. Yahoo missed a huge opportunity when it declined to accept Microsoft's offer of a buyout at a huge premium at $31/share. Jerry Yang who was the CEO at that point of time let his pride come in the way of money by refusing to sell the company. The company's top management in the past has been one of the worst amongst large cap Internet companies. read more »
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