RadioShack Corp (RSH)

Good growth, P/E, ROE, and a Dividend. I like Radio Shack!

I'm in. This may come as a surprigse to some, but this is a well profitable company. I think anyone who looks at the financials can't argue with this. It's adding to equity every quarter, analysts dig their marketing strategies. It's a buy.

garbage company.. I dont know how they survive

lets see...
buy 99cents store & radioshack
& sell bestbuy & target
based on valuations, macro-economic shift going forward, and stock price movements

Radio Shack or "The Shack" has increased their profit the Circuit City way by forcing out higher paid employees in lieu of unknowledgable lower priced employees. People who are not very good with electronics go to Radio Shack for help, and those that know a lot do not pay $50 for a cable that costs $3 on monoprice.com. So they are killing their core business.

RadioShack Corporation (RadioShack) is primarily engaged in the retail sale of consumer electronics goods and services through its RadioShack store chain and non-RadioShack branded kiosk operations. As of December 31, 2008, the Company operated 4,453 Company-operated stores under the RadioShack brand located throughout the United States, as well as in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. As of December 31, 2008, it operated 688 kiosks located throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. In December 2008, the Company acquired the remaining interest (slightly more than 50%) of its Mexican joint venture, RadioShack de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., with Grupo Gigante, S.A.B. de C.V.

Big move up today when the rest of the market was losing. I am betting that some of this was not justified and that this stock will move down as the market tries to recover some ground.

radio shack...really? with best buy/wal mart and a thing called the internet i dont think this company will last too long.

Few people who buy stocks would ever spend much money at Radio Shack. For this reason it has a bad reputation as a dirty company with poor service.

On the contrary Radio Shack is a poor man's electronic boutique, a sort of fast food restaurant for quick and dirty electronics. Its products are pricey, but have you ever seen where it's stores are located? They're usually in poorer or duller parts of town, where crime increases the price of business. The stores are small, which lets them squeeze into any part of town or run down strip mall without having to carry much inventory. The competition is inner-city no-name electronic bazaars, which offer - at best - inconsistent service, few guarantees, and comparable prices.

The Economist recently ran a report about how mobile phone technology is revolutionizing 3rd world nations. The report attests to the import of technology when it comes to raising people out of poverty. This is the role that, I suspect, Radio Shack plays across the country. It doesn't have to offer the latest and greatest at unbeatable prices, but merely the basic technology at the right locations.

When they lost Verizon, they lost the franchise. It's been all downhill since then. Would the last person leaving please turn out the lights?

Nothing more than the fact that I like the aggressive attempt at re-branding. They are sponsoring a cycling team in 2010 featuring Lance Armstrong. The landscape is competitive but much higher barriers to entry now. This is a shorter-term outperform based on my optimistic outlook on the power of advertising in a down market.

I bought SIRI right after Howard Stern was hired so don't take this as advice.

As much as I like the products and services, and am a customer when I need electronic components, their prices are too high.

Also, the name change to "The Shack" may have some short-term negative impacts. Unless they can revamp their image with quality for price or lower price on the quality that you're receiving (which is on the upper-end), I don't see their stock outperforming the S&P.

I am going against the Fool Community on this one and rating Radioshack (NYSE: RSH) a thumbs up. Admittedly, the company is facing tough competition from familiar names such as Wal-Mart and Best-Buy Corp. Evidence that competition is fierce is witnessed when the company was unable to capitalize on the Circuit City bankruptcy to win over market share. But, I am here to argue that the stock is quite attractive despite the troubles faced by the underlying business.

I’ve assumed the company will continue experiencing difficulties well into the future. Top-line growth for 2009 is pegged at a negative 5.00% from the previous year. I project no revenue growth for the next 4 years, after which growth will return, at the rate of overall economic expansion, or 3% (yes, I foresee that once we escape the current crisis, we will again consider “normal growth” to be around 3%). My picture is particularly gloomy when compared to Wall Street analysts which estimate future earnings growth of approximately 9.5% per annum. EBIT margins are kept at historical levels (6.69%) in spite of improvements on this front from recent cost cutting initiatives. Further, non-recurring revenues from the sale of converter boxes stemming from the transition of full-power television broadcasting in analog format to now solely digital format in the United States were left out of my top-line projections. Incidentally, I have not adjusted for the company’s recent deal with T-Mobile, which will likely offer a lift to revenues.

After adjusting for capital expenditures which are assumed to track historical averages, calculated as a portion of total revenue, and investment in working capital, free cash flows clock in at roughly $200 million per year. After discounting these to present time and adjusting for balance sheet items, I calculate an intrinsic value of $22.42 per share, offering a comfortable 29% margin of safety at today’s price. Keep in mind, the intrinsic value is priced without any prospect for growth until 2013. Should the company’s new advertising efforts with the 7 time winner of the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong, gain traction, it could offer tremendous upside potential for this stock.

Mr. Market might have just chucked this stock in the bargain bin…

Management is increasingly micro-managing the wrong metrics, removing authority from the store manager, and generally sending the message that they're looking for robots rather than salespeople. Plus, their numbers stink compared to the industry.

This is crap for so many reasons that it hardly seems worth explaining. Terrible prices in a competitive niche market is one that reason that is good enough by itself however.

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RSH is closing in the strong resistance zone of $15-17. Its rally from below 7 to 14.82 is spectacular (~parabolic), however good thing will finally come to an end....Fundamentally, how great is a retailer's business going into the next quarter? Don't be fooled by all the hypes of recovery. A 6+ million job loss in total will sure eat into the buying power of the general public, regardless of how naive investors hope the marginal 'greenshots' reported in headlines will deliver quick recovery to the economy.

I don't know anyone that shops there. Do you?

Some main points as to why this stock and company are going down the drain:

1. Hiring procedure is bias and outdated. Having been through the hiriing process myself, I know first-hand of what their business strategy is; employ people that are willing to work for very cheap in return that they sell your overpriced products or don't get commission.

2. All the big price things they sell from computers to TV's can be found for much cheaper anywhere else.

3. They have a very limited niche market advantage now; consumers looking for single electronic items under $10 that they don't have the knowledge or resources to look elsewhere.

THUMBS DOWN FOR LIFE

Among favorite shorts of all time. Convinced books are (still) being cooked. Someday will be vindicated. Empirical evidence = no much action at RSH shops. Will patiently wait for a bankruptcy charm.

This baby's toast.