$黑莓(BB)$ 这家伙在nio 3刀大力吹过，前两天预期bb要大力回购，理由是17年打赢高通官司获得数亿美元后回购了几千万股，这次和$Facebook(FB)$ 合解会获得更多，所以按公司行为看，这次也会大规模回购。BlackBerry (BB)

A BlackBerry (BB) sign out front of a corporate office in Silicon Valley, California.

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While successfully transforming itself from a mobile phone maker to an IT security and secure operating-system vendor, BlackBerry launched multiple lawsuits against major tech companies for violating its patents. In early 2018, it initiated such a lawsuit against Facebook (NASDAQ:FB).

On Jan. 15, BlackBerry announced that it had finally settled that lawsuit. In 2017, shortly after it was awarded $815 million from Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) (the amount was later raised to more than $900 million), BlackBerry began repurchasing up to 31 million of its shares, or 6.4% of its public float.

Since the settlement with Facebook is likely to be much larger due to Facebook’s large cash reserves and the importance of the messaging technologies in dispute to the social network’s business, I believe that BlackBerry will buy back many more shares of BB stock in coming months.

Further, unlike in 2017, BlackBerry is now solidly cash-flow positive, as its net cash from operating activities in its third quarter came in at $29 million. As of its last reported quarter, it had just $589 million of debt and $674 million of cash.

And BlackBerry’s future is looking very bright, as the demand for cybersecurity products remains quite strong. Most of the leading EV manufacturers have agreed to utilize Blackberry’s highly secure QNX operating system, the company says.

If that isn’t enough, BlackBerry recently began partnering with Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) to develop a “new intelligent vehicle data platform,” and the IT security company recently bolstered its cash reserves by agreeing to sell 90 of its patents to China’s Huawei.