Run Away From This Iconic Company

By Austin Smith | More Articles
November 29, 2011 | Comments (4)

The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which Motley Fool editors Austin Smith and Brendan Byrnes discuss emerging trends in their favorite companies.

In today's edition, Austin and Brendan discuss the long plunge of a former innovator, Eastman Kodak. It's been a long road that got us here, rife with lawsuits, patent selloffs, and misdirection. We touch on a bit of the past troubles and take a look to the future with Kodak's newest strategy. As things stand, Kodak is trying to maximize company value by selling off patents and divisions, including its online photo unit. It's also hinged a large part of its future success on taking on printer giant Hewlett-Packard.

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Report this Comment On November 29, 2011, at 8:20 PM, jerr1 wrote:

Owning kodak stock would be risky after today . Just matter of kodak files an where when
Report this Comment On November 29, 2011, at 8:55 PM, claricon wrote:

I love the discalimers from these newbee writers, "Neither Austin Smith nor Andrew Tonner owns any shares of the companies mentioned here". Really, nor any where else & never did, I bet. Why the Fool continues to languish in drivel boasting statements of the obvious is questionable, especially to its credibility. Where are the inciteful, lets find a good company to back is what we want. If it's piling on the losers I don't have any farther to look than the evening news.
Report this Comment On November 30, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Daggerboard12 wrote:

I wish people would stop blogging about Kodak as if film and cameras (and consumer inkjet printing) were their only products. In Kodak’s third quarter report, the Graphic Communications Group (mostly commercial printing equipment, software, and document scanning) was actually larger than the Consumer Digital Imaging Group ($665 million vs. $408 million) yet almost all the financial journalists ignore that part of the business. (The third part of Kodak is the Film, Photofinishing and Entertainment Group who’s revenue was $389 million in the 3rd quarter.)
The writers’ opinions of Kodak's stock price might be the same either way but it sure would add more credibility if the articles were written as though the author understood the Kodak of today vs. the Kodak of 10 years ago.
Report this Comment On December 03, 2011, at 8:26 PM, jerr1 wrote:

Kodak may not be dead but wall street sure is shorting the stock. By christmas stock should be .30 cents . Cant loose when wallstreet dooms a stock like kodak its sure win to short . Stock market goes up 500 points an kodak goes down . If thats not sure bet nothing is . When stock market breaks even kodak looses 7 percent . Cant wait to see what happens on bad day kodak could loose 30 percent

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