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It appears Yahoo is under every analysts eye given the events that the company has been a part of over the last few months or so. To me it’s quite surprising as to why the company that has the most visited web page on the Internet suffers such short comings and why the much experienced management fails to deliver the best? Wasn’t it Yahoo that earlier dominated the web scene? Google came after almost half a decade to take the  cake away from every entity on the net so if Yahoo says it lost its search to Google (and yes even Microsoft), it’s for the garbage bin not for our ears.

Yahoo has done everything in this time, from launching new services to shredding some weight, but has it really done the right thing so far?  The right thing isn’t about introducing new members in the board, acquiring business across the web, it points at analysing the short comings in the very core structure of your firm.

Yahoo’s current stocks crawl around $19 a share and according to Collin Stewart analyst Sandeep Agrawal, the highest Yahoo can climb on stock share is $21. That’s way too low than what Microsoft had offered ($31 initially and chances were to raise it to $34), but the team put the deal off. The reason, Yahoo didn’t want to become someone else’s property. But will it’s deal with Google shape up, considering the countless brains working to put an end to it? Yahoo is all trouble at present.

  Agrawal mentioned in his writing:

We believe that the fundamentals at YHOO are deteriorating. On the one hand, economic headwinds and turmoil in the financial markets are causing weaker display ad revenues. On the other hand changes with the minimum bid with search and a possible GOOG/YHOO deal are causing an outcry among many advertisers. To further complicate the situation is an ongoing loss of talent which might accelerate with renewed restructuring efforts. We don’t see any near-term upside in the shares of YHOO on a fundamental basis.

So he states the obvious, there is trouble at every step Yahoo takes to step out of the darkness it is in. So hiring consultants from Bain and Co. won’t really help Yahoo and given the fall out of talent and experienced execs, Yahoo can hope against hope to see the stocks getting higher anytime in near future.

Any ideas how or when Yahoo can climb up?