More Negative Analysts Weigh in on Blackberry

After a nice run through the back half of April, Blackberry shares have reversed course.

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Tuesday was another wild day for Blackberry’s (TSX:BB,NASDAQ:BBRY) stock after two more research firms came out with negative reports.  The stock fell by more than 5% in the Canadian market as a result of these reports.

Yesterday it was Canaccord that reduced its sales estimates for Blackberry’s new devices.  Today, two U.S. based firms, Cleveland Research and Pacific Crest Securities, were out slagging the company.

Cleveland reportedly indicated that Blackberry is poised to cut build targets on its BB10 phones.  Cleveland’s analysts have had feedback that Q10 sales in Canada and the UK have been below expectations and estimated sell-through on Z10s to be half the run-rate seen at introduction.

Pacific Crest apparently echoed Cleveland’s production cut hypothesis, indicating production levels at 1.5 million to 2 million per month were above sell-through levels.

Foolish Takeaway

Talk about noise!  Foolish investors know better than to get wrapped up in any of the seemingly day-to-day posturing that goes on around this stock.  It’s not our game to pontificate on such matters but realizing there is a massive short position against Blackberry, it’s rather interesting that these reports have suddenly appeared after the stock had run up rather nicely over the last two weeks of April.  Just an observation!

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