Yahoo misses profit expectations in what could be its last-ever earnings report

Post by tuna-piano » Tue, Jul 19, 2016, 3:29 AM UTC

xxbondsxx wrote: post #24

tuna-piano wrote: post #15

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Wouldn't the prudent thing to do be to sell at least enough stock to pay the tax? If not allowed to sell at that point- just short stock to have the equivalent effect (minus fees)? Something else I've never understood to be rational - If you wouldn't buy $10 in yahoo stock- why would you hold it because you have it? My uninformed but seems logical answer would be sell the stock you got, pay the tax and buy and index…

> Wouldn't the prudent thing to do be to sell at least enough stock to pay the tax? It's not liquid yet, that's the issue. That's what is nice about most RSU plans -- they immediately sell to cover, so you don't receive a ton of stock with an attached tax bill. But illiquid options are different; the capital gains tax is for the paper-wealth you just received. That same paper wealth can evaporate, but the tax bill re…

Post by cpeterso » Tue, Jul 19, 2016, 3:41 AM UTC

dexwiz wrote: post #31

Has there ever been a successful turnaround of a software company of Yahoo's scale? Mayer has been tech news' pinata for over a year now, but the company was sliding before she was even hired. Looking through a list of dead Yahoo services, it reads as an obituary of region specific social networking sites and forgettable web services[1]. Social sites are notoriously fickle, and boosting one to popularity is somewhat…

Post by hkmurakami » Tue, Jul 19, 2016, 3:45 AM UTC

a_small_island wrote: post #19

shams93 wrote: post #6

Its taken them a while, all their peers except for Amazon have essential gone to the dust. If Geocities had been bought by say Google instead of Yahoo I could have easily flipped my options into my own startup. However dot bomb hit so hard instead of wealth I was left holding a huge capital gains tax bill that forced me into 10 solid years of hardcore poverty as most of my income was confiscated to pay off the debt.…

Have you written more about this? I would love to read more details.

Post by elgabogringo » Tue, Jul 19, 2016, 3:46 AM UTC

trimbo wrote: post #41

elgabogringo wrote: post #29

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I mostly know that him through reading about his daughter on TMZ

Haha! Terry Semel is where the "Yahoo is a media company" thing began. http://www.zdnet.com/article/can-terry-semel-yahoo/ http://www.wired.com/2007/02/yahoo-3/ I'm still puzzled by Yahoo's hiring Semel, more than any other executive mentioned in this thread. (e.g. hiring Fiorina for HP made sense at the time).

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 19, 2016, 3:54 AM UTC

ams6110 wrote: post #39

nostromo wrote: post #34

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Apple, of course. It's probably the biggest turn-around story of our time.

Apple turned around by moving much more heavily into consumer hardware, specifically the iPod and then the iPhone and iPad. It was not really a software turnaround, though that was a smaller part of it.