Alright Traders - Time to Short Diebold?

or do y'all think it might be too late?

http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05092114.htm?ref=foolwatch

"Don't cry to me, oh baby. Should have seen it a-comin' on" -- Misfits, "Die Die My Darling"

It's time to bring out my padded mallet and play corporate whack-a-mole. Once again, Diebold (NYSE: DBD) has announced that earnings aren't going to be everything they were once cracked up to be.

For the third quarter, management guided expectations down. Netting out oft-recurring "one-time" charges, the company now expects earnings of between $0.25 and $0.30 -- well below the mean analyst number of $0.66. This will be at least the fourth significant analyst revision in the past three months, and the original starting point for this quarter was more on the order of $0.83 per share.

They sell thier machines really cheap. . . to get them in place in as many localities as possible .

I guess they see it as a "public service".

to make sure Republicans get elected.

I'm sure they're paid handsomely for their services.

they have plenty of money

charts and that sucker is broke no matter what time frame. There could be a backtest though it looks like 45 would be resistance and a more profitable place to go short. Extremely high volume on down days. Bears wathching.

wish i had been watching them earlier - would have loved to help take them down a notch.


it might be more satisfying tho, to wait for 45 like you said, and then kick em in the nuts.