...1. Introduction The purpose of this project is to compare Google Inc. with Yahoo Inc. by using the SWOT analysis. As we live in modern era, in the era of e-society, there are probably not too many people in the world that haven’t heard about Google and Yahoo, these two major players in the Internet and computer software industry with continued history of rivalry. These two multinational corporations own the two most used search engines. The site google.com is ranked as number one in the world according to the three-month Alexa (provides traffic data, global rankings and other information on thousands of websites) traffic rankings. About 30% of visitors to this site come from the US. Google-owned site youtube.com is ranked as number three in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings, while yahoo.com is ranked as number four in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. It is estimated that 33% of visitors to the site come from the US, but it is also popular in Taiwan, where it is ranked as number one . Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are both an example of an online mall e-business model. Both Yahoo and Google share a lot of the same target groups yet from different perspectives. 2. SWOT analysis The SWOT analysis provides information that the company can use in order to adjust the resources and capabilities to the competitive environment. Therefore, it is an important instrument in strategy formulation, selection and planning. SWOT analysis...
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...Comparison I Google & Yahoo! Financial Analysis & Comparison I. II. INTRODUCTION CASH III. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE IV. REVENUE V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. LIABILITIES CONTINGENT LIABILITIES FIXED ASSETS MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS CONCLUSION II Google & Yahoo! Financial Analysis & Comparison I. INTRODUCTION Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford graduates, are the founders of Google. It was incorporated in California in September 1998 and reincorporated in Delaware in August 2003, the IRP raised an initial $1.67 billion. In October 2000, it launched Google AdWords, which forms the company’s primary source of revenue till date. Its advertising services include performance advertising and brand advertising. While Google is the internet search giant, it still has to keep innovating to ensure that it grows and doesn’t stagnate or go down the curve. This is the reason Google spends a considerable share of its revenue on acquisitions and research and development. Yahoo! Jerry Yang and David Filo, two Stanford graduates, are the founders of Yahoo!. It was incorporated in March 1995 and raised $33.8 million during its IPO. Yahoo began its operations as a Web Directory and its primary source of revenue has been advertising since then. It was a successful in 1990s, until Google started dominating the search engine industry starting mid 2000's Since then, Yahoo! has been concentrating on ...
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...Running head: WHY GOOGLE WAS ABLE TO BEAT YAHOO 1 Why Google was able to beat Yahoo: External factors influencing the development and domination of the twenty-first century internet giants Gregory A Totty MGT510 Strategic Planning Dr. Walter McCollum Colorado State University WHY GOOGLE WAS ABLE TO BEAT YAHOO Abstract The purpose of the following research is to illustrate how external factors can influence the development of market share in a new industry. The primary example is a case study of the organization known as “Yahoo”; the first internet only large corporation, which failed to grow with its early domination of the new emerging market of the World Wide Web. The evolving industry originally was a creative person’s domain. It was viewed in its infancy more like a vast library, than the center of all knowledge transfer much as it has become. The mistakes made by Yahoo early in the century, soon became an uncontrollable nemesis; and would eventually force the organization to re-organize. This research attempts to provide evidence for Yahoo’s demise along with the primary external factors that were either overlooked or their magnitude of 2 influence was not properly considered. Based upon the evidence provided, an alternative strategy for a similar percentage of market share was implemented by Google who, partially by learning from the mistakes of Yahoo, was able to forecast more accurately; resulting in a dominance of the same market today. Conclusions can...
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...Final Research Project: Financial Analysis of Yahoo! Inc. Group 4: Kwa’Bena Edwards Claudia Chavez Andrew Agubuzo Lydell Fletcher Ivan Adilkhayan University of Maryland University College August 1, 2014 This report was prepared for FINC 330: Business Finance, instructed by Professor Eric Ramon Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………………...………………2 PARTI I Financial Performance……..………………………………………………………….………3-9 Vertical Analysis of the Income Statement…………………………………….……….3-4 Vertical Analysis of the Balance Sheet……………………………………….………...5-6 Horizontal Analysis……………………………………………………………………….7 Financial Performance Summary……………………………………………….………8-9 Financial Ratio Analysis……………….........…...………………………………..….10-11 Financial Ratio Summary…………………………………………………………….12-13 DuPont Calculations………………………………………………..…………….……...14 Return on Equity Summary…………………………………………………………...…15 Other Areas of Financial Analysis…………………………………………….……..16-17 PART II Stock Performance………………………………………………………………………….18-20 Yahoo! Inc.’s Stock Performance……………………………………………………….18 Google Inc.’s Stock Performance……………………………………………………….19 Stock Performance Summary……………………………………………………………20 PART III Conclusion and Recommendation…..……………………………………………………..…..21 References……………………………………………………………………………………….22 Appendixes……………………………………………………………………………..……23-29 Executive Summary Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) is a global Internet corporation that provides digital content and experiences through...
