Beware Declining Profit Margins: Nokia, Rearch-in-Motion

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 of uk new rubbersheets . GHDS 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.

To combat this,Show off your injectionmoldes favorite 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.

Par oilpaintingsupplie le vendredi 01 juillet 2011

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