Evercore Partners Maintains an 'Overweight' on Google (GOOG); Making Room for Motorola

July 20, 2012 9:23 AM EDT Send to a Friend
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Evercore Partners maintains an 'Overweight' on Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) price target of $750.00.

Analyst, Ken Sena, said, "Google continues to demonstrate improvement within Search, strengthening advantage within Display , optionality in local and attractive valuation. Google trades at just 7.1x EBITDA and 13.7x EPS on our 2013 estimates, inclusive of SBE, compared to our ~20% L/T growth expectation."

"For 3Q 12, we are raising net revenues 6.8%, to $12.2 billion from $11.4 billion, which reflects a 30% increase in MMI revenues. However, consistent with the revenue increase, we are raising COGS by 27% to reflect MMI's lower margin structure and overall opex by 10%. We are lowering adj. EBIT margin to 32% from 36.3% and lowering EPS from $10.50 to $9.93."

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Shares of Google closed at $593.06 yesterday, with a 52 week range of $480.60-$670.25.


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