Top Tech Watch: MOT to Give $3.5 Billion to Motorola Mobility

Posted by on Sep 01, 2010 | No comment

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) recently announced that will give $3.5 billion to Motorola Mobility, the handset and set-top unit of the company. However, it is scheduled to be divested in the first quarter of the next year.

Motorola introduced the new Motorola Defy phone with 3.7 inches Gorilla Glass. The phone is in IP67 compliance, which means that it is good in up to a meter of water for up to half an hour. It also features an 800MHz processor, Android 2.1, Swype keyboard and a 5-megapixel camera with flash.

Motorola said that its Android 2.2 upgrade would not available for the users who uploaded the leaked version of the OS on their phone. The company, however, stated that they may use the new OS if they uninstall the leaked version of the OS. The new OS sports many features such as  a corporate directory, a global lookup capability,  the ability to permanently delete text messages, an integrated calendar and security protocols for remotely establishing the device’s password for documents stored in memory. The new OS has also fixed some Exchange 2003 email problems, although Motorola already issued a temporary fix for these problems.

The Motorola stock has 52-week price range of $6.04-$9.45. The stock is trading at P/E of 47.29 and its EV/Revenue is 0.59. Motorola’s market cap is $18.04 billion. It has a 50-day moving average of $7.69 and a 200-day moving average of $7.19. The company’s operating margin is 5.23% and its Price/Book ratio is 1.74. Motorola is earning 3.92% return on its equity and its profit margin is 1.78%.  The company’s Book value per share is $4.33 and its current ratio is 2.03.

The Motorola stock has a support level at $7.47 and a resistance level at $7.71. Analysts, currently, have a consensus recommendation of Outperform on Motorola Inc. The stock has 10 Buy, 4 Outperform, 15 Hold and 1 Underperform rating, at the moment.

Motorola Inc. is a Schaumberg, Illinois-based provider of technologies, products and services for mobile phones.

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