and when I blog you listen, readers please don't doubt the need for you to pay attention. Now that wasn't a complete freestyle, because I took a few words from one of my favorite artists. But I do want you to take a few words from the Urbanomics "Throwback Movie of The Day". It is the one and only movie "Wall Street" starring Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas. The line is from a high powered, ruthless, and greedy investment broker Mr. Gordon Gekko. And it goes a little something like this:
"I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought."
And even though Gordon Gekko is a cunning individual, he has one thing correct, I don't throw darts either...although there is no such thing as sure bets, we must put in work to win the battle before its fought. And that's what I am doing here for you folks. The battle is won with hard work and doing things you love. Now some people keep count of your victories, others will say lucky guess, and others may call you crazy but you gotta believe. So if you read the post I created just yesterday you may say a few of these things in disbelief. Now I am not ruthless like Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street" because he cheated to get ahead. He used information that wasn't accessible to the public and benefitted from trading the stock. Yes ladies and gentlemen, ala Martha Stewart he was participating in 'Insider Trading'.
The difference is I gave you the reasoning behind why I believed in GPS stocks yesterday. I gave you the basic principles that I learned from Peter Lynch so that you can follow along with me. Invest in what you know...right in front of you're eyes.
What unfolded right before our eyes was kinda crazy, not only were we on the money but Nokia must have been listing to what we were saying...because they have arranged to acquire Navteq in an 8.1 billion dollar deal today. See my post from yesterday. The following release was taken from Navteq website:
Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ
The combined entity would create a leading global player in the fast growing location based services marketNAVTEQ to support existing customers as before .
October 1, 2007 -- Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ. Under the terms of the agreement, Nokia will pay $78 in cash for each share of NAVTEQ including outstanding options for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $8.1 billion (€5.7 billion), or approximately $7.7 billion (€5.4 billion) net of NAVTEQ existing cash balance. The acquisition has been approved by the board of directors of each company and is subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals and NAVTEQ shareholders’ approval.
The navigation area is a fast growing business, and with location-based services expanding rapidly into mobile communications devices, the industry is poised for even further growth. NAVTEQ brings a number of key assets to Nokia: a great team with best-in-world maps and navigation industry expertise, a strong customer base and an industry-leading map data and technology platform with the broadest geographical coverage.
October 1, 2007 -- Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ. Under the terms of the agreement, Nokia will pay $78 in cash for each share of NAVTEQ including outstanding options for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $8.1 billion (€5.7 billion), or approximately $7.7 billion (€5.4 billion) net of NAVTEQ existing cash balance. The acquisition has been approved by the board of directors of each company and is subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals and NAVTEQ shareholders’ approval.
The navigation area is a fast growing business, and with location-based services expanding rapidly into mobile communications devices, the industry is poised for even further growth. NAVTEQ brings a number of key assets to Nokia: a great team with best-in-world maps and navigation industry expertise, a strong customer base and an industry-leading map data and technology platform with the broadest geographical coverage.
I will leave you with another memorable quote from "Wall Street":
The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've still got a lot to teach you.
Let's all own and make the rules, the right way ~URBANOMICS
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