Yahoo! has acquired 114 companies of its own, including 11 in the last 5 years. A total of 6 acquisitions came from private equity firms. It has also divested 7 assets.
Yahoo!’s largest acquisition to date was in 1999, when it acquired Broadcast.com for $5.7B. It’s largest disclosed sale occurred in 2010, when it sold HotJobs.com to Monster Worldwide for $225M. Yahoo! has acquired in 9 different US states, and 12 countries. The Company’s most targeted sectors include internet software and services (54%) and software (39%).
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Yahoo! Inc. is a provider of internet search tools, content, and communication services. The Company was formed in 1994 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.
| Year | ≤ '14 | '15 | '16 | '17 | '18 | '19 | T | |
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| Buy (0.2/yr) | # | 111 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 112 |
| vol | $17.6B | $230M | $17.8B | |||||
| Sell (0.2/yr) | # | 6 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 7 |
| vol | $225M | $225M | ||||||
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Broadcast.com, Inc. $5.7B (1999-04-01) |
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HotJobs.com, Ltd. $225M (2010-08-24) |
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Yahoo! was acquired by Verizon Communications on July 25, 2016.
When analyzing the internet software and services sector as a whole, according to Mergr, in the last 3 years, there are 1079 internet software and services companies that have made at least 1 acquisition, 44 have acquired at least 5 companies, and 8 have acquired more than 10 companies.
The most prolific strategic internet software and services acquirer over the past 3 years is Alphabet, with 18 acquisitions. The most prolific private equity acquirer in the internet software and services sector over the past 3 years is Vista Equity Partners with 12 platform acquisitions.
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