Sprint Sees Promise in Prepaid Market
Excerpt from the InvestorGuide.com Stock of the Day on 7/29/2009

The Sprint Nextel Corporation (S: Charts, News, Offers) announced that it posted a net loss of $384 million for the quarter. Sprint's quarterly performance is worse than last year's $344 million net loss. The telecommunications tycoon also saw its revenue fall 10 percent to $8.14 billion from $9.06 billion a year ago. Although, CEO Dan Hesse is confident that Sprint is on the right track despite the recent losses. What is the cause of Sprint's recent slip in performance? How does Dan Hesse and Sprint intend to turn things around? More >

One More Strike for Sprint
Excerpt from the InvestorGuide.com Stock of the Day on 2/20/2009

Wrapping up their fiscal year ended 2008, the telecommunications giant ended Q4 with a loss of $1.62 billion. Losses from the previous four quarters totaled $2.79 billion. In comparison to financial stocks like Citigroup (C: Charts, News, Offers), losing $2.79 billion that is really not that bad. However, that is like comparing apples to broccolis; they are in different worlds. Sprint's subscriber base declined by 1.3 million, reducing the company's overall revenue by 14 percent. Still, it continues to provide service to 49.3 million subscribers. CEO Dan Hesse stated that the company was in a better operating position entering 2009. However, the company has been generating consistent losses for over a year, so the question is will they really be able to end their losses and be back in the black? More >

Will Sprint Make the Same Mistake Twice?
Excerpt from the InvestorGuide.com Stock of the Day on 5/6/2008

Blockbuster mergers just don't work, especially in the tech sector. Why? The reasons are well-documented. More often than not, you have two large companies with a proud lineages that are not especially pre-disposed to co-operating with each other (especially if they have spent the last few decades trying to grab the other's lunch), the work cultures are different, the philosophies in regards to matters such as management structure, operational efficiencies, innovation vary and more pragmatically speaking, the tech infrastructure that they operate on is different too. Plus the much touted 'synergies' never really pan out because the estimates for those are made by bankers (who typically only get paid if and when a deal closes). So in these cases, one plus one never equals three. In fact, you are lucky if it still equals two after a few years. Moral of the story, Microsoft (MSFT: Charts, News, Offers) shareholders should be glad Jerry is playing hard to get. In some rare cases, companies can still recover after a huge, value-destroying merger (e.g. HP (HPQ: Charts, News, Offers) and Compaq) but it doesn't look like Sprint is going to be half as lucky with the whole Nextel dalliance. If reports published over the last couple of days are any indication, the final chapters are about to be written in the Sprint-Nextel saga, how does this story end? More >

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Will Sprint Slow to a Crawl?   10/5/2007

Sprint Tumbles on Weak 2007 Outlook, Plans 5,000 Job Cuts   1/9/2007

Sprint Looks to Be in Troubled Waters   10/11/2006

Sprint Nextel Reports Lower Q-4 Net Income   2/22/2006