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俄罗斯科技领袖yandex的困境:地缘政数

搜索提供者Yandex继续享受强劲的growth, but the Ukraine crisis hits stock price and causes a big foreign exchange write-off.

当一家好公司被困在糟糕的时候会发生什么 - 或者至少绝对偏出恩惠?通过俄罗斯占主导地位互联网播放器的yandex的表现来判断,乡村环境胜过。

yandex,它在纳斯达克和纳斯达克和Moscow Exchange并在荷兰居住在荷兰,表现得像2013年热的全球技术股票一样,价值加倍。这并不难看看为什么。该公司是世界各地的少数地方搜索提供商之一,在公平的战斗中击败了Google,在一个主要是无拘无束的俄罗斯在线市场的份额高于60%以上。Yandex还在哈萨克斯坦和乌克兰控制了大量的搜索引擎流量。这种主导地位部分源于搜索引擎的俄语友好的用户体验,包括尝试从他或她的俄语语法中衡量用户的意图的工具。该公司的主导地位占据了一个古董馆的辅助服务,如电子邮件,地图,新闻和比较购物。由脑电站而不是可疑的私有化或国家合同,yandex仍然被其三个创始人,首席执行官Arkady Volozh仍然控制和经营。

俄罗斯的整体经济可能停滞不前,但网球交通和广告不是(见“俄罗斯的技术产业是一个沉闷的经济性充满活力的绿洲“)。yandex的收入从一年前的第二季度跃升了32%,达到122亿卢布(3.29亿美元),而利息前的收益,税收,贬值和摊销攀升17%,达到50亿卢布。没有一个重要的事情投资者那though, compared with the souring global image of Russia, from which Yandex derives 94 percent of its turnover. The company’s shares have plummeted by one third this year to about $29 a share, whereas global peers like Google and Yahoo have essentially held steady. “Yandex is still fundamentally a good company, but it will stand or fall with Russia,” says Tom Adshead, Moscow-based equity portfolio manager at Verno Capital, an investment boutique based in New York that focuses on Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union.

一些投资者对Yandex的担忧是客观的。卢布今年减少了9%,以美元兑美元抑制了美元的盈利。第二季度净利润实际上下降了18%,达到了24亿卢布,因为公司以美元计价的资产和债务记录了625万卢布的损失。俄罗斯宏观经济瘀滞,今年的增长可能会徘徊在零周围,将最终影响Yandex,承认公司的投资者关系总监Gregory Abovsky。他说,他在2015年的收入增长将速度增长速度速度速度至大约20%。“鉴于来自更广泛经济的逆风,”我认为这是非常英勇的,“他说。

但是,俄罗斯官员通过与乌克兰西部的对抗抛入了一个令人沮丧的,防守情绪,已经增加了在该国的高新技术明星投资的感知风险。在4月份的新闻发布会上,Vladimir普京总统将互联网变为“特殊的CIA项目,并在一定程度上仍然存在。”俄罗斯总统举办了“尤其是”推动了一定数量的美国人和欧洲人,“俄罗斯总统举行。“其一些监管是在国外进行的,而不仅用于税收的目的,而且出于其他原因。”

Pro-Kremlin legislators were quick to flesh out this vaguely threatening language from their chief. The State Duma, Russia’s lower legislative house, began to discuss a bill that would force Internet services to register as licensed media outlets, which in Russia means bearing potential criminal responsibility for publishing information without being able to prove its veracity and produce sources. “If that became law, we would have to shut down our aggregated news service,” Abovsky says.

普京是他最近的行为的典型行为,从这些攻击性进展中恢复了一步。他于6月份讨论了一个互联网企业家会议,向祖国提供了价值的组装技术,并承诺将他们留下未受理解。他留下了背部燃烧器上的互联网提供商的媒体许可,但它确实对亚洲博主截至8月1日生效。

Analysts point out that restrictions on free speech, inimical as they may be to the ethos of the Internet, need not have much impact on the success of actual Internet companies, which really earn money in the personal and commercial realms. China’s restrictive environment has proved a great boon to Yandex’s counterpart there, Baidu, by scaring Google out of that nation’s market, notes Sergey Libin, an analyst with Raiffeisenbank in Moscow. “Chinese regulation created the local Internet sector,” he says. Baidu’s shares have surged by 20 percent this year.

So far, investors remain unswayed. Yandex shares continue to track the downtrodden Russian market. The company has established one bridgehead beyond the Russian-speaking world, entering火鸡2011年。但成功有限。yandex在那里拥有约5%的搜索市场,并说,Abovsky,管理人员娱乐没有管道逃离俄罗斯的管道。在该国内,除了明年20%之外,他预计yandex将在2014年增长约30%,这将使俄罗斯收入增加200亿美元的俄罗斯收入。“很难找到一个值得多样化的市场,”他反映出来。

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