Tuesday, September 3, 2013

MSFT is down 4.6% today because..?

There's a simple explanation as to why MSFT is down 4.6% today, following their announcement that they're acquiring NOK: Short-term profitability will be significantly affected, and long-term profit growth is questionable.

But that's no fun.  In this blog, we (and when we say "we" I mean "I") like to cynically mock events worthy of making fun of.  So onto the question of the day.

MSFT is down 5% today because...?:

  1. There's nothing worse than jumping 30 feet off a burning platform, than jumping into a bottomless pit off a burning platform.
  2. Stephen Elop, aka candidate for future CEO of Microsoft, aka the opposite of Midas Touch, aka Mr. Death Grip.
  3. The reorg chart issued last month has been reorg'd, and is now referred to as the "Curly Shuffle". [nya, nya]
  4. We were expecting great things and big changes, but instead we got Elop'd.
  5. The big money's on a company with a very bright future, called Nokia, where the price shot up 31%, purely out of coincidence.

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