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Polycom Shares Popped: What You Need to Know

By Anders Bylund | More Articles
April 25, 2011 | Comments (1)

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Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.

What: Share of voice and video conferencing technologist Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM  ) look sharp today, jumping as much as 15.9% on heavy trading action.

So what: Polycom's first quarter beat analyst targets on all points with non-GAAP earnings of $0.48 on $344 million in revenue. Business was better than the previous quarter, which runs athwart normal seasonal patterns.

Now what: You knew that video conferencing was big when Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO  ) started making huge bets on the scene. But Polycom has ridden the extra exposure to its sector that Cisco brought along like a rodeo cowboy on spring break in Cancun. Since Cisco announced the Tandberg deal, the networking giant's stock is down by 25%, but Polycom has more than doubled to a 125% return. If you saw that coming, you're probably a Rule Breaker at heart.

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  • Report this Comment On April 25, 2011, at 2:07 PM, BradReeseCom wrote:

    Hi Anders,

    Cisco's collaboration revenue includes the sales of Cisco's TelePresence, Tandberg and Unified Communications products.

    So keeping that in mind, Cisco's Q2'FY11 collaboration revenue totaled: $980 million (a sequential decline of -$39 million, which works-out to be an almost -4% decline from Cisco's Q1'FY11 collaboration revenue of $1,019 billion).

    Furthermore, Cisco's Q2'FY11 collaboration revenue of $980 million was -$13 million less than Cisco's Q4'FY10 collaboration revenue of $993 million.

    Sincerely,

    Brad Reese

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