phone rings. Your pager vibrates off the bed stand. Your
PowerPC boots up for the day. Your boss calls you on your
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cell phone claiming that you’re late. The supercomputers that
operate the streetlights in your neighborhood continue to
keep your streets safe. If not for Motorola, none of these
everyday occurrences would be possible. Motorola, Inc. is
headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois with other offices
throughout Illinois and the US, plus offices in China, Japan
and throughout Europe. Motorola’s Semiconductor’s Products
Sector designs, produces and distributes a broad line of
discrete semiconductors and integrated circuits, including
microprocessors, RF devices, microcontrollers, digital signal
processors, memories, logic and analog circuits, and sensors.
Motorola’s Cellular Subscriber Sector designs, manufactures
and distributes a full range of wireless telephone products for
worldwide markets. Motorola’s Cellular Network’s and Space
Sector designs and manufactures equipment for wireless
telephone systems, advanced electronic systems and satellite
communications for commercial and government customers
and is responsible for forming joint-venture telecom operating
companies worldwide. Motorola’s Land Mobile Products
Sector designs, manufactures and distributes analog and
digital two-way radio products and systems for applications
worldwide, from on-site to wide-area communications.
Motorola’s Messaging, Information and Media Sector designs,
manufactures and distributes a variety of messaging products,
including pagers and paging systems, wireless and wireline
data communications products, infrastructure equipment and
systems, handwriting-recognition software products, image
communications products and services, and Internet software
products. Motorola’s Automotive, Energy and Components
Sector designs and manufactures a broad range of electronic
components, modules and integrated electronic systems and
products for automotive, industrial, transportation, navigation,
communication, energy systems, consumer and lighting
markets. Motorola’s Computer Group designs, manufactures
and distributes Mac® OS-compatible systems, computer
board products and technical computer system platform
products. Many of the products Motorola creates are used in
everyday life unknowingly. FINANCIAL INFORMATION-SEE
APPENDIX 1 GRAPHS-SEE APPENDIX 2-5 APPENDIX 2-
this graph shows that most of Motorola, Inc.’s sales are done
in the US, with Europe a distant second. This is rational due
to the well being of the US economy compared to foreign
economies. APPENDIX 3- this graph shows that the net sales
for Motorola, Inc. have increased steadily over the past three
years. This is due in part to the increase of products made
available by Motorola and the increase in demand for
increasingly inexpensive products. APPENDIX 4- this graph
shows earnings before income taxes. Seen next to Appendix
3, this graph seems unreasonable, however, research and
development costs have increased, plus their more expensive
processors’ sales have decreased due to the instability of
Apple, while their inexpensive cellular devices have
increased. Motorola did sell more, but they also spent more
than in the past two years. Motorola, Inc. appears to be doing
quite will for the 1997 fiscal year compared to their 1996 year.
After the poor year in ’96, they cut programs that weren’t living
up to expectations and have recently joined in several
joint-venture projects including the IRIDUIM® satellite
communications system. Prior to ’96, Motorola’s value was
climbing steadily, but several new programs failed and their
joint venture with Apple to create PowerPC Mac’s tumbled,
taking their value down in ’96. Motorola is constantly
producing new communications devices including, but not
limited to, phones, Internet accessories, satellites, handheld
computers and software that will continue to drive their value
up. As an investor, I would invest in Motorola. They are not a
brilliant stock that would rise suddenly, but they are a safe,
long-term investment that will prove profitable over time. The
need for the devices that primarily Motorola provides will not
decrease, but will instead increase with the increase of
population and space colonization, thus forcing their value up
slowly over time. Motorola, Inc. is a business looking towards