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Posted via CB1005-25-15 04:14 PMLike 0 - BlackBerry's restructuring won't do much for valuation: portfolio manager - BNN News
BlackBerry�s turnaround strategy continues to unfold, and has quietly slashed more jobs in its smartphone division.
BlackBerry has not given out the numbers but in a statement released on Friday night says it is consolidating its software, hardware and application businesses.
This company�s success will still be dependent on how many people are using its software and hardware. But its restructuring efforts won�t help BlackBerry�s battered valuation, according to Colin Stewart, CEO & Portfolio Manager at JC Clark Investments.
�Anytime you�re in an industry typically characterized by growth and they are constantly reducing costs, it�s not a good sign,� Stewart tells BNN�s Paul Bagnell.
�[BlackBerry] has the potential to maximize earnings and cash flow in the short term, but this company�s success is going to be largely dependent on how many users they have and how many people want to use their hardware and software.�
While all the signs scream for a great opportunity to short BlackBerry, Stewart isn�t shorting the stock.
�The issue with some of these turnarounds is M&A risk,� he says. �If the turnaround fails, it is possible that someone could acquire all or a portion of the company and this could lead to material appreciation in the stock.�05-25-15 04:18 PMLike 9 -
The reason you do this is to provide a sweetener for shareholders in terms of a tax break. Instead of a $ 17.00 stock price and the capital gains from that price, you would receive your gain in dividends and pay much less in taxes on that gain. This happens so often when companies like Apple get purchased, they pay out the cash and let the purchase go through at a lower price. Can you imagine trying to buy Apple for its stock value and their cash? Now that is crazy thinking there isn't it? Of course you would only be interested in the stock not the cash.05-25-15 04:19 PMLike 11 -
I'm predicting a joint announcement from BlackBerry and Samsung around June 5.
Posted via CB1005-25-15 04:30 PMLike 0 - I assume you are serious so I'll explain what happens to stocks that pay dividends. The value of the stock, after the halt is lifted, would be the stock price of $ 12.00 plus the dividend. Why? Because the holders of common shares are the only ones that have a right to the dividend. Simple. After a dividend is paid, the stock will drop by that amount. This happens all the time. So the company buying BlackBerry would be saddled with the $ 12.00 cost of the common share and BB would issue the dividend. If this offer were made and the stock traded below $ 17.00, the whole world would buy common shares until it hit $ 17.00 a share.
The reason you do this is to provide a sweetener for shareholders in terms of a tax break. Instead of a $ 17.00 stock price and the capital gains from that price, you would receive your gain in dividends and pay much less in taxes on that gain. This happens so often when companies like Apple get purchased, they pay out the cash and let the purchase go through at a lower price. Can you imagine trying to buy Apple for its stock value and their cash? Now that is crazy thinking there isn't it? Of course you would only be interested in the stock not the cash.
I know that dividends don't pay out on options so wondering how that would value the options in such a scenario.
Posted via CB1005-25-15 04:39 PMLike 0 - So would ALL options value for all options, any expiring beyond the closing date, with strike under $17, be selling for just slightly lower than $17? Options would be settled on the transaction closing date?
I know that dividends don't pay out on options so wondering how that would value the options in such a scenario.
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As a leap owner, you will have weeks to decide if you want out now at the $ 17.00 equivalent, or, if you truly think another offer is coming, you had better take up the common stock from those leaps and be in a position to get the dividend and whatever else might come along. Companies make offers to buy voting stock, they don't care about stock options, leaps or bonds, therefore it is your responsibility to look after your position and do something smart prior to the ex-dividend date. Hope this helps!05-25-15 05:00 PMLike 12 - There sure is a heck of a lot of energy going into Hypothetical Buy Out rumours and internal BlackBerry Operational Re-Structuring Memos that nobody in this thread is privy to.
I ain't ready for the Chicken Little Cha Cha Cha yet.05-25-15 06:03 PMLike 10 -
Posted via CB1005-25-15 07:00 PMLike 13 - I hear ya. Let's keep the buyout rumours hypothetical. I'm not done with this fight until Apple is begging BlackBerry for a partnership and American media (and want-to-be-American-media like G&M) are publishing "BlackBerry; the Phoenix has Risen" stories.
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- Completely OT. My apologies:
RIP John Nash
John Nash and the Beautiful Email - The Daily Fix - WSJ
I only had one interaction with the genius mathematician John Nash. It was about the NCAA tournament.
Earlier this year, while reporting a story about using game theory to predict the outcome of basketball games, I thought it might be useful to ask for some ideas from Nash, who died Saturday in a car crash. After all, Nash was a godfather of game theory, winning the Nobel Prize in 1994 for his groundbreaking research into non-cooperative games. But that wasn�t the only reason to contact Nash. He was also a student and math professor at Princeton�which happens to be the Ivy League school with the most NCAA tournament appearances. If there were anyone who might know something about game theory and basketball games, John Nash seemed like a good place to start.
But first I had to track him down. Nash was 86 years old. I didn�t know if he was still coming to Princeton�s campus or whether he was even healthy, and I didn�t want to bother him about basketball if I didn�t have to. I had some time, though, so I wrote a letter to his office in Fine Hall. I decided to fax it, too, which forced me to figure out how to work a fax machine.
Not long afterward, though, I was reading an old article about Nash and saw something that surprised me: He had been emailing with other mathematicians since 1990. I tracked down what I thought was his email address�a crazy string of seemingly nonsensical letters followed by princeton.edu�and fired off the same long-shot questions that I had faxed him.
Did he fill out an NCAA tournament bracket? Or had he ever calculated the optimal strategies for doing so?
I closed my computer. It was a Saturday afternoon, and I wasn�t expecting to hear back that day, if ever.
John Nash emailed me back one hour later.
�Dear Mr. Cohen,� he wrote.
�I am aware of the efforts that have been involved with studying sports games applying the methods of the game theory of noncooperative games. I have not ever, myself, been involved in a specific study of that sort. But I was involved in a study of �A Simple Three-Person Poker Game.� Also there was an early group that informally studied what was called �So Long, Sucker,� which was more modelled on financial/entrepreneurial activities of individual �players.�
�So I guess I am myself pretty far from being the sort of person who would �fill out an NCAA tournament bracket.�
�Yours Truly, John F. Nash, Jr.�
It was a beautiful email. It showed that Nash really was smarter than all of us: He was brilliant enough that he knew not to try to predict the NCAA tournament.05-25-15 09:00 PMLike 14 - Not trolling but I think all these rumours should taken with a grain a salt. It's troubling that the same rumour that came out a few weeks ago is back out, just recycled with new info (job cuts) and republished. Any XYZ blog can publish something and it's sad that the stocks moves up or down because of it.
Like others' have said, we all just post the links. Salt shaker sold separately.
I was just thinking. What if Tim Hortons bought'out BlackBerry?
Last edited by Bacon Munchers; 05-25-15 at 11:47 PM.
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Published on May 21, 2015
The Greater KW Chamber of Commerce hosted BlackBerry CEO John Chen for a special luncheon on May 5th with nearly 400 community builders and supporters in attendance. It was an outstanding and candid discussion between John and Chamber CEO Ian McLean. Thank you to BlackBerry and John Chen for taking the time to come and speak with us.
Cheers,Last edited by Corbu; 05-26-15 at 07:23 AM.
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