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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here

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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (10674)3/12/2001 10:36:52 AM
From: slacker711  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
QCOM Sales-$2.7 Billion / Cap-$39.1 billion
MOT Sales-$37.6 billion / Cap-$34.0 billion
ERICY Sales-$30.9 billion / Cap-$65.6 billion
NOK Sales Sales-$28.3 billion / Cap-$106.9 billion
NT Sales-$30.3 billion / Cap-$54.7 billion
LU Sales-$31.6 billion / Cap-$42.0 billion


Of the five companies which are used as comparision to Qualcomm....4 are going to lose money during the first quarter. Nokia and Qualcomm are the only two which will be profitable....and Qualcomm is the only tech company I know of that has affirmed first quarter guidance. Since around a 1/3 of QCOM's revenues are derived from royalties (90% margins), the Price to Sales metric really cant be used to value Qualcomm (especially compared to telecom manufacturers). At least for me...the only to provide a real valuation for Qualcomm is to estimate the market for CDMA cell-phones in 3-5 years. If W-CDMA is commercialized by 2003, I think a clear case can be made that Qualcomm is dramatically undervalued. If W-CDMA were to be delayed to 2005, the case for Qualcomm would depend on the roll-out of CDMA in China/India and the success of data services in the US/Japan/Korea.

In either case, Qualcomm's valuation is far more dependent on your view of the future of wireless than on traditional P/S metrics. Q's future discounted cash flows will vary dramatically depending on the scenario which ends up unfolding...

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