Dougherty & Co Lowers Estimates and Price Target on Netflix (NFLX)

September 15, 2011 12:33 PM EDT
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Dougherty & Co lowered its price target on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) from $248 to $212 after the company lowered subscriber guidance on higher churn.

The firm also lowered net subscriber additions for Q3 from 1.5M to 1.0M which reduces their SepQ estimate from $813.2M/$0.87 to $805.0M/$0.86 and takes De11E from $3.3B/$4.12 to $3.3B/$4.10.

The firm comments, "We believe Netflix is building a power business as a next-generation pay-tv network. The company has scale, global reach and continues to outpace the competition. However, the near-term is clouded by higher than anticipated churn, a situation, which may negatively impact the fourth quarter as well. The sharp sell-off in the shares makes for a more reasonable entry point, but we want to get the Q3 report and Q4 guidance issues behind us before revisiting our rating on the stock."

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Shares of Netflix closed at $208.71 yesterday.


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