Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool’s free investing community, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ:RIMM) has received the dreaded one-star ranking.
With that in mind, let’s take a closer look at RIM and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
RIM facts
| Headquarters (founded) | Waterloo, Canada (1984) |
| Market Cap | $7.6 billion |
| Industry | Communications equipment |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $12.6 billion |
| Management | CEO Thorsten Heins (since 2012)
CFO Brian Bidulka (since 2009) |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 19.6% |
| Cash/Debt | $2.7 billion / $0 |
| Competitors | Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
Earlier this week, one of those Fools, prbyers, succinctly summed up the RIM bear case for our community:
No product development. They won’t be able to keep up with the other players. Blackberry can’t hold the attention of the hardcore business users either — those users want a single device. And they want that single device to be able to play games, listen to music, participate in the same ecosystem as their friends, etc. You know — like their Android and iPhones (that they already own). Proof: [Bring your own device] policies are getting very popular.
And of course, there is the toe-stubbing and slow product releasing ways of [RIM]. In this market where there are phones and tablets that become passe in a matter of months, they will never be able to keep up.
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