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Research in Motion Elects New President and CEO (Transcript)Mon, Jan 23, 2012 • 1 Comment
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Research In Motion F3Q10 (Qtr End 11/28/09) Earnings Call TranscriptThu, Dec 17, 2009 • 4 Comments
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Research In Motion F2Q10 (Qtr End 8/29/09) Earnings Call TranscriptThu, Sep 24, 2009
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Research In Motion F1Q10 (Qtr End 5/30/09) Earnings Call TranscriptThu, Jun 18, 2009 • 6 Comments
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BlackBerry (formerly Research In Motion) is a global leader in wireless innovation, BlackBerry(R) revolutionized the mobile industry when it was introduced in 1999. Today, BlackBerry aims to inspire the success of our millions of customers around the world by continuously pushing the boundaries... More
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- Thursday, March 28, 11:53 AM BlackBerry's (BBRY +2.6%) big gross margin gain indicates "hardware gross margins rose from around -2% in fiscal Q3 to 11% in fiscal Q4," writes Nomura's Stuart Jeffrey. Given BlackBerry lost 3M subs (and their high-margin service revenue) in FQ4, he suspects "BlackBerry raised hardware pricing across the board." While pleased with the jump, Jeffrey doesn't think future BB7 margin gains can be counted on. But Jefferies' Peter Misek, bullish going in, now thinks FY14 EPS of $1.50 or more is possible (consensus is at -$1.15), and believes the channel is free of inventory. 1 Comment [Tech]
- Thursday, March 28, 9:44 AM BlackBerry (BBRY +3.8%) is off its premarket highs, but still up following mixed FQ4 results. BB10 shipments were roughly in-line with consensus. Total BlackBerry shipments -13% Q/Q and -23% Y/Y (they fell 7% Q/Q and 51% Y/Y in FQ3), and the BlackBerry sub base fell by 3M Q/Q to 76M. However, gross margin rose 970 bps Q/Q and 660 bps Y/Y to 40.1%, fueling the EPS beat. Opex +3% Q/Q and -8% Y/Y (exc. last year's goodwill charge) vs. a 36% revenue drop. Cash balance unchanged Q/Q at $2.9B. A 50% Q/Q increase in marketing spend is forecast, but BlackBerry still expects FQ1 results to be near breakeven, above a -$0.12 EPS consensus. 9 Comments [Tech, Earnings]
- Thursday, March 28, 7:31 AM More on BlackBerry (BBRY) Q4 earnings: Co-founder Mike Lazaridis is retiring from the company, effective May 1. Company shipped 6M smartphones in Q4, including about 1M BB10 units. Maybe the most fascinating news: The firm sold 370K Playbooks. Shares +9.2% premarket. (PR) 23 Comments [Earnings, Tech, On the Move, Top Stories]
- Thursday, March 28, 7:05 AM BlackBerry (BBRY): Q4 EPS of $0.22 beats by $0.54. Revenue of $2.68B misses by $0.16B. (PR) 17 Comments [Earnings, Breaking News, Tech]
- Thursday, March 28, 12:05 AM Notable earnings before Thursday’s open: ACN, BBRY, CMC, FINL, GME, MOS 3 Comments [Earnings]
- Wednesday, March 27, 5:30 PM Notable earnings before Thursday’s open: ACN, BBRY, CMC, FINL, GME, MOS 5 Comments [Earnings]
- Tuesday, March 26, 5:55 PM Bulls and bears continue to duke it out ahead of BlackBerry's (BBRY) Thursday's FQ4 report. Jefferies' Peter Misek (bull) recently argued on CNBC (video) BlackBerry could generate $4/share in EPS in 3-5 years even with modest market share and service revenue expectations. Opposing him was Nomura's Stuart Jeffrey (bear), who brought up the threat posed to service revenue from the likes of Good Technology. Today, National Bank's Kris Thompson, another bear, argued BlackBerry needs to price the Z10, which sells for well over $600 unsubsidized, more aggressively. 19 Comments [Tech]
- Tuesday, March 26, 11:53 AM T-Mobile USA (DTEGY.PK) will start selling the iPhone 5 (AAPL) on April 12. In tune with the carrier's embrace of subsidy-free plans, the 16GB model will be sold without contract for an up-front cost of $100 and a 2-year, $20/month installment schedule (total cost of $580, a little below the phone's unlocked price of $649). T-Mobile, which is (finally) launching a 4G LTE network in 7 cities, will also sell the BlackBerry Z10 (BBRY) and Samsung's Galaxy S IV. The carrier plans to offer 4G coverage to 100M people by mid-year, and 200M by year's end. (live blog) (PR) 9 Comments [Tech]
