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Relmor’s Pick of the Week: Motorola Inc.

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king1
– September 13, 2010
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Closing out the week on Friday, shares of Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) were down 6 cents to $7.92.  This is on a day the main markets saw mostly up action, as well as strong trading over resistance lines all week.  S&P 500 broke and held over its 1,100 resistance level as well as the Dow Jones holding over 10,400 and more importantly 10,450.  The back and forth consolidation action of Motorola last week should make for a nice trade this week.

Last week I saw Power Shares QQQ (NASDAQ:QQQQ) to be a nice hold.  From the low range on Monday to end of week Friday, the stock went up around 2%.  I thought we would see the main markets consolidate a bit and move up on a strong week and we indeed did see that.  I mentioned this week we should look for a technology stock that looks bullish and poised to do well that may have been lagging.  Motorola looks as good as any right now to see significant upside going into this week.  Summer dull drums for technology stocks may just be ending.

Looking at the chart, it is currently only 2 weeks removed from a golden cross, which is the 50 day moving average crossing higher than the 200 day moving average.  10 day moving average is turning up as is the 50 day.  The 20 day moving average is flattening and looking to recover.  Looking at the MACD indicator it is in a bullish crossover right now on the 9 Day EMA and the 12/26 MACD signal line.  The cross occurred well over the zero line which is considered even more bullish.  I believe Friday was just a consolidation day and this small down dip could be bought into for some gains this week.  Look for $7.70 line to hold and this stock could see $8.30 to $8.40 before the end of the week.

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Motorola Shareholders Send a Message To Wall Street: NO MAS!!

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king1
– May 10, 2010
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MOT_image1By Relmor Demitrius

 

Lost in the market action of last week, where the DJIA saw huge swings of volatility, the Goldman Sachs hearings, and Greece debt fears came a signal but little talked about at the time from investors of Motorola (NYSE:MOT) that maybe stockholders have finally learned how to respond in kind to request from their management for more money, bonus’s, or employee share or compensation packages we would only dream of at our place of business.  Yet time and time again these measures with companies get passed, and stockholders are told that its important to keep talent, and that a little money spent to keep top executives happy will improve the company in the long run.  As Roberto Duran told Sugar Ray Leonard, “No Mas”, or in English, no more.

Seems stockholders of Motorola do not like how their company attempted to set up their compensation package for top executives.  In a rare if not unique voting outcome on say-for-pay, Motorola denied the board its version of how this company’s leadership would like to compensate its top employees.  Usually these things are voted in, as it may appear to be a weakness to vote against your board, or they simply have enough insider or friendly votes to garner a passing vote.  Apparently this time wasn’t the case.

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Motorola Droid Leader in Google OS Market/Nexus Future Cloudy

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king1
– April 27, 2010
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features_droid_heroBy Relmor Demitrius

Mobile Ad Network AdMob released its monthly report yesterday on cell phone traffic.  In March, the Motorola (NYSE:MOT) Droid(TM) received 44% of the Google OS traffic, compared to 43% from HTC.  This study accounted for 3 different versions of the operating system.  The Google Nexus One(TM) only accounted for 2% of the traffic. With 8,000 new apps debuting in the month of March, upping the total now to 30,000, the popularity in the app world for this smart phone is only increasing.  With 2% of the traffic coming from the Google Nexus One, the news we received yesterday from Google is not surprising.

Google (NYSE:GOOG) announced yesterday that they are scrapping their plans to release their smart phone, the Nexus One, to Verizon Wireless.  Are they scrapping their plans with Verizon, and their 90 million customer base?  Or are they scrapping the Google Nexus altogether?  I believe with these new stats coming out from AdMod, the writing on the wall is here for the Google cell phone foray.  It appears to be a huge failure.  This should bode well for the Motorola Droid and HTC models, if HTC wasn’t currently being sued in two separate lawsuits on patent infringements on its versions of the Google OS smart phones.  That leaves Motorola with a chance to dominate the space.

The Google Nexus One problem isn’t the OS, although it does need extensive upgrades in its new version, its the phone.  Simply not selling well.  Whether its a good phone or a bad phone is irrelevant, if it’s not selling well it really doesn’t matter.

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Motorola Partners With Microsoft To Add Bing To New Smart Phones

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king1
– March 12, 2010
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By Relmor Demitrius

Motorola (NYSE:MOT) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) have agreed on a deal to allow Bing on Motorola’s new smart phones.  Motorola was in limbo awaiting word on the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)/China standoff on the issue of censorship and what search engines they would be allowed to offer on their new smart phones within China.  To avoid any delays of new product release or have it be an issue of only offering one choice to consumers, Motorola this week announced a deal with Microsoft  to offer the Bing search engine on their new smart phones, as well as other search engine options for their Chinese customers.  This move will avoid any problems the company might have awaiting a resolution on this very heated issue. 

As international sales are very important to Motorola’s business model, this is an excellent move going forward for the company, and will provide the necessary flexibility Motorola needs in supplying search engine capabilities to their international customers. 

Motorola Inc. shares were off 8 cents or 1.13% in trading on Wednesday.

 

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Motorola Back To Innovating with Droid Smart Phone and Google OS

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king1
– March 10, 2010
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By now product reviews, projected sales information based in some reality, and media input aplenty is out on Motorola Inc.’s new smart phone (NYSE:MOT), the Droid.  The Droid was the first smart phone to utilize Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) new Android 2.0 operating system, introduced as a direct competitor to the Blackberry and Iphone operating systems, as well as the Palm, which is reportedly not doing well.  With any technology that has fans that are loyal to other products, getting a real feel for consumer sentiment on any new technology is risky at first, and best left instead to time.  Enough time has now passed for a good feel on this phone to be achieved.  Sales numbers appear to be decent to good.  The reviews on the phone itself are mixed, but mostly positive.  It has been as boldly called the Iphone Killer (which is ridiculous) to a washed up attempt to catch up in the smart phone space that is going to fail miserably(even more ridiculous). What is that old saying?  Somewhere in the middle lies the truth?  I think that is exactly the case here.

I don’t think the phone will be a failure, but the Droid has much competition, even within the same Android 2.0 market it uses to run its phone.  Since HTC offers the same operating system (OS) at the same dealers as does the Droid, there is competition even amongst the OS users themselves.  Imagine two very similar phones called the Blackberry and the Redberry, each phone basically the same.  Of course it would affect sales of the Blackberry.  Not only does Motorola have to compete with other smart phones, it has to compete with other smart phones running the same OS as they are.  Was Motorola blindsided when Google released and marketed heavily its version, the Nexus One?  Maybe, maybe not.  Would Motorola had done anything differently anyway?  Probably not.  Regardless, they did the right thing partnering with Google. 

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