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GoPro stock gets haircut after Black Friday sales

GoPro stock slipped into the red on Monday despite indications that its action cameras had a good Black Friday sales weekend. GoPro (GPRO) shares were down 5% to near 74 in afternoon trading on the stock market today. Ambarella (AMBA), which supplies digital image processors for GoPro’s Hero cameras, saw its shares drop 9% to near 50. GoPro’s Hero 3+ Silver camera “crushed it on Black Friday,” Pacific Crest Securities analyst Brad Erickson said in a note Sunday. “We detected particularly strong demand for the discounted Hero 3+ Silver Edition, which was being bundled with various combinations of memory cards, accessories, mounts and/or additional gift cards, depending on the retailer, for $250 (normal camera-only price is $300),” he said. “Several stores we visited had sold out of their allotment on Thanksgiving evening, which was encouraging.” Meanwhile, retailers had plenty of inventory of the more expensive Hero 4…

Ambarella, Avago Among 4 IBD 50 Companies Reporting

Earnings season is waning just as holiday gifting season is winding up. And as Black Friday orders start shipping out, today’s IBD 50 roundup features four companies that are outperforming the market and plan to report quarterly figures this week. Ambarella (AMBA), which provides processing chips to GoPro (GPRO) and other gadget companies, is expected to report Q3 per-share earnings of 54 cents, a 45.9% year-over-year rise. Analysts see revenue

GoPro looking to own the skies with its own drones

Tired of hitching a ride on other companies’ remote-controlled drones, action camera maker GoPro (GPRO) reportedly is looking to make its own consumer drones. GoPro stock jumped nearly 6% to 79.05 on Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal published a report saying that GoPro is developing a line of multi-rotor miniature helicopters to ferry its high-definition cameras. GoPro hopes to start selling the drones late next year for $500 to $1,000, the Journal said. Such remote-controlled aircraft are popular with hobbyists and videographers for capturing dramatic images of the great outdoors, man-made structures, newsworthy events or themselves from up high. Many popular drones on the market, such as those from DJI and Parrot, are designed to carry cameras such as GoPro’s (GPRO) Hero image-capture devices, which weigh about 3 ounces. GoPro’s move to make its own drones could be a hedge against drone makers supplying their own cameras, the Journal said…