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[Stock Talk and Analysis] Motorola Is Dead Money - Barron’s Abby Carmel submits: Excerpt from Barron’s Weekly Magazine. Receive all our excerpts by signing up here: Moto, Eat Nokia’s Dust by Mark Veverka Summary: Following Nokia (NOK)’s surprise high earnings report last week, Motorola (MOT)’s 4Q results from two weeks earlier paled even more. Nokia’s cellphone margins were actually up, despite intense competition and resulting phone price cuts. The company’s handset operating margins rose to 17.8%, up more than 2% from the previous quarter, while Motorola, at 4.4%, went half as high as anticipated. All handset competitors have suffered from shrinking margins, with the sole exception of Nokia and Sony (SNE)-Ericsson (ERIC). Motorola is taking growth in market share and volume in emerging markets, at the cost of margins and profit. Slashing the cost of its popular RAZR model resulted in increased market share at the expense of its other handsets. The gap between the two giants can widen in the short term, as...