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...search services, Yahoo!, was a directory of sites selected and organized into categories by human editors. The Web soon grew too large for directory-based search. AltaVista invented technology that automated search, relying on software “spiders” that created a searchable index of page contents and on algorithms that ranked page relevance based on the frequency of keyword references. Yahoo! added AltaVista’s algorithmic search engine, but in 1998 replaced AltaVista with Inktomi, which used parallel-processing networks to offer faster processing and a larger index. As website developers exploited search algorithms by repeating keywords on their pages, searches increasingly returned irrelevant listings—”spam”—that frustrated users. In 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page tackled this problem as graduate students at Stanford. Their PageRank algorithm reliably delivered more relevant searches by favoring pages that were referenced—”linked to”—by other pages. These links were called “votes,” because they signaled that another page’s webmaster had decided that the focal page deserved attention. The focal page’s importance was determined by counting the number of votes it received, weighting votes more heavily when they were cast by pages that Google had previously deemed to be important. This approach required PageRank to solve an equation with 500 million variables and 3 billion terms. In June 1999, Brin and Page announced first-round funding for their start-up, Google, from two elite...
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...Trading Data 52-Wk Range Market Cap. Shares Out. Dividend Yield Avg Daily Vol. Float Yahoo! Corp. $18.58 - $34.08 $25,459 MM 1,336.4 MM 0.0% 27,140,000 NA Source: FactSet It’s not often that management of a company sees its stock skyrocket ~50% in one day and have to ask themselves “Is this the best day in company history or the worst?” We believe Yahoo!'s valuation has being hampered by near-term investment concerns which weighed on investor realization of the long-term potential and value of the company. As we pointed out in our 4Q earnings note, we thought the near-term investor disappointment created an opportunity for any suitor that was remotely serious. Fundamental Data EV/EBITDA Enterprise Value LT Debt to Total Cap. Book Value 16.4x $24,681.6 MM 0.0% $7.00 • Implications to Traffic and Search Market Share. Domestically, Yahoo! and MSN together command 11% in page views market share, more than double Google’s 5% market share. In the international market, however, Yahoo! and MSN jointly account for 8% of total page views, still slightly lower than Google at 9%. On Search, the combination of Yahoo! and MSN would represent 33% of query market share in the domestic market and 17% in the international markets, still significantly behind Google at 58% in the U.S. and 70% internationally. • Implications to Advertising Market Share. Yahoo! and MSN together add up to $5.3B in 2007 domestic ad revenues, assuming no synergies,...
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...have narrowed our search down to just two companies, Google and Yahoo. In order to make the decision between the two on which one we should acquire, we need to take close looks at who each company is, what they do, and the financial data of each. Google is the world’s largest search engine. Although they started out simply as a search engine, they have branched out to many other markets. Gmail is a very popular email service. Their Android mobile phones are the most widely used of all cellphones. They also have a very popular web browser in Google Chrome. The Chromebook is gaining ground as a lightweight alternative to a traditional laptop computer. Other technology such as Google Maps, google drive, Google earth and others make Google a very innovative company that is not afraid to take on new challenges and expand into different markets. Yahoo is very similar to Google in that it has its beginnings as a search engine. Through a web portal, a person is able to enter anything into a search field and get back results. Yahoo also has an email service that is widely used. Although Yahoo and Google have similar beginnings, they have chosen different paths since then. Yahoo has evolved into one of the world’s leading media companies. They have a large following, and having leading sports, finance, and entertainment news pages, among others. The focus for Yahoo is not creating new hardware and software like Google, but leading the way as a media conglomerate. In...
