Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE:VG)

not repeating exact numbers here but with a small market cap of 220 mill, 57% insider ownership, so around 125 mill is insider owned, director just selling off 7 mill worth of shares. so if anything goes good for this company and the share price rises decent the insiders will surely be dumping at least half to all of their share of the out standing shares onto the market beating the price and value back to hell for you guys, not to mention whatever unexercised options i may not know of being exercised. along with the massively increasing shares outstanding already killing value, a negative tax rate ....... just to many red flags here.

MagInv Plus

Cannot beleive they are still in business. I tried Vonage a long time ago. Their stuff would not work, and more specifically it would not do what they claimed it would. They then charged me to send their worthless junk back to them. I guess that is how they make what little money they do, by ripping people off. Can't survive very long that way...

Never coming back. Telcos lobbying hard for regulators to change VG's business model to allow telcos to charge VG to pull/push calls between telco infrastructure and VoIP, which VG is now allowed to do cost-free.

3Rules

Long term, it think its about time they turnaround

Valuation Valuation Valuation...

It's funny to me how many people are still downthumbing this one. Things have changed in the last couple of years. The company has turned into a cash cow, time to milk it.

magic jack is much cheaper and better..why waste my money on vonage

following the leader

I am looking for facebook to take them out. You heard it here first folks.

undervalued, poised for a comeback

'Twas on 1-10-11 when I smelt a musty odor coming through the lenses of the Smelloscope.

Vonage Holdings (VG) was the culprit. VG only received 30 points out of 100 in the Smelloscope scoring system. Here's why:

-Poor earnings
-A negative book value per share
-Negative Net Profit Margin, ROA% and ROE% and concerning 5 year trends
-Unfavorable insider activity
-Inconsistent 5 year debt to equity ratio

The bottom line:

I don't claim to know a lot about Vonage. But I do know their fundamentals don't look good. And I know that there are a lot of other companies in their industry which are significantly outperforming them.

That being said, I wouldn't put real money on this down-thumb because they appear to have some potential for recovery and eventual growth. One indicator that they are doing something right, is that they don't have a whole lot of long term debt and a very impressive price to sales ratio.

Regardless of VG's impressive price to sales ratio, they're still stinky enough to set off the stankometers and ranked in the lowest 10% of any of the stocks the Smelloscope has sniffed.

So thumbs down it is.

~djshagggyd
(official nose of the Stankometer)

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of all the telecom stocks this company is has better plans. everyone that I know in my family has Vonage. my friends are getting Vonage or at least know what Vonage is about. look at 8x8 and read their reviews by customers. They are fed up of the company.

Most certainly many investors have not forgotten the tragic and dissapointing Vonage IPO that shattered many people's dreams. But it is time to find it in ourselves to put aside our biasness otherwise we are guilty of admitted ignorance in refusing to allow that Vonage might have truly found itself on the road to recovery and even more so. Some demonstrate a tendency at a sworn vendetta against Vonage. I refuse to allow for such sentiments. I have decided to make amends with them. And why not? It could be a great opportunity to bounce back from losses suffered through them.

Stock chart shows a Symmetrical Triangle breakout on huge buy side volume that suggests professional traders taking early positions.

solid product, with globalization happening and solid growth... why not...

I wish I could hit underperform more. The company was built on an already obsolete technology.

Might be taken over by Google