Chris Nerney

In every way you can measure, April was the worst month for Internet IPO debuts in the past year. No surprise: The spring correction that has ravaged Net stocks since mid-March has done similar damage to the IPO market. Last year, one out of three Internet public offerings gained at least 100 percent in their […]

Last Friday we looked at the recent average performance of the 12 Internet sectors tracked by internet.com’s Internet Stock Report, concluding that the market appears close to finding a bottom. Today we’ll look at the report cards for the best- and worst-performing Internet stocks since the beginning of the year. First, some big-picture numbers. Heres […]

Despite the continued volatility of the tech-heavy Nasdaq in recent days, there are signs that Internet stocks are bottoming out – at least some sectors. According to statistics from internet.com’s Internet StockTracker weekly newsletter, two of the 12 Internet sectors posted slight average gains for the week of trading ended Wednesday, the first time in […]

Amazon.com’s Q1 numbers, released after Wednesday’s market close, offer the first tangible evidence that the company is turning toward profitability. The news couldn’t have come at a better time, both for investors who have grown increasingly impatient with the online e-tailer?s mounting losses and for other e-tailers desperate to remove the stench of death permeating […]

There was an interesting article in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal about how poorly most Internet and other high-tech IPOs have fared in the wake of sizzling ticker debuts. Granted, that many IPO moonshots have been followed by rapid descents to earth (and below) is no news flash to, say, the investor who bought shares of […]

Given its highly visible six-month ticker nosedive, many investors include eToys (ETYS) on the short list of imminently endangered Internet companies, along with online grocer Peapod (PPOD), health site drkoop.com (KOOP) and music e-tailer CDNow (CDNW). That’s what a 92 percent loss since last October – and new lows seemingly every day – will do […]

The point has been driven home for several weeks: Internet investors, rattled by market turbulence and plunging stock prices, now demand actual profits from public Net companies, or at least tangible evidence of strong progress toward profitability. Excite@Home (ATHM) must not have gotten the message, for the high-speed cable access company on Wednesday announced it […]

If there is any logic to the market’s mood these days, shares of America Online Inc. should surge in the wake of yet another outstanding quarterly report. After all, AOL (AOL) has everything that sobered-up investors supposedly want in the wake of the recent (and perhaps still current) sizable correction in Internet and high-tech stocks: […]

Like a coddled prizefighter continually steered out of harm’s way by doubtful managers, AltaVista once again has found a reason not to step into the IPO ring. But just as ducking the big fight one too many times can cost a boxer his carefully crafted aura of invincibility, AltaVista’s false starts toward the IPO launch […]

By the market’s close on Thursday, that monthly gainers list was down to two companies — barnesandnoble.com (BNBN), which was up 6.9 percent since the close of trading March 16, and Claimsnet.com (CLAI), up 1.8 percent. But with the Nasdaq nosediving again Friday morning, even those two have slipped into the red. So with all […]

It might seem like every Internet stock has lost ground in the past month, with some still in the process of free-falling. But looking at data compiled from internet.com’s Internet StockTracker spreadsheet, I’ve uncovered 10 — count ’em, 10! — Net stocks that have boldly defied a market downturn which through Wednesday had sent the […]

The latest foreign Internet portal with plans to sell stock on an American exchange is the most popular Web destination in the most-coveted market in the world. That alone should ensure that Sina.com, mainland China’s largest Chinese-language consumer portal, receives a wildly enthusiastic welcome when it begins trading on the Nasdaq, despite recent executive management […]