皇冠体育app

   

BIZCHINA / Li Yanhong

sales may double on rise in ads
By Janet Ong and Jonathan Thaw (皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2006-02-23 09:19

Inc, 皇冠体育app's most-used Internet search engine, said sales in the first quarter may double from a year earlier as the company attracts more advertisers. The shares surged 12 per cent.

Revenue will probably rise to between 125 million yuan (US$15.5 million) and 130 million yuan, an increase of between 174 per cent and 185 per cent from a year earlier, the company said in a statement. The company, which listed on the NASDAQ in August, didn't provide comparative figures.

and Internet companies such as Google Inc, the world's No 1 search engine, are expanding in 皇冠体育app, where the number of online users rose 18 per cent last year. The nation had 111 million Internet subscribers by the end of 2005 and is the world's second-largest Internet market after the United States.

"The online search market is growing at a rate much faster than the overall online advertising market in 皇冠体育app," Robin Li, chairman and founder of Beijing-based said in a conference call yesterday. "We continue to see strong potential for 皇冠体育app's search market."

reported net income in the fourth quarter rose almost fourfold to 24.5 million yuan, or 0.71 yuan per share, from 6.37 million yuan, or 0.22 yuan. Profit for the full year soared to 47.6 million yuan from 12 million yuan.

American depositary shares of rose to US$57.75 in extended trading after the results were reported. The stock gained US$1.63 to US$51.69 yesterday in NASDAQ Stock Market composite trading. The shares have lost 17.9 per cent this year.

Sales in the fourth quarter rose to 114.9 million yuan from 42.9 million yuan, beating the company's October forecast of as much as 106 million yuan.

Like Google, sells space next to its Internet search results. Advertisers pay a fee when users click on the ads. By the end of December, had 63,000 active online marketing customers, or advertisers, a rise of 18.6 per cent from the previous quarter. The company didn't provide comparative figures. Revenue per online marketing customer was 1,772.9 yuan, an increase of 9.7 per cent from the previous quarter, it said.


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