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Focus Media Holding Limited – May rebound after sharp loss

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Focus Media Holding Limited (ADR) (NASDAQ:FMCN). Last Market Price: 18.82, Change: -1.55, % Change: (-7.59%). Shares trade in the range of 17.38 – 20.19 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 2.55B dollars, making it a Mid Cap Stock and has 135.72M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 1.94, indicating, the stock to be more volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 1.01; P/E of 18.67. It operates in Services sector and belongs to Advertising industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 65%. The company has a 52 week high of $ 37.58 and a 52 week low of $ 17.38. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 2,960,000. Volume traded in the last session was at 3,670,000, 1.24 times the average volume.

  • FMCN fell to a tragic low in Thursday trading – amid heavy volumes.
  • Investors are looking for a potential rebound

For Q2 (Jun ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 24.51%, an Operating margin of 27.74%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 12.12%, Return on average equity of 13.43%. The organization has an employee strength of 5,151

Consensus Recommendation is a Outperform.


Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Sep-11 show a mean of 186.63 million dollars, an estimate high of 190.20 million dollars and an estimate low of 168.40 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 162.64 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 196.18 million dollars, an estimate high of 209.91 million dollars and an estimate low of 188.00 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 175.41 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Sep-11 show a mean of 0.47 dollars, an estimate high of 0.49 dollars and an estimate low of 0.41 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.35 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 0.50 dollars, an estimate high of 0.51 dollars and an estimate low of 0.47 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.39 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Jun-11 was estimated at 162.68 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 178.96 million dollars, 16.28 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Mar-11 was estimated at 134.88 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 146.57 million dollars, 11.69 million dollars more than estimates.

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Post Written By: Ed Liston

Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.


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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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