BNET Industries

Market Cap:$277.6M
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$834.3M
  • Public
  • US
Dow Jones Description

Overstock.com, Inc. is an online "closeout" retailer offering discount, brand-name merchandise for sale over the Internet. The company offers its customers an opportunity to shop for bargains conveniently, while offering its suppliers an alternative inventory liquidation distribution channel. Overstock.com, headquartered in Salt Lake City, is a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ Global Market System. In July 2005, it acquired 100% of the outstanding capital stock of Utah-based Ski West, Inc. for $25 million in cash.

Chief Executive OfficerPatrick M. Byrne
Number of Employees 1,036
Contact Information

6350 South 3000 East

Salt Lake City, Utah 84121

www.overstock.c...

801-947-3100

NAICS Code All Other Miscellaneous Store Retailers (except Tobacco Stores): 453998

Recent Events

  • Overstock.com fails to cobble together a Q1 profit

    4/24/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story

  • The Reliable Unreliability of Overstock.com Financial Statements

    5/05/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • James Joyce Resigns from Overstock.com

    4/02/09 - Mgmt. Change Leaving - Other - View Story

  • Overstock.com Pays $1.2 Million to Departing Board Member

    4/02/09 - Board Member - Leaving - View Story

  • Attention Grant Thornton: Stay Away from Overstock.com

    3/30/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • Overstock.com Joins the Commission Junction Affiliate Marketing

    3/11/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story

  • E-book news steers gains in sector

    3/04/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story

  • Overstock.com faces another shoddy accounting challenge

    2/20/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • Overstock.com, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

    1/30/09 - Mgmt. Change Entering - Other - View Story

  • Overstock profit beats expectations; shares rise

    1/30/09 - Sites Leased - View Story

  • Overstock.com Violates Accounting Rules in Q4 2008 Financial Report

    2/05/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • Overstock names Home Depot vet as finance vice president

    1/06/09 - Mgmt. Change Entering - Technology - View Story

News & Analysis

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Patrick M. Byrne Chief Executive Officer
Jason C. Lindsey President & COO
Dan Greening Chief Scientist
David K. Chidester Senior Vice President, Finance
Holly MacDonald-Korth Senior Vice President, Auctions
Jacob Hawkins Senior Vice President, Online Marketing
Jonathan E. Johnson Senior Vice President
Kamille Twomey Senior Vice President, Marketing
Sam Peterson Senior Vice President, Technology
Stephen Tryon Senior Vice President
Stormy Simon Senior Vice President, Branding and Customer Care
Tad Martin Senior Vice President, Mdsg & Operations
Allison H. Abraham Director

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
Jack Byrne Chairman
Gordon S. Macklin Board of Directors
John A. Fisher Board of Directors
John J. Byrne Board of Directors
Organization Position Status
Issues & Opinions Chairman and CEO Current
Aggregate Knowledge Chairman and CEO Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Chairman Current
Centricut, LLC Chairman, President and CEO Former
Overstock.com, Inc. President Former
Fechheimer Brothers Co. Former
Overstock.com, Inc. Board of Directors Former
Stanford University Doctorate In Philosophy Former
Cambridge University Master's Degree Former
Dartmouth College Bachelor's Degree Former
Organization Position Status
Overstock.com, Inc. President & COO Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Board of Directors Current

Dan Greening is a computer scientist currently focusing on adaptive location services. He is CEO of BigTribe Corporation, an internet software company focusing on location services and personalization. BigTribe has developed a unique adaptive personalization algorithm that recommends locations (restaurants, stores, parks, etc.) you'll enjoy visiting and services (taxis, movie tickets, restaurant reservations, prescription refills, etc.) you'll use. It works with connected devices, such as web browsers and cell phones, and disconnected devices, such as PDAs. In 2002, Dr. Greening was chair of the Location Interoperability Forum's Standards Group (now part of Open Mobile Alliance), which wrote the widely-adopted Mobile Location Protocol. The Mobile Location Protocol allows middleware systems to transmit location information in a technology-neutral way. It can preserve privacy and permissions while roaming. It can represent location information in local coordinate reference systems, making it easier to use local maps and directories. These factors are key for deploying location services in mobile telephone systems. Dr. Greening was formerly Vice President of Engineering for Macromedia, directing software architecture, engineering, documentation and quality assurance for LikeMinds and Aria, marketing tools that improve revenues and quantify traffic on web sites. LikeMinds is an adaptive personalization system providing click-stream and preference-based collaborative filtering and market basket analysis in real-time, also on highly-trafficked sites. LikeMinds helps maximize the revenue potential for each visitor, and strengthens one-to-one relationships with customers, increasing retention and reactivation rates. Greening designed the parallel-processing architecture for LikeMinds, making it more scalable and accurate than competitors. LikeMinds is now bundled with IBM's WebSphere Commerce Server, where it displaced a well-entrenched competitor previously bundled with WebSphere.

