Research In Motion Ltd (RIMM): Today's Featured Telecommunications Winner
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China TechFaith Wireless Comm Tech
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Research In Motion Limited designs, manufactures, and markets wireless solutions for the mobile communications market worldwide. Research in Motion has a market cap of $5.3 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of -8.8, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 29.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are three analysts that rate Research in Motion a buy, 11 analysts rate it a sell, and 19 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Research in Motion as a
. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its feeble growth in its earnings per share, deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself.
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On the negative front,
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), down 5.6%, were all laggards within the telecommunications industry with
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) being today's telecommunications industry laggard.
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