time to buy stock in dell?

[finer recliner]

so with all the commotion in the linux community over dell now offering preinstalled ubuntu, i thought maybe it would be a good time to invest in dell?

looking at their stock the past couple days, it jumped a little bit upon announcing the big news:
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=DELL


i figure that dell obviously plans on increasing sales by offering ubuntu to it's customers, so why not trade some stock?

your thoughts?

[starcraft.man]

LOL, sorry but your planning on getting financial investment advice from a forum full of Ubuntu geeks (I say that with love for being a geek :p)? Just sounds really funny :D

Honestly though, I highly doubt that just because Dell offers Ubuntu preloaded that hordes and hordes of people will flock to it, and thusly, highly doubt that their sales sky rocket as a result of linux. Call me a skeptic.

[ronocdh]

LOL, sorry but your planning on getting financial investment advice from a forum full of Ubuntu geeks (I say that with love for being a geek :p)? Just sounds really funny :D

Honestly though, I highly doubt that just because Dell offers Ubuntu preloaded that hordes and hordes of people will flock to it, and thusly, highly doubt that their sales sky rocket as a result of linux. Call me a skeptic.
True. But don't ignore the effects of hype; if the market is snatching up stock, it doesn't really matter how profitable the idea actually is. Buy and sell.

And for the record, I think this will work wonders for Dell. It'll get them tons of media coverage and make them look progressive. They will be talking for years about how they were the first major computer manufacturer to ship Linux pre-installed (don't argue with me, I'm just saying that's what they'll say!).

In fact, if they provide sweet laptops with 100% open hardware, they've got my money. That puts pressure on vendors to put pressure on hardware manufacturers to release drivers! Gotta love it.

[finer recliner]

oh i dont forsee hordes of people going to purchase ubuntu machines either. but anything that increases sales and makes the stock climb, is something id be interested in. I definitely don't think this is going to "save" dell, nor put them way out ahead of everyone else in the market. i think (and hope i'm right) that its just a little push closer to first place.

and i also hope that this will increase the number of linux users and make linux a respectable OS

[Sef]

so with all the commotion in the linux community over dell now offering preinstalled ubuntu, i thought maybe it would be a good time to invest in dell?


i figure that dell obviously plans on increasing sales by offering ubuntu to it's customers, so why not trade some stock?

Buying a stock is something that should be based on a study of that stock. Not just because the company did something you like. You can make money off of stocks, but you can lose money too. Are you able to to lose the money that you would invest in Dell? If no, then best not too buy it.

[~LoKe]

It's too late. You have to nip when they're just starting out, or are planning something massive. The inclusion of Linux will not make a huge jump in their worth, because, in simple terms, people will be buying Dell's with Linux instead of Dell's with Windows. I don't expect sales to jump.

The move by Dell is simply to show that they will cater to the needs of others.

Again, it's too late to buy shares in companies like this, Intel, and AMD (for now, I expect their stock to drop to drastic levels, at a point where buying big get you on top).

[gtfourdreams]

it wouldn't be a *bad* time to buy. given that dell also announced recently to offer Windows XP on their machines again (which people will flock for). and because of declining sales they were going to offer Dells in retail stores. all that might just boost their market share back up. more importantly though, Dell is back as CEO which will prove invaluable. I think he knows where he must go better than anybody else for that company.

[Spr0k3t]

The best time to buy Dell stock would have been when IdeaStorm first hit. This would be the time to sell, before the Linux consumer systems are released. So if you have missed that boat, wait at least three months then evaluate their standings for 4th quarter margins and read up on the projected forecast of term investors. I don't see a very good trend in their dividend offerings and the liquid worth is about average of their paper worth. So my predictions on this one is to either sell while the stock is up, or hold until two weeks prior to their release of fourth quarter earnings.

Been doing this for a while. I make a point to never purchase technology stocks... too unpredictable.

[finer recliner]

Been doing this for a while.


you definitely sound like you know what you're talking about. Where'd you learn all this stuff about stock trading? i'd like to read up on it myself. (i.e. projected forecast, liquid worth, paper worth, etc). thanks

[Spr0k3t]

you definitely sound like you know what you're talking about. Where'd you learn all this stuff about stock trading? i'd like to read up on it myself. (i.e. projected forecast, liquid worth, paper worth, etc). thanks

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