Organization Position Status
Bigtribe CEO Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Chief Scientist Current
Macromedia, Inc. Vice President Engineering Current
Bigtribe President Former
Bigtribe Principal Investigator Former
University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. Former
University of Michigan Bse Former

As the Senior Vice President, Internal Reporting and Information, Dave’s duties include supervision of the company’s internal data and information, including internal reporting and cost accounting functions. Dave joined Overstock.com in 1999 as the corporate controller, was named acting CFO in August 2003, and promoted to the CFO position (Vice President of Finance) in January 2004 and was subsequently promoted to Senior Vice President, Finance. Prior to Overstock.com, Chidester served four years as a senior auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Chidester earned a bachelor's degree in accounting, and a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Utah.

Organization Position Status
Overstock.com, Inc. Senior Vice President, Finance Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Organization Position Status
Overstock.com, Inc. Senior Vice President, Auctions Current
Organization Position Status
Issues & Opinions Senior Vice President, Change Management Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Senior Vice President, Online Marketing Current
Aggregate Knowledge Senior Vice President, Online Marketing Current
University of Utah Masters Former
University of Utah Business Administration With An Emphasis In Information Systems Former
Organization Position Status
Issues & Opinions President Current
Aggregate Knowledge President Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Senior Vice President Current
TenFold Corporation Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Former
Utah Court of Appeals Clerk Former
Utah Supreme Court Clerk Former
TenFold Corporation General Counsel Former
Organization Position Status
Overstock.com, Inc. Senior Vice President, Marketing Current

Sam Peterson, Senior Vice President, Technology, is responsible for IT infrastructure, development and website design at Overstock. Sam served as the Vice President, Software Development from early 2005, and was appointed as Director, Network and Systems Engineering in 2003, where he managed several development teams. During that time, he directed the technology team that built the Overstock.com Auctions website. Prior to joining Overstock in 1999, Sam was involved in creating several start-up internet ventures, including Fitnesoft, Inc.

Organization Position Status
Aggregate Knowledge Senior Vice President, Technology Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Senior Vice President, Technology Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Director Current
Aggregate Knowledge Director Current
Organization Position Status
Issues & Opinions Senior Vice President, Logistics Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Senior Vice President Current
Aggregate Knowledge Senior Vice President of Overstock.Com Current
United States Military Academy Assistant Professor Former
Stanford University M.A. In Philosophy Former
Stanford University B.S. In Applied Sciences Former
United States Military Academy B.S. In Applied Sciences Former

Since joining Overstock.com in 2001 Stormy Simon has held various marketing and management positions including Director of B2B, and originator of the Co-op Advertising program. Stormy currently serves as the Senior Vice President, Branding and Customer Care. She also oversees all offline marketing efforts, writing and producing all television, radio and print advertising, and does their media buying also. Prior to joining Overstock.com, Stormy was a media buyer and Director of Co-op Advertising for a major video distributor.

Organization Position Status
Aggregate Knowledge Senior Vice President Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Senior Vice President, Branding and Customer Care Current
Organization Position Status
Overstock.com, Inc. Senior Vice President, Mdsg & Operations Current

Jack Byrne has been a director of the Company since 1985. Mr. Byrne formerly served as Chairman of the Company from 1985 to 2003, as CEO of the Company from February 2002 to December 2002, as Chairman of OneBeacon from June 2001 to December 2001, as CEO of the Company from January 2000 to June 2001, as President and CEO of the Company from 1990 to 1997 and as CEO of the Company from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Byrne serves as Chairman of Overstock.com Inc. See Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.

Organization Position Status
White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. Director of the Company Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Chairman Current
White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. Board of Directors Current
White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. President and CEO Former
White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. Chairman Former
Onebeacon Chairman Former
Organization Position Status
Issues & Opinions Director Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Director Current
Aggregate Knowledge Director Current
Ameritech Corporation Former
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration MBA Degree Former
University of Virginia Mba Degree Former
Tufts University Bachelor of Arts In Economics Former
Organization Position Status
Overstock.com, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Organization Position Status
Overstock.com, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Organization Position Status
Overstock.com, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Overstock.com, Inc. Deputy Chairman Former

Executive News

  • Jobs' Return to Apple Is Path Strewn With Controversy

    E-Commerce Times - 6/24/09 - View Story

  • 1-Star Stocks Poised to Plunge: Overstock?

    Motley Fool - 6/24/09 - View Story

  • CheapTweet Launches Overstock.com Twitter Store

    Auctionbytes.com - 6/19/09 - View Story

  • Overstock.com Opens Doors to More International Customers

    Reuters - 6/18/09 - View Story

  • Overstock.com Opens Doors to More International Customers

    Forbes.com - 6/18/09 - View Story

  • Overstock.com Opens Doors to More International Customers

    PR Newswire - 6/18/09 - View Story

  • Overstock.com(R) and other Brands Optimize Twitter Presence, Online Reach with Release of...

    Forbes.com - 6/18/09 - View Story

  • Overstock.com and other Brands Optimize Twitter Presence, Online Reach with Release of CheapTweet Stores

    Business Wire - 6/18/09 - View Story

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     OSTK $12.30 -0.46 (-3.61% )
Average Volume 162,748
Shares Outstanding 22.81M
Market Cap 280.6M
Year High 29.5899
Year Low 6.34
Earnings Per Share N/A
P/E Ratio -
Dividend N/A
Yield N/A
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