Company Profile For Yahoo Japan Corporation

Yahoo Japan Corporation (4689.T) (Tokyo Stock Exchange)

sector: Technology · industry: IT Services & Consulting ·

As of 6:09am IST

25,740JPY

Price Change

+70

Percent Change

+0.27%

Analyst Recommendations

Overview

Yahoo Japan Corporation is a Japan-based provider of Internet search services. The Company has three business segments. The Advertising segment provides banner advertising, text advertising, mail advertising and searching tracking advertising services. The Business Service segment provides services to corporate clients, excluding advertising companies. This segment provides services under the names Yahoo! HotJobs, Yahoo! Real Estate, Yahoo! Autos, Yahoo! Auction, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! BB, Yahoo! Research, Yahoo! Business Express and Yahoo! Web Hosting. The Personal Service segment provides services under the names Yahoo! Auction, Yahoo! Premium and Yahoo! BB for individual clients. On October 1, 2009, the Company merged with its Tokyo-based wholly owned subsidiary.

Quick Financial Synopsis

BRIEF: For the six months ended 30 September 2009, Yahoo Japan Corporation's revenues increased 3% to Y135.68B. The Company's net income increased 7% to Y39.30B. Revenues reflect increased sales from personal service due to active sales promotion and increased volume of users. Net income also benefits from lower percentage of selling, general and administrative expensed, the absence of Y479M loss on amortization of goodwill.