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Heck! Something Stinks ! ! ! 12:53 pm -- Now at $79.30 !!
Somebody 'blew' it!
LOL
I'll be here in IDCC into January. SO, if any good news happens, I hope it happens before year-end. So lets make it happen Mr. Merritt! Looks like the Cubs will do it, so why shouldn't IDCC !
I thought you bought some calls recently? If you did, hope you are right and it turns out to be very profitable.
Best of health to you. Enjoy Florida. I'm doing good and hope the doc agrees this Friday.
Stay well.
hrbart: If I were leaving the building at the $77 floor, I would sit in cash for a while.
Dividend paying stocks, especially utilities, have been hit pretty hard as of recent.
Hope the stock trades in the $80's range between now and year end. I am still looking for an exit point in that range in the beginning of 2017.
I also hope the tax rates don't change for 2017 so as to keep long term gains rates where they are.
Of course a buyout offer in stock of a reputable, solid, known name with growth potential would also be an option, if announced before year end and take out would be in 2017. That would be a good exit opportunity for some or all of the stock, unless I would see it worth my while to hold the new shares, avoid paying taxes, and reap some decent dividends.
Maybe even reap a special dividend paid by IDCC before year end! That would be nice.
Intel Has Too Many Positives to Miss Earnings, Investors Hope
Intel Undergoes a Strategic Shift in Fiscal 3Q16
http://marketrealist.com/2016/10/intel-undergoes-strategic-shift-fiscal-3q16/
The following is an exerpt from the article referenced above. I wonder if bM and the boys are talking with Intel about a business deal that would give Intel a heads up position in IoT ???
"Intel Resorts to Partnerships, Acquisitions to Boost IoT Business
ntel’s Internet of Things Group
In the previous part of this series, we saw that Intel (INTC) expects cloud buying patterns to pick up and boost its data center revenue in fiscal 3Q16. We also saw that the company is aggressively buying startups to tap deep learning opportunities in the data center space.
Another lucrative market that the company is eyeing is the Internet of Things (or IoT), as it aims to tap the 5G (fifth-generation) revolution and move to the center of the connected world. Until now, IoT has commanded only 5% of the company’s revenue and has been growing at a slow pace.
the Internet of Things Group’s (or IoTG) revenue growth has been volatile over the past few quarters. The IoTG saw 6% YoY (year-over-year) growth in fiscal 4Q15, followed by 12% growth in fiscal 1Q16. IoTG’s growth dropped to 2% in fiscal 2Q16.
This movement occurred because the IoT market’s growth is constrained by a lack of standardization. The 5G revolution and the advent of autonomous cars are expected to boost IoT growth.
Intel looks to tap the 5G world
The president of Intel’s Client and IoT Businesses and Systems Architecture Group, Murthy Renduchintala, stated during the Citi Conference that the company is positioning itself as a complete solutions provider of the future 5G world. With its broad product portfolio, Intel provides an interconnected strategy that links IoT devices and PCs to the network and data center spaces.
Intel is transforming its client portfolio from PCs and smartphones to connected cars, homes, factories, cities, robots, and drones.
Intel’s strategy to grow in the IoT space
Intel (INTC) partnered with Mobileye (MBLY) and Germany’s BMW to develop self-driving cars. Intel acquired startup Movidius to access its visual processors used in drones, virtual reality devices, and autonomous machines.
ARM Holdings (ARMH) is well-positioned to grow in the IoT space. Intel has partnered with ARM to manufacture its chips in its fabrication facilities. This would give Intel the technology and capability to manufacture chips for IoT devices.
There is a possibility that Intel could use ARM chips in some of its products. This would not be the first time Intel would use ARM chips. The company has previously used ARM chips inside its mobile processors and networking equipment, but the chips were sold to Marvell Technology (MRVL) in 2006. Intel also used ARM’s Mali graphics in its x86 Atom X3 chips designed for IoT devices."
