SINA Corporation (SINA): Today's Featured Internet Laggard
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SINA Corporation provides online media and mobile value-added services (MVAS) in the People's Republic of China. It provides advertising, non-advertising, and free services through SINA.com, Weibo.com, and SINA Mobile. SINA Corporation has a market cap of $3.63 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of -10.4, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 5.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate SINA Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and two rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates SINA Corporation as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in net income, revenue growth and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including disappointing return on equity and a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself.
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