5 Penny Stocks With Biggest Upside

2. Nokia Oyj (NYSE:NOK)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 24     

Share Price as of December 20: $4.60 

Nokia Oyj (NYSE:NOK) provides mobile, fixed, and cloud network solutions worldwide. On December 12, Nokia unveiled that Telefónica Germany and Nokia have aggregated sub-6 GHz spectrum frequencies in an industry-first two-component carrier uplink Carrier Aggregation trial on 5G Standalone. On November 9, Deutsche Bank analyst Robert Sanders Nokia Oyj maintained a Buy rating on Nokia Oyj (NYSE:NOK) stock and lowered the price target to EUR 5.50 from EUR 6.

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In its Q3 2022 investor letter, Horos Asset Management, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and Nokia Oyj (NYSE:NOK) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“Two clear examples of value traps that I remember with particular anger include Nokia (NYSE:NOK). Two companies suffered a rapid technological disruption in their business model and did not know or were not able to reinvent themselves in time. In the case of Nokia, we were dealing with the undisputed leader in cell phone sales. The company had an (apparently) ultra-solid balance sheet and enviable operating margins. However, the arrival of the smartphone brought a radical change to the industry, to which Nokia did not know how to adapt. In a short period, players such as Apple and Samsung wiped the Finnish giant off the map.”