Yahoo price target cut to $21 a share

Yahoo's price target was snipped to $21 a share from $24 on Monday by a Wall Street analyst, following the Internet search pioneer's confirmation that it is delaying its controversial search-advertising deal with Google.

Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay noted in a research note that despite reports that Yahoo is in talks with Time Warner, the probability of a deal between the media conglomerate's struggling AOL unit and Yahoo remains relatively low, in part due to antitrust regulators' concerns about the proposed Yahoo-Google deal.

In his research noted, Lindsay stated:

Regulators might not allow the AOL-GOOG paid-search deal to pass to YHOO, which would wipe out the other synergies--creating a large risk for both sides. We are reducing our YHOO price target to $21 but maintain TWX (Time Warner) at $18.50.

In addition, Lindsay points out that stock transactions over $3.4 billion are dilutive to Yahoo's shareholders and that Time Warner was likely hoping to receive $6 billion to $8 billion for AOL, which is possible only if Yahoo can gain some synergies from the transaction.

A third point Lindsay raises:

The primary source of synergies is staff reductions, where YHOO has (an) unimpressive track record. Other benefits, such as pricing power in display, and combining Advertising.com with Right Media Exchange, will not drive short-term incremental revenues.

Yahoo's stock on Friday closed at $16 a share, slightly up from $15.58 a share the day before.

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I predicted a YHOO share price target of $12 when the Microsoft deal didn't go through.
I am sticking by that $12 target.
I really don't see anything Yahoo has done that is going to give it any strong growth, short term or long term.
Yahoo has screwed their shareholders but good. From an offer of $33 a few months back, they are now looking at a share price of a very low $14.77 today. That's half their wealth wiped out. Thanks a lot Jerry Yang.