E-commerce stocks fall during a busy week of earnings releases

The Internet Retailer Online Retail Index fell 1.4% last week, underperforming the broader market. But such e-commerce heavyweights at Amazon, eBay and Overstock made impressive gains after reporting quarterly earnings.

The 25-stock index of e-commerce firms fell faster last week than the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which was off .7%, or the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, which fell .4%.

However eBay, Amazon.com and Overstock.com all made strong gains for the week after they reported quarterly earnings. Netflix fell despite a strong earnings report, as analysts worried that the online video rental company faces stronger competition. Even with the 12.5% decline for the week, the stock price of Netflix is up a hefty 74% since Jan. 1.

Ten of the stocks in the Online Retail Index advanced last week, 14 declined in price and LivePerson was unchanged.

Here are the best-performing stocks for the week ended Friday, April 24, in the Online Retail Index and the percentage price increase for each:

• eBay, 16.6%
  
• American Greetings, 11.9%
  
• Overstock, 11.5%%
  
• Amazon, 8.2%
  
• RealNetworks, 5.1%

Here are the Online Retail Index stocks that performed least well last week and the percentage decline in stock price for the week:

• Omniture, -21.8%
  
• Netflix, -12.5%
  
• Keynote Systems, -9.7%
  
• PetMed Express, -8.5%
  
• 1-800-Flowers.com, -7.6%.

The 25 companies in the Internet Retailer Online Retail Index are: 1-800-Flowers.com Inc., Akamai Technologies, Amazon.com Inc., American Greetings Corp., Art Technology Group Inc., Bidz.com Inc., Blue Nile Inc., CyberSource Corp., DemandTec Inc., Digital River Inc., Drugstore.com Inc., eBay Inc., GSI Commerce Inc., Keynote Systems Inc., LivePerson Inc., Netflix Inc., NutriSystem Inc., Omniture Inc., Overstock.com Inc., PetMed Express Inc., RealNetworks Inc., Shutterfly Inc., Systemax Inc., United Online Inc. (owner of FTD.com) and VistaPrint Ltd.
www.internetretailer.com/