Yesterday we
examined a colossal failure of an investment by a leading manager. Bill Miller
continued to hold Kodak (EK) stock the entire trip of its long slide
downhill,Over 900 glassbottles
patterns, though Kodak's profit margin began falling long before its profits
did. When a value investor can't decide if a good company is trading below value
or poised for trouble, the direction of its profit margin gives a strong
indication. Several other stocks are in similar positions as Kodak when Bill
Miller made his ill-fated big purchases: Nokia (NOK) and RIM (RIMM).
Nokia Corp. (NOK)
Nokia Corp. is world's leading mobile phone
supplier and a leading supplier of mobile and fixed telecom networks. It has a
market cap of $23.71 billion; its shares were traded at around $6.33 with a P/E
ratio of 8 and P/S ratio of 0.4. The dividend yield of Nokia Corp.green ghds-one
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stocks is 6.5%. Nokia had an annual average earnings growth of 1.3% over the
past 10 years. Nokia began as a paper, rubber and cables company in 1865, and
began moving into mobile in 1968. The company decided to focus on its
telecommunications business in 1992, and became the world leader in mobile
phones by 1998. In 2010,Get merchantaccount NFL jersey
Apple (AAPL) surpassed Nokia for the first time to become the world's largest
mobile phone vendor, earning $10.47 billion in sales, compared to Nokia's $9.7.
Nokia's stock has fallen 82% since its peak in 2007, the year Apple
introduced its iPhone. Google (GOOG) Android now has the largest share of the
smartphone market.
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photosyou will need to get an plasticmoldinggood. Nokia has
partnered with Microsoft to trade technology innovations and make Nokia phones
that run on the Windows Phone platform, from which Nokia will receive a running
royalty. All in all, the companies expect that Nokia will get billions of
dollars from the deal. Like Kodak, it could profit from the new smartphone
market or get overtaken by competitors.
Nokia's financial results show
that it generated free cash flow of $5.5 billion in 2010, which increased from
$4 billion in 2009. Revenue has been declining since 2008, as has operating
income and EBITDA.
In the first quarter 2011, Nokia's sales increased
9%, including 6% higher mobile phone sales, compared to the first quarter 2010.
Despite its attempts to get an edge in the market as the mobile phone
market changes and somewhat decent earnings, the company's profit margins, have
showed steady declines. Its growth profit margin fell rather consistently from
41.5% in 2003 to 30.2% in 2010.
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