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jeffree...I don't know where you came from but I am very glad to see that you are posting. I like you am a "midtermer" of about 8 years. It is obvious that you ahve a real grasp on what is going on and I thank you for the eloquent and well detailed note to JP...Keep posting,your "comrades" are trying to hang in there..
I can honestly say I am VERY suprised to see this level again with the high institutional ownership...I have bought for the last 8 dollars down....It takes a lot of patience to be invested in this stock but I think their decision was the right one and long term it will be very positive. IDCC certainly didn't see this coming or they would not have bought back all those shares $10 higher than we are today, IMO. So goes the game of life and business.
No speculatiion or information here, but do we know for fact that they COULD announce a share buyback at this time. Anything on the horizon that may hinder such an action? Lots of irons in the fire right now in my opinion that MAY prevent them from legally doing that right now...No not using rose colored glasses, just a thought..
habu....Count me in, even though I rarely post anymore my core shares are still meant as retirement shares and my timeframe is still quite long, if need be....I do have my goal of where I would sell and we are not even close...happy to have made friends and some money with this investment over the last 9 years....call me number 4 I guess
I see one bigger loser on my screen EOM
OT: Just an observation. They must have hired new management today at Interdigital, as the stock price is up nicely. That is the only thing I can think may be causing this uptick, that is, if you follow yesterdays reasoning for it being down....I truly hate to post such as this but it really bothers me that every time there is the least bit of pullback the same guys with the red "honker noses" and big shoes from Ringling come running to the board with the bad management theme.....I'll post again in 60 days when we hit a new 5 year high...thanks to all that contribute to this board. No rose colored glasses here, but its easy to spot both ends of the spectrum that obviously exists on this, along with most stock message boards...Bottom line to me is that IDCC is well positioned in a very "trying" business at this time.
OT OT OTJimlur...It took about 1 minute with DSL....I actually clicked the start button when it showed it was 10% loaded and it "kept up" all the way through...nasty bugs
postyle, great to see you back, been a long time. Seems like way back on RB...I very rarely post anymore but still closely monitor IDCC and still have a very "undisciplined" amount of my portfolio here..welcome back, I hope you hang around a bit
Amazing....Everyone just chill...the same few characters always show up when there is a price decline....good news is they go away whenever it starts to go the other way....This to shall pass and we can get back to discussing what is going on vs short term share price movements...nothing wrong with trading this stock but don't get excited when the guys with the painted faces from Ringling Brothers show up, they will go away as quick as they showed up....
Pretty cool....any of you tech gurus see this or care to comment...I would toss a few $$$ into this if it were possible to invest....Seems like lots of applications
http://tech.msn.com/guides/ces/article.aspx?cp-documentid=2320224
looks like they had 13 million left so you can bet your booty they were buying under $30 like many of us...
Under the current $200 million repurchase program, the company has repurchased 6.4 million shares for $187 million as of December 27, 2006.
Arthritis...my personal opinion is that we are ALL barking up the wrong tree if we are talking win/lose in regards to QCOM. This isn't a football game, this is a business environment that often has more than one successful company within it. I think both IDCC and QCOM have contributions to the wireless world that will serve them and their shareholders well for years. I am looking at my desk right now and I have an HP and Canon printer, a Dell and an IBM computer, they are coexisting as competitors. Do you want to look at the guts of these computers, they SHARE some of the same vendors, simliarly each of them use different vendors for the same parts. My point is, if you look at the big picture I totally disagree thats its IDCC vs QCOM. My boat is loaded with 10 times as many IDCC shares as QCOM shares but I own both because I believe both will be longterm winners in this business. If the day comes that IDCC's market cap is 10% of QCOM's I think we will all be happy....jmo
Hey Data...WOuld you mind a little more commentary on specifically why you like this....inquiring minds want to know...thanks for all you do here
Mschere....not sure you want to venture I guess but when do you think IDCC will actually collect the $134 mill from Samsung.....What is your taek on what is probably going on? I know just a guess but would be intersted in your opinion.
revlis...I sent a quick note to Janet this morning regarding this...I just don't think that is correct or IDCC should have come out with a press release...or so I think...
