The higher out-of-stock position suggests that either Toys 'R' Us is not allocating additional product to its online store, or that sales at both the online and physical stores are significantly higher than plan and Toys 'R' Us does not have available inventory, ... We believe it calls into question one of the key benefits of the Amazon/Toys 'R' Us alliance, and suggests a possible lack of alignment between the partners.

Their model has a lot of hurdles that they need to leap to get it to work.

Clearly we are getting closer to the day when we'll be able to value eBay on traditional price/earnings metrics and although we would not argue that eBay is cheap based on our full-year 2001 EPS estimates of 40 cents a share, we do believe that eBay appears exceedingly inexpensive based on our full-year 2002 EPS estimate of 78 cents a share.

In theory, in order for free shipping offers to be successful, the company would have to generate enough incremental revenue and contribution profit to pay for the cost of the shipping promotion. However, we believe Amazon.com has consistently failed to generate anywhere near the amount of incremental revenue and profit needed to pay for the lost shipping fees.

In our view, the remaining $2.7 billion of firm value is an implicit valuation for the rest of the product categories. We find it hard to understand why segments such as consumer electronics and toys should be valued at such a high level.

In our opinion, such massive increases in active customers, coupled with massive increases in lifetime value, will be enormous challenges for a company with such high rates of customer defection.

In our sum-of-the-parts valuation, we estimate that intrinsically, the stock could be worth as much as $27 a share, if all of the value were unlocked, ... While its is unclear whether management will choose to or be able to unlock some or all of this 'hidden' value, the company stated that it is conducting a strategic evaluation on all of its assets.

They'll probably be below 30 percent for the month, ... Clearly, it's been more difficult than they expected, especially considering all the incentives GM has been offering to get market share.

They've shown that they can grow revenue and lose a lot of money and they've shown that they can improve economics, but that slows revenue growth. They're going to have to find a balance to do both.

They clearly, the two of them, have the best sites out there; consumers love going there and booking their own business,