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Everything Does NOT Have A Price ($GRPN, $RIMM)
Date posted: 09.18.2012 (5:00 am) | Write a Comment (0 Comments)
There Are Exceptions Though For Me
The other day, a reader asked me at what point I’d be interested in buying stock of Research in Motion (RIMM). Great question. The company has started to lose money, has diminishing sales and profits, has fairly crappy products (as an owner of a blackberry phone, I feel like I know about that part.. I’ve also seen a few disappointed Playbook owners), has little hope to one day become profitable again.
Still Has Value Right?
RIMM still has patents, customers, a lot of technology, very competent teams and employees. It’s very likely that the company will eventually sell part or all of the company and that will be at some price right? So surely, there is value here right? My problem though is that I have no idea how much that is worth. It becomes a lot more complex in my opinion to value a company based on its liquidative value than what I usually try to go by (future earnings, P/E ratio, etc). Even at a few pennies, I’d be afraid to buy shares of RIMM because I’d tell myself that those who really know the value of those assets would be buying if it was that obvious.
Groupon
Groupon is another one of those stocks that I have no idea how to value. I’ve written about the many questions that surrounded its IPO which make it very difficult for me to have a feeling about the stock. I could easily see the value increasing by 20-30% or decreasing (had written an ironic post about Groupon’s possible rise a while back) by the same margin and that is something that I personally try to stay away from. So don’t expect to see me trading either one of those names anytime soon (I haven’t traded RIMM in years and have yet to take a position on GRPN since its IPO)…
How about you? Do you think every stock becomes a value at some point? Did you buy a company such as Nortel (NT) or Lehman Brothers (LEH) a few years ago?
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