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[Seven Of Nine]

Apr 13, 2012

(Reuters) - Google Inc announced a stock split designed to preserve the control of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin over the world's No. 1 Web search engine, asking investors to trust their long-term vision.

The surprise decision, which its board unanimously approved, came as the company exceeded Wall Street's profit expectations but revealed a worrying 12 percent drop in search advertising rates - the second consecutive quarterly decline.

Shares of Google, which finished Thursday's regular session at $651.01, rose to $653 in after-hours trading.

The announcement came just as Page completed a year in the chief executive's seat for the second time, during which he spearheaded the $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility and launched a social network to take on Facebook .

"This stock split dividend, a dividend of a non-voting shares, is really just so the company can maintain control," BGC analyst Colin Gillis said.

"Plus, you have another quarter with a disturbing drop in click prices. OK, paid clicks are up but people are paying less for them. We had smartphones before the December quarter. If we want to blame it all on smartphones, that's a little disconcerting.

Google said its board of directors has approved a 2-for-1 stock split. Investors will get a dividend of one share of the new, non-voting "Class C" stock for each existing Google share.

The new shares, to be listed on Nasdaq under a separate ticker, will be available for corporate uses such as equity-based compensation for employees, in which case they would not dilute the share base.

Francamente questa mossa non mi piace per niente.

I fondatori hanno già il controllo, le attuali azioni sono divise fra Class A e Class B.

Istituzione delle Class C stock serve solo se i fondatori hanno intenzione si vendere una parte significativa della loro quota totale.
Questo significa che vogliono aumentare notevolmente la velocità di vendita delle loro azioni (più di quanto stanno facendo ora), ma allo stesso tempo vogliono continuare ad avere il controllo completo.

Ho sempre avuto stima di Google ma con questa mossa mi hanno perso 1000 punti.

 

[lglollo]

Salve a tutti.
Non mi e' chiara una cosa, se posseggo una quota azionaria GOOG, oggi quando il mercato aprira' vedro' gli earnings o no?
Scusate per i termini poco PRO.

 

[Seven Of Nine]

Salve a tutti.
Non mi e' chiara una cosa, se posseggo una quota azionaria GOOG, oggi quando il mercato aprira' vedro' gli earnings o no?
Scusate per i termini poco PRO.

Non ho capito la domanda

Gli earnings puoi vederli qui -> Google Announces First Quarter 2012 Results and Proposal for New Class of Stock – Investor Relations – Google

La trimestrale in se non era male, ma il il mercato non ha preso bene istituzione di azioni di classe "C" (-4%)..

 

[alingtonsky]

May 17, 2013, 7:01 P.M. ET
By Tiernan Ray

Credit Suisse semiconductor analysts John Pitzer, Kulbinder Garcha, Christian Buss, and Stephen Ju today offered clients an overview note on what they think is “the next big thing,” the rise of sophisticated wearable technology, such as smart watches, and other accessories.

The authors contend that while “wearables,” as they call them, are “not new,” nevertheless, they are “at an inflection point in market adoption” because there is a growing installed base of smartphones, cost and performance improvements are coming in components, there is more mature software to run them, and there are new business models for them.

The wearables market is a lot bigger than investors relaize, they contend, at perhaps $3 billion to $5 billion today, rising to perhaps $30 billion to $50 billion over the next three to five years.

There may be upward of 15% of smartphone owners who end up buying a wearable, the authors opine, for perhaps 6% share of the total global electronics market.

Bottom line, the authors think wearables are “a mega trend” and that “your clients need to care” because the gizmos may have “a significant and pervasive impact on the economy,” change how we all interact with technology, and may “advance Big Data paradigm from unstructured to what has been to uncollected data.”

The firm recommends as its top picks in wearables Apple (AAPL), Broadcom (BRCM), eBay (EBAY), Google (GOOG), Microchip (MCHP), NXP Semiconductor (NXPI), and, among retail stocks, Nike (NKE), Under Armour (AU), and Alliance Data Systems (ADS).

In several slides, the authors tie the smartphone to wearables as the “hub” through which various technologies interconnect, such as the “802.11ac” standard for high bandwidth, short-range WiFi connections, and “near-field communications,” or NFC, for mobile payments.

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