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NetFlix Inc. (NFLX) is in the Retail Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 31 2007
- $1.2B
- Profit
- Dec 31 2007
- $66.9M
- Market Cap
- Jul 23 2008
- $1.7B
Latest News and Analysis
Netflix Player by Roku Has Potential to Really Impact the Market
Dan Rayburn submits: In an article I wrote for GigaOm.com Tuesday entitled "Content Offerings Only Reach a Few Million TVs", I broke down of the number of non-PC related products like the XBOX 360, Roku, PS3, TiVo Series 3 and VUDU devices that are really capable of getting movies...
Earnings Preview: Netflix
Netflix NFLX is expected to report Q2 earnings after market close Thursday, July 24, with a conference call scheduled for Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Guidance Analysts are looking for a profit of 40c on revenue of $337.56M. The consensus range is 32c to 49c for EPS, and revenue of...
Expecting Netflix to Top Consensus Estimates
eChristian Investing submits: Netflix NFLX is scheduled to report Q208 results before the market opens on July 25. Based on our analysis, we at eChristianInvesting are expecting NFLX to report better than expected results that beat Wall Street’s consensus expectations. We are forecasting revenues of $340.8M versus analyst consensus...
Amazon Joins Crowded Online Video On-Demand Market
Seth Gilbert submits: Everyone’s doing it. It’s the new, old thing. There’s Apple AAPL and Microsoft MSFT, Netflix NFLX and Amazon AMZN, there’s TiVo TIVO, Roku, Sony SNE, Sezmi formerly Building B, Vudu and more. They’re all bringing some form of video on-demand services over the Internet; rentals and...
Netflix-Microsoft Partnership May Define the Future of Movie Distribution
Faisal Laljee submits: I have been watching E3 2008 for a couple of reasons this year. The first is because I am a casual gamer and E3 is the grand-daddy of all video gaming conventions and let’s face it, there is nothing great on TV these days anyway. The...
Amazon Ups the Stakes in Streaming Video
Amazon unveiled its new "video on demand" service today, just three days after Netflix and Microsoft announced that they'd make 10,000 movies available for streaming via the Xbox 360, confirming that an all-out war is underway for the next big shift in movie/TV viewing habits. Amazon's program...
Amazon to launch new online VoD store with Sony
Amazon is set for a beta launch of its new video on demand service, separate from its existing Unbox download service, reports the New York Times. Amazon Video on Demand will allow online users to watch any of 40,000 film and TV titles instantly without download. The launch comes...
Apple TV or XBox: Which Is the Living Room Winner?
Mathew Ingram submits: Netflix NFLX and Microsoft MSFT announced a deal yesterday that allows Xbox 360 owners to download movies through their game consoles, which appears to be another step in the software company’s Trojan Horse approach to winning the living room/media-server wars. Will this give it an edge...
Microsoft-Netflix Agreement: A Frustrating Offer
Thomas Hawk submits: Microsoft MSFT is out with an announcement Monday regarding a new alliance with Netflix NFLX, whereby beginning in late Fall, XBox 360 Gold Members will be able to stream "a growing library of more than 10,000 movies and TV episodes" to their XBox 360. In addition...
Netflix to stream movies through the Xbox
Netflix is partnering with Microsoft to distribute on-demand movies for free through the Xbox. Anticipated by some analysts earlier this year, the partnership comes barely two months after the launch of Netflix's IPTV set-top box. The service will be available to premium users of Microsoft's IPTV service, Xbox LIVE,...
Netflix Brings On-Demand Video to the Xbox: Another PC to TV Bridge
Seth Gilbert submits: When Netflix NFLX first revealed their strategy to bring their streamed video service software to consumer electronics by licensing their software, they promised the licensing partnerships would be broad reaching. When the next earnings conference call comes around, executives at the company will be able to say...
Naked Shorted Stocks
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: With all this talk today about limiting "naked short selling" for FNM, FRE, and primary dealers (dismiss the fact that it is already illegal to do for all stocks, making it ironic that the SEC is only now going to focus on a...
Xbox 360 & Netflix Team Up in Streaming Deal
Deals are a dime a dozen in the new media world, but every now and then, one comes along that seems to provide a window on the future. Today's announcement that Microsoft will team up with Netflix to allow subscribers to stream 10,000 movies and TV shows via their Xbox...
Online Sales: Poking Holes in the Long Tail Theory
Erick Schonfeld submits: Just because the Internet makes it possible to offer a near-infinite inventory of goods for sale does not mean that consumers will start wanting more obscure items in any great numbers. That is the conclusion Harvard Business School associate professor Anita Elberse comes to in a...
Sony's Latest Play for Your Living Room
Julia Boorstin submits: Sony's SNE CEO Howard Stringer has unveiled the company's three year plan and one key to its growth strategy is a new video service called the PlayStation Network. Stringer said at a news conference: "Our mission is simply to be the leading global provider of networked...
Maghound Sniffing for Long Tail
In the 21st century economy there are long tails and then there are, well, shorter tails. This "insight," if you can call it that, occurred to me today when, after four years of effort, Time Inc. announced today that its Netflix-like service for magazines, called Maghound, will...
Circuit City Heads Towards Zero
Steve Patterson submits: No Lows Circuit City CC tumbled to all new lows yesterday, down 21.26%, as the market got scared about an upcoming meeting coupled with Street views that their earnings will be terrible. Goldman Sachs sent shivers through the spines of investors on Monday when...
Most Volatile Stocks on Earnings
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Below we highlight the 25 stocks with the highest average one-day absolute percentage change on report days. As shown, Multi-Fineline MFLX tops the list with an average absolute change of 18.64% on its 14 report days. It is volatile both on the upside...
Apple's iTunes: Rapid Sales Acceleration
Seth Gilbert submits: iTunes has long been looked at as the loss leader, the bridge that links Apple’s AAPL assorted media products. It drives product sales and helps power iPods, iPhones, Apple TV and Mac multimedia. But that role of servitude hasn’t stopped it from turning...
Netflix to Charge More for Blu-ray Content
Online movie distributor Netflix plans to start charging subscribers who rent Blu-ray movie titles a monthly premium. Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy gave the news Monday during the company's quarterly earnings call: "As you are aware, purchasing Blu-ray DVDs costs more both at retail and wholesale than standard definition DVDs,...
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- Incorporated: 1997
- CEO: Mr. Reed Hastings
- Employees: 1,542
Netflix is an online movie rental subscription service in the U.S., providing approximately 7.5 million subscribers access to approximately 90,000 digital versatile disc (DVD) titles plus a growing library of more than 6,000 choices that can be watched instantly on their personal computers. Co. offers nine subscription plans, starting at $4.99 a month. Subscribers select titles at Co.'s website aided by its recommendation service, receive them on DVD by U.S. mail and return them to Co. at their convenience using its prepaid mailers. After a DVD has been returned, Co. mails the next available DVD in a subscriber's queue. It also offers certain titles through its instant-watching feature.
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NetFlix Inc. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. Reed Hastings
Chairman
Mr. Jay C. Hoag
Mr. A. George Battle
Mr. Timothy M. Haley
Mr. Michael N. Schuh
Mr. Gregory S. Stanger
Mr. Richard N. Barton
Mr. Charles H. Giancarlo
Contact Information
970 Univeristy Avenue
Los Gatos, CA
408 540-3700
NAICS Code
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