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Pulling the plug on Netflix
Stock markets are up this morning, but over at Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX ) , all investors are seeing is a static. Thanks in part to an initiation at "underweight" by Evercore Partners today, Netflix shares are sitting out the rally, and actually are down a fraction of a percent in late morning trading.
Why? In a word: competition. Evercore worries that even if it was the top dog and first mover in streaming video, the market is big enough to support more than one major player. If Netflix has to contend with one or more rivals, it will have to bid higher prices to license content from creators. This will raise the company's cost of business. Meanwhile, price competition on the delivery end will prevent the company from passing higher content costs on to consumers. Thus, Netflix will see its profit margins squeezed on both ends.
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