Microsoft cranks up stock buyback programFailure Big Time. Stock closed 5 cents lessLet me get this streight. Microsoft is paying 5 cents more than the closing price on Friday. That means the offer extracts wealth overall.Gates is Selling like an Enron ExecutiveSee http://insider.thomsonfn.com/Netscape/insider.asp?imodule=db&ticker=MSFT&ttype=Atell me this is normal. It is not....
Microsoft announced plans for massive stock buybackTsk, tsk...there goes the cash hoard!!You know it's hard times when M$ needs to spend 1/2 of its cash to prop up its stock. lol Let the fun begin!Rep told me not to sell...My rep has re-affirmed his strong "BUY" rating on...
1,012 US public companies announced $456 bln in stock buybacks in 2005, breaking the previous record set in 2004 when 728 companies said they would repurchase $312 bln worth of their own stock. TrimTabs reported cash takeovers of public companies amounting to $277 bln were announced in 2005, another annual...
According to TrimTabs Investment Research, the total amount of buybacks announced by US companies in 2005 through October hit $346 bln, up 51% from the same period in 2004. Thomson Financial says 2005 marks the largest year for corporate stock buybacks since the heady days of the late 1990s.
Microsoft to offer dividend, launch stock buybackBuying back stockNow if Gates gets his hands on $30 BILLION in stock, how does that make Microsoft less a threat? If it is consolidated into a few persons' accounts, then doesn't that increase the possibility of abuse since there would no longer be...
Steve Jobs' liver transplant confirmedWhich is whyif I were Apple, I'd use all that surplus cash to start taking the company private again. Then you don't have to deal with this nonsense.What does this have to do With Hardware 2.0?There are plenty of other zdnet blogs dealing with headlines that...
Can IBM sustain its momentum?detailsso profit and "earnings" are up and margin is high - but can customers and clients count on IBM as a quality deliverer of solutions when those numbers are created through layoffs, resource actions, and payroll cuts? the devil is in the details and all the...
Nvidia had one ugly second quarter. It lost money. It took a charge for defective chips. And it's stuck with low-margin inventory it has to burn off. Amazing how a little price competition from AMD's ATI can magnify poor execution at Nvidia. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said...
Sun Microsystems on Friday reported fiscal fourth quarter net income of $88 million, or 11 cents a share, on revenue of $3.78 billion, down 1.4 percent from a year ago. Adjusted earnings in the quarter were $275 million, or 35 cents a share. However, Sun sees another tough year ahead....
Michael Dell's a believer: Makes a $100 million statementDoes that make him...?Just wondering if that makes him the majority shareholder now? Or could that be his goal, to make sure he retains control over Dell as a rule because he may be considering stepping aside as CEO to pursue something...
During the investor conference call over Apple's December fiscal first quarter conference, analysts kept pressing executives about whether the Cupertino company is the bellwether for the consumer spending. But Apple's value proposition is different than the rest of the industry and so is its customer base, making it tough to...
Is McAfee just asking for a lawsuit?They should be suedover the quality of their product. About 7 years back a mcafee upgrade all but brought my users to a halt. There tech support was worthless. Changing products solved the problem. For their attitude and stupidity I won't use any of...
Microsoft reports impressive fiscal first quarterWhat's not to like?Obviously the nay sayers proclaiming Microsoft is "going down" need to buy a clue.Will Google always beat forecasts?I guarantee that if either MS or Google misses earnings their stock will take a huge dive. When Google reaches the $50 billion mark then...
Fellow blogger Andy Abramson thinks that with the decline in the price of Vonage stock as a result of the federal court ruling denying Vonage the use of patented Verizon technology, the most advisable route is a sale.Andy mentions Verizon as a possible acquirer, but adds that there could...
Geez, man. If that grab up there were colored white rather than blue, it could pass for a mountain, and then a treacherous snow field below.But no. Thats the minute-by-minute depiction of Vonages misadventures on the Nasdaq today. A day in which Vonage ended at $4.17 a share. The...
Microsoft hands out 37 million shares in bonusesmeasurable criteria?[quote]James Cash, a Microsoft director who sits on the board's compensation committee, said in a statement that the awards were set using "measurable criteria" to evaluate job performance and that their size was in line with industry practices.[/quote]Clearly not their ability to...
While we don't usually talk about stock prices here, sometimes investor confidence or lack thereof can be gleaned from a read of the trends.Well, today, Vonage closed at $7.40 a share, their lowest ever, and more than half the $17-a-share IPO.Today's year-in-advance, free-calling-to-41-world-locales SunRocket announcement didn't help. Just shows...
US chip leadership is in trouble - but business is goodDistorting the market forces...If I remember correctly, letting the market forces take care of this would be a better approach in the long-term. Right?If so, those chipmakers should be looking for the best place to set their factories and then...
The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Vonage customer-investors who have been disillusioned about Vonage's stock price after they paid the full IPO price of $17 a share may have grounds to seek damages or require the company to buy back shares at their IPO price.The...
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