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...Organizational Structure Google is the fourth-most admired company in the United States. Google was also listed as the top company to work for in both 2007 and 2008. The main reason for this employee admiration is Google’s cross-functional organizational structure, which the company maintains though stellar leadership and innovative management techniques. Read more: Google's Organizational Structure | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_6692920_google_s-organizational-structure.html#ixzz21s1Ugo00 Instead of setting goals for them, Google’s management helps their employees meet the objectives that the employees set for themselves. The company sees its managers as leaders who facilitate inspiration and empower employees. Google’s management function controls employee responsibility in similar way to the United States government, through a series of checks and balances. All employees set out and evaluate goals on a quarterly basis. Although Google’s management makes suggestions, employees use metrics that they choose themselves to measure their progress toward their goals. Supervisors act as managers to ensure that the employees meet their own goals, but employees see them as leaders because the employees themselves set the benchmarks.Read more: Google's Organizational Structure | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_6692920_google_s-organizational-structure.html#ixzz21sjzc1Hq Yahoo’s and Google’s organizational structure Http://www.websitemagazine.com Yahoo vs. Google Yahoo first emerged...
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...December 31, 2011. In particular, US internet users grew from 4.5 million to 140 million (World). Two start-up companies attempting to capitalize on this new emerging market were Yahoo and Google, both founded and incorporated in the mid to late 1990s. Both companies realizing the potential of the internet as an unlimited database, started out specializing in search engines that help users locate information on the internet. This is reflected in their respective mission statements. Google’s mission statement is "To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” (Frequently). Yahoo’s mission statement is “Yahoo! is the premier digital media company. Yahoo! creates deeply personal digital experiences that keep more than half a billion people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the globe. That's how we deliver your world, your way. And Yahoo!'s unique combination of Science + Art + Scale connects advertisers to the consumers who build their businesses” (Yahoo! Inc.). Due to the fact that both Google and Yahoo started out as search engines, there are striking similarities in their mission statements. First is that they both consider the internet a database with Yahoo explicitly stating that they are “the premier digital media company”. While Google implicitly states it with the phrase “organizing the...
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...profile……………………………………………………………………..……….4 3.1 Google………………………………………………………………………..……….4 3.2 Market performance…………………………………………………………..………4 3.3 Yahoo…………………………………………………………………………………5 3.4 Market performance………………………………………………………………..…5 4.0 Financial ratios………………………………………………………………………………..6 5.0 Interpretation of ratios…………………………………………………………………….….7 5.1 Profitability ratio………………………………………………………………...……7 5.1.1 Return on asset…………………………………………………………...…7 5.1.2 Return on equity…………………………………………………………....7 5.2 Efficiency ratio…………………………………………………………………….....8 5.2.1 Gross profit margin………………………………………………………….8 5.2.2 Net profit margin…………………………………………………………….8 5.3 Liquidity ratio…………………………………………………………………………9 5.3.1 Current ratio…………………………………………………………………9 5.3.2 Quick ratio…………………………………………………………………10 5.4 Leverage ratio………………………………………………………………………..10 5.4.1 Debt to equity ratio………………………………………………………...10 5.4.2 Debt ratio………………………………………………………………..…11 5.5 Investment ratio……………………………………………………………………...11 5.5.1 Price/earnings ratio………………………………………………………...11 5.5.2 Price/book value ratio……………………………………………………...12 6.0 Cash flow statement analysis………………………………………………………………...13 6.1 Cash flow data for both companies………………………………………………….13 6.2 Cash flow for Google……………………………………………………………….13 ...
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...Yahoo! Case Analysis May 9 2007 Jason Drohn Bradley Bierer Carol Woods Michelle Victory Paul Rapela The strategy of implementation of an established dot com company, struggling to leverage current advertising methods with business objectives. Table of Contents Executive Summary......................................................................................................................... 3 History: ............................................................................................................................................ 5 Problem ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Competitive Analysis ....................................................................................................................... 9 Yahoo Financials............................................................................................................................ 12 Economics ..................................................................................................................................... 19 Demographics ............................................................................................................................... 23 Market Analysis............................................................................................................................. 30 CPM ..........................................................