- Monday, March 25, 2:09 PM Wireless hardware distributor Brightstar was the company that placed an order for 1M BB10 (BBRY -3.6%) phones, Detwiler Fentor reports and AllThingsD confirms. Detwiler notes Verizon relies on Brightstar to handle "big-box retail and dealer agent channels," and thinks the order indicates Verizon is trying to mitigate inventory risk by having a distributor handle sales. 30 Comments [Tech]
- Monday, March 25, 1:42 PM Wells Fargo and Jefferies do their best to defend BlackBerry (BBRY -3.6%) as shares fall due to Goldman's downgrade and reports of a soft AT&T Z10 launch. "We think demand is slightly better than our very modest expectations," writes Jefferies' Peter Misek after conducting checks at 30+ stores. He adds Z10 interest from AT&T's business channels is healthy, and that checks indicate Verizon's business sales are strong. Wells Fargo's Maynard Um says he thinks Z10 sales to BlackBerry's installed base remain solid. 18 Comments [Tech, On the Move]
- Monday, March 25, 8:02 AM BlackBerry (BBRY) slides another 6.2% premarket, with Goldman cutting to Hold amid the soft AT&T launch. Citigroup reiterates its $6 price target, saying internal checks show sales of the Z10 have dramatically slowed and carriers have shifted promotions to other products. "Shockingly low support by AT&T with extremely limited signage ... most AT&T employees (have) not even been trained on the device." 30 Comments [Tech, On the Move]
- Friday, March 22, 6:25 PM "We are talking about a mobile-computing experience that makes sure that for you as a user, you only have to carry one computing device," speaks Thorsten Heins, pitching the idea of BB10 phones acting as tablet/PC replacements with the help of peripherals. He claims BlackBerry (BBRY -7.7%) is studying "various configurations," and will discuss some of them at the May 14-16 BlackBerry World conference. Asus and Motorola have experimented with the docking station concept, with modest success. (WSJ Z10 report) 10 Comments [Tech]
- Friday, March 22, 2:55 PM BlackBerry (BBRY -6.9%) plummets as the WSJ reports AT&T (T) "doesn't appear to be highlighting" the Z10 on its launch day, or "giving it prominent shelf space at its stores." The paper observes "fewer than 20 people" arrived at two Manhattan AT&T stores to see the Z10, and that a San Francisco store chose to display it "at a back corner of the store, away from a large sign advertising the iPhone 5." (earlier) 65 Comments [Tech, On the Move]
- Friday, March 22, 11:46 AM On a day when AT&T has begun selling the BlackBerry Z10 (BBRY +0.6%), Deutsche's Brian Modoff is raising fresh concerns (previous) about U.K./Canada sales. "Over the past week two carriers in Canada have cut prices on the Z10, suggesting to us lessened demand and possible margin pressure ahead." Modoff says his team contacted 60 stores in its latest round of checks, and failed to find a sellout. Thursday's FQ4 report should provide some color on early sales. (Detwiler Fenton) (Morgan Stanley) 50 Comments [Tech]
- Thursday, March 21, 4:11 PM Checks indicate U.S. consumer pre-orders for the BlackBerry Z10 (BBRY +1.1%) "have been light and well below expectations," says Detwiler Fenton's Jeff Johnston. AT&T began taking pre-orders on March 12, and Verizon 2 days later; both carriers will start actual sales within a week. He thinks FY14 BB110 sales are likely to be in the 13M-15M range, below the ~25M forecast by others. "BBRY has done a nice job with the OS; however, they need to figure out how to overcome the lack of mindshare their products have." (Goldman/Jefferies) 46 Comments [Tech]
- Thursday, March 21, 1:32 PM "We are not dumping BlackBerry (BBRY +2.1%) as Electronista and others have indicated," says a DoD spokesman. "We're moving to multiple devices, and that includes BlackBerry." The spokesman doesn't appear to confirm or deny the part of Electronista's report that mentions an order for 650K iOS (AAPL) devices will be placed. The DoD currently deploys 470K BlackBerrys to go with 41K iOS and 8.7K Android devices. Update: Electronista's sources continue to insist the iOS order is on tap, pending the end of the sequester. 18 Comments [Tech]
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Jklop: That would be a good new support in my books--before the 13.5 range. Hope to see it hold.
