Adam Adelman
Adam Adelman
business hardware margin move
Anything HP can do to move away from the eroding margin business of hardware would make sense.
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Investors are having problems with reliability and the problem is that it's not impossible to fake a statement of cash flows.
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Investor patience is not too long these days. For a company like Motorola, I don't think you can expect change to happen in one to two quarters. It will take a long time to turn it around.
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In spite of the Gateway announcement, there seems to be some firming in demand for PCs and flash memory. Pricing is starting to improve. And for IT services, capacity utilization is finally starting to improve.
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There's a tremendous translation advantage for techs that get a lot of revenue overseas, but you have to look at these gains as one-time events since the dollar can't decline forever.
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A lot of investors have been conditioned to expect surprises on the upside from tech companies so when they see companies just meet expectations they get nervous.
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A lot of these speculative names have rallied more than blue chip tech companies only because they were punished a bit too much on the downside.
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A lot of these companies have finally started to reach full valuation, and there really haven't been any significant changes in the fundamentals to justify it. There's just a lot of profit taking.
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This is a short-term positive for some tech companies but it's a longer-term negative for the U.S. economy.
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I don't think there's enough evidence to support the argument that there is a recovery in information technology.
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I don't see how the company can have that kind of visibility, especially with a management team that had to revise earnings three times within one quarter last year. They don't have credibility.
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It'll take another round of earnings to confirm some of the optimism that's been going around. And I don't know that I would say all the news was necessarily good. A lot of companies beat much-lowered expectations and didn't necessarily have rosy outlooks.
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The market will take any good news it can wrap its arms around so if Dell offers some encouragement that might mark a short-term bottom for tech. But it has to say some positive things about the spending environment, which isn't likely since there is no incentive to be overly optimistic.