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Sotheby's

(BID) is in the Retail Industry

Market Cap:$1.3B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$917.7M
  • Public
  • US
Dow Jones Description

Sothebys (or, together with its subsidiaries, unless the context otherwise requires, the Company) is one of the worlds two largest auctioneers of authenticated fine art, antiques and decorative art, jewelry and collectibles. In 2008, Sothebys accounted for $4.9 billion, or 51%, of the total aggregate auction sales of the two major auction houses that comprise the global auction market.

Number of Employees 1,638
Contact Information

1334 York Ave

New York, New York 10021

sothebys.com

(212) 606-7000

NAICS Code Art Dealers: 453920

Recent Events

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News & Analysis

career and sotheby's - All News and Analysis

  • Cher to auction home furnishings

    - 2006-08-01

    LOS ANGELES AFP — Superstar singer and actress Cher said she would auction some 700 pieces of art and furniture from her Italian Renaissance-style home as she renews her lifestyle. Cher said in a statement released by the Sotheby's auction house that the 60-year-old celebrity was entering a new...

    Tags: Agence France-Presse, auction, CAREER, Sotheby's

  • Briefly in sports

    - 2000-06-16

    - Briefly in sports GOLF - Course architect Jones dies --- Robert Trent Jones, whose challenging golf course designs annually play a role in crowning champions at the sport's major events, has died. He was 93. Jones, who would have been 94 on June 20,...

    Tags: CAREER, Games, NBA, Sotheby's, team, Texas, women

  • BRUCE CHATWIN.(Review) (book review)

    - 2000-05-01

    By Nicholas Shakespeare; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; 618 pages; $35 I first heard about Bruce Chatwin in 1989 when I read his obituary in a tattered copy of Newsweek in a remote African village. It said the British travel writer had succumbed at age forty-eight to...

    Tags: CAREER, Newsweek, Sotheby's

  • Diary

    - 1997-07-19

    I was not wholly convinced by my preview of BBC 2's excellent documentary Who Really Killed Aung San?, to be shown this Sunday at 7.15 p.m. Despite a good deal of ingeniously obtained circumstantial evidence suggesting that a shady right-wing conspiracy of British generals and politicians was behind the 1947...

    Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., CAREER, Leadership, Manufacturing, Sotheby's

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     BID $20.06 -0.30 (-1.47% )
Intraday | 3 Month | 6 Month | 1 Year
Average Volume 880,636
Shares Outstanding 66.90M
Market Cap 1.3B
Year High 20.99
Year Low 6.05
Earnings Per Share -1.37
P/E Ratio -14.64
Dividend 0.20
Yield 1.00
IndustryTop Rated
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