EMC Corp (EMC)

Markman recommendation.

Symmetrix Sales down 25%. EFDs aren't flying off the shelves. Dave Donitelli voted with his feet. The rats are abandoning the sinking ship. It's over for EMC.

DOJ investigation

overvalued in a sector that will feel pain in 2009. EMC will likely survive, but the sector pain will hit its valuations down a few levels from today's levels.

This stock will go to single figures, but it will recover in 2 years.

EMC's products are priced at a premium. Technology spending in todays credit crunch will be tight, slowing sales and pushing IT departments to look at more value priced offerings from leaner, less expensive competitors. The good news is that storage requirements always grow as more data is generated, so expect the core storage product range from EMC to fare well long term in the market.

Poor execution and poor management. The stock is one of the poorest performers I have ever purchased. Avoid like the plague.

Its time to BUY,BUY,BUY,BUY.

Aside from it's substantial stake into VMWare EMC is a solid company well liked among their customers and whose acquisitions point to its push to become the world's premier electronic document management vendor. However it's continued insistence to strengthen ties with VMWare will continue to hurt it in the eyes of shareholders as other companies, Microsoft chief among them, chip away at the market share it has dominated in previous years.

Thsi stock is no right for the market right now and will be on the down trend.

Getting away from what made them successful. Look at Tucci's past and he is all about selling off parts vs building a company.

Bad mang.. how can a company that owns 85% of a spin-off; be worth 20% of the spin-off stock price? where is the profit from vmw going? how about the owners get the stock price moving up?

river21999

I had bought EMC in August at 19, then sold on Oct. 30 at 25. Look for increased competition to VMware to hold EMC from approaching 25 again for quite some time. There are many better pics out there than this one.

p/e is too high in a weak market

a huge gorilla - hard to get anywhere.
if vmware gets more worth than EMC, they will merge and rename themself to vmware.

It would take a miracle to get this stock to move anywhere. Great bluechip, stability is nice, just not exciting. Recent purchase - Avamar - total dog. Good idea meets bad end in the EMC purchasing graveyard. This seemed like a ditch attempt to pull backup software Networker out of the fire - is old code, recent re-write adds shine to rust. Limited functionality for disaster recovery, complex and expensive. Guess what, Avamar and Legato - former competing technologies, both require client and server installs doing the same tasks. How exactly is that supposed to work together?

In order to keep up with double-digit growth, they are going to continue to make purchases. When are the realized gains from all these purchases going to show up? The stock has been hovering for awhile now with no real movement.

They need more Board Members that are not employees of the company. They lack the needed new products. I held the stock for years and sold it at a loss . They lack the creativity that is needed. Get more outside Board Members

This company would like to buy their growth. They are a mature company and should be paying us investors dividends.