By Andrew Boral:
The latest news for Blackberry [Research In Motion (RIMM)] has not been all that positive. The top management is going through transitions. Meanwhile, Apple’s (APPL) iPhone and Google’s (GOOG) Android phones are have fantastic years. Blackberry is a pure play in the phone business. Rather than single product companies, Apple and Google make products in diverse electronics and software areas. This makes the oligopoly comparison more difficult. Other weaker players such as Nokia and Sony Ericson seem to be smaller niche players now. They once were powerhouses and innovators in the cell phone market. Will Blackberry become as irrelevant as Nokia (NOK) and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson or just Ericsson (ERIC)? The marketplace has changed dramatically. In this article the Z-Score model for bankruptcy will be applied to see how bad things are getting for Blackberry. Each ratio will analyze. Hopefully, using the trends in this model’s score will shed some