Sixth quarter loss in a row furrow Yahoo
Yahoo shut the first quarter off with a net loss of 53.6 million dollars, against a loss of 11.5 million dollars in the same period last year.
In the result, Yahoo had to take up a burden of 64.1 million dollars in connection with a change in the boekhoudmethode. This burden reproduces the value drop of earlier acquisities. Excluding the burden walked the profit to respect of last year something back until 10.5 million dollars.
The volume of trade came from on 192.7 million dollars, compared with a volume of trade of 180.2 million dollars. Analysts counted on a volume of trade of 175 million dollars. In the figure about the past quarter is the volume of trade of the taken about vacaturesite Hotjobs taken along.
Yahoo attempts to become to set all considerable time less dependent of advertising earnings, through all sorts of paid services on. That strategy appears ascended went down to throw fruits off, because the volume of trade the earnings from advertising further meanwhile.
The at advertising related volume of trade walked to respect of last year with 15 per cent back until 121 million dollars. The volume of trade from e-commerce operations tripled clear away until 16.7 million dollars.
Expectations raised
The portalcompany expects not that the advertisement markets in the walking, second quarter will attract. Advertising is on this moment good for 63 per cent of the volume of trade of Yahoo.
Yahoo counts expects for completely 2002 on a `sterke, profitable growth', in such a way the business that the present painful economic circumstances arrest will the whole year.
The business increased the volume of trade expectation for 2002. Yahoo counts on a volume of trade between the 870 and 910 million dollars. Before the business went from of a volume of trade between the 750 and 800 million dollars. That was excluding the taken about HotJobs.