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Maybe Excite@Home is a good move, but it shouldn&039t sacrifice current financials. Profitable Net companies will have certain privileges such as nice market caps. Excite@Home is out of the club.
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Investors should be asking a lot of questions about Excite@Home. Maybe they will -- in between trades.
Instead of allowing Excite@Home to post losses for the year in the name of expansion, maybe shareholders should question why the company overpaid for Bluemountainarts.com. That acquisition was used only to hide weak growth for Excite@Home&039s narrowband portal.
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Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) looked like it had everything figured out. The company straightened out its relationship with AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T) and looked like a contender. And then the broadband portal dropped its latest bomb.
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For starters, Internet companies can&039t afford to miss estimates. When your valuation is based on future profits and revenue, you can&039t overlook little items like analysts&039 projections, which are low-balled anyway.
But we really wish CFO Fred Anderson would talk more shop on the calls. Anderson basically lls back to the we don&039t preannounce products or we don&039t break that out lines.
Here&039s what we&039d really like to know:
For perspective, consider this: Excite@Home reported a 1999 loss of 4 cents a share, excluding goodwill charges.
We already know what Excite@Home ns -- not to mention analysts hoping to rake in underwriting fees from potential spin-offs such as Excite Japan -- are going to say. Excite@Home is a good move in the long run. Besides, Excite@Home now has Ma Bell on its side.
The company plans on losing 25 cents to 30 cents a share in 2000, excluding the usual amortization costs that Wall Street tends to overlook. First Call consensus called for a profit of 10 cents a share in 2000.
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The company cited international expansion and subscriber growth as the primary reasons for 2000 losses. Excite@Home said it hopes to have 3 million residential broadband subscribers by the end of 2000, 6 million subscribers by the end of 2001 and 10 million subscribers by the end of 2002. Those goals will take a lot of marketing.
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1. What&039s the beyond the box strategy here? We know the partnership with EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK) is going well, but how about some figures. Anderson only said it&039s doing well. He did see good margins ahead and mentioned EarthLink is a part of that. Hmmm.2. What about those pesky Net appliances. Gateway (NYSE: GTW) and AOL are talking Net appliances. Apple should be able to cook something up that&039s better. It&039s not like the company doesn&039t know how to make consumer-friendly products. Is it time for the Newton to return? Sure, Newton was ahead of its time, but it was pretty neat.
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Perhaps, investors should ask why Excite@Home suddenly got this international expansion bug. Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) has expanded abroad without screwing up its financials. Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS) is also a major player. Oh yeah, and those folks at America Online (NYSE: AOL) are also interested in the action overseas. Yahoo, Lycos and AOL also report profits.
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Now that Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is habitually topping estimates, its earnings conference calls are getting increasingly boring. Yes, we know shareholders are money. And, of course we know Apple issued a rare stock split.
moving newton ma THE DAY AHEAD: Excite@Home trades profits for marketing, it's just so 1999,The company wants to lose money to market aggressively and expand internationally. How 1999 is that? Just when profits begin to matter to investors, Excite@Home not only misses estimates with a slight loss, but then forecasts hefty losses for 2000. Once a Net company posts a profit, it&039s hard to go back to that spend-heavily-to-grow mode.
Excite@Home added that it hopes to have $2 billion in revenue by 2002, and intends to achieve long-term profitability. Don&039t hold your breath.
Excite@Home&039s earnings release (aside from the earnings and revenue miss) touted a bunch of solid metrics -- until you got to the financial outlook, which nullified all the feel-good statistics.
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3. What about those other cool Net assets Apple has? We&039re talking QuickTime here. Nice technology guys, how about a spin-off? How about just a download figure? We know, we know ... competitive reasons.
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