[Info-vax] HP Securities Analyst Meeting 2012

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <k4phai$s7b$1 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
>> I have a small group of stocks that I watch (been doing this for over
>> a decade) and HPQ is one of them (IBM is another).  HP's performance,
>> especially lately, has not been impressive by comparison.
> 
> And how has that IBM been doing ?  :-)

At the close friday IBM was up, HPQ was down. (by almost exactly the same
amounts!)

> 
> I don't just watch IBM, I hold some stock.  Haven't looked recently, but 
> a few months ago it went over 200.

You can't really tell anything by the actual number.  Some companies keep
the face value high specifically to discourage willy-nilly trading of their
stock.  Others have a threshold and anytime that threshold is breached they
split.

> 
> Wonder what that means to all those saying Power cannot survive? 
> Perhaps the bottom line is more important than the profitability of a 
> particular component of the bottom line?

Who are "those"?  The same ones who said IBM was doomed to extinction because
it was still in the mainframe world when everyone else had moved on?

> 
> People like winners.  As far as I know, from a performance standpoint, 
> Power is at the top of the list.

And all that without trying to make it a widespread architecture.  Go figure..

bill

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