Motorola Solutions Shares Up because of Increased Social Media Activity

In the critical communications industry we often discuss the impact of Social Media. Also in my private meetings, I often receive the question on how social media presence positively will impact the business.

Remarkable is, that some companies within the COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY, still underestimate the impact Social Media can have.

Today, Trade-Ideas identified that Motorola Solutions stock went up as due to the following factors:

• MSI has 12x the normal benchmarked social activity for this time of the day compared to its average of 1.23 mentions/day.
• MSI has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $155.9 million.

Identifying stocks with 'Unusual Social Activity' tends to be a valuable process for traders looking to capitalize on the 'talk of the town' stocks that are basking in far more attention from the StockTwits financial community than normal. Good press? Bad press? It ultimately doesn't matter if it's good or bad if you know how to trade around the sentiment.

Certain hedge funds use such data for their proprietary algorithms and it is not uncommon to see shared social sentiment play itself out in a stock's price trend.

However it also need to be said that today Goldman Sachs has upgraded Motorola Solutions Inc. 
to Buy from Neutral, saying the shift toward managed services is a key incremental opportunity. The brokerage also sees a 25 percent upside in shares.

Nevertheless, whatever the reason was, shares of Motorola Solutions went up with 2,2%.