Market Update: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) – Yahoo: An Activist Investment Analysis (YHOO)

[at Investopedia] – Learn about recent investor activism related to Yahoo. Find out which activist investor is involved, what it is recommending and how Yahoo is reacting. Read more on this. Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) , valued at $32.63B, opened this morning at $34.26. Looking at the equity, the company’s one day range is $34.00 to $34.58 with a one year range of $27.20 to $51.68. YHOO shares are currently priced at 57.95x this year’s forecasted earnings, which makes them relatively expensive compared to the industry’s 9.02x earnings multiple. In a review of the consensus earnings estimate this quarter, 37 sell-side analysts are looking at $0.13 per share, which would be $0.17 worse than the year-ago quarter and a $0.07 sequential decrease. The full-year EPS estimate is $0.59, which would be a $0.98 better than last year. The quarterly earnings estimate is predicated on a consensus revenue forecast of $1.19 Billion. If reported, that would be a 0.85% increase over the year-ago quarter. More recently, Bernstein upgraded YHOO from Mkt Perform to Outperform (Aug 13, 2015). Previously, Susquehanna Initiated YHOO at to Positive. When considering if perhaps the stock is under or overvalued, the average price target is $42.72, which is 24.69% above where the stock opened this morning. See more in (NASDAQ:YHOO) Similar Articles: Market Update: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) – Yahoo Real Estate and Yahoo Celebrity are Yahoo’s Newest Digital Magazines Stock Update: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) – Yahoo!, Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) to Ring The Nasdaq Stock Market Opening Bell Market Update: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) – One Reason Yahoo! (YHOO) Stock Closed Higher