Next Stop Bankruptcy for This Iconic Company

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December 26, 2011 | Comments (5)

The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which, Brendan Byrnes, Industrials editor and analyst, and Austin Smith, consumer-goods editor and analyst discuss, topics around the investing world.

In today's edition, Brendan and Austin talk about a company on the slow road to bankruptcy: Eastman Kodak. As Kodak struggles to sell its patents and burns through cash quickly, it's questionable whether it'll survive the year without a massive patent sale. Furthermore, its choice to enter the printer market with veteran Hewlett-Packard is not looking promising.

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Report this Comment On December 26, 2011, at 4:57 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

Art is never meant for analyzing or any form of processing. All masterpieces are more than representing what the eyeballs can see, but to present the facet of the supernatural side of the world. Art can be akin to a company's annual income statement which accentuates all the truly relevant facts and essences of the company which cannot be seen by eyeballs, but there are no analyzing involved.
Kodak would benefit humankind greatly by innovations that would turn every snapshot into a da Vinci masterpiece, and leave all the current imaging methods behind. Is Kodak up to the challenge? Reality itself has reached a stage which it needs innovations.
Report this Comment On December 26, 2011, at 5:01 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

In a world full of IT and business, the artisticity of the world is ever more precious and industry defining there is no other way to make money. Steve Jobs was an artist, the iPhone is an art form.
Report this Comment On December 26, 2011, at 8:08 PM, jerr1 wrote:

alot of negitive comments since kodak stock doing reverse ,makes ya wonder who writes these article has some intrest in kodak stock going down . Hopefully negitive comments will just strenghten company an stock continues to go up . Keep up with these suggestive stories really dont mean much
Report this Comment On December 26, 2011, at 8:10 PM, jerr1 wrote:

By the way printing is 120 billion industry or does that amount to much
Report this Comment On December 31, 2011, at 2:02 PM, JACKAL628 wrote:

Its always much easier to follow what everyone says when forming an opinion. If you look at the facts about eastman kodak you will see a big time comeback coming. they will sell their patenst of 1100 for apx 3 bill and they will have enough money for 2 years. they have invested money in inventory and will reep the rewards of that for the 4th quarter. becasue of GAAP generally accepted accounting principles they could not recognized revnue from sales in the 3rd Q. they will be recognized in 4q. The world will run up that stock on the first good thing that happens. It will go to about $4 per share when eanings for 4th Quarter come out just like in 2009 it tripled. They are getting rid of board members they dont need and businesses they dont need for their future. You will be calling me a genius on the 23rd of January.

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