Leap Wireless International, Inc.
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Is This Wireless Provider a Good Speculative Play?
By Bob Chandler - May 17, 2013 | Tickers: LEAP, S, TDS, USM
The landscape is changing for wireless providers. These firms are finding that they need new avenues for growth as the number of unallied customers within the industry dwindles. Combining assets has been a popular strategy.
The recent merger between MetroPCS and T-Mobile USA is a recent example. T-Mobile realized it needed to find a way to increase its user base and available spectrum after a takeover bid by AT&T more »
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Small Wireless Players Get Squeezed But Consolidation Still Far
By Jacob Wolinsky - March 6, 2013 | Tickers: T, LEAP, TMUS, USM
ValueWalk.com was started in January 2010, with a focus on value investing and value investors.
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Lords a Leaping or LEAPS on LEAP
By Ken Mackenzie - February 9, 2013 | Tickers: LEAP
Why investors should consider taking the leap of faith on LEAP Wireless (NASDAQ: LEAP) by either buying the stock and or longer dated options (LEAPS).
As my grandmother use to say, sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince. LEAP may just be the right one at this point.
While Leap Wireless, which markets prepaid wireless plans under the “Cricket” brand, has suffered significant price more »
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The Dinosaur of Newark, N.J.
By Jonathan Lim - February 9, 2013 | Tickers: IDT, LEAP, TMUS
Note: an earlier version of this article erroneously stated that the 5.7% dividend was suspended for 2013. The 2013 dividend was paid in 2012 as a special dividend, amid uncertainty about changing tax rates on dividend income. Additionally, the earlier version erroneously stated that Boss Revolution only works with landlines.
There’s a dinosaur in Newark, N.J. – and I’m not talking about the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant on more »
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LEAP: the only fish left in the Sea
By Nikhil Balakumar - February 1, 2013 | Tickers: CLWR, DISH, LEAP, S, TMUS
The telecom market had made some significant moves, some of which were seemingly obvious and others that caught most investors off-guard.
Lets summarize:
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Pressure Shifts in the Telecom Market
By Michael Nolan - October 22, 2012 | Tickers: T, CLWR, LEAP, S, TMUS, VZ
Given that the telecom market is virtually a duopoly between AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ), it's hard to imagine news otherwise would make the headlines. However, T-Mobile's recent acquisition of MetroPCS (NYSE: TMUS) was all over the tabloids in past weeks, and surprisingly, the company that may have been affected the most wasn't even involved in the deal. By securing its purchase of MetroPCS more »
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Why You Should Cash Out On Sprint Now
By Maxwell Fisher - October 17, 2012 | Tickers: LEAP, S, TMUS, VZ
In the last six years the cash reserves of Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) have reached an all-time high and its stock price has doubled. With these cash reserves and appreciated equity as collateral, it was thought that Sprint could attempt to make game-changing acquisitions. Analysts speculated that such deals would allow Sprint to compete more effectively with AT&T (T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ).
Instead, it appears that Japan's more »
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How is Sprint Positioned After T-Mobile-PCS Deal Talks: Secured or Vulnerable?
By Rajesh M. - October 10, 2012 | Tickers: LEAP, S, TMUS
The third largest US telecom operator Sprint (NYSE: S) is working hard to turn the wheels of fortune in its favor. The struggling carrier was weighed down under the burden of heavy debt just a year ago when it started coming up with innovative strategies to come out of the quagmire. The Kansas company wants to be back on track to strengthen itself to take on the duopoly of Verizon more »
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It's a Smartphone World
By David Delony - October 9, 2012 | Tickers: AMX, AAPL, BBRY, LEAP, S
You would have to live under a rock to ignore the rise of smartphones, the new generation of mobile phones that essentially serve as small handheld computers. They're one of the fastest-growing segments of the mobile industry; in fact, smartphones are expected to account for half of all mobile phones in 2013.
The tech press is flooded with retrospectives on Steve Jobs, the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO who passed more »
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Who are Really Sprinting Ahead in the Wireless Consolidation Race?
By Jay Wei - October 9, 2012 | Tickers: CLWR, LEAP, S, TMUS
Coming in from afar, Deutsche Telekom and its T-Mobile division seem to be pressing closer in the race of the latest wireless consolidation that involves MetroPcs (NYSE: TMUS) as a potential acquisition target. Surprisingly or not, the emerging sprinter is not someone who otherwise calls itself Sprint (NYSE: S). It’s no secrete that the success of wireless communications companies lies within a carrier’s ability to provide a network more »
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T-Mobile Merger Shakes Up Sprint, Leap
By Tony Daltorio - October 5, 2012 | Tickers: T, DTEGY.PK, LEAP, S, TMUS
The competitive landscape for U.S. telecoms is changing -- particularly once you look past the two top players, Verizon and AT&T (NYSE: T). Witness the recently announced merger between MetroPCS (NYSE: TMUS) and T-Mobile, which is a subsidiary of German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG (NASDAQOTH: DTEGY.PK).
