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Coundn't happen to a more deserving billionaire

.Lucid Group announced a major restructuring plan. This plan includes laying off approximately 18% of its global workforce. The company will also close its second production shift in Arizona. Lucid's shares fell 3.7% to $5.16 after the announcement. The changes aim to align production with demand and improve cost efficiency.

https://hdfcsky.com/news/lucid-stock-falls-3-7percent-after-major-restructuring-plan

Just a general thread on the stock price performance. Causes and future direction.

Stankey cost the company $100+ billion over his career.

Here are the smart business decisions he made:
Bought DirectTV for $67 billion in 2015
Bought WarnerMedia for $108 billion in 2018
Sold WarnerMedia for $43 billion in 2022
Sold DirectTV for $26 billion in 2025
Net loss over these deals is $106 billion

Here is what we should have bought:
T-Mobile in 2015 for $45 billion in 2015
Level 3 Communications for $34 billion in 2016
CenturyLink for $55 billion in 2016
DISH Network for $35 billion in 2017
Net valuation gain would be $182 billion for AT&T.

This would have moved AT&T’s spot on the Fortune 100 to the top 10 and position us alongside companies like Alphabet and Microsoft. Current we are ranked 32. Our employee headcount would have increased to 240,000 instead of the current 133,000 and the 80,000 target. AT&T would have likely be the #1 U.S. wireless carrier instead of being #3 behind T-Mobile and Verizon. Our share price would have been roughly $45 instead of $22.

Stankey talks a big game. He says that our #1 priority is fiber investment and convergence. That he wants to make AT&T market based. But he never tells you what AT&T could or should have been if he and Randall did not ruin it. When confronted with any serious question at a town hall he deflects with “convergence” or “fiber investment”.

I have been in Texas my whole life and I know a con when I see one. We call that “big hat no cattle”.

John Stankey became CEO on July 1, 2020.

AT&T stock then: $23.40
AT&T stock today: $22.01

Nearly 6 years later, the stock has delivered a -5.9% total return, or about -1% annually.

Adjusted for inflation, the stock is effectively worth about $17.60 today, implying a ~25% loss over his tenure.

Six years of “leadership”.
Negative returns.
Ongoing talent loss.
Rock bottom morale.
Bottom of the barrel rankings in culture, best places to work, AI readiness, talent, etc.

At some point, you stop arguing about intent and start looking at outcomes. This guy S U C K S !!!

Stocks have crashed 50 percent. It is rumored that Ravi will be stepping down soon.

The market cap is just over $1billion.
When Rawul came in it shares were around $28, in less than 3 years his sunk the company.

Lot of analysts are looking at APA as a pump and dump. Expecting sub $23 a share.

https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/energy/nasdaq-apa/apa/news/apa-apa-stock-could-be-66-overvalued-after-recent-pullback/amp

https://www.reddit.com/r/accenture/comments/1ua0hce/accentures_well_deserved_downfall/

Accenture's well deserved downfall
Accenture’s stock just dropped about 18% in a single day, wiping out a good chunk of many employees’ ESOPs, including mine. Honestly, having worked there for 3 years, I'm not surprised.

The biggest issue I saw was the culture and incentives. MDs and client leads were rewarded for selling deals, not for delivering them. Secure the deal, hit the sales target, collect the bonus, then hand the mess over to the delivery team and move on. It didn’t seem to matter whether the right skills, resources, or realistic timelines existed. The answer was usually “Deal with it.”

When a system rewards revenue at all costs, you end up promoting people who care more about money than people. Delivery quality suffers, teams burn out, and the best talent leaves.

What makes it worse is that Accenture spent billions buying back its own shares (around $4.6B in FY2025 alone) while many employees sat through years of weak bonuses, delayed promotions, and increasing pressure during the years of worsening inflation. During this time, some of the smartest people I worked with left for Big 4s, boutiques, and industry roles. And when they leave, they don’t just take their skills - they take relationships, credibility, and networks with them.

I just hope some level-headed people on the board or in senior leadership recognize these cracks and do something about them. The company still has plenty of great people and decades of experience. It would be such a shame if such a massive organization falls in the end.

In fact, that's not true. Not only did not layoffs improve the stock, they've just sped up the fall. We're more than 20 percent down in the last three weeks, the lowest it's been in the last six years. I guess the move to cut almost ten percent of your global workforce is not the investor darling it once was.

Q2 is looking good, lots of dead wood out of the door, strategic review going well, new positive investor from Czech Republic, things are looking good……..

Metric Value
Price on July 1, 2020 $23.40
Price on June 18, 2026 $22.00

Cumulative price return - 6.0%
Holding period 5.97 years
Annualized price return - 1.0%

Oregon's semiconductor companies report soaring stock prices. This growth is fueled by an artificial intelligence bo-m. Despite this, Oregon's semiconductor employment reached a 30-year low. Intel alone cut 6,000 jobs over the past two years. Other chipmakers also reduced their workforces in the state.

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2026/06/oregon-chip-stocks-are-roaring-back-will-the-jobs-ever-return.html

bP rapidly approaching same SP as thirty years ago

Anyone heard the investment community is predicting at least 50% RIF in order to restore profitability and stock price…

I’ve been with the company for a long time.. 30 some years.. if you own Walmart stock, I’d be selling it now.. the company is on a downward spiral and the stock is gonna crash..

