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YHOO: Looking Less Stupid About Yahoo This Morning

Tags: Office Equipment, Airline, Delta Air Lines (DAL), Diebold (DBD), Services, Yahoo! (YHOO), DBD, DAL, YHOO
5 May 3:46pm
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A while back I complained that several stocks I had been bearish about had gotten boosts from takeout offers. Namely, Diebold (DBD), Delta Airlines (DAL) and Yahoo! (YHOO).

Delta stock finally broke down, and then agreed to a merger at much lower share prices.

Today I look less stupid about Yahoo, though the stock is still up 5% from the date of my bearish article, compared to a 4.3% decline in the S&P 500.

So that’s two down and one to go.  Each reduction in my apparent stupidity is welcome.

Disclosure: At time of publication, William Trent has no financial position in the companies mentioned in this article.

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Stock Market Beat editor William A. Trent, CFA, has been an equity analyst since 1996 and is co-author of Understanding and Evaluating Prospectuses, Offering Documents, and Proxy Statements. Prior to starting Stock Market Beat he was Senior Equity Analyst for New Amsterdam Partners LLC, a $6 billion institutional asset manager. His experience covers all market-cap sizes and is primarily within the TMT (Telecom, Media and Technology) and Transportation sectors. He is also the senior editor of Financial Education. He is available for freelance writing and consulting projects and can be contacted here. He is not, however, a registered investment advisor and will not accept funds for management.