(B)(N) LNVGY Lenovo Group Limited ADR

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Deal Book. Lenovo is on a roll and bought IBM’s x86 server business for $2.3 billion last week (Forbes, January 23, 2014, Lenovo Buying IBM Server Business For $2.3 Billion) and is buying Google’s Motorola Unit this week (Reuters, January 29, 2014, Lenovo nears $3 billion deal to buy Google’s Motorola unit). And investors have boosted the stock from $18 to $20 last year to the current $27 and well above the price of risk at $24 and rising. Please see Exhibit 3 below.

But Lenovo is also rolling with elite company and it’s possible – even probable – that the “big techs” have seen the future and are shedding some old skins and lines of business to bring forward a new decade of technological change and magic far removed from the more pedestrian 80’s and 90’s.

Investors are nervous and only understand their good fortune in Newtonian (17th century) terms (The Street, January 24, 2014, What Goes Up…Must Come Down) but are still willing to play and have bid up the “big techs” by 5% and $100 billion so far this year. Please see Exhibit 1 below.

Exhibit 1: The NYSE “Big Techs” – Fundamentals – January 2014

NYSE “Big Tech” – Fundamentals – January 2014

(B)(N) The Undervalued Big Techs – January 2014

The “big techs” earned $150 billion last year and returned $40 billion or 26% to the shareholders for an aggregate dividend yield of 1.7%.

Should they earn less this year because the demand for copper and gold is low? Or because the government can pay its debts from a burgeoning tax base? Or because there might be 8 billion people on the planet in a few years?

Quantum Computing, You Say?

We don’t know but we’re ready to roll too and not fall off the edge, so to speak. Of the twelve “big techs”, ten are in the Perpetual Bond™ at the present time (excusing Cisco and Samsung for the moment) and our estimate of the downside risk in the portfolio is minus (9%) but we’re ready for that as a profit-taking and buying opportunity at lower prices. Please see Exhibit 2 below.

Exhibit 2: (B)(N) The NYSE “Big Techs” – Prices & Portfolio – January 2014

(B)(N) NYSE “Big Techs” – Prices & Portfolio – January 2014

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Exhibit 3: (B)(N) LNVGY Lenovo Group Limited ADR – Risk Price Chart

(B)(N) LNVGY Lenovo Group Limited ADR

Lenovo Group Limited is a personal technology company engaged in manufacturing & marketing of technology products & services such as personal computers, servers, laptops, workstations, mobile Internet devices, tablets & smart phone.

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From the Company: Lenovo Group Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and distribution of IT products, and provision of IT services in worldwide. Its products include commercial and consumer personal computers, notebooks, desktops, servers, and workstations; mobile Internet devices, including tablets and smartphones; and accessories and parts, audio and video products, batteries and power products, cables and connectors, carrying cases, docks and port replicators, keyboards and mice, memory products, monitor accessories, monitors, security and storage products, tablet accessories, and wireless and networking products. The company also trades mobile phones and accessories; retails and services consumer electronic products; and offers repair services for computer hardware and software systems. It has a strategic partnership with EMC Corporation to develop network-attached storage products. The company was formerly known as Legend Holdings Limited and changed its name to Lenovo Group Limited in April 2004. Lenovo Group Limited was founded in 1981, has 35,000 employees and is headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, and is considered as a Red Chip company due to its listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

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And for more on what risk averse investing has done for us this year, please see our recent Posts on The S&P TSX “Hangdog” Market or The Wall Street Put or specialty markets such as The Dow Transports & Utilities or (B)(N) The Woods Are Burning, or for the real class action, La Dolce Vita – Let’s Do Prada! and It’s For You, Dear on the smartphone business.

And for more stocks at high prices, The World’s Most Talked About Stocks or Earnings Don’t Matter – NASDAQ 100. And for more on what’s Working in America, Big Oil, Shopping in America or Banking in America, to name just a few.

Postscript

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