Lightinthebox at Mid-Year: 3 Things to Know

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LightInTheBox in 2014: 3 Things to Know

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Here's what investors in the company need to know for the rest of 2014.

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LightInTheBox in 2014: 3 Things to Know

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1. Disappointing While Others Impress

Since beating estimates in its first earnings report as a public company last year, LightInTheBox has chronically underperformed expectations. The same hasn’t been the case for Dangdang and VIPShop.

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Rapidly Decelerating Revenue Growth

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Dangdang’s Growth: Strong and Sustainable

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Vipshop’s Revenue Growth: Through the Roof

LightInTheBox simply hasn’t been putting up the same numbers as its Chinese peers.

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2. A Surprise Announcement

LightInTheBox surprised Wall Street by announcing that it was revising its second-quarter revenue estimates upward.

June 27, 2014

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2. A Surprise Announcement• Previously, the company had predicted revenue

growth of 18% to $85 million.• The new estimate is for revenue growth of 20% to

$87 million.• In reality, this is a very small change. Wall Street

was probably just happy for some good news. • Long-term investors should see that growth is still

slow compared to what was happening before the company went public.

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3. What to Watch Moving Forward

• I wouldn’t worry much about reaching profitability at this point.

• Instead, continued revenue growth north of 20% is going to be the most important thing for investors to look for.

• Without this, any investments in infrastructure will be wasted.

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