"Local.com (LOCM, news) is a specialist in paid-search advertising. Its search website, Local.com, attracts about 20 million unique visitors a month. It also operates a local syndication network of some 750 regional media sites, as well as a sales and advertiser services operation for its 50,000 direct monthly subscribers. The Irvine, Calif., company, one of the three fastest-growing companies in local online advertising, works with partners to offer daily online deals, coupons and retail offers.
The company swung to a profit in its fiscal third quarter as sales grew by 48% to $22.5 million and adjusted net income increased 249% to $4.6 million. That translated into some very nice margins, with adjusted net income margin coming in at 20%.
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Local.com is growing at roughly twice the rate of its competition and is in a prime spot for one of the behemoths in the industry, such as Yahoo (YHOO, news) or Google (GOOG, news), to take a bite." |