Stock price when the opinion was issued
From a sum of the parts basis, this is undervalued. The risk is that you have to be careful of Chinese companies. The primary value in this company is there shareholding in Ali Baba (BABA-N). There is a lot of great growth in China, but Ali Baba does not pay a dividend. If something bad happens in China, the primary determinant in this stock is going to get hit.
There are still reasons to hang onto this. Their Internet business is being sold to Verizon. What you have left is the stub, which is basically a holding company of Ali Baba (BABA-N) and Yahoo Japan. Looking at the current price of Ali Baba, and multiply it times the number of shares that Yahoo owns, the Yahoo price is below its holdings.
The company is planning a Dutch auction, offering to buy back $3 billion worth of stock. Currently they have slightly negative to sort of low single digit growth, and at the same time they are asking for a multiple year. This is not a bad exit point. There are probably better spaces to be in at this time.
New CEO is making some changes and the stock has gone up 50% in the last year. Does seem like some positive stuff but it is a challenged way to make money on the web. You have some media products, that are reasonable categories to be in but it doesn’t necessarily generate traffic on a consistent basis. The tough part is convincing advertisers that they need to be there on an ongoing basis day in and day out. If you own, he would look for other places to go.