LinkedIn company's fourth quarter earnings can reveal whether still impressive enough is still a hot commodity in Wall Street's online professional network services credential.
What should be paid attention to: bar has been set to high LinkedIn, this is published on Thursday after due to performance, the stock market end. The company has the first-class analysts forecast, every quarter since its initial public offering in May 2011, spoiled investors.
This means that LinkedIn will need more than analysts expected, for the seventh straight quarter keep winning streak to support the price of the stock. Investors seem to believe that the company will close it. In late January, the company's share price to fresh record highs of $127.45, still linger there. Shares closed at $123.30 on Monday,. This represents a heavy income, for investors who bought LinkedIn stock in its IPO price of $45, and held.
LinkedIn's market value is about 1.3 billion dollars, and promote the rapid growth of the company, with more and more people from all over the world to share information, to his own business and its free services wishes. Is located in mountain view, California, the company makes most of its money by selling subscriptions to employers, headhunting company and other more widely use LinkedIn database. Internet advertising bring income.
The New Year began soon, LinkedIn revealed that more than 200 million account holder first. This is less than two years more than twice before. The fourth quarter earnings report will show how many account holder LinkedIn have ends in December. This may be a little less than us $2 million. LinkedIn, 1.87 million members of the check.
For the last three months of last year, the report also can learn more about LinkedIn recently make efforts and draw people more frequently to visit their site, and for a long time. Among other things, LinkedIn has redesigned website, active user profiles, increase more business news and recruitment of senior management personnel and entrepreneurs to provide advice and regular blog post.
If the check to LinkedIn become more habits of people use it, it will be easier for the company sales more advertising.
Why are so important: LinkedIn in the economy plays a more and more important role, because it has changed the way people find work, assist the employer to fill them.
Expected: analysts forecast earnings per share 19 cents, revenue of $280 million, according to FactSet earnings. Profit forecast does not include the company's employee stock compensation fees.
The same period last year, the company won the $6.9 million, or 6 cents a share, revenue of $168 million, in 2011 period. Profits have 12 cents per share, if not employee stock compensation and cost has nothing to do, the ongoing business.
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