MetroPCS is focused on the low-cost, pre-paid part of the U.S. telecom market, while T-Mobile is currently running a poor more »
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Whom Could Sprint Acquire?
By Rajesh M. - September 29, 2012 | Tickers: LEAP, S, TMUS
The changing dynamics in the telecom industry is working in favor of Sprint (NYSE: S), the third largest US wireless carrier. What a turnaround the company is witnessing. A year back, in early 2011 the wireless operator was considered to be an acquisition target. This year the telecom operator, whose stock has more than doubled, is on the reverse side looking for an appropriate target to combat and challenge the more »
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FCC to Solve Spectrum Crunch: Will it Succeed?
By Rajesh M. - September 13, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, T, GOOG, LEAP, VZ
The growing popularity of smartphones and tablets has been making things difficult for the carriers in this tight spectrum environment. Even since Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) released its bandwidth-hogging devices, particularly the iPhone, and Google came out with its Android; consumer data consumption levels have increased substantially. And now that iPhone 5 has released, the problem is going to get worse. With the top three national carriers preparing to offer the more »
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Companies Ready for Acquisition
By Karen Rogers - September 9, 2012 | Tickers: DNDN, LEAP, MU
Sometimes when bad things happen, good companies can find themselves unable to recover their former glory. Although the reasons may be different, the companies analyzed here have become very attractive to investors looking for acquisition candidates.
In April 2010, FDA approval of Provenge drove Dendreon’s (NASDAQ: DNDN) shares to a company high of $57.67. Provenge therapy was designed to “teach” the human immune system to recognize and eliminate more »
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Should Investors Take Leap of Faith For This Telecom Stock?
By Rita Chattaraj - August 9, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, LEAP, S, TMUS, VZ
Leap Wireless (NASDAQ: LEAP), the sixth largest US telecom company which sells pre-paid wireless service under the Cricket brand, posted its fiscal 2012 second quarter results recently and let’s say the quarter ended on a disappointing note. One day after Leap announced that it had lost $42 million in the second quarter along with 289,000 customers, its shares plunged 22% to a new low of $4.28. The more »
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Rise of the Prepaid Carriers
By David Delony - August 8, 2012 | Tickers: AMX, T, LEAP, S, VZ
Like soccer, prepaid mobile phone carriers have been huge in the rest of the world, but have been only a niche market in the U.S. If prepaid phones are so cheap, why aren't they more popular?
It seems that Americans have finally wised up to what's been the mobile industry's best-kept secret. In June the number of prepaid subscribers climbed to 25 percent of the total more »
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LEAP of Faith
By Chad Henage - July 16, 2012 | Tickers: T, LEAP, S, VZ
When a company begins offering the iPhone it usually is a big deal, but when the iPhone becomes available on a prepaid plan, people start to get very excited. This development with Leap Wireless (NASDAQ: LEAP), was chronicled recently on The Motley Fool by Rick Munarriz. In summary, his thought was this company isn't a household name, but by offering the iPhone on a prepaid plan, customers may "leap" at the chance to change.
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Verizon's New Plans – Hit or Miss?
By Maxwell Fisher - June 29, 2012 | Tickers: T, LEAP, S, VZ, VOD
Mobile operators worldwide are experimenting with new pricing schemes for mobile data services as they slowly phase out unlimited mobile data plans. The top two operators in the country AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless have already discontinued their flat rate mobile data packages in lieu of volume-based mobile data plans to maximize revenue opportunities and manage their mobile data networks.
Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon (NYSE: VZmore »)
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A Catalyst to the Cable Deal
By Rajesh M. - June 27, 2012 | Tickers: T, CMCSA, LEAP, S, VZ
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), the largest US wireless provider, agreed to sell some of its wireless spectrum license to T-Mobile in exchange for some of the company’s airwaves. The spectrum swap will help lessen the tension between the two carriers over Verizon’s pending deal. In addition, it will also help Verizon to receive regulatory approval for its long awaited spectrum acquisition deal with cable companies’ joint venture SpectrumCo more »
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Prepaid iPhone Threatens Larger Carriers
By Rajesh M. - June 26, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, T, LEAP, S, VZ
Since its debut in 2007, the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone for the first time is available without any contract obligation. This Friday, Leap Wireless (NASDAQ: LEAP), as slated, became the first prepaid carrier making the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S accessible under its Cricket brand on a prepaid basis. The wireless provider is offering both the devices in white and black variations in its own stores and through selected dealers more »
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