{"id":685916,"date":"2010-03-08T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:404800"},"modified":"2010-03-08T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T19:55:00","slug":"four-reasons-why-google-pullback-wont-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/685916","title":{"rendered":"Four reasons why Google pullback won&#8217;t last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent pullback in Google Inc. shares will be shortlived, says Citigroup Capital Markets analyst Mark Maha <\/p>\n<p>He reiterated his Buy rating and $640 price target based on four key updates to Google&#39;s long-term thesis. The first is the potential impact of new search advertising products. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We believe Google\u2019s four recently introduced Paid Search Ad Products (Sitelinks, Product Advertising, Local\/Map Advertising, and Comparison Ads) not only reflect continued &#8212; and necessary &#8212; innovation at Google but also provide further evidence of Search\u2019s growth runway and the potential for Paid Click growth reacceleration \u2013 a key investor focus \u2013 as well as further monetization growth,&quot; he wrote in a note to cleints.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mahaney is also bullish on Google&#39;s growing display ad opportunity and its increased traction for Google&#39;s YouTube property. <\/p>\n<p>Lastly, he is attracted to the tech giant&#39;s strong cash adjusted P\/E multiple of 17x that is in-line with Nasdaq&#39;s forward multiple.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Given GOOG\u2019s growth outlook, competitive moats, biz model &amp; management strength, we view this relative valuation as attractive,&quot; he said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dpett@nationalpost.com%20\">David Pett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=404800\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent pullback in Google Inc. shares will be shortlived, says Citigroup Capital Markets analyst Mark Maha He reiterated his Buy rating and $640 price target based on four key updates to Google&#39;s long-term thesis. The first is the potential impact of new search advertising products. &quot;We believe Google\u2019s four recently introduced Paid Search Ad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Sra","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}