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...GOOGLE Target market-Segmentation Zeekanapui Bandaogo Davenport University BUSN520 Professor Thomas Steinhagen Contents Introduction/Overview…………………………………………………………………..3 Primary and Secondary Target Markets…………………………………………………3 Target Group….……………………………………………………………………...….4 Market Position…………………………………………………………………………..5 Conclusion….……………………………………………………………………………7 The Organizations or firm that best finds out market segments are those succeeding in the business market today. This is because market segments allows or provides the companies information’s on the ground about what their customers really want and Google is best at this. Google started as a startup and its now the leading internet search engine and now have introduced a lot of innovations like Ad words, Gmail, Google analytic and G1 phone to mentioned a few all this, to best serve its Primary and secondary target. So many companies do not know their target market but Google does. Google has one of the best market strategies to meet its primary and secondary targets. Google’s targets, are users of internet and online persons and businesses and specifically the youth. So I will say that Google’s main Target are the youth (G)and the secondary target are the elderly(O). Google has a lot of competitors like Yahoo, Facebook, the main one being Microsoft. Primary and Secondary Target Markets According to Curtis “a business primary targets are group of people most likely...
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...1. Using competitor intelligence from the case material, assess the levels of market commonality and resource similarity that Google has with three key industry competitors. How will they influence competitive behavior and the intensity of rivalry? Market Commonality refers to the number of different markets two or more direct competitors are involved in. For instance Sony and Samsung are direct competitors and are involved in number of different markets which includes Smartphones, Televisions, and Hi Fi Systems and so on. Market commonality also pertains to the degree of importance each competitors give to their each market. For instance, Sony and Samsung may give more importance to their Television line of products because it either maybe their most popular products of all or it may be due to their anticipated future market of that product. Multimarket competitors are less likely to attack each other aggressively, but will respond aggressively when they’re being attacked. For instance Airlines industry is a multi-market industry wherein the prices are similar, but if the competitors comes up with a promotion, others would swiftly respond. Resource similarity on the other hand, refers to how the each of the firms’ resources both tangible and intangible can be compared. For instance, Sony and Samsung both are market leaders in LCD and LED manufacturing. Both have exceptional intangible resources in terms of designing products and their level of knowhow and technological expertise...
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...Dominant Economic Features 15 Market size and growth: 15 Number of rivals: 15 Number of buyers: 15 5 Competitive Forces 16 Competitive Landscape 17 Financial Analysis 18 Identification of Rivals 19 Percent of Searches 19 Financial Summary from 2007 19 Financial Summary from 2009 19 Yahoo 20 Microsoft Online Services 21 Analysis of Company Strategy 22 Executive Summary To: Eric Schmidt, CEO From: Tyler Echevarria, Amanda Osburne, & Samantha Smith Re: Strategic Analysis of Google Inc. Date: April 7, 2010 This report will make recommendations for improvement of Google Inc. based on the analysis of the company’s financial resources and industry evaluations. Several analytical tools will be used in determining the direction the company should pursue. These analytical tools and techniques include the following: * Evaluation based on SWOT analysis * Evaluation based on Key Success Factors * Evaluation of Google’s business model and strategy * Analysis of financial data * Evaluation of current industry conditions These tools will be used to recommend new opportunities for Google to pursue as they continue to seek growth. Google has performed quite well recently, but must continue to push the technology frontier in order to continue this growth. Using the analysis of Google’s current situation, three recommendations have been devised. These include a push for cloud computing, ways to improve YouTube’s revenue, and how to better...
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...ANALYSIS OF SUCCESS FACTORS OF GOOGLE INC. We know that today, Google is the number 1 search engine in the world with millions and billions of search results available in any part of the world. There are certain factors that have made Google a success since its inception. “Some of the key success factors of Google are Technology, Innovation, Building a Brand, User Experience, Acquisition” 1. Technology: The reason behind the google’s success of providing the fastest search on the internet is its “Pigeon Rank” technology. With the help of Pigeon rank, google can provide the user the fastest result of the desired information. Pigeon Rank works much faster than the technology developed by Yahoo and Microsoft. The reason why PigeonRank works so efficiently is that it has been developed in such a way that it can identify the objects related to the specific search from the content lying anywhere on the internet. The Pigeon Rank can also distinguish the results even with the mere difference between them. Google’s technology has two parts working efficiently namely the “Software Engineering and the Hardware Engineering”. The Software Engineering part deals with the Page ranking, which essentially ranks the sites based on the links associated to them. Software Engineering means writing some query and then to think how the computer works in order to give the data in a fraction of second. Hardware Engineering part deals with the decreasing of the cost by building its own servers....
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