BlackBerry Downgraded at Bernstein

An upgrade one day. A downgrade the next. BlackBerry’s wild ride continues!

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Can anyone else tell that BlackBerry (TSX:BB,NASDAQ:BBRY) is set to report earnings next week?  For the first time in our brief history at Fool.ca, we have back-to-back posts on the same company.  Exciting!

Yesterday, it was an RBC upgrade that helped move the stock higher.  Today, it’s a Sanford Bernstein downgrade that has BlackBerry shares trading lower.  Who’s next?

Bernstein has dropped its target for the company’s stock down to $10 from $15.  This estimate was above $20 just a month ago.

The laundry list of items cited for today’s downgrade include:

  • Market expectations have increased significantly.
  • Slow take-up of the new devices reported by distributors and operators in Europe.
  • Google trends data indicating weak search volumes.
  • Weak sell-through market share data.
  • Weak enterprise demand with just 60% of Fortune 500 companies testing the new devices and only 29% of them actually using them.

All of these issues are expected by Bernstein to manifest in the second half of the year.

Foolish Takeaway

Nothing in today’s Bernstein report has anything to do with the long-term value of BlackBerry.  The call is based on how the analyst expects the stock to perform over the next 9-12 months.  Simply, until more time has passed with the new devices in the market, nobody knows what the future truly holds for this company.

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