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China's Alibaba and Japan's Rakuten on hunt for acquisitions like Local Corp
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China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's will use proceeds from its potential IPO to fund acquisitions, media reported on Wednesday, as the firm looks to broaden its mobile services.

The group will not include most of its financial businesses, such as the Alipay online payment platform and its micro-loan services, in the potential IPO, Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Lu was quoted as saying in the China Daily.

Alibaba has not officially announced that it will hold an IPO, but people familiar with the matter say the company has intensified its meetings with investment banks over the past few weeks.

The issue is expected to value Alibaba at $60-$100 billion, and could raise $15 billion, making it one of the world's biggest internet IPOs and a much sought-after prize for bankers and stock exchanges.

Lu, who succeeded founder Jack Ma in May, said the timing of Alibaba's listing would depend on whether he had a good acquisition target.

Another asian company with big synergies is Rakuten - remember ssome years ago, where Raktuen bought Linkshares for 420 million by revenues of Linkshare of only 30 million.  

 

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Good time to sell all your Groupon-shares at once and buy a company with only 36 million market-cap with this excellent numbers:

Local Corporation Reported following First Quarter 2013 Financial Results:
• Revenue – First quarter 2013 revenue of $21.8 million
• Adjusted EBITDA – The company reported positive Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter 2013 of $605,000
• Positive Cash Flow from Operations of 1.1 million

Ein solcher Vergleich geht bei fast allen Aktien - nur bei Groupon eben nicht. Ein Schelm, der Böses dabei denkt.  

Vom Volumen ist der Handel höher als der Durchschnitt. Zusimmung allerdings in einem Punkt: Längere Zeit lief nichts - das ist nun einmal bei Local Corp normal, denn der Kurs wird manipuliert, was man als Investor (wenn er nach unten manipuliert wird) ausnutzen kann, um seine Bestände aufzustocken.








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Local Corp is the Market-Leader in Hyper-Local - Hyper local targeting is probably the biggest win in mobile

“Hyper local targeting is probably the biggest win in mobile,” said Howie Schwartz, CEO of Human Demand. “That is something that desktop can’t do – it can’t do location at that level. “Hyper local is probably the biggest thing that is going to push mobile advertising this year,” he said. “On the advertiser side the demand is 100 percent there. In Q4, we had three times the number of campaigns that required hyper local targeting.” .

Multiple landing pages are the key for hyper-local search and nobody offers better landing pages than Local Corp's network

Hyper-local search is all the rage. The competition for the most popular short-tail keywords makes ranking for them almost impossible. The new frontier is the less competitive long-tail of local search.

Small businesses have discovered the importance of search for their marketing mix. Location-based marketing services and the growth of mobile has made it possible for donut shop owners, landscapers and birthday party clowns to make an impact with hyper-local search.

Unfortunately most businesses miss the mark when it comes to bringing people off of the search engine on to their web properties. They’re still relying on their website to close the deal.
This is a mistake.

The key to winning in hyper-local search is the landing page – or rather, multiple landing pages for multiple locations

Read more by business2community: seo/why-landing-pages-are-key-to-hyper-local-search
 

"We expect to see additional revenue and earnings per share growth in the second quarter"
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Since last conference call on May 9,2013 exist no other message and after nine days after the end of Q2 there will no big correction come and it is clear: Q2 will be better than the very positive Q1. Overlining was part of this speak:

"On our last call, I outlined 2Q objective this year. Expanding gross margins on our largest revenues stream, which is our O&O business and expand our network revenues, which is our largest gross margin. We executed well in the first quarter against both of those goals, which resulted in $0.07 per share swing in our bottom line, driving adjusted earnings per share from $0.04 loss in Q4 to $0.03 profit in Q1. We expect to see additional revenue and adjusted earnings per share growth in the second quarter."

Source: Transcript on Conference Call of Seeking Alpha (Read more direct on Seeking Alpha)  

A reason, but A VERY SMALL, for additional revenues (1) could be the first Vertical of Local Corp: InsuranceLow....

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Yelp paid 12.4 million for a company with less than one million revenues in 2013

Expect More Deals from Yelp (YELP) after SeatMe - Needham & Company

The contribution from the acquisition to 2013 results should be minimal, according to the firm. On a standalone basis, SeatMe is likely generating minimal revenues (less than $1MM). That said, the transaction could be impactful depending on integration plans.





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If the 94 million revenues of Local Corp were valued similar, the valuation must be 1,166 million and more.

 

A reason, but A VERY SMALL, for additional revenues (2) could be the second Vertical of Local Corp:

Local Corporation Launches Consumer Site for Multi-Billion Dollar HVAC Market to Expand Local Ad Revenues

Series of Industry-Specific Sites Designed to Generate Leads and Further Monetize Local Markets

Press Release: Local Corporation – Mon, Dec 17, 2012 7:30 AM

Local Corporation a leading online local media company, today announced the launch of its second industry-specific, content driven website designed to further extend its reach and engagement with local consumers and businesses.

