Posted Jul 2nd 2009 1:10PM by Brian White
Filed under: Competitive strategy, Motorola (MOT)
Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) has been in deep trouble for a while now. For some untold reason, the company placed almost all its growth bets on its wireless division but has not produced a hit handset in years. Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and Samsung Electronics have been producing and selling all kinds of cutting-edge wireless handsets to carriers all over the world. What has Motorola been up to?
It's still producing handsets, but so many of the designs and marketing strategies have been commodities lately. Meanwhile, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has taken the mobile crown with the iPhone, and even Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has risen from the dead with the new Palm Pre. Motorola was in such bad shape financially that it even suspended the spinoff of its mobile unit last year.
Continue reading Does Motorola really think it has a chance?
Posted Jun 23rd 2009 4:10PM by Jon Ogg
Filed under: Motorola (MOT), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), Boeing Co (BA), Boston Scientific (BSX), ConocoPhillips (COP)

Equities stabilized today after two relatively large selling waves in equities. It even looks like we only had a 1% trading range in the DJIA from top to bottom today. The housing data might have helped marginally, but that was
actually negative data if you dig down into the numbers.
The hope for a return to growth is starting to see a bit of what may be reality setting in now that even Mr. Obama expects double-digit unemployment to become a reality. It seems that the rise in oil actually helped to keep equities higher. Here are today's closing bell levels:
Dow 8,322.46 -16.55 (-0.20%)
S&P 500 894.99 +1.95 (0.22%)
Nasdaq 1,764.92 -1.27 (-0.07%)
Top upgrades and downgradesContinue reading Closing Bell: They just don't stay down long (BA, BSX, COP, MOT, SIRI)
Posted Jun 22nd 2009 10:00AM by Jim Cramer
Filed under: Cisco Systems (CSCO), Motorola (MOT), Market matters, Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says tech's a tough sector, even if you pick the winners. Nortel's a reminder that owning tech can be such an incredible losing proposition. For much of the 1990s it was a given that Nortel was going to be the biggest competitor if not the destroyer of
Cisco (NASDAQ:
CSCO) (
Cramer's Take),
Motorola (NYSE:
MOT) (
Cramer's Take) and certainly of Lucent and Alcatel. It seemed to have the inside track on everything that would make the Internet better and faster and more compelling. It was the pin-up for the hottest in communications tech and you had to be long it at all times.
But Nortel became the poster boy for something else in the early 2000s, the sign that I keep on my PC -- "Accounting irregularities equals sell." While Nortel's business, along with all of the network and dot-com-related businesses crashed badly in the wake of Net crash, Nortel was never able to get back in the game because of some accounting irregularities so broad that it brought down all of the executives who ran the company.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Learning the lessons of Nortel
Posted May 12th 2009 2:30PM by Sheldon Liber
Filed under: Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Forecasts, Rumors, Rants and raves, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), General Motors (GM), Motorola (MOT), Scandals, Citigroup Inc. (C), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Recession, MBIA Inc (MBI), Best Stocks for 2009, American Eagle Outfitters (AEO)

