I've seen tons of analysts saying that Apple should buy Nokia. We all know that Microsoft needs Nokia at the moment, but if they wait too long they might have a bad surprise... Apple is not in a difficult situation and they could without a doubt buy Nokia tomorrow and it would not affect the companies profits that much; on the other hand, Microsoft is in a not so good position.
Nokia is not so healthy in fact, some analyst are predicting that the company will crash badly before the end of 2013.
what is your thoughts on that, will we see devices from Nokia in 2014?
The problem with most of these "Analysts" is that they dont actually tell you the truth, they say Nokia made 1billion dollar losses in the last quarter when the reality was closer to 300million.
Im pretty certain that Nokia will pull this through and they will be profitable again. Im certain because of the statics. NSN allready turned profitable and im certain that it will be more profitable in the future, that is due to the fact that 4G LTE network demand will increase and NSN is a big player in that apartment.
The most profitable asset of Nokia has been its Feature Phone division and the sales have not slown down because of the huge succes of the Asha line, so its safe to assume that the profits are roughly the same as in Q2/12.
Navteq is also proven to be profitable and it will bring the Windows 8 maps which means that it has a huge potential to grow its profits and margins, I think anyone interested in Nokias stock should keep their eyes open and look very closely about Navteq.
The problem is the Smartphones, the Symbian sales will decline even further we know that, how much that we dont know yet, I have a feeling that 808 has actually done pretty well so we might actually get a nice surprise but we have to wait and see.
The real trump is the Lumia sales, we know that Lumia sales hit the wall in the US, but in Europe statcounter data shows that the sales have not decreased that much. The other thing that pulls the curtain over the Lumia sale figures is that, the line was not fully released in Q2 so its very hard to analyse how many Lumias Nokia has sold in Q3. I put my estimate figures around 3,9-5 million units.
However Nokia is one those stocks that has very high risk and that goes both ways, if Nokia turns profitable id say we will see 4? stock price in a flash (Thats around 96% rise) but then, risk allways work both sides and we could see it drop to the 1? category in a very short period of time if the Q3 is really bad.