[NEWS] Smartphone sales poised to rocket even higher

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Smartphone sales poised to rocket even higher

By Derek Kessler | Saturday, Aug 22, 2009 | 8 comments »
Royal Bank of Canada analyst Mike Abramsky, who just seems to love Palm, just slathered some love on the entire smartphone market, declaring that “the new world order” of smartphones will be lead by Apple, Research in Motion, and Palm. To justify the lauding, Abramsky also raised his earnings estimates and stock price targets for all the stocks, pointing the way to highs not ever seen for Apple or RIM (and over seven years past for Palm).
Abramsky gets away with his lofted expectations by forecasting his estimate for global smartphone penetration to 35% by 2012, a number that he expects to amount to about 504 million units. This is a notable increase from his previous estimate of 395 million units for that same year. Abramsky isnt the only one that is anticipating a surge in smartphone sales in the coming years, CNBCs Jim Cramer also expects that mobile internet devices are going to take off and has been ranting about the “mobile internet tsunami” for weeks now, even creating an index of stocks to monitor the overall health of the smartphone market - including Apple, RIM, and Palm.
Clearly Apple and RIM are both “positioned for leadership” in the coming years, which is sort of obvious when you consider that theyre in leadership positions in the current market. But Abramsky also believes that once Palm gets over what he believes are short-term capital and mind-share issues it will be able to sit at the smartphone leadership table.

• Abramskys price target for Apple has been raised from $190 to $250 (an all-time high), with FY2011 estimates of $50.3 billion in revenue (18% growth over 2010 estimates) with 49.3 million iPhones sold and earnings per share of $8.25. AAPL currently trades around $160-$170.
• Research in Motion's price target was jacked up from $100 to $150, another all time high, with FY2011 estimates of $21.2 billion revenue (a 32% increase over 2010 estimates) and $5.43 earnings per share. RIMM is currently trading between $70-$80
• Palms target price was increased from $18 to $25, a point the stock has not seen since April 12, 2002, with FY2011 estimates of $3.2 billion in revenue (52% growth over 2010 estimates) and $0.75 earnings per share.

Near-term estimates for all three companies were also raised.
Of particular importance to us is why Abramsky thinks Palm deserves to ranked alongside Apple and RIM, despite the companys desperate fiscal position and past blunders. He says that even though Palm does have these near-term challenges to overcome, the company still has the “special sauce” to lead, including the webOS operating system. Only time, and sales, will tell if that special sauce is enough.


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[Kiit408]

this is about as noob as it gets for this question... but wat does htc stand for?... lol... im serious?

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“ Originally Posted by Kiit408 ”

this is about as noob as it gets for this question... but wat does htc stand for?... lol... im serious?

High Tech Computer
Corp of Taiwan

[benmiller]

And where is htc on that list I think they make the best smartphones period.

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“ Originally Posted by benmiller ”

And where is htc on that list I think they make the best smartphones period.

on what list you lost me there.

[BigBadWolf77]

It's funny how many people buy a smart phone just to have it, and have no idea how to use it. Makes for a very expensive phone/calculator.

[kaos]

plus one...... i remember my mogul and good old ir port...i would change everys tvs...lol have fun with them people....

[livinlifes2shor]

buy a smart phone get smart. I work for metro and you would not belive the people that you would think do not have enough money to put gas in there car well spend every last penny to get a blackberry or touch screen, i miss my nokia and SNAKE!! New age new tech..

[mda16]

if im not mistaken RIM is the fastest growing smartphone company

[BigBadWolf77]

“ Originally Posted by kaos ”

plus one...... i remember my mogul and good old ir port...i would change everys tvs...lol have fun with them people....

Yeah, I used to do the same, ir was so weak you had to get pretty close.