Never mind the bears and bulls or even the pigs and chickens, I think between Wall Street and Washington D.C. the goofs and ghosts are leading the charge.
What I mean by this is that the rationale for certain market activity and advisement makes no sense to me. Maybe we are not recovering from the recession but we are moving into something like a shadow economy, where people look at what is going on in the market and rationalize it after the fact, when all the real energy is in the darkness.
Today
American Eagle (NYSE:
AEO) was upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Barclays, and Lazard Capital Markets upgraded AEO from hold to buy. Why now, after the stock has run up 65% this year, do they finally wake up and think there might be something here?
Continue reading So many questions: AEO, APC, C, GM, MBI & MSFT
Posted May 2nd 2009 2:40PM by Trey Thoelcke
Filed under: Earnings reports, Time Warner (TWX), Pfizer (PFE), Motorola (MOT), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Viacom (VIA), Revlon (REV), Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Procter and Gamble (PG), U.S. Steel (X), Under Armour'A' (UA), E*TRADE (ETFC)
Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:
Continue reading Earnings highlights: P&G, DreamWorks, E*Trade, Netflix, Under Armour, Humana and more
Posted May 2nd 2009 9:40AM by Trey Thoelcke
Filed under: Earnings reports, Time Warner (TWX), Pfizer (PFE), Starbucks (SBUX), Motorola (MOT), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Verizon Communications (VZ), Office Depot (ODP), Eastman Kodak (EK), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Dow Chemical (DOW), Burger King Hldgs (BKC), Goodyear Tire and Rubber (GT), MetLife Inc. (MET), Visa Inc. (V)
Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:
Continue reading Earnings highlights: Starbucks, Kodak, Verizon, Visa, Office Depot, Baidu and more
Posted Apr 13th 2009 2:40PM by Steven Halpern
Filed under: Management, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Intel (INTC), Motorola (MOT), Newsletters, Stocks to Buy
In addition to his in-depth analysis of technical and fundamental metrics, tech sector expert Paul McWilliams pays strong attention to the quality of management in his assessment of technology stocks.
In a special report from his Next Inning newsletter, he looks to a trio of tech players that he recommends as "strategic investments" based in large part on the quality of their chief executive officers.
Here's his look at Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Motorola (NYSE: MOT). explaining why their respective CEOs are the right people for the job.
Continue reading Tech strategy: Buy companies with the best CEOs - Intel, HP, and Motorola
Posted Apr 3rd 2009 11:40AM by Peter Cohan
Filed under: eBay (EBAY), Motorola (MOT), Citigroup Inc. (C), American Express (AXP), Financial Crisis
There could be an opportunity to tweak the way we pay CEOs of big public companies. I hope this doesn't sound too harsh. But when you consider that the average 2008 compensation for the 10 highest paid public company CEOs was $40.7 million, while their companies lost half, or $30 billion, worth of their stock market value -- I wonder whether some change may be in order.
The year 2008 put a big exclamation mark on, hopefully, the end of an eight-year sentence of stabbing common shareholders in the back. Of the 10 highest paid CEOs, here are the four who destroyed the most stock market value while getting well above average pay. The companies are listed in descending order of the percentage destruction in stock market value, along with the CEO's 2008 compensation and loss in stock market capitalization:
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Citigroup (NYSE:
C) paid CEO Vikram Pandit $38.2 million while its stock fell 78% destroying $124 billion in stock market value
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Motorola (NYSE:
MOT) CEO Sanjay Jha made $104 million while overseeing a 75% stock plunge which wiped out $27.9 billion in stock market value
Continue reading Pay for performance? Try pay for failure: CEOs paid millions to lose billions
Posted Mar 19th 2009 12:20PM by Steven Halpern
Filed under: Motorola (MOT), Newsletters, Stocks to Buy
"I now believe some bargains are developing among technology stocks," says growth stock expert Mark Skousen. In his specialized trading service, The Turnaround Trader, he adds, "Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is a fallen tech leader that may even rise in a bear market -- and has a chance to double or triple once the market turns around."
Skousen expplains, "Technology stocks appear to have bottomed and are moving higher. Motorola, the $8-billion mobile ohone manufacturer, is in the midst of a classic turnaround situation.
"It used to be the cell phone technology leader, having developed the world's first handheld cellular phone and technical standard for high-definition TV. Yet the stock has fallen nearly 70% from its lofty highs of $26 a share two years ago.
Continue reading Motorola (MOT) : 'Classic tech turnaround'
Posted Mar 11th 2009 11:00AM by Eric Buscemi
Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Motorola (MOT), Avon Products (AVP), Comerica Inc (CMA), Genentech Inc (DNA), McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Analyst initiations
Analyst upgrades:
- ING upgraded Roche (OTC: RHHBY) to Buy from Hold as it believes Roche will not pay more than $100/share for Genentech (NYSE: DNA) and that the Avastin adjuvant data due April 2009 provides significant upside potential.
- Oppenheimer upgraded Motorola (NYSE: MOT) to Outperform from Perform on valuation as it believes sentiment is at an all-time low and the stock has limited downside. The firm set a $5 target on shares.
- Morgan Stanley upgraded Comerica (NYSE: CMA) to Equal Weight from Underweight citing valuation that adequately reflects credit deterioration in its commercial-heavy loan portfolio and aggressive government action.
- Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ: CAKE) and Nucor (NYSE: NUE) were upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Goldman.
- Pinnacle Entertainment (NYSE: PNK) was raised to Overweight from Equal Weight at Barclays.
Continue reading Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: RHHBY, MOT, RBS, DKS, MCO ...
Posted Mar 5th 2009 9:50AM by Mark Fightmaster
Filed under: Management, Motorola (MOT)

What can happen in a 16-day span? Well, according to
Motorola (NYSE:
MOT), a former employee -- whom the the firm "appreciated" -- can become a former employee who may have failed "to substantially perform duties," engaged in dishonesty, "gross misconduct," and breached "one or more restrictive covenants." (These are definitions for cause, not actual reasons cited by MOT for Liska's departure.) According to
this Wall Street Journal article, former MOT chief financial officer Paul Liska filed a wrongful termination suit against the cellphone producer on February 20.
Yesterday, Liska expressed surprise in realizing that his termination was assigned cause. When MOT reported earnings (actually, a lack thereof) early in February, it stated that Liska was being replaced because the firm was delaying the spinoff of its cellphone unit. The firm's co-CEO actually praised Liska, noting "He did a lot of good work here." However, a recent SEC filing brought to light the fact that MOT asked Liska to repay a $400,000 cash signing bonus on February 19, noting that he was "involuntarily terminated for cause."
Continue reading Motorola sued for wrongful termination by employee it praised
Posted Feb 13th 2009 12:00PM by Mitch Tuchman
Filed under: Motorola (MOT), Ciena Corp (CIEN), Corning Inc (GLW), Alcatel-LucentADS (ALU), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), ETF Investing, Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM)
The old adage to new investors has always been to invest in something that you use or believe in. Right now, you're probably reading this online and there's a good chance you got online through a broadband connection, so why not invest in the companies that continue to supply equipment for the growth of the broadband revolution?
The exchange-traded fund (ETF) Broadband HOLDRs (NYSE: BDH) is a great way to invest in the broadband industry without having to select one company. BDH consists of about 22 companies that develop, manufacture and market products and services that facilitate the transmission of data, video and voice more quickly and efficiently than traditional telephone line communications.
Continue reading ETF Stocks: Use BDH for a play on broadband technologies
Posted Feb 7th 2009 9:40AM by Trey Thoelcke
Filed under: Earnings reports, Cisco Systems (CSCO), Time Warner (TWX), Motorola (MOT), Estee Lauder (EL), NYSE Euronext (NYX), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Visa Inc. (V)
Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:
Continue reading Earnings highlights: Time Warner, BP, Cisco, Motorola, Visa and others
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