Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) just posted a wide loss for the quarter. Like that was a hard guess. The company posted a 10% drop in revenues to $3.22 billion, and it claims…
Douglas A. McIntyre Check with Sun (JAVA). The server end of the tech industry has poor margins and unforgiving competition. HP (HPQ) has a server division. It grew only .7% in the company’s last fiscal…
This morning was a shocker on just how many analyst downgrades and very negative calls were out from Wall Street analysts. The sad part is this is only part of the onslaught…
Goldman Sachs was already cautious on Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA). But this morning it slashed a prior Neutral rating down to its ugly SELL rating. The firm cited deteriorating fundamentals as…
Douglas A. McIntyre If investors had a notion that short sellers were going to stay in big financials, they were wrong. Short interest in the weakest companies in the sector dropped. Shares short in Citigroup…
People who get to the end of 2008 and are still at work can be thankful. The unemployment rate will probably be over 7%. That does not count the people no longer…
The Nasdaq and NYSE have all sorts of rules about what a company has to have in terms of total shareholders, stock price, and balance sheet ratios to get listed. Both operations…
No matter how far down bank stocks go and how hard regulators try to keep short sellers out of financial shares, some of the smart money is willing to gamble that the…
It is that time of year where companies should have been evaluating their plans for the year ahead. Each year we come out with a list of companies who should get rid…
It was 2006 when Scott McNealy broke the news that Jonathan Schwartz would become the new CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) rather than just be the Chief Operating Officer. As…
Douglas A. McIntyre The news on the ethanol front this morning is, shall we say, mixed. First, Pacific Ethanol (NASDAQ:PEIX) announced yesterday that it would increase its non-cash impairment charge for the suspended construction of…
John Thompson, the head of Symantec (SYMC), "stepped down" yesterday. Hector Ruiz recently vacated the CEO’s office at AMD (AMD). The head of Sun (JAVA), Jonathan Schwartz, will probably be gone soon.…
Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is a stock we have featured negatively in our weekly newsletter for "10 Stocks Under $10" on many occasions. We even started covering it long before it…
Douglas A. McIntyre Fire the two clowns who run Sun Microsystems (JAVA) and the firm saves about $4 million in cash compensation. Compared with the 5,000 to 6,000 people the company will let go to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) just can’t get it right. The focus of the business is elusive and it seems that nothing it embarks on works. Actually, it doesn’t seem that way.…
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