The company, which connects businesses with over a million consumers each day, plans to leverage these new industry-specific sites to further expand its reach into and monetization of local markets.

The new site, which focuses on heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), offers a complete HVAC service guide that includes educational articles and provides a variety of decision criteria for consumers who are choosing an HVAC service provider. The site also provides the ability to request quotes, access a comprehensive directory of local HVAC professionals, including contact information and, where available, user ratings and reviews. The HVAC industry is estimated to be worth $16.8 billion in the U.S.1,andis forecasted to rise about 8 percent in 2012, and this growth is expected to continue through 2017 .  

5.8 laut Yahoo - stimmt das?  

dabei hat man sich vermutlich an früheren Mustern orientiert, konkret angekündigt wurde noch nichts - die Ankündigung dürfte Anfang bis Mitte nächster Woche kommen.

http://ir.local.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=181515&p=irol-news&nyo=0  

Die Monthly Unique Visitors dürften in etwa gleich geblieben sein: Der minimale Rückgang auf der Flagshipsite dürfte vom Network leicht überkompensiert worden sein.

Newest Numbers of Monthly Unique Visitors May from Siteanalytics for Local Corp and  (include 06/2013)

Local Corp’s Flagshipsite development of Unique Visitors:

11/2012: 18,745,842 Monthly Unique Visitors

12/2012: 22,738,206 Monthly Unique Visitors

01/2013: 26,410,927 Monthly Unique Visitors

02/2013: 24,017,605 Monthly Unique Visitors

03/2013: 24,427,755 Monthly Unique Visitors

04/2013: 23,785,928 Monthly Unique Visitors

05/2013: 27,804,187 Monthly Unique Visitors

06/2013: 23,015,278 Monthly Unique Visitors


With 74,606,393 MonthlyUnique Visitors on the flagshipsite is the result in Q2 a little bit lower than in Q1 with 74,856,287 Monthly Unique Visitors. But Local Corp has additional Monthly Unique Visitors from the last strong growing network - in Q1 more than 12 million.and I am sure that the increase of this number in Q2 will be equal or bigger than the less 250,874 Monthly Unique Visitors in Q2 on the flagshipsite.  

Damit entscheidet die Monetarisierung, ob zumindet ein leichter Umsatzanstieg gelungen ist - denn die Richtschnur für die Umsatze sind in 2013 sind ja 94 Millionen, was im Schnitt auf 23.5 Millionen im Quartal hinausläuft. Und diese Zahl wurde ja am Anfang/Mitte Mai bestätigt.

Local Corp hat ja eine Vielzahl von Maßnahmen gestartet, um diese Monetarisierung zu verbessern (siehe ## 5411 und 5412 und weitere werde ich noch vorstellen) und zumindest einige scheinen auch gut angelaufen zu sein. für Q2 würde ich in Sachen Umsatzsteigerung aber nicht zu viel erwartet: Wenn es gelänge, den Umsatz von 21,755 millionen in Q1 auf 22,5 bis 23 Millionen zu erhöhen, ware das schon sehr gut, wenn man die Ergebnisse bei Yahoo und Google denkt.  

aussehen, das selbst bei konstantem Umsatz bei einem Plus von 1,5 Millionen liegen müsste, da  zu den schon positiven 600,000 vom letzten Quartal ein dauerhafte Kostenersparnis von 0,9 Millionen pro Quartal hinzukommt:

Lower Costs: One reason, why the Ebitda will be 0.9 million higher in Q2/2013 and the following quarters

Joel Achramowicz – Merriman Capital

And kind of mentioned, it sounds like that Op expenses should be under control going to the second quarter as well.

Kenneth S. Cragun

That’s right. So just have a handful of open positions, but Q1 had a little bit of non-recurring charges, particularly on the sales and marketing line. And so, if you look at our run rate, if you took about $900,000 off of that sales and marketing line for Q1, you’d have a pretty good indicator of where we are now on a run rate basis.

Damit ist Ebitda-Prognose von 5 Millionen für 2013 eigentlich schon ziemlich in trockenen Tüchern, wenn nichts Außergewöhnliches passiert: 0,6 Millionen aus dem ersten Quartal und 3 mal 1,5 aus den drei anderen Quartalen = 5,1 - und das unter der Voraussetzung, dass der Umsatz das Jahr nur auf der Basis von Q1 liegt.  

