TheStreet TV's Jack Mohr has already found his top European stocks to own in 2015. Now he's looking for the top five S&P 500 stocks to own in the new year.
Mohr has already said his fifth stock is social media juggernaut Facebook (FB) and No. 4 is the struggling financial giant Citigroup (C) . Who's third? Microsoft (MSFT) , Mohr said Wednesday.
One of the big catalysts going into the new year also happens to be somewhat of a "bold prediction," he said -- speculating that Microsoft would spinoff its Xbox business.
Xbox is near the top of its sales cycle, meaning Microsoft would likely fetch top dollar for the entity. Not that the $88.7 billion in cash and short-term investments are small by any means, but a spinoff of Xbox would give the tech giant even more cash. This could allow for an increase in its dividend or potentially in the company's share buyback program.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Well MS is now the 2nd most valuable company on earth
recently passing Exxon Moble
http://www.foxbusiness.com/...
The Xbox is too intrenched in MS to go anywhere, Say hello Cortona
The Xbox division has been highly profitable since 2008 inclusive.
And the brand has just had it's best year ever
increasing marketshare by around 50% from the 360.
ppl buy other money making MS licensed products to go along with their new console:
-XBL
-second controller
-play and charge kit
-Kinect tv stand
-more games
outperform who?
Too be honest if it did happen that they did sell it everyone who has a X1 and is going too buy a X1 in the future would find it really hard too trust that company who buys it.
Also there chances who winning this gen would be very slim and they would loose millions or even billions in the long term trying too make a profit or even making there money back at all. Not many companies can take that chance like MS did.
selling and spinning off are not remotely the same thing , not that either is going to happen .
Xbox is a massive financial burden and selling that is highly unlikely.
They'd shut it down before they tried to spin it off.