posted 03-07-2001 06:27 PM         

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In brief:

- Heavy debt and a disappointing holiday season have forced eToys into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company is expected to begin its liquidation on Thursday by shutting down its website.

posted 10-30-2000 06:33 PM         

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Company Name (Ticker): reported, expected, same q last year

eToys (ETYS): -$0.33, -$0.35, -$0.27

posted 07-27-2000 06:49 PM         

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Company Name (Ticker): reported, expected, same q last year

eToys (ETYS): -$0.37*, -$0.37, -$0.17
(*) Excluding non-recurring items.

posted 02-23-2000 05:34 PM         

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Amazon.com, the world's largest Internet retailer, could buy eToys Inc., the No. 1 Internet toy store, said Henry Blodget, an analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co.

Consolidation and acquisitions will shrink the number of Internet-related companies in the next few years, Blodget said, and eToys will likely be bought.

"Seventy-five percent of all Internet companies will cease to exist in the next three to five years," Blodget said. "Amazon could buy eToys because it has expertise that Amazon doesn't have."

Amazon, best known as an online bookseller, has increased partnerships to bolster its retail offerings.

Since the year began, Amazon has agreed to buy 18 percent of closely held Living.com, which sells furniture and bedding. Amazon also said it entered a marketing agreement with online pharmacy Drugstore.com Inc.

Ebay is another possible acquisition target, Blodget said in an interview after a Merrill Lynch press conference on technology. Blodget said Microsoft Corp. is one of several companies that would be likely candidates to buy the largest Internet auctioneer.

posted 02-16-2000 04:37 PM         

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I was looking at the old posts on this board. Lee R posted this when ETYS was in the 60s:

"Just a guesstimate, based on:
+ size of market opportunity (big)
- current revenues and losses (small and big)
- barriers to entry (low)
- eventual margins (low)
- lead on competition (zero)
Add those up and you get a valuation of $12 per share..."

The stock is now at 13 and change. Very impressive prediction, Lee R...

posted 02-04-2000 12:05 PM         

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Found this in an article, thought it was interesting:
With toymakers coming to town en masse soon [for a conference], Wall Street is showing it's always ready to play, too. The game in this case is raising stock prices. And the stock is eToys.com, an online toy seller that plunged 84 percent in a huge selloff during the Christmas holiday. In the process of the rout, eToys' underwriter, brokerage Robertson Stephens, got saddled with handling millions of shares of unwanted eToys shares that its customers unloaded by the carload.

Big institutions panicked one after another as the stock plummetted during December from its high of $86 toward the $13 level, with Yale University, Williams College, Dartmouth, and Stanford bailing, out along with major investors such as Bessemer Trust, Horsley Bridge, Ford Foundation, Moore Global and Fox Ventures. This week, the last of the big block deserters finally bailed out -- Vanderbilt University said Tuesday it sold its 152,365 shares.

The next move? Robertson Stephens the following day upgraded the stock, which it had criticized only weeks earlier. The upgrade on Wednesday by analyst Lauren Cooks Levitan has sent the stock soaring for the last two days, adding 39 percent to its value. It rose from its 52-week low of $13.75 on Tuesday -- the day prior to the upgrade -- to $19.12 yesterday, up $2.12 on the day. Robertson Stephens said its upgrade had nothing to do with the huge volume of shares its staff has been selling. "It's one of the questions that everyone will answer with a ‘No.' Why would anyone want to admit to that?" said Robertson Stephens spokesperson Elizabeth Denton. "We wouldn't upgrade a stock for a reason like that."

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