https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-m-a-broadcom/broadcom-lists-11-nominees-for-qualcomm-board-idUSKBN1DY1E1
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Layoffs can be done "the right way", which is transparent, large, one-time corrections. You cut the diseased limb off and order the prosthetic. Unfortunately, the Qualcomm way is to cut off a couple toes or maybe the entire foot when it needed to come off at the knee.. That leaves the right thumb and other big toe wondering if they are next. The overhang of constant layoffs has a negative effect across the entire company as good people leave or spend time worrying about their future instead of inventing the next great thing.
The key word you wrote was ‘productive’.
I think we all know that Q doesn’t have those kinds of people in quantity.
There’s lots of fat to be trimmed and the shareholders will celebrate.
The best companies out there understand that shareholder value is best achieved in the long run when employees are happy and productive. It just makes sense. The short-term looking companies are always concerned about costs and churning out today's widgets even if it means working their people to death.
Uhhh... because layoffs of non-productive people raises margins and returns to shareholders?
Publicly traded companies do what’s best for shareholders, not employees. They are actually legally required to act in the best interests of the shareholders - it’s called fiduciary duty.
Finance 101 lesson over.
Jesus - you work in America, you should know these basic facts of life.
This company is done independently of your finance 101 courses, after NXP merge massive layoff is expected so why do you think investors will be interested on a dying company? Because is saving 3B dollars?
Again, you don’t understand basic finance.
The market prices all FUTURE earnings out to infinity to the PRESENT value. If the FUTURE outlook improves, the PRESENT value goes up.
Please take a basic class in finance. Your ignorance is breathtaking.
Qualcomm+NXP provides immediate EPS increases. The stock should trade much higher on that alone. You are taking their stock off the market, yet you expect none of that to come back into the QCOM share price? Remember, Qualcomm already took on the debt to buy this. Qualcomm already took its investments out to "cash", hurting investment income. This is priced into the stock right now. When NXP is part of Qualcomm, it will be entirely net positive.
James bond all successfully mission possible Qualcomm should surrender
@ups Wow, you guys are retarded. You are speaking about a process that would take YEARS. Broadcom is planning to buy Q NOW. So whatever benefit Q+NXP can get in terms of operating margins simply does not apply.
It‘s idiots like you who are the cause why Q has gone down the drain.
Don't worry guys
Some "tool" just posted the same thing twice
@ysw that “tool” is probably one of the morons from the M&A department. This company is full of incompetence. Talented people already left or driven out by the incompetent managers. Not surprising
Hock, we are begging you to end this misery and punish the ones responsible for this mess
@ysw that “tool” is probably one of the morons from the M&A department. This company is full of incompetence. Talented people already left or driven out by the incompetent managers. Not surprising
Hock, we are begging you to end this misery and punish the ones responsible for this mess
lol. Some tool compared buying a house to M&A activity...
The p--p is soon hit the fan
@ulh doesn’t understand basic finance.
If QCOM acquires NXP, then it can increase operating margin by getting rid of redundancies and some fixed costs to achieve greater scale (google ‘economy of scale’). QCOM also gets a sales channel to sell its products into that it never had before.
So, yes, some M&A can make 1+1=3.
Why did QCOM stock pop when they first announced the intent to buy NXP?
@zif @owg Wow, you failed basic math in elementary school, right?
If I have x Dollars, and I use the x Dollars to buy a house, did I just become richer? Because hey, I own a house now.
If Qualcomm owns x Dollars in stock and uses those x Dollars to buy NXP, did Qualcomm just become more valuable?
No, of course not. Qualcomm‘s value would remain the same. Really really basic math.
End of Qualcomm. Good riddance !!!
Good strategy holding off on raising per-share offer. Greedy stockholders must vote for Hock's board nominees to increase controversy driving share price. Fun entertainment, says I.
NXP will bring down the value of Qualcomm? No, completely incorrect.
Actually no would bring down the value of Qualcomm..
Just wait and watch
James bond is back
Once the NXP deal closes, Hock can't afford Qualcomm.