InterDigital to Showcase IoT Solutions in Asia
GlobeNewswire
8:30 AM ET
InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), a mobile technology research and development company, today announced that it will showcase its latest IoT Solutions at IoT Week Korea 2016 and the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) Industry and University Collaboration Forum (IUCF) 2016: Smart City and 5G Wireless.
IoT Week Korea 2016, which brings together a total of 12 events including the IoT Korea Exhibition from October 12 - October 14, 2016, aims to provide a complete understanding of the IoT industry for the general public. InterDigital will demonstrate the following use cases and applications for its platform, oneMPOWER(TM) powered by wot.io(TM), based on the oneM2M(TM) standard:
-- Industrial Structural Health Monitoring: The company will demonstrate how Quest Integrity and Quest Integrated solutions combined with InterDigital's platform facilitate cost-effective maintenance for oil and gas and other energy industries.
-- Environmental Monitoring: The company will demonstrate how HARMAN's IoT Suite and InterDigital's platform, along with strong security and analytics services, enable innovative smart cities applications that include air quality monitoring and water and waste management.
-- Smart Buildings: The company will also show how its platform working along with HARMAN's IoT Suite can provide automation and efficiencies to commercial real estate environments.
-- oneTRANSPORT Initiative: The company will detail how this pre-procurement commercial deployment involving eleven public and private partners is enabling multi-system transport integration across geographies covering 9 million people in the United Kingdom.
In addition to the demonstrations, Dr. Vanja Subotic, Director, IoT Product Management, InterDigital, will present: "oneTRANSP ORT: oneM2M-Based IoT Solution for the Transport Industry" within the oneM2M(TM) Global Trend speaking section on October 13.
Furthermore, ASTRI's IUCF 2016 will bring together scholars and industry experts to explore key challenges that exist in the smart city as well as the new paradigm for 5G and IoT applications on October 17 in Hong Kong. Dr. Subotic will present and participate in the panel that explores key drivers for cities to adopt future smart mobility technologies.
MASDAQ & Yahoo show 10-7-16.
Yahoo as a matter of fact shows 10-7-16 at 1:00 AM on their quotes board.
IDCC MENTIONED BY ZACKS AGAIN:
Ericsson & Vodafone's M-Pesa to Ease Safe Water Payments
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ericsson-vodafones-m-pesa-ease-104010119.html
Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
InterDigital, sporting a Zacks Rank #1, has an impeccable earnings history over the trailing four quarters, beating estimates all through. It has a striking positive average surprise of 82.4%.
dOWN $1.00 -- thanks Dougherty & Co.
Got a big hole to dig out of today. Let's hope we can recover.
bulldzr: Agree, the IDCC dividends are very good to receive.
I used my dividends initially for 'spending money' at the casinos.
When we got the special dividend, it was used to give my 2 kids a 'great Christmas gift' (which I know helped them out immensely).
This year, it was used primarily to pay quarterly estimates as it came in handy to handle taxes on extraordinary income we received this year.
IIt would be nice for another special dividend; it would go toward another good Christmas gift for my kids AND maybe a new car for myself.
Here's hoping for the best.
JimLur: Sorry, got a phone call and just got off the phone.
BUT, i tried to get on the link and couldn't find it either. Maybe it is a webpage replay only
REVISED Lastly, InterDigital will be presenting at the Dougherty & Company Institutional Investor Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota at 2:50 p.m. ET on Wednesday, September 28. This presentation will also be available via live webcast.
The Investor Day and Dougherty presentation webcasts can be accessed by visiting www.interdigital.com and clicking on the link to the live webcast on the Investors page. Archived replays of the presentations will be available following the conferences.
The Investor Day and Dougherty presentation webcasts can be accessed by visiting www.interdigital.com and clicking on the link to the live webcast on the Investors page. Archived replays of the presentations will be available following the conferences
InterDigital Demonstrates Integrated Fronthaul and Backhaul Over Millimeter Wave System
WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 27, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterDigital, Inc. (IDCC), a mobile technology research and development company, will participate in a milestone demonstration for the H2020 5GPPP 5G-Crosshaul consortium by integrating its EdgeLink™ system into an integrated fronthaul and backhaul trial at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin today.