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voytekp: Customers in India can buy $BBRY Z10 with their credit cards paying an EMI of Rs 4,799 per month for nine months: http://alturl.com/meenv
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mikdns: By the way galaxy S4 has got discounted on amazon.de even before becoming available. Now it is discounted even deeper.
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caligrowthresearch: Samsung always does this because their phones lack in quality, they compete through price.
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$BBRY, Donald Yacktman has reduced his holdings by half in Q1 2013. He has been selling since Jan 2013. - View all 3 replies
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LYogi: He dumped half his shares on the launch of the Z10 and later went on record to say it was a mistake
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$BBRY - Modoff is back! says response to Q10 in U.K. is 'Tepid' - http://on.barrons.com/16d9Ggr sets the price target to $8. - View all 9 replies
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Iperzampem0: How the hell is possible a price target of $8 if the actual stock price is $14.5??
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sprasad03: sold 200 at 92, still have my core pos at $56, will be buying more tomorrow on a dip hopefully
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LYogi: like the move.. love this stock in 2 year's time. cruise control.
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stalkerz: agreed, personally I think z10 will grow interest on u over time, It didn't really impress me at 1st/2nd week, give it a couple weeks -
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$BBRY Netflix customer service Chat, let them know you want their service on Blackberry! http://nflx.it/10q0QEc - View all 0 replies
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Noodlez
$TSLA Tesla S mobile app for $BBRY #BB10 released after 26 hours of coding. You don't port? I smell an agenda. http://bit.ly/16P0WMQ - View all 3 replies
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Noodlez: The app is xplatform. It just demonstrates how quickly you can code native stuff on VB10
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$BBRY BlackBerry downgraded to Underperform from Neutral at Exane BNP Paribas http://bit.ly/10Trple What it go up today. - View all 8 replies
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caligrowthresearch: As you see it's going down further already... Now you know why ML wanted to lend shares so bad...
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sprasad03: it will only hit 13 if the market has a serious correction, which I dont think will happen
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$BBRY, The American Customer Satisfaction Index puts BlackBerry Satisfaction at "the bottom of the barrel" http://bit.ly/16PEP9L - View all 13 replies
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BBZ10USER: Hey Mr. do you ever say or post anything positive about BB or do you want to make sure that BB investors dont dream too much?
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Mr. Knowitall: I have. I wrote a detailed post how BB could win by partnering with Amazon to supply the ecosystem, kind of how MSFT supplies the OS for NOK
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oneinfiniteloop: AFAIK, @cheznazi, is now @nazzi, Luke is now Mr. KnowItAll (I will let them confirm this :)
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mzim88: honestly.. for the next few weeks i expect a lot of this. People trying to get a cheap entry price before earnings next month -
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losbronces: Usually, the differences don't last because it becomes an arbitrage play and those aren't left on the table. Shares same on TSX & NYSE. -
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Old $GOOG rumor makes me wonder what would happen if $BBRY could buy WhatsApp (burning 34% of its cash)? worth it? http://bit.ly/147qtAo - View all 16 replies
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Noodlez: I hear you. It just amazes me when I read how much certain companies paid for instagram and tumblr. It's easier to lock consumers in communi
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voytekp: This article is more recent and it pegs MDM growth in 2013 at $3.4 Billion http://yhoo.it/ZdRArv
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km1: its half over ;-) Alimode is right a month ago people would have been jumping from rooftops.
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$BBRY Its criminal what analyst are doing, downgrading to help the shorts!! Even JCP stock is doing better with garbage earnings. - View all 1 replies
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Noodlez: Jcp is a bad company. I've never seen a retail store making a turnaround.
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$BBRY Cdn shorts reduced 2 million Symbol Report Date Volume Change % Float T : BB 2013-05-15 11,452,277 -2,042,921 2.18 - View all 2 replies
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oneinfiniteloop: Nice smooth exit without registering a blip on the radar.
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Noodlez: 2million is nothing. Today 2million moved the stock by 20cents north.
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BBZ10USER: Until then wait around like a monkey in a tree and hold on to your bananas.
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oneinfiniteloop: If they had their way they would have buried $BBRY by now. They are eagerly trying to fill up obituaries - take those as interesting reads.