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LinkedIn Conference Call Highlights
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 4:47pm | 1204LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) reported its first quarter earnings on May 2, 2014. Shares of the company are down 7.30 percent or $11.77 per share to $149.40. Below are some key takeaways from its conference call: Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Weiner: LinkedIn profiles have become the standard way...
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LinkedIn Reports Strong 1Q14 Results
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 4:25pm | 298LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) reported first quarter 2014 results on Thursday, May 1 after the close. In the press release, CEO Jeff Weiner commented, "The first quarter was strong for LinkedIn in terms of our member engagement and financial results. We made significant progress against...
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Top 10 Highest-Rated CEOs
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 5:14pm | 180A couple of mainstays, coupled with some not-so-everyday names. Glassdoor, a jobs and career community, has released its annual report of the highest-rated CEOs for 2014. The list is determined by employee feedback shared over the last year. Employees voluntarily and anonymously provided...
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Analysts React to LinkedIn's Positive Quarter and Lowered Guidance
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 5:21pm | 1082After the closing bell on Thursday, LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) reported its fourth quarter results. The company announced an EPS of $0.39, beating the consensus estimate of $0.38. Revenue of $447.2 million beat the consensus estimate $438.28 million. Net income for the quarter fell from $11.5...
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LinkedIn Ends 2013 On A High Note, But Disappoints Investors
Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 5:55pm | 873LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) has once again posted earnings results that are above consensus, but it wasn't enough to keep some investors from selling their shares. The career-targeted social networking site now has approximately 277 million members, but LinkedIn neglected to say how many of them are...
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LinkedIn Rises Slightly, Then Drops After Q3 Earnings Beat
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 4:27pm | 286Shares of LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) are down nearly two percent after the company announced its third-quarter results. LinkedIn reported a Q3 EPS of $0.39 versus the Street estimate of $0.32. Earnings per share were up 77 percent from the year-ago period. Revenue came in at $393 million versus the...
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UBS Joins a Growing Group of Titans in Funding the Entrepreneurial Fellowship Venture for America
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 1:08pm | 456In a press release Friday morning, UBS Americas (NYSE: UBS) announced it would invest $1.2M over the course of three years to support an entrepreneurial fellowship called Venture for America as part of its “Revitalizing America” initiative. Inspired by Teach for America, Venture for America...
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LinkedIn Rises 21% After Earnings, "Transformative" Year
Friday, February 8, 2013 - 5:09pm | 443LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) soared today, rising more than 21 percent after the company announced its fourth quarter results. Revenue climbed 81 percent to $303.6 million versus $167.7 million during the year-ago period. Net income rose to $11.5 million versus $6.9 million for the fourth quarter of...
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Why Facebook is Too Big to Succeed
Friday, August 3, 2012 - 3:29pm | 2185By Carol Kopp, Minyanville Staff Writer LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) just strengthened its position as the Wall Street darling of social media stocks after the close Thursday, reporting stronger-than-expected revenue and raising its full-year outlook. The company has three revenue streams, and...
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LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner Says "Mobile Ads Don't Eat Into Site Revenue"
Friday, August 3, 2012 - 11:22am | 138Jeff Weiner, the CEO of professional social network site LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), appeared on CNBC Friday morning, and stated that mobile ads do not eat into the site's revenue stream. Addressing the question of why there is a disconnect between his businesses growth and the amount of customers it...
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Intuit Earnings Preview: EPS and Sales Expect to Be Up About 6%
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 7:05am | 955Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU), which is well positioned to take advantage of the migration of small business to the cloud, is scheduled to report fiscal third-quarter 2012 results tomorrow, May 17, after the end of the trading day. The software provider has enjoyed double-digit year-over-year percentage...