5G-Crosshaul is an international project with 21 members aimed at developing integrated fronthaul and backhaul system solutions to support flexibility and unified management for 5G network architectures. InterDigital’s EdgeLink is a wireless transport solution that provides mesh network connectivity over a 60GHz data link.
The demonstration will validate the project’s technology innovations through showcasing a multiplex of backhaul and new fronthaul traffic carried over the same millimeter wave (mmW) link, and under the control of a Software Defined Networking (SDN) mesh controller for mmW small cells. InterDigital’s EdgeLink nodes have been installed within the 5G-testbed and will serve as the mmW link within the demonstration.
“Various research and standardization forums leading the development of 5G, have aligned on the vision that fronthaul and backhaul will converge,” said Alan Carlton, Vice President, InterDigital Europe. “This demonstration validates the industry-wide alignment and showcases how the technology presented is an important ingredient to enable a cost effective and scalable 5G network, by providing a wireless solution for the transport of fronthaul and backhaul data.”
To learn more about the project, visit http://5g-crosshaul.eu/.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/interdigital-demonstrates-integrated-fronthaul-backhaul-063000927.html
I hear you! I hear you! LOL
M3S: Probably because they wanted to bring the price down, have their clients load up, and then discuss that while their price target is close. The share price reflects currentvaluation based on past news.
They should further comment that WHEN (not IF) others come to the table, the price will go up. They will also comment that IOT and M@M is still in the infant stages and realization of income from those products has yet to be factored in.
JMO
Either the board is getting heat from analysts or institutional investors OR they have something in hand that will generate some maningful or significant dollars to the bottom line in 2017 (and maybe az one-time pop in the 4th quarter 2016 or 1st quarter 2017.
The 'Heat' may be pressure to pay a special dividend and/or jump the quarterly dividend. If it was pressure from outside sources, a nickel was not enough. Hence, the $0.10 per quarter seemed like a good number, and still leaves a lot of cash lying around.
Perhaps the BoD may also be considering a special dividend and, based on when other factors are in place, a special dividend might be forthcoming.
One would only hope, for executive comps, the goal is to get somebody on board by year end, be it a new tier 1 licensee and/or a windafll from past royalties due.
I am hoping it is eather LG or ZTE, OR BOTH. I would prefer LG since they are the oldest of the non-licensed companies and the windfall of back-royalties could also be significant.
There are a lot of others out there that could (and should) be licensed. Let's hope that our 'Best In Class' licensing team, which has been 'dormant' for the past years, have been busting their A$$ES to get the deals done by year-end, which would then be reflected in their compansation for 2017.
JMO
loophole: your points are all well and good, but how many of them are in fact factual?
Management has always and consistently stated that they do not comment on their negotiations and discussions regarding licensing.
All I remember is the one comment made by that went something like '...we owe them something' or '... Idcc wanted x dollars and Nokia offered y dollars.
After 10+ years of fighting in the courts, IDCC is still waiting and NOKIA/MSFT is paying nothing.
Is it that you can't beat the 600 pound gorillas or is it that IDCC could NOT prove in the various legal venues that it was right and should have been paid or at least arbitrated for some FRANDly rate.
Now, I don't know what it would take but MAYBE the last offer from IDCC is to accept some token of compensation like $1 million dollars plus a license going forward at some rate like Huawei.
OR, maybe just have both parties ask for dismissal of all prior claims and go forward from this year.
After all, its NOT ALL ABOUT NOKIA anymore. I think it is about principle.
JMO
I don't think today's dividend increase announcement has been priced in to the market.
Surely, the shorts weren't expecting it this year. Hope it puts some pressure on them to cover.
Will the shorts buy to cover todzy?
Will they wait a few days to let the dust settle (at higher ground) and then short again?
