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The company's stock history tells a somewhat similar story to this brief ratio analysis. After peaking at over forty dollars a share in 2006, the stock price fell dramatically and fairly consistently until bottoming out at just under two dollar per share in 2009 (Yahoo Finance, 2012). Since then, the rice has struggled back to a certain gain, though has largely remained stagnant hovering around eight dollar per share, and it is currently trading at just under seven dollars per share (Yahoo Finance, 2012). This performance does not point to an especially strong company, but again it does not indicate a weak one, and instead shows a company that appears to be succeeding in efforts to stabilize.
Given the current financial standing of the company and its stock performance over the past several years, it is recommended that HTC proceed with its planned partnership with AMD. As described above, AMD is not in the strongest position possible, with financial performance that is mediocre and stock performance that was dangerous and a definite warning sign several years ago but that appears to be in a period of stabilization and slow recovery in the current period (Yahoo Finance, 2012). The company is not cash heavy but neither is it loaded down with debt and its solidly...
As a decades-old player in the industry with a very solid set of core products and abundant experience in providing support to other businesses and manufacturers of end-consumer products, AMD would make a reliable and beneficial partner to HTC at least in the medium term.
Conclusion
HTC is in some ways a stronger company than AMD and is almost unquestionably a more dynamic one. This can work to HTC's benefit, allowing it to set the parameters of the partnership and to trust that AMD will reliably and consistently perform as per the arrangements of the partnership. As long as the company is strong enough to continue performing, and AMD is, a certain level of stagnancy is desirable.
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AMD. (2012). Accessed 10 May 2012.
http://www.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDHomePage.aspx
AMD. (2012a). 2011 Annual Report.
Yahoo Finance. (2012). AMD. Accessed 10 May 2012.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AMD
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