Switch news doesn't translate favorably for Nintendo's stock price
Shares down more than 5 percent on both the Tokyo and New York exchanges.
Nintendo's massive unveiling of details for the Switch late last week did not sit well with investors, with the stock taking a hit of more than 5 percent on both the Tokyo and New York stock exchanges soon after the reveal.
By Friday morning, Nintendo had dropped more than 5.75 percent to 23,750 yen, down from a high of 25,085 yen earlier in the day, on volume (7.589 million shares traded) more than three times the previous day. By today, the stock had stabilized somewhat, but still dropped as low as 22,905 yen before rebounding slightly as the day progressed.
In New York on Friday, Nintendo shares dropped almost 6.5 percent from a Thursday close of $27.60 to $25.85 by the closing bell. The U.S. market is closed today for the MLK holiday.
While news of the console received generally favorable press, analysts seemed a bit put off by the rather high $299.99 price tag and no bundled games. There is also some concern as to whether the console-handheld hybrid would appeal to a broad audience. Our own resident stock expert, Asif "Man With The Briefcase" Khan, thinks both investors and fans are suffering from "post-traumatic Wii U Disorder," where that console's failure is still fresh in everyone's minds. That makes dismissing the Switch relatively easy. The "sell first, ask questions later mentality" makes a knee-jerk response to the stock almost normal at this point, he said.
The Nintendo Switch is scheduled to launch on March 3, and we will obviously know more when we can start seeing actual sales numbers, but right now, Nintendo is again stumbling through a hardware reveal that pales in comparison to current gen competitors PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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John Keefer posted a new article, Switch news doesn't translate favorably for Nintendo's stock price
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oh man, haha. the reason this post cracked me up is not just bcs I did the same thing, but bcs I got so confident in this that I broke my golden rule of mainstream stock trading: involving friends/family. I never do it. I flat out refuse. It's too risky and I'm not smart enough to risk other peoples' money.
Except this was so open and obvious and repeatable that I finally let up. And of course I was wrong. And of course the next time it went back to par.
stocks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯-
Yep! The only time I lost on an Apple short was when I posted on shacknews about doing it. Something like 8 successful ones in a row. Made this post and ate crow. http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=35240926#item_35240926
I'm still way up on the practice though, so can't complain.
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It depends. Apple's recent reveals have all been preceded by extremely accurate rumors. Then they are only going to be responding to any surprises.
The Switch rumor reporting was a mixed bag. A lot of it was right. But one major thing was wrong. The prevailing rumor leading up to the presentation was that the console was going to be priced at $249. When the actual price was announced, they were dead (at least from a temporary stock price since).
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It's almost comical how much stock prices swing up and down sometimes. It really makes investors seem like temperamental children sometimes. Huge swings for sometimes small announcements, sometimes the reasoning is based on false information (not researched). It just seems like kind of a joke. Especially with Nintendo it's been swinging so much in either direction, it's starting to lose its meaning.
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