{"id":60,"date":"2007-08-24T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T00:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2007-12-21T16:45:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T00:45:35","slug":"billabongs-up-and-the-shares-come-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Billabong&#8217;s Up And The Shares Come Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though <strong>Billabong<\/strong> has reported a net profit of $167.25 million (up 14.6 percent) for 2006\/07, and sales revenue that grew 20.1 per cent to $1.22 billion, shares in the company still fell five percent after the announcement today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sales in the Americas, the group&#8217;s biggest region, rose in the double digits, while EBITDA rose by 12.3 per cent to $US111.9 million ($A136.03 million). Mr O&#8217;Neill said the Americas region was backed by strong performances in Canada and South America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oddly, an analyst &#8220;who did not wish to be named&#8221; said the Americas were &#8220;disappointing&#8221; because of the Aussie dollar. Can you be a quoted stock analyst and not wish to be named? We&#8217;re all for anonymous comments, but still that seems shady.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/Business\/Billabong-profit-up-but-shares-plunge\/2007\/08\/24\/1187462480686.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Billabong has reported a net profit of $167.25 million (up 14.6 percent) for 2006\/07, and sales revenue that grew 20.1 per cent to $1.22 billion, shares in the company still fell five percent after the announcement today. Sales in the Americas, the group&#8217;s biggest region, rose in the double digits, while EBITDA rose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}