Boston, MA 02/05/2014 (wallstreetpr) – Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN) gets another competitor in its business as the rival Coupons.com Inc. prepares to step in through its $100 million initial public offering. Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ:GRPN) is better known as a firm for its newspaper coupon discounts back in 1998, after which it shifted online. Currently, Groupon does not have lucrative revenue numbers as its sales were at $115 million as of the period ending on September’2013. But, Coupons’ idea to enter the e-commerce space directly poses the threat to Groupon like players in the market, who function on a complex business model.
Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE:LUV) makes it tougher for American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ:AAL) with its new strategy of flying non-stop flights from a rival Dallas airport. Southwest Airlines has already created fierce competition for other through its low fare rates, but now it will offer more non-stop flights to get the air flyers from American. Southwest Airlines will start non-stop flights to LaGuardia in New York and Reagan National in Washington alongwith other eight destinations. Moreover, the flights will fly out from the airport, which is located just 25 miles away from the American Airline’s biggest hub, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Experts believe that Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE:LUV) ‘s new strategy may negatively impact America.
Wall Street believes that the new characters introduced by The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) in “Thor: The Dark World” and “Frozen” will play an equally important role in its quarterly results as well. The company is all set to release its quarterly earnings today and ahead of the earnings call, the analysts have projected net income as $1.6 billion for the fourth quarter, which is a 14% increase from the same last year’s same quarter net income. The average estimate of earnings by the analysts are kept as 91 cents per share for The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS). Experts believe that the big boss hits ‘Frozen” and “Thor” by the Disney Studio will add up the revenues.
