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IBM, HP, Sun, Microsoft, Apple and The Dot-Com Bust: Presented by Zach Stone, Brent Steinke and Richie Rich
IBM, HP, Sun, Microsoft, Apple and The Dot-Com Bust: Presented by Zach Stone, Brent Steinke and Richie Rich
A Quick Look
at the Stock
History
IBM
Started as CTR, changed name in 1924
Antitrust lawsuit in 1969
Teamed up with skunkworks to build IBM
PC
Loss of nearly 5 Billion in 1992
Shifting focus from components and
hardware to software and services
HP
Started in 1939 by Bill Hewitt and Dave
Packard
First product, 200A.
Invented many of the first calculators.
In 1980s they came out with printers and
scanners as well as multi-use units.
In 1994 HP began outsourcing
manufacturing.
Microsoft
Sun Microsystems
Apple
Founded in Los Altos, CA in 1976 in a garage
Apple I was delivered in June of 76 and a total of 200 were built
Apple II came in 1977 and stood out due to high quality and a number of
technical advantages
o Open architecture
o Color graphics
o Elegantly designed interface to a floppy disk drive
1983 the Lisa team won a race with Macintosh and was released with a GUI
o Lisa failed
high price tag
limited software titles
Apple Continued
Benefits of Bubble
Rise
was the
only company
to experience
significant
growth.
Sun Microsystems
Very
aggressive company.
Changed strategy to specialization.
Allied with Fujitsu and AMD.
Sungrid.
Consistently produced losses.
Forward EPS -.15, P/E -30.1.
IBM
Very consistent company.
Changed focus into services and consulting.
Changed CEOs, grew patent portfolio.
Sold PC division to Lenovo Group.
Solid Financial Footing
Forward EPS 5.85. P/E 13.8.
HP
Good at being mediocre. Followed market
at nearly every turn.
Supported Linux/FOSS.
CEO Carly Fiorina
Controversial Compaq merger.
2005 ApplQ acquisition.
Workforce reduction lead to profits.
Good growth prospects. Forward P/E 15.5.
Microsoft
History
of success
Overcame Monopoly antitrust lawsuit.
Slow growth of stock.
Forward P/E 17.8
Stock has dropped 12.4% in last 12
months.
Windows Vista.
Apple Computer
iPod/iTunes
Intel Processors
Mac OS/Windows/Linux
Boot Camp
Financials- Forward P/E
31.1, EPS 2.08
IBM.
Apple- Intel/Mac, Innovative, high
P/E, high growth.
IBM- Projected growth, consistent,
strong dividend.