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Turnaround Expert: A Six-Pack of Rebound Buys

Best Buy (BBY)"Even when the market is up a lot, you can always find some good stocks that have been left behind but could be on the verge of a rebound," says George Putnam.

The editor of The Turnaround Letter explains, "That's where we suggest you focus your efforts right now. These eight stocks all have strong business franchises and have all significantly lagged the market over the last two years.

"In fact, several of them are still trading near or even below where they were in early 2009. Here, we look at Bank of America (BAC), Best Buy (BBY), Campbell Soup (CPB), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Microsoft (MSFT) and Sprint Nextel (S).

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Sprint Nextel Tops Business Use Satisfaction Survey: Now, on to Capitalizing on It

While Sprint Nextel (S) continues to leach wireless customers to the larger competitors, it is propping itself up by taking the lead in prepaid wireless), and by recently winning the top spot in business customer satisfaction for both wireless voice and wireless data services from a survey of large business decision makers.

Why isn't that success translating into more contract wireless customers in the consumer sector?

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Sprint Finally Brings Prepaid Wireless to Its Own Brand

Sprint Nextel Corporation (S) has found a winner for almost a year in its Boost Mobile prepaid wireless brand. For Sprint, this has been a savior. The company has been leeching valuable contract wireless customers to the competition and it was hurt badly in 2009 because of this.

At the same time, it has gained more prepaid wireless subscribers than any other carrier, and added large partner Virgin Mobile late last year to solidify its strategy in growing prepaid wireless as a large core of its customer base. It was probably the only thing to do -- both AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Wireless were taking its subscribers by the hundreds of thousands throughout 2009, even as Sprint fought back with lower-priced plans and compelling smartphones.

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Sprint Nextel's moves Boost Mobile head to oversee 4G development

Sprint Nextel Corporation (S) is taking the executive that was in charge of its Boost Mobile prepaid brand when subscriber growth exploded almost a year ago and putting him in charge of the company's 4G wireless expansion efforts.

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Sprint Nextel scores upgrade, pays off $1B loan

Sprint Nextel (S) reported this morning that it paid off an outstanding loan worth $1 billion on its $4.5 billion revolving credit facility. As a result, the wireless company no longer has an outstanding balance on its revolving credit facility. At the end of the third quarter, Sprint had $5.9 billion on hand in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments, plus $1.6 billion in borrowing capacity under its revolving bank credit facility.


In other Sprint news this morning, Sprint shares were upped from "neutral" to "outperform" at Credit Suisse. Analyst Jonathan Chaplin set his price target at $6, asserting that the company will benefit from cost cutting, stronger sales of prepaid service, and improved customer retention trends. Sprint's stock settled Friday at $3.10, so Chaplin's price target implies expected upside of nearly 94%.

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Deutsche Telekom CEO: No interest in acquiring Sprint Nextel

After more than a year of speculation, it seems that German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom will not buy U.S.-based wireless giant Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S). Deutsche Telekom CFO Timotheus Hoettges indicated that the American wireless competitive landscape had consolidated enough, and the control that the four largest wireless carries in the U.S. have wouldn't make a purchase wise.

Hoettges was quoted as saying, "There are four national players in the U.S. market for 300 million households, while in Europe, where we have 350 million households, there are 50 to 70 operators." It's pretty clear that he thinks the U.S. wireless market is controlled by an oligopoly of operators, which seem to move in tandem with each other in terms of price control and roll out of new technology. Do the "large four" -- Verizon (NYSE: VZ)Wireless, AT&T (NYSE: T), Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile USA -- move in lockstep with each other for the most part to not give any of the competition a large advantage?

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Clearwire eases pressure on Sprint Nextel, says CEO Hesse

Clearwire Corp.'s (NASDAQ: CLWR) may be able to relieve some pressure on Sprint Nextel Corp.'s (NYSE: S) national wireless network, according to Sprint CEO Dan Hesse. Although Sprint's existing 3G network is touted to be one of the most reliable in the U.S., moving customers to a more efficient and faster 4G network -- like the ones Clearwire continues to launch -- de-stresses Sprint's existing network.

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Sprint Nextel offers unlimited free calling to any mobile phone in the U.S.

Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) sent a letter to its Everything Data customers recently informing them that they could now call any mobile phone number in the U.S. -- at any time -- for free.

Sprint's new Any Mobile, Anytime calling plan gives those customers with at least a $70/month bill this new capability.

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Sprint Nextel gets downgraded as Deutsche Telekom deal becomes more unlikely

Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) was just rumored to be under the takeover auspices of European telecom giant Deutsche Telekom. DT has been rumored to be looking strongly at Sprint Nextel to bolster its T-Mobile USA brand in the U.S. But now, that deal appears unlikely according to Thomas Weisel analyst James Breen.

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T-Mobile parent could snag Sprint Nextel for just over $10 billion

Deutsche Telekom may be looking to beef up its T-Mobile USA wireless brand with a takeover of troubled Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S).

Although Sprint Nextel has made strides in trying to keep valuable contract wireless customers, it continues to lose hundreds of thousands of them per quarter. The one bright spot: it's adding hundreds of thousands of less-profitable prepaid wireless customers at the same time through its Boost Mobile prepaid brand.

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Sprint steps up new WiMAX wireless offerings in 17 cities

Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S), the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. who continues losing customers every single quarter, is at least trying to jump ahead of the competition on high-tech service offerings. The company will be expanding its WiMAX wireless internet offerings to 17 new cities by the end of 2009.

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Sprint outsources entire network to Ericsson

Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) has taken the next step to delete more costs from its bottom line by sending the management of its nationwide wireless network to Sweden's Ericsson. The deal -- valued at up to $5 billion -- will allow Sprint to offset its declining subscriber revenue and numbers with lowered costs.

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Sprint looks to combine long distance business with Level 3

Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) first spun off its landline telephone business with the company Embarq years ago, and it will now be joining up with Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) to take on the two larger competitors in the long-distance arena. This would pit a joint Sprint-L3 venture in the race with perennial long distance champs AT&T, Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ).

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Sprint's Boost Mobile any threat to larger wireless companies?

Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) could be hurting itself by making prepaid wireless so affordable, but for now, the wireless carrier is cleaning up. In fact, Sprint Nextel's only shining light is the acquisition of wireless customers with its Boost Mobile prepaid brand. But, could Sprint's prepaid service threaten the larger wireless companies like AT&T, Inc. (NYSE: T)?

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Sprint Nextel continues losing customers, sees $600 million net loss

Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S), the trying to be the"comeback kid" under CEO and telecom vet Dan Hesse, just lost another swath of customers in its latest quarter. The company reported almost an almost $600 million net loss in its latest quarter as its postpaid (contract) customers continue to defect to the competition.

All in all, this quarter wasn't as bad for Sprint as previous quarters. The third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S lost 182,000 wireless customers last quarter, leaving it with under 50 million total wireless customers. Still, the last quarter of 2008 saw Sprint lose about 1.3 million customers, so this past quarter was quite the marked improvement.

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