Monster Buys HotJobs

Monster LogoMonster is buying HotJobs. The news of the $225 million acquisition from Yahoo! was announced just moments ago in New York.

HotjobsThe deal includes a three-year agreement in which Monster will power the career channel on Yahoo’s homepage in the U.S. and Canada. Yahoo will continue to manage the 600+ newspaper advertising and content consortium it has put together over the last several years. Monster, however, will get the recruitment advertising, giving it a print and online network of more than 1,000 daily and weekly newspapers across North America.

The financial terms were not detailed in the press release, but are likely to be one of the topics to be discussed at a 2 p.m. PST conference call with financial and other analysts. That conference call was scheduled weeks ago to coincide with today’s release by Monster of its 4th quarter and 2009 annual financial results.

Monster’s financial report, released at the same time as the announcement of the HotJobs deal, shows revenue was off for the quarter by 27 percent and off 33 percent from the same periods in 2008.

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For the 4th quarter, Monster lost 2 cents per share or $2.1 million. The average of analyst estimates had been a loss of a penny per share.  After accounting for certain adjustments, Monster’s pro forma performance was in line with the analyst average.

For the year, Monster posted a $18.9 million profit, which translates into earnings per share of 16 cents.

John Zappe is the editor of TLNT.com and a contributing editor of ERE.net. John was a newspaper reporter and editor until his geek gene lead him to launch his first website in 1994. He developed and managed online newspaper employment sites and sold advertising services to recruiters and employers. Before joining ERE Media in 2006, John was a senior consultant and analyst with Advanced Interactive Media and previously was Vice President of Digital Media for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group.

Besides writing for ERE, John consults with staffing firms and employment agencies, providing content and managing their social media programs. He also works with organizations and businesses to assist with audience development and marketing. In his spare time  he can be found hiking in the California mountains or competing in canine agility and obedience competitions.

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7 Comments on “Monster Buys HotJobs”

  1. A deal long time coming. Yahoo has been seeking buyers for HotJobs since Carol Bartz started in early 2009. In 2001, Yahoo struck a deal to buy HotJobs for $436m in cash and stock. The current deal values each 1,000 uniques at around $12.6K, so that establishes a starting point for valuation discussions for other site. For example, a site with 10 million uniques would be worth about $126 million.

    Ten months ago I vlogged about a possible HotJobs sell, watch video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x92czd_is-yahoo-ready-to-sell-hotjobsy_news

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