Adrian Gomez Investments

“The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works…” that’s a memorable quote from the controversial Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street from 1987. However, that doesn’t apply in real life, or at least not all the time. If you are too greedy looking for profits and don’t pay attention to every aspect of a company you’re investing in, you may end up paying the ultimate price of greed. And that is, losing your money! For those of you, who are investors of Sprint (NYSE: S), and got in somewhere at the beginning of last year (2012), nothing is sweeter than watching your investment almost triple in value. Shares of Sprint were trading on the low range of the $2 mark during January 2012 and have just touched their 52 week highs of $5.97 this Tuesday. Yes, that is a gain of +184% from its 52 week low. But, staying on this boat for 2013 may be too dangerous and greedy if you ask me. Let’s take a look at the reasons th...

A quick analysis of the latest quarterly results of Sprint (NYSE: S) and more specifically of page 4 of the Third Quarter 2012 Results gave me a very disturbing image of what is actually going on with Sprint’s customers. Even though the company states on page 5 of the same report that they had a net loss of subscribers of about 423,000 and tells us is because of the shutting down of the Nextel platform that is scheduled to happen in its entirety by June 2013, I see a different picture just by reading through their report. Let me guide you through what I see; first, Sprint says on page 4 that:  “The Sprint platform added 410,000 net postpaid customers during the quarter. The Nextel platform lost 866,000 net postpaid customers in the quarter. Sprint platform postpaid net additions and Nextel platform postpaid net subscriber losses include 516,000 net subscribers from the Nextel platform acquired on the Sprint platform.” That’s an impressive wordplay from management. Th...