OT: sailfree...thanks for the PM...LOL just had to throw it out there...I knew.......
mschere, when do YOU expect that money to hit....? Thanks
ams your back, haven't seen you here for a while, care to share whether you bought back in? What brought you back?
unreal...at least to me...I guess ya'll were right...sell on theh news...I didn't..It looks like many have taken the opinion that it will be mid 07 before we collect $$$$ barring any fight from Samsung along the Nokia lines....never guessed it, never gave it a thought to trade some shares out of the gate this morning...oh well...can't even say live and learn, been down this road many times and never willing to give em up
It truly is extrmely surprising to me that there is anyway in the world we are actualy down this morning....Unbelievable. I do think wer are up a buck by the end of the day but crazy that we even touched negative territory...JMO
Malko, my best wishes and hope for a speedy recovery....I loved reading your posts here for years and that very special signoff.....tight lines....tight lines to you, you have many admirers with you in their thoughts....
wow what a strange day...I left less than two hours ago and we were above 29 now back home and we are in the 27's....manipulate manipulate manipulate....someday I'll figure out how to trade it
I think that post got edited as the announcment came out within seconds of him posting....those words are gone now
yep...and my statement stands they almost always announce at 8:30, I don't read anything more into it than that...
In my memory it was almost ALWAYS at 8:30 eastern time
go here to take the Samsung survey
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/surveymenu.asp
dmiller, based our our conversation yesterday how did we perform today vs the market and the other 30 stocks you follow?
I don't know what to make of it....or if it means anything
http://quotes.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/ExtendedTradingTrades.aspx?mode=&page=afterhours&symbol...
OT: you are the pro obviously.....to me percentages are a quick clean way to look at performance. You mentioned 2-4.5% and didn't qualify it, I was just making the comparison on a simple market basis. You obvioulsy are doing better with your "other ones". Thats great, I just wouldn't overblow your "intimated" poor performer....good luck to us ALL
OT: come on man.......I show Dow up 1.37%, NASDAQ up 1.68% and IDCC up 1.18%, thats hardly worth complaining about is it? dmiller, I am as dissappointed as you that we aren't still at 35 but don't revert back to your old ways, you have been a much easier to get along with person over the last couple of months...
Motorola profit rises 46%
Stock up 7% late as phone maker offers bullish outlook
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Last Update: 6:05 PM ET Jul 19, 2006
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Motorola Inc. on Wednesday said second-quarter profit jumped 46% as the company shipped a record number of wireless phones and benefited from a large one-time tax gain and a legal settlement.
The world's No. 2 maker of wireless phones also issued a bullish third-quarter sales forecast -- easily surpassing the Wall Street consensus -- on expectations of further strength in its mobile handset business.
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After U.S. markets closed, Motorola reported a second-quarter profit of $1.38 billion, or 55 cents a share. That was up from $933 million, or 37 cents a share, a year earlier.
Revenue for the Chicago-based technology giant rose 29% to $10.9 billion from $8.41 billion, as the vendor shipped 51.9 million wireless-phone handsets, another quarterly record. Motorola shipped 46.1 million phones in the first quarter.
Once again, Motorola's sleekly designed Razr series of phones fueled brisk demand, while the company's Q smartphone got off to a good start. The Q, viewed as a BlackBerry for the masses, was launched in the last month of the quarter.
Motorola also said it boosted its global share by 1 percentage points to 22% from the prior quarter, its highest level in years.
"Motorola continues to deliver excellent quarterly sales and earnings growth," Chief Executive Ed Zander said in a statement.
During the second quarter, Motorola recorded a tax benefit of 11 cents a share and a onetime gain of 10 cents a share related to the resolution of a long-standing legal dispute with Turkish mobile carrier Telsim.