Will funds managrs try to scoop up whatever free shares are available to capture the dividend before the end of the quarter?
More importantly, will we eclopse the $82.50 all time intra day highs today or will it be a spike up followed by a gradual increase over the next few days to achieve this goal?
Lets see how this plays out.
AND, maybe we can hope for a Christmas bonus of a Special Dividend payable in January, 2017.
I say in January, so as to avoid paying taxes in this calendar year.
IF we sign a new major license or 2 with one of our litigants, this should be a probability.
The increase in the quarterly dividend will give us a little more spending money for this holiday shopping season.
InterDigital Announces Increase of Regular Quarterly Dividend
GlobeNewswire
8:30 AM ET
InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), a mobile technology research and development company, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved an increase in the company's quarterly cash dividend to $0.30 per share ($1.20 per share on an annual basis).
"InterDigital's continuing growth and strong visibility of future cash flows puts us in a great position to return increased value to shareholders," said S. Douglas Hutcheson, Chairman of InterDigital. "The increased dividend is part of our balanced approach to capital allocation that returns value to shareholders while continuing to maintain our ongoing investment in developing technologies."
The increase in the regular quarterly dividend will take effect beginning with the dividend to be paid in fourth quarter 2016. The Board of Directors also declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $.30 per share on its common stock, payable on October 26, 2016 to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 12, 2016.
About InterDigital
InterDigital develops mobile technologies that are at the core of devices, networks, and services worldwide. We solve many of the industry's most critical and complex technical challeng es, inventing solutions for more efficient broadband networks and a richer multimedia experience years ahead of market deployment. InterDigital has licenses and strategic relationships with many of the world's leading wireless companies. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on NASDAQ and is included in the S&P MidCap 400 index.
InterDigital is a registered trademark of InterDigital, Inc.
la-idcc-fan. Sorry, that was what I meant. A new 52 day intra day high for THIS period. But soon, we will eclipse the ALL TIME intra day high.
Hope it is by the end of the month.
NEW INTRADAY HIGH AT $77.76 AND CLOSING HIGH AT $77.73.
LUCKY: 2 of the happiest days in a man's life:
1. They day he buys a boat
2. The day he sells the boat.
I understand there are 2 other 'happy days' in some men's life:
1. The hay he gets married
2. The day he gets divorced
I've been in the first 'boat' already.
As to the other happy days, I've been married 45 years and am still happy (usually)! LOL
One last 'HAPPY DAY' is when IDCC breaks $100. Hope that comes soon.
pouchemunyet: You said 'The smart money is buying'.
I think some institutions were adding to their holdings and will show a nice gain for the end of the 3rd quarter.
While the market has been shaky as of recent, IDCC has shown strength over the past few weeks. Huawei was the catalyst that turned the stock around. The Sharp settlement also helped the stock.
NOW, we are waiting for the next of many to come to the table. It would be nice to have another deal in place before the end of the quarter/
JMO
mickeybritt: I may just wait for the $100 by year end.
As to the $200 in 4 years -- well, I may just keep a token holding of 1,000 shares in my Granddaughter's name. She's 9, going on 10.
When she turns 18, I hope the $200,000 will be enough to pay her college tuition etc. and still leave a little for a car. At least her dad won't have to worry about paying for her schooling (I HOPE).
We need some target price increases. They have already beat the $75 targets!
YES! 76TH FLOOR HAS COME. Next stop 77! ---eeeeeee
IMO, whatever was said at this presentation MAY HAVE been the trigger for today's price rise.
Hope it continues throughout the day.
On Thursday, September 15, the company will present at the 7th Annual Credit Suisse Small & Mid Cap Conference in New York City at 10:10 a.m. ET. The presentation will not be available by webcast.
The following week, on Thursday, September 22, InterDigital will be hosting an Investor Day in New York City at 10:00 a.m. ET. The presentation will be available by live webcast.
