RadioShack Corp (NYSE:RSH)

I like this store and like the take-over possibility

value stock

falling knife... do not try to catch it if you know what is good for you

Sorry, RSH, but I'm riding you to the bottom. Yes, you have an untapped credit facility. Yes, you have a healthy pile of cash sitting on the sidelines. But that stock buyback you completed at the end of FY11 at an average price of $12.80? Ouch.

And those thinning margins? Let's consider your thinning margins. They dropped from 41% to 35% YOY. Historically you have always hovered between 45%-48%.

Let's not kid ourselves. AMZN would love to have your 35% margin...but it's a troubling trend. Especially when we consider the products that are dragging on those margins of yours (tablets, smartphones). These are the revenue-driving products of the future. Can RSH survive on increasingly shrinking margins?

The Sprint business unit under performed even your expectations, and while you've expanded with VZ, will those Target Mobile Centers really help prop up the margins? Can you continue to compete against the likes of Best Buy - or even Amazon?

RSH is facing the same challenge as larger-box retailers are: online commerce. AMZN's aforementioned overall margins hover around 1.5%, but they make up for it with volume. RSH can't compete in a race to the bottom on pricing and margin-thinning. All Amazon pays for is warehouse space. RSH needs brick and mortar stores, kiosks....employees manning those. My long-term prognosis is not a positive one for RSH.

Best bet is an acquisition play...but who's shopping for an electronics B&M retailer these days?

After the digestive process of lower earnings out of the way, this stock should emerge relatively quickly in mid to late 2012.

Lookin for a short-term bounce or takeover (or just some rumors)!

Sometimes I just need a battery or cable cord, and I don't have time to wait for 24 hour shipping from Amazon. I need to weigh myself now, and I want to listen to my music now. I recently purchased a battery for a weigh scale (I'm a fatty) and I took a visit to RadioShack. I brought in an example of what I needed. I was in and out in less than 60 seconds! Fantastic! Wouldn't it be interesting if 7Eleven and RadioShack merged. The CEO of MicroStrategy is right. If the store isn't instant gratification, like a grocery store, or totally convenient, why go at all? Just order online for everything.

bought to make quick profit from this insanity....
Hoping it to hit at 8 tomorrow

Bad quarter. Stock down 30%. Quicken and ValuePro valuation with zero to negative growth $12 to $14

value

Radio Shack continues to struggle. I don't see a great turnaround in the next few months. It will take at least a year to see tangible improvement in their business.

20% drop in one night? Down to 8.23 when I made this pick...That seems rational :)

Expecting a short term bounce followed by the same long-term challenges that RSH has been ex

Over the short term there it could go up a bit, simply because its taking such a pounding some might consider it undervalued.

In my opinion it would take a miracle to keep RadioShack going for another 10 years. They have failed to evolve as their competitors have, and even those competitors (like BestBuy) are in serious trouble from companies like Amazon. It may die a slow, painful death, but I don't see RadioShack going anywhere but down over the long term.

May seem frumpy, but I find our family and many of our friends are visiting this store more and more often. Maybe its just the joy of not going to a big mall, but they really have the help and know-how we need.

Bottom feeder here. Limit order at 9.70.

I hate to say it, but RSH has a perception problem. It's a great place to get a TracPhone and can compete with BB and WMT in this arena. Electronics hobbyists have been going elsewhere - Radioshack = low end cell phone market, imho. I like it at this price!

Financials show very undervalued.

HG

I go in every once in a while for a garage door battery, but I can't imagine radioshack being around in 5 more years