Claflin, “pinned the specific timing of the announcement on the schedule of the board meeting where the final decision was made (also yesterday) and fears of subsequent leaks once the decision was made.”
“Be that as it may, the optics of pulling a shotgun replacement of the CEO, a week before earnings, without even having the compensation package of his replacement fully in place is going to (justifiably) raise questions with investors.”
This seems interesting.The USA promotion prices are already kicking live while the EU prices should follow next week. Though AMD is a little unclear as to how, why and what. Basically the board and channel partners apply a self-proclaimed promotion and sells the aforementioned cards at the lower prices. That is until stock runs out, from what we learned the prices will go up after that promotion ends.
2.76$ a share today, who's in?
Not with a ten foot pole. This may be a good stock for an experienced day trader - or someone who is comfortable with a ton more risk than I am.
AMD hit 40 in the early part of 2006; and was down to 20 by the end of the year.
It was under 2 for a short while not too long ago.
Until gf and amd is in reality completely separated its the job of mubadala to dump money into amd. Investing in amd now is like investing in gf indirectly as that is - still - viewed as the major asset. Anyone thinks gf is the future? With Mubadala as owner? If you can say yes then gamble in amd stock. Lol.
This made me chuckle. I think even many AMD fans would secretly have a hard time disagreeing. AMD should probably do what smart smaller companies do and farm out at least some of their marketing. It would probably get a lot better, if not cheaper.
Thanks to #GamerGate social justice warriors will be doing the marketing for AMD now. Buy AMD or you're a misogynist !@#%lord.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/home/2960222-181/microsoft-ceo-women-shouldnt-ask#page=1I can't imagine a more vilifiable individual for misogyny right now in tech other than MS's CEO.
I'm also pretty sure #GamerGate is morals and standards for 5th estate journalism.Thanks to #GamerGate social justice warriors will be doing the marketing for AMD now. Buy AMD or you're a misogynist !@#%lord.
I'm also pretty sure #GamerGate is morals and standards for 5th estate journalism. SJW is a misnomer as they aren't about social justice and they are the opposite of #GamerGate.
Is there anything known about any of the business politics that were involved with this changing of business executives?
I was looking for updates on Lisa Su's promotion and didn't see anything. Since AMD is in quiet mode pending release the last quarter's numbers - I don't expect that we will learn much more till Oct. 16th (IIRC).
Since we can be pretty confident AMD has not filed a registration to issue shares it leads one to to think they have something to hide.
I don't think AMD has anything to hide; they announced the change early so they can focus Wall Street on the job cuts and the new plan rather than the loss and the shock of Rory's ouster during the conf call.
Did you know the "quiet period" actually only applies to registrations? There's no such thing as a quiet period before earnings reports. Companies use this made-up rule to hide behind when they don't want to give out information.
http://www.sec.gov/answers/quiet.htm
Since we can be pretty confident AMD has not filed a registration to issue shares it leads one to to think they have something to hide.