Hey, but on the upside share price is doing just fine, giddy up!

Vz stock is down 0.72% today on news Verizon is breaking the mold to put our customers first. Verizon has a great track record of success such as last year’s project 624 which was the biggest customer experience transformation in the company’s history. All the executives posting and reposting our huge win today makes me delighted! These leaders are truly rockstars and highly respected and admired! Proud to be vz. Way to go team!!!!

I don't think this run up has much more to go. Maybe a little, but it's a lot of risk, especially after seeing how quickly it can drop. I started working at Micron (Boise) in 2004 and just recently quit. I remember looking at the stock price history after I started working there and looking at the run up to 2001 and thinking "of course it was going to come crashing down." Now, I want all of you to look at Micron stock now, and set the timeline to MAX. Compare where it is now to where it was in 2001. even if you adjust the chart to inflation, it still shows a massive bubble. All I'm saying is I wouldn't be long on this stock. I'm predicting a bubble burst in October AT THE LATEST. We'll see if I'm right.

Any other news to make stock decrease further......we may just hit $20.00 a share.

You’re spending a year fixing someone else’s disaster. Activist investors are circling. Employees hate the cuts. Shareholders hate the stock. Then a top 10 U.S. bank offers you its CEO seat. Who wouldn’t take that deal?

well ...

HPE is up 333%

DELL is up 3'300%

Funny when large $$$$ doesn't come with even a bit of common sense

I’m waiting to see what happens after the layoffs. Layoffs always cause a stock bump. The announcement of a multiyear layoff, while tragic, was smart for a sustained climbing stock bump but what about after?

You have to have something new that your competitor does not or do something better than your competitor. I’ve never seen a Citi bank, an actual walk in bank and I’ve never seen a Citi ATM other than what’s at the office. So we make the direction of wealth management. Oookay, so what’s our plan of getting that market share? People don’t just move money from a well established bank to another bank because they are bored with nothing to do.

What’s the plan to still have the stock grow post the layoffs? What are we doing to accomplish that, that’s either new or better than other banks?

APA stock experienced an unprecedented 45% price increase in last 6 months. Time to take them gains before stock goes and stays below $26/share…

The company’s stock has been extremely volatile recently. Will the already low morale take an additional toll on the share price? Within my team, even with AI assistance, I haven’t seen more code being delivered. In fact, performance in terms of code output has unfortunately declined.

Want a huge bump to the stock price? Offer a package to the union side of the business. I believe many associates would take the offer!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/businessinsider_salesforce-layoffs-jobcuts-activity-7470150259428593664-KMqZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAA4Bi0oBs8Ddvldtd9fxma6xbBuG6OaOo4I

https://cryptobriefing.com/salesforce-layoffs-ai-stock-decline/

Need a bit of math help here - What's larger: -23% or +76%?

For example, if one company grew in value about 76% and the other grew negative 23% in value, who grew more? To make it a bit easier, you chose some fixed time fame and let's keep it in the industry, so let's make tmobile be 76 and att be -23...

Finally, once I understand what's larger, I'd like to see which factors cause numbers to differ. For example, if tmobile has a hybrid WFH system, and att is having all employees come be in the office all the time, would someone analyzing the numbers difference, be able to establish some kind of correlation here.

thank you!

Of course, they have to ki-l the stock to get the dividend rate back to the 7% of 2012. However, Stank will claim it is a victory and the useless board will reward him.

Price on July 1, 2020 $23.40
Price on June 4, 2026 $22.66 (intraday)

Cumulative price return -3.2%
Annualized price return -0.5%

Make your predictions for the rest of 2026 and early 2027 in this thread. My prediction is that we are done with large cuts, stock is up additional 50% by this time next year. The exec management continues to be as evil and detached as they've always been. Geopolitics continue to be messy.

The culture is trash , no flexibility , no happy employees , no performance ,you run a company like it's 1980 ...this is what u get ..get this loser ceo out now !!!!

RIFS, PAY CUTS, YOU KNOW THE DRILL .....

Something had to be leaked. Huge drop.

thanks to AI historical market miscomprehensions around Cisco have turned positive-- how long will it last?

The wool is going to come off people’s eyes sooner or later. When it does, the stock will end up much closer to where it belongs, in the single digits.

Yes, that is correct. Since we got stuck with Enrique only a few months ago Hewlett Packard has more than DOUBLED in value in just a few months. DOUBLED!!! Meanwhile we’re stuck with numbnuts dragging us to all time lows. I truly wish this was a lie. This id--t was a worse hire than Alex and that’s saying a lot.

For years I have watched my shares dwindle down to practically nothing. Day after day it’s just lower and lower. The CEO and CFO never address anything about the deteriorating wealth of its employees. It’s just exhausting and hard to work at a company that could care less about the value. The market is at ALL TIME HIGHS and we are at ALL TIME LOWS. It’s just ridiculous at this point.

How do we get back to break even?

Great job Chris and team. Still poor fundamentals but have to celebrate the good moves too! In at 98.