Yahoo Earnings Up, But Revenues Down

2010 April 20
by Michael H. Berkens

Yahoo reported earnings after the market closed today.

Yahoo! said its first-quarter profit was more than double that of a year ago.

Yahoo earned 22 cents per share, better than the 9 cents analysts had anticipated.

However Q1 search advertising revenue down was down 14%.

“We stabilized our search share and we believe it will tend up in Q2,” Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz said in a conference call with analysts on Tuesday.

Yahoo’s revenue per search increased 2% from 4Q, but were down 14% year-over-year.

Yahoo shares were down 3.5% after hours.

4 Responses leave one →
  1. 2010 April 20
    Tim permalink

    I wonder when Yahoo will collapse and it will come to all of us having to deal almost exclusively with Google.

  2. 2010 April 20
    MHB permalink

    Tim

    Yahoo’s deal with Microsoft should go into effect this year, which should increase Yahoo’s profits even further

  3. 2010 April 21

    Yahoo wont collapse!

    They are still making profit thats the key point!

    It might not be as big as google but its still profit!

  4. 2010 April 22

    Most domainers I know using a Yahoo fed’ parking Co are satisifed to very satisfied…

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