Three Major Names That Won’t Exist in 2020: GameStop Corp. (GME), Research In Motion Ltd (BBRY), Groupon Inc (GRPN)

Groupon is right around the $4 billion market cap range. They’ll probably be the only company of the three to be acquired outright by someone else eventually. Net income per employee at the company is -$3,377, and that’s on revenue per employee of $190,771. Clearly they will have to get spending under control to even hold a fighting chance over the long term. If this company is not acquired by 2015/2016 and they haven’t done anything major to actually make a profit, then they will be going the way of the dodo.

It astounds me that Research In Motion is still operating today. This company will not last another two years, guaranteed. No one is buying their phones, and no one ever will unless they come away from their proprietary software and start implementing Android on their devices. I may have been a bit harsh earlier to say they’d go bankrupt, but I do think that the managers will eventually think it’s time to call it quits and begin selling off the assets. RIM has a market cap of $7.3 billion at the time of writing and will likely continue its steady decline from there.

Bottom Line

Probably best not to short these stocks, unless you’re doing it over the long term: Volatility within them takes a good hold. I’d definitely recommend taking your money and running far away if you own these companies though. Or, a better option would be to request paper copies of your shares for use as a fire-starter–that’s all they’ll be worth in the winter of 2020.

The article Three Major Names That Won’t Exist in 2020 originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Ash Anderson.

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