Additional revenues (3) in Q2 will come from the new UK-Site of Local Corp

London Local Business Directory More Categories Shopping in London, GREATER LONDON

Appliance Stores

Baby Accessories, Baby Clothes, Baby Stores, Beauty Stores, Bed Stores, Books, Bookstores, Bridal Shops

Camping Equipment, Candy Stores, Carpet Stores, Cell Phone Stores, Children's Clothing, Clothing Stores, Computer Stores, Consignment Stores, Convenience Stores, Craft Shops

Department Stores, Discount Stores, Drug Stores

Electronics Stores

Fabric Stores, Factory Outlets, Fitness Clothing, Fitness Equipment, Florists, Flowers, Furniture Stores

Games, Garden Equipment, Garden Stores, Gift Baskets, Gift Shops, Golf Clothing, Greeting Cards, Grocery Stores

Handbags, Hardware Stores, Health Food Stores, Hobby Shops, Home Stores

Jewelers, Jewelry

Kitchen Stores

Lawn Equipment, Leather Goods, Lingerie, Liquor Stores, Luggage

Maternity Clothing, Maternity Stores, Mattress Stores, Men's Clothing, Musical Instruments

Office Furniture Stores, Office Supply Stores, Outlet Stores

Party Stores, Pawn Shops, Pet Stores

Shoe Stores, Shoes, Ski Equipment, Snowboard Equipment, Sporting Goods, Stationery

Tennis Clothing, Tennis Equipment, Thrift Stores, Toy Stores, Toys

Uniforms, Used Musical Instruments

Watches, Wine Stores, Women's Clothing  

http://uk.local.com/london-greater-london-london+tx.z.html  

Increase ot revenues (4) in Q2 through launch of Fusion by Local: Better Local Audiences at Scale throug Fusion by Local of Local Corp

Fusion by Local makes it possible for brand marketers to reach engaged, ready-to-buy local audiences on a national scale though our vast community of 1,200+ trusted news sites. No need for multiple local vendors and direct relationships to implement local campaigns for their clients. Through a single point of contact, agencies now have access to highly desirable news sites in our transparent premium ad network.

Fusion by Local gives your clients the ability to reach millions of people every month in the markets that matter most – simply and efficiently. We work through direct publisher partnerships to offer advertisers tremendous reach within specific categories or DMAs. Whatever your needs are, we work with you to customize and optimize a perfect-fit advertising campaign across the best sites, audiences and channels.

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Zillow has with 39 million only the 1.8-fold revenues of Local Corp, but with 2,310 million market-cap the 62-fold of idiotic low 37 million
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of Local Corp:

Local Corporation Reports First Quarter 2013 Financial Results
• Revenue – First quarter 2013 revenue of $21.8 million
• Adjusted EBITDA – The company reported positive Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter 2013 of $605,000

Zillow, Inc. Reports Record First Quarter 2013 Results
•Record Revenue of $39.0 million,
•Adjusted EBITDA was $5.1 million

Würden die Umsätze von Local Corp so bewertet wie die von Zillow, müsste die Marktkapitalisierung von Local Corp bei 1291 Millionen liegen, was auf einen Kurs von 56 hinausliefe.
 

Zillow has only half Monthly Unique Visitors of Local Corp, but with 2,310 miliiion the 62-fold market cap of Local Corp

Local Corp (market-cap of 37 million) development of Unique Visitors:

11/2012: 18,745,842 Monthly Unique Visitors

12/2012: 22,738,206 Monthly Unique Visitors

01/2013: 26,410,927 Monthly Unique Visitors

02/2013: 24,017,605 Monthly Unique Visitors

03/2013: 24,427,755 Monthly Unique Visitors

04/2013: 23,785,928 Monthly Unique Visitors

05/2013: 27,804,187 Monthly Unique Visitors

06/2013: 23.015,278 Monthly Unique Visitors

Local Corp has additional to the 23.015,278 Monthly Unique Visitors from the flagshipsite near 13 million Monthly Unique Visitors from the network = together about 36 million Monthly Unique Visitors. The result: Local Corp has near double US-Monthly Unique Visitors than Zillow, but the market-cap of Zillow is with 2,120 million the 61-fold market-cap of the market-cap of Local Corp of only extreme idiotic low 37 million.

Compare with the development of Zillow’s (2,310 million market-cap) Monthly Unique Visitors:

11/2012: 10,978,144 Monthly Unique Visitors

12/2012: 11,366,564 Monthly Unique Visitors

01/2013: 14,298,071 Monthly Unique Visitors

02/2013: 13,415,496 Monthly Unique Visitors

03/2013: 16,374,138 Monthly Unique Visitors

04/2013: 16,762,386 Monthly Unique Visitors

05/2013: 18,346,672 Monthly Unique Visitors

06/2013: 19,383,460 Monthly Unique Visitors L  

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