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The ambitious portal kicked off the year in grand fashion, producing $197 million in free cash flow during the first quarter and building up its balance sheet fortress to a healthy $2.8 billion sum.
Back in April, the company was also targeting $625 million in operating income for all of 2004. It pegged revenues -- beyond traffic acquisition costs related to the company's paid search efforts -- to come in between $2.4 billion and $2.5 billion. The company's swagger, reflected in part by a recent 2-for-1 stock split, would seem to suggest that those benchmarks may be raised this week.
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Longtime Fool contributor Rick Munarriz relishes his time on Yahoo!, but he does not own shares in any company mentioned in this story.