Excluding one-time items, Motorola earned 33 cents a share from continuing operations. The company was expected to earn 30 cents a share on sales of $10.1 billion, according to the consensus of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call.
Looking ahead, Motorola said it expects to generate revenue of $10.9 billion to $11.1 billion in the third quarter, sharply higher than Wall Street's forecast of $10.3 billion.
Solid second quarter
In the second quarter, the company's mobile devices unit registered a 46% increase in revenue to $7.14 billion. Operating profit totaled $799 million, up from $493 million a year earlier.
The networking-equipment division, meanwhile, partly bounced back from a disappointing first quarter as sales rose 3% year over year to $2.9 billion. Operating income fell to $386 million from $494 million a year earlier, but it topped the first-quarter level of $299 million.
The broadband division generated sales of $803 million and operating income of $56 million, reversing a small loss in prior first quarter.
The division shipped a record 2.4 million set-top boxes for high-tech TV systems during the quarter.
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MOT19.25, +0.37, +2.0%) shares rose as high as $20.60 in after hours trading after gaining almost 2% during Wednesday's regular session.
If its that price tomorrow I will be buying some..EOM
linedrive...in defense of loop he did sign off "MO, LOOP" as in, my opinion
VG...your post triggers a point with me....IF IDCC were extremely active during the last month of trading they too have suffered from the loss of share price. They would obviously being getting a lot more bang for their buck today than they were a week ago....would they have been buying if they knew all this bad news that everyone wants to talk about
I may have missed a recent development.....Can someone tell me EXACTLY what has changed in the last two weeks other than the share price. Two weeks ago when we were running up nicely no one was bickering about the samsung situation or new licensing deals. Did we get any indication that Sammy is now going to take longer (the company never said by the end of June)? Did we get any word that the licensing agreements that BM expects by the end of the year are not going to happen? Look, I am as PO'd as anyone to have seen the value of ALL my shares drop 20% in the last week. What I am coming to grips with is that as long as the share price was moving up, I, and 99% of the other folks on this board were content with the situation. Are the newfound "disgusts and disenchantment" COMPLETELY the result of the drop in share price or have NEW situations come up that tells us things aren't so rosy going forward.
Like I said 99% of us were happy as long as the price was going up, we were all saying "this is great and wait until sammy is resolved anyday or one off those licenses hits the newswire...". I guess bottomline what I am saying is, were we suffering through euphoria so we couldn't see all these "problems" two weeks ago or are we disguising our distaste for the drop in share price with gripes towards the company. Fundamentally what changed? What newfound tidbit did I miss?
Can't be PJ alone.....I hope to heck we don't get some bad news after the bell that got leaked somewhere this morning or even last Friday. I bought more today and don't need any further relapse. I hope DD was correct that there may have been some BS at play on the street and that WM can shove it down their throat via some good news....
yep....my single biggest "paperloss" in one day of my investing life and guess what, I buy more....The one and only thing I am hanging my hat on is a week ago today I felt better about IDCC than at anytime and none of those fundamental positives have changed, only the share price has. I am guessing this too shall pass over the next couple of weeks even if we don't rebound to $35 in that timeframe....
Other analysts.....As someone mentioned this morning I am surprised one or more of our other analysts hasn't jumped in (maybe after a call from uncle Billy)to reiterate their confidence in THEIR analysis.....I am ultra surprised by todays action...last friday, no big deal, today huge dollars down the drain for me if I had to sell. Even if we get good 2nd qtr numbers, a sammy resolution, and any other of a number of good tidbits we are satrting from $10 share lower point than a week ago...tough....that said..I did buy more in the last half hour....
thanks mschere...I think you, like I, thought we had shifted into much more proper/stable ownership of shares...It surprised me that this kind of manipulation could happen...the number of shares is not mom and pops 500 shares