BlackBerry's (BBRY) Price Target Lowered to $7 at Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank earlier maintained a Hold rating on BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) and lowered its price target to $7.00 (from $9.00). The change follows the company's Q1 results. Analyst Brian Modoff described results as "weak."

"We note meaningful weakness in the hardware business ($263.2M versus consensus: $327.5M) and in services ($250.0M versus consensus: $271.6M). Software revenues, however, were boosted by one quarter items such as licensing revenues from CSCO, leading to a beat versus consensus ($138.2M versus consensus: $83.5M). Maintain our Hold rating, noting a directionally slowing core business and the software beat colored by one-time items and Q/Q volatility from license fees, etc," said Modoff.

"We remain skeptical of management's FY16 guidance commentary (which seems more of an objective versus a fundamental outlook): the company noting anticipation of positive free cash flow and sustainable non-GAAP profitability during FY16," continued the analyst.

Modoff added, "We think it is prudent to maintain our neutral near-term outlook and our Hold rating on the stock. Our view is based on a directional decline in the core hardware business, and software revenues colored by one-time items (CSCO licensing revenues, etc). We note that BBRY's software revenues have been growing low to mid 20% Y/Y over past few quarters, with license fees systematically increasing Q/Q revenue volatility (which could be a detractor tothe forward trading multiple), summing up the basis for our Hold rating."

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Shares of BlackBerry closed at $8.81 yesterday.

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