Buy - Price 18.78 on Sept. 8
by Needham & Co.

We believe the consensus expectations understate the "Personals" segment's (Match.com) underlying organic growth, profitability and overall value....The net result is that we believe calendar-year '10 consensus estimates for the Personals segment are too low. Our CY10 Oiba [operating income before amortization] estimate of $100 million for IAC's Personals segment is 9% above the consensus mean. And we believe our estimates... could prove too conservative...[and that] the consensus use of 6 times enterprise value/earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to value the Personals segment in sum-of-the-parts analysis is too low, and that the business' growth rate, profitability and leading market-share position demand at least an 8 times EV/Ebitda valuation. Market cap: $2.8 billion.

Stifel Nicolaus upgraded shares of IAC/InterActiveCorp to Buy from Hold on Monday with a $22.50 price target. Analysts speculate that IACI could soon announce a share buyback program, pointing out that the media company has about $2 billion in net cash.

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The CEO of IAC/InterActive, Barry Diller, doesn't have a big Street following anymore because of a poor record with acquisitions like Lending Tree. The recent break-up of the company has failed to deliver for shareholders and Diller's vehicle, the new IAC/Interactive, is languishing near 15. The company has $10 a share in cash and Diller vows to be judicious in dealmaking. Barclays Capital analyst Douglas Anmuth wrote in a recent note that IAC/InterActive is "too cheap to ignore" and set a price target of 21.

You take stocks that used to be important, stocks like SanDisk (SNDK), and Sun Micro (JAVA), or IAC (IACI) and Marvell (MRVL) and you can't believe the declines. They are stunning.

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eBay, IACI and Yahoo! are just pathetic, all without leadership and declining earnings. Nobody cares about new kinds of cell phones or music or movie deliveries. It is all just too darned competitive.

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I recommend betting with Barry Diller and buying IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), Pete Najarian says.

IAC/InterActive (IACI) was downgraded from Buy to Hold, Citigroup said. $29 price target. Company is losing market share in its key businesses and has limited international exposure.

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