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I checked out MOT chart and all gaps are filled. Look at her 2011 calls. Great pocket money just waiting. Motorola, Inc. provides technologies, products, and services for mobile communications. It operates in three segments: Mobile Devices, Home and Networks Mobility, and Enterprise Mobility Solutions. The Mobile Devices segment offers wireless handsets with integrated software and accessory products, as well as licenses intellectual property.
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) provides technologies, products, and services for mobile and home communications. The company's Mobile Devices division offers wireless handsets, with integrated software and accessories. The Home and Networks Mobility segment makes set-top boxes, digital video recorders, cable modems, and network equipment used in video broadcasting, computer telephony, and high-definition television. The Enterprise Mobility unit provides radio, voice and data communication products for a
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says the slide has to end somewhere -- eventually, we'll see a bid.
Is someone having a margin call? That's what I keep thinking as I watch the sickening slide in Motorola's (NYSE: MOT) (Cramer's Take) stock. How can Motorola go down so much? This is a company ...
Carl Icahn has upped his stake in MOT by a full percent to about a whopping 172.18 million shares .
Which can mean only one thing...a severe whip-cracking session is near-due ...followed by gruelling boot-camp disciplining of MOT mgmt and eventually getting the underdogs back-in-shape for the kick-off.
3/27 - "According to RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky, other smart-phone makers will see a hefty gain in market share as Motorola's for-the-moment leaderless and long-struggling handset unit is separated from the remainder of the company.
The decision is coming just as smart-phone adoption "is reaching an inflection point, offering an opportunity for RIM and Apple to gain share," said Abramsky in a research note. "RIM is positioned to take share in Motorola's key CDMA markets. Poised to launch a 3G iPhone, Apple ... is expected to continue rolling out innovations and gaining [market] share."
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"Well, it's finally happened; under mounting internal and external pressure, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has spun off its handset business," says technology stock expert Gregg Early.
This move, he notes, developed after Carl Icahn came in, picked up about 6% of the company, and wanted to shake things up. Here's Gregg's update from his industry-leading The Real Nanontech Investor.
"Motorola's handset division has been lost in the desert since the successful launch of the Razr a couple years ago. Since then, it's lost market share and has been le
3/26 - "...with the separation expected to occur in 2009, many questions remain unanswered, including the capital structure of the two separate entities, what will happen to the Motorola brand, and allocation of management, technical and IP resources. There is also no guarantee the spinoff will occur and it is hard to tell whether shareholders will support or try to hamper this process."
"Ultimately, we believe the Mobile Devices unit can be successful as a standalone company under new management; however, standalone or integrated the recovery will be a long and difficult process that will...
3/26 - "In theory, such a move should not create value since slicing a pie doesn’t increase the size of it. However, the added cash flow potential of such a move through better management focus and less corporate governance fighting may serve to add a little pie filling."
"...we will go on the record as saying the split may add a little value, but not enough to make common shareholders retire. We continue to believe Motorola to be fairly valued and believe our “Hold” rating on the company is still appropriate."
3/26 - "I really don’t see the value of doing this. I’m always suspicious of the phrase “unlocking shareholder value.” The problem is, there has to be shareholder value in the first place that can be unlocked.
One of the reasons for the breakup, given by CEO Gregory Brown, was that the two separate units would benefit from increased focus from management. Why couldn’t they effectively manage both?"
3/26 - "Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced this morning that it would break itself into two companies. By sometime next year the handset division will be pulled away from the mobility and enterprise divisions.
The stock is up barely 1% on the news.The problems is that, even broken it pieces, Motorola is not worth more that its current market cap. The handset business is simply sinking too fast. "
"Based on Motorola's price to sales ratio, the value of the unit may be well under $10 billion. That means the two remaining units would have to have bring substantial multiples. In the current clima...
For several months now, activist investor Carl Icahn has proposed a breakup of Motorola (MOT) that management continues to reject. However, after last quarter's debacle (see Q4 conference call transcript), which caused shares to plunge to a new five-year low, the belief is the mobile devices unit will either be spun off or sold outright. Another possibility is that Motorola will take on a partner, as it seems that the original plan of keeping the company as is has clearly not worked.
In a just released SEC filing, Icahn, who owns 6.4% of the stock, notified Motorola (MOT) management the gloves are now off. He is now urging his own Board nominations to shareholders.
From the filing:
"The election of the Nominees requires the affirmative vote of a plurality
of the votes cast, assuming a quorum is present or otherwise represented at the
Annual Meeting. As a result, your vote is extremely important. We urge you to
mark, sign, date and return the enclosed GOLD proxy card to vote FOR the
While the news may be bad for Nokia, it is worse for Motorola (NYSE: MOT), which was not generally mentioned as part of the TI news...Motorola's share of the global cellphone business is now about 12%, down from 22% two years ago. Its stock trades near a 52-week low, at $8.54...If Nokia is getting a cold, Motorola is getting pneumonia.
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