United Online Worth Watching

06/08/09 12:46:32 PM

by Koos van der Merwe

Is it cheaper to buy online or is it the hits on the ads feeding the company? Whatever it is, this is a company worth watching.

Security: UNTD
Position: Accumulate

United Online (UNTD) provides consumer products and services over the Internet primarily in the US. It operates in three segments: FTD, Classmates Media, and Communications.

The FTD segment provides floral and related products and services to consumers and retail florists, as well as to other retail locations offering floral and related products and services.

The Classmates Media segment offers online social networking services under the Classmates name and online loyalty marketing services under the MyPoints name. It also provides international social networking services under the Trombi and StayFriends names.

The Communications segment offers dialup Internet access and email under the NetZero and Juno names. It also offers broadband services, Internet security services, web hosting services, and premium email.

The company also offers Internet advertising products and services, and online market research services. As of December 31, 2008, United Online had approximately 4.3 million social networking pay accounts.

FIGURE 1: UNTD, DAILY

Graphic provided by: AdvancedGET.

Figure 1 shows that in March 2009, the stock price completed a fifth wave down and started correcting upward. The Advanced GET Elliott wave count suggests that the price is in the process of completing a fourth-wave retracement with a target of $5.81, but the PTI (probability ) of 27 is not convincing enough, which means that with the price falling to fill the gap and bouncing off the support level of the gap, $6.17 could well be a strong support level. Should this be the case, then the price could well rise to $10.10, the target of a Fibonacci extension application. There should be resistance at $7.77, the high of May 8. The chart is also showing a falling wedge, with a target of $9.23 (7.77 - 4.71 = 3.06 + 6.17 = 9.23). Both targets, namely $9.23 and $10.10, are an appreciable rise from the present price. The negative is, of course, the relative strength index (RSI), which gave a sell signal on May 12.
Do remember that in December 1999, the price reached a high soon after its listing on the market of $134.10 and promptly crashed to $1.13 with the bursting of the tech bubble. By September 2003 it had recovered to a high of $28.20 before falling to a low $3.77 in March 2009. Its present upward move is a cautious one.

This is a stock that can be placed on one's watchlist. Present chart movement does suggest that as the market recovers, so will the share price.

Koos van der Merwe

Has been a technical analyst since 1969, and has worked as a futures and options trader with First Financial Futures in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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