Zacks.com announces that Bill Martin highlights the following stocks: Yahoo!, eBay, Google, Real Networks and Microsoft.CHICAGO -- Find out which stock has regained Bill Martin's interest thanks to a legal settlement with a computer giant. Read about Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), eBay (Nasdaq:EBAY), Google (Nasdaq:GOOG GOOG Google, Inc. (stock symbol) ), Real Networks (Nasdaq:RNWK RNWK Real Networks (stock symbol) ) and Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ). Bill Martin is the editor of the FindProfit newsletter. Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84 Highlights from the January 19 Featured Expert column by Bill Martin include: Commentary With earnings results out of Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) and eBay (Nasdaq:EBAY) (i.e. both are losing market shares to Google (Nasdaq:GOOG)) serving to weigh a bit on the stock prices in the Internet sector, Bill Martin and his team are going to step up today and redeploy re·de·ploy tr.v. re·de·ployed, re·de·ploy·ing, re·de·ploys 1. To move (military forces) from one combat zone to another. 2. some of their recent profit taking into a ``starter`` position in Real Networks (Nasdaq:RNWK). RNWK is a name that Martin and his team have followed for years, previously booking gains of 24% and a loss of -4% in the stock in the past. More recently, the stock has regained their interest, primarily thanks to the company`s recent blockbuster $761 million legal settlement with Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT). The settlement with MSFT, after years of expensive legal battling, was a huge win for RNWK for several reasons. First, RNWK received $461 million in cash upfront, pushing the company`s net cash position to around $700 million. Second, RNWK will receive an additional $300 million in value over the next 15 or so months, either in the form of hard cash or new subscribers (at an agreed upon Adj. 1. agreed upon - constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement; "stipulatory obligations" stipulatory noncontroversial, uncontroversial - not likely to arouse controversy bounty value rate that is attractive to RNWK) to the company`s music subscription service. Third, RNWK will save the more than $12 million per year it was spending in legal fees fighting MSFT. The net result is that RNWK will be sitting on around $1 billion in net cash within the next year (before stock buybacks Stock buyback A corporation's purchase of its own outstanding stock, usually in order to raise the company's earnings per share. stock buyback See buyback. et al.), will be secured solidly in the black on an EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) A metric used to show a company's profitability, but not its cash flow. EBITDA became popular in the 1980s to show the potential profitability of leveraged buyouts, but has become basis, and will be well positioned to gain additional traction for its Rhapsody (1) A subscription-based online music service from RealNetworks that gives users unlimited access to a vast library of major and independent label music. Within a single interface, Rhapsody provides access to streaming music, Internet radio and extensive music information and music subscription service. 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