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A growing school of analysts feel that Nokia was sold for a very low price

Tuesday, 03 September 2013
A group of analysts in Finland are surprise at the sale of Nokia and also the price paid for the company.
According to report from Yle in Finland, the timing of Nokia’s deal to sell its phone business to Microsoft came as a shock to analyst Tero Kuittinen who also is screaming that the price paid is “notably low price”.

“Undoubtedly the timing is quite a shock,” Alekstra analyst Kuittinen told Yle. According to Kuittinen, the company had seen robust growth in sales of some models over the summer.

He said the conventional wisdom among analysts was that Nokia would wait at least a year and see how newer, high-end Lumia models sell before making any such drastic decisions.

“It looks as though something has happened that forced this decision,” said Kuittinen. “Because the phone division certainly went cheaply,” he said
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In a column for Forbes, Kuittinen described the the price of 5.44 billion euros—less than what Microsoft paid for Skype in 2011—as ‘a visceral shock’.

Kuittinen also speculated about the actions of Nokia boss Stephen Elop, who now rejoins the company he left to take the top job at Nokia. Elop’s decision to end production of Symbian and Meego smartphones has been heavily criticised in some quarters as the company’s fortunes continued to fall.

“The motivation of Stephen Elop will now come under intense scrutiny,” writes Kuittinen. “Elop came from Microsoft and decided very quickly that Windows was the only hope for Nokia’s smartphone unit, which was still selling more than 24 million units per quarter in early 2011. After he eliminated all alternative operating system options, he has now decided to sell Nokia’s smartphone unit at a notably low price… to Microsoft, the company he will now rejoin.”

“You don’t need to be a Finn to take a moment to wonder whether Elop’s loyalties have been entirely undivided over the past few years,” he concludes.
by Scancomark.com Team