Lastly, InterDigital will be presenting at the Dougherty & Company Institutional Investor Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota at 2:50 p.m. ET on Wednesday, September 28. This presentation will also be available via live webcast.
The Investor Day and Dougherty presentation webcasts can be accessed by visiting www.interdigital.com and clicking on the link to the live webcast on the Investors page. Archived replays of the presentations will be available following the conferences.
dmiller: Yes, I've been reading your posts. I saw a concern when the North Koreans tested a nuclear bomb last week and I thought the market would tank from being concerned. Coupled with the uncertainties over interest rates, I thought it would pull the market down several days in a row.
As it turned out, Down big one day, up somewhat the next day, down again, and you know the rest.
A little volitility but none the less, my dividend stocks got hit bUAT my IDCC has covered those declines and then some.
Overall, I'm OK with what is happening.
dmiller: turned bullish or chickened out or stopped out?
Don't tell my wife where we are at.
I told her I would start selling once we received this floor.
Call me a liar -- I'm waiting a little longer to get off at a higher floor.
WOW! We are at the $75 oreeno floor. Atta boy Ranger -- keep pushing it up.
eeeeeee
SO, we reached the 74th floor of the tower. eeeee
Two InterDigital Executives Named to Key Industry Position
WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 15, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterDigital, Inc. (IDCC), a mobile technology research and development company, today announced that two of its executives have been named to key industry leadership positions.
Scott J. Williams, Director, Licensing, has been appointed to the Licensing Executives Society (LES) board of trustees beginning at the LES annual meeting in October 2016. Prior to his nomination to the Board of Trustees, he served on LES committees including the Educational and High Tech Sector Committees and has held several other leadership positions within LES including Philadelphia Chapter Chair and the 2015 Annual Meeting Chair. LES is the global leader in standards development, education, and certification in promoting IP commerce.
Ted Naccarella, Associate General Patent Counsel, was elected to the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) board of directors for a two-year term beginning January 1, 2017. IPO, a trade association for owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, advocates for effective and affordable IP ownership rights and provides a wide array of services to members. The association serves all intellectual property owners in all industries and all fields of technology.
“LES and IPO are outstanding organizations advancing high quality intellectual property rights,” said Lawrence F. Shay, Senior Executive Vice President, Future Wireless, at InterDigital. “The appointments of Scott and Ted to these key industry positions underscores the pair’s leadership and commitment to the acceleration of innovation.”
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/two-interdigital-executives-named-key-123000693.html
M3S: Pnokio and Mr. Softee should also go to Lloyds of London and buy a bond guaranting payment for their licensing fees.
This way, we will be guaranteed payment under the bond.
JMO
5 Strong Buy Stocks Climbing Towards New 52-Week Highs
Interdigital Communications IDCC
Previous Close: $72.30 / 52-Week High: $73.88
Interdigital Communications is a provider of digital wireless telecommunications systems that boasts an impressive patent portfolio. The company expects a giant third-quarter, and its improved guidance has helped move the Zacks Consensus Estimate a shocking 88 cents higher in the past week. We’ve also seen positive revisions for its next-quarter, full-year, and next-year earnings, and our consensus estimate indicates that Interdigital could be in store for earnings growth of 17.5% this year.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-strong-buy-stocks-climbing-201908904.html
mickeybritt: SEND YOUR SUGGESTION /OPINION TO:
directors@interdigital.com
patrick.vandewille@interdigital.com
State the reasons you feel the BOD should do this before the next regular scheduled dividend.. Maybe it will be different from his past resoponses, given the Huawei license.
It would be interesting to see how Patrick VanDeWille responds
Let us know what thee reply is.
dws: I forgot about the FED rate consideration. Too much speculation about rate increaing but like you said, IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR and a rate hike could be held back until after the elections.
Yes, it is affecting the entire market. Korea didn't help.
You're right; I would go to the Casino but I was there Thursday (won a little) and will not be going back until Sunday.
Oh well, time for lunch followed by a 2 hour nap.
LOL