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Re: INFN: Jefferies mantains
buy rating but lowers PT to $18
lt cap,
Perhaps I'm just still dazed by the overwhelmingly bad hit
INFN's price took in reaction to the CC. The Jeffries note you
cited (thank you) appears to say that while the cross-selling of
eqiupment with their acquisition of Transmode is weak so far, the
longer term story is intact. I sure hope so. Because one of the
things Fallon said at the time of acquisition was that,
essentially, it was a perfect 'hand in glove' fit, much like
what ALU will (we hope) be with NOK, and that it would be a
sizeable plus to synergy and sales. Whilst keeping in mind that any
talk surrounding an acquisition has to be positive (what else could
they say?), to me it becomes another point of credibility. While
even CEO's don't exactly know the future, I am praying that in the
end Fallon's predictions on everything will prove to be true, more
or less, and it really is things like 'lumpiness', having a solid
customer become tentative (with Transmode), and other
non-controllable factors. (I think it would've helped if they
didn't kind of dodge the question, IIRC, whether that formerly
solid Tmode customer had flown the coop, was in an unexpected
slowdown, or was just delying purchases. Their kind of 'being all
over the map' while at the same time 'being nowhere on the map' in
terms of specificity on a number of issues must've lead the market
to assume that there's a good deal of bad news, and they just
didn't want to name it. As you've suggested - they either ought to
come clean or reinforce claims made previously, if they can.)
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