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dallas on 04 October 2013
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kowenicki said:
dallas said:
And yet, you seem to be ignoring the fact that msft's financial perdormance which you just referenced, is poor enough to make investors kick Baldy out of the company.


kick him out? lol

you never stop do you.

priceless.

here is a slide that tells you just how bad Ballmer was as a ceo this last 10 years.....


I dont have to worship Balmer if I dont want to, and it is perfectly acceptable around these parts to hold a contrary opinion.

Back to subject at hand, there have been numerous reports of Balmer being pushed out by ValueAct, and you know what?  Balmer being pushed out was cheered by investors and they pushed the stock price up. 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2013/08/26/ballmer-exit-another-sign-of-growing-influence-of-activist-investors/

 

I guess you've ignored the "lost decade" where the stock price of MSFT remained essentially flat, sure it is up this year but that is not good enough for somebody that expects returns higher than that over the long term.

There's the reference for this lost decade thing beinga pop culture item, and for the stock price price charts, from MSN ironically you have a lot of whipsaws, but regardless you need to be significantly higher than where you were at ten years ago; this year's growth excepting.

 

http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/charts?symbol=MSFT#{"zRange":"9","startDate":"2003-10-4","endDate":"2013-10-4","chartStyle":"mountain","chartCursor":"1","scaleType":"0","yaxisAlign":"right","mode":"pan"}

 

Finally, you're the one continuing this argument by responding to me.  If you don't like my posting about this, then stop giving rebuttals and I won't visit this thread again.