Invest in NVidia or ATI?

[IHateMyJob2004]

I was just reading this article:

This quote is of particular interest (Vivola and ortan are top executives):

In [an] email between Dan Vivoli of Nvidia and Dave Orton of ATI, Dan wrote:

"I really think we should work harder together on the marketing front. As you and I have talked about, even though we are competitors, we have the common goal of making our category a well positioned, respected playing field. $5 and $8 stocks are the result of no respect."

one of the corner stones of value investing is something called shareholder friendliness. That is, companies should work to increase shareholder value. This includes, worrying about the companies well being, not the stock prices well being. It should be assumed that the execs of these two companies care about 1 thing. Filling their pockets, not yours. They should have absolutely no concern with the share price of the stock as it has nothing to do with their ability to run the business properly. After all, price follow value.

 

[darkxshade]

ATI has been acquired by AMD which then now poses the question, invest in NVDA or AMD, both of which suck royal ass.

 

[Foxery]

This conspiracy theory is several months old. Their stocks have dropped because both of them have serious and perfectly real business problems this year. Of course investors don't "respect" companies who are hemmoraging money.

Also, there's no such company or stock ticker as "ATI" any more...

 

[ric1287]

if i had any money, I'd buy a ton of nvidia and Sirius stock. Gotta go up at some point, especially sirius.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: ric1287
if i had any money, I'd buy a ton of nvidia and Sirius stock. Gotta go up at some point, especially sirius.

There are many stocks that crashed during the tech bubble that haven't come close to recovering 8+ years later.

A stock doesn't have to go up at any point.

 

[ric1287]

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: ric1287
if i had any money, I'd buy a ton of nvidia and Sirius stock. Gotta go up at some point, especially sirius.

There are many stocks that crashed during the tech bubble that haven't come close to recovering 8+ years later.

A stock doesn't have to go up at any point.

well considering the biggest competitor to Nvidia is ATI, i'd be confident they will rebound.

And sirius's only competitor is now the same company, so that $3 stock has to go up.

 

[Foxery]

Originally posted by: ric1287

well considering the biggest competitor to Nvidia is ATI, i'd be confident they will rebound.

And sirius's only competitor is now the same company, so that $3 stock has to go up.

Stocks don't "have to" do anything - the price crashed again after the XM merger because bankruptcy is still perfectly possible!

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: ric1287
if i had any money, I'd buy a ton of nvidia and Sirius stock. Gotta go up at some point, especially sirius.

:roll:

Originally posted by: ric1287
well considering the biggest competitor to Nvidia is ATI, i'd be confident they will rebound.

And sirius's only competitor is now the same company, so that $3 stock has to go up.

:roll:
No wonder you don't have money. A good thing at that.