Apple glass provider Corning warns smartphone and pill gross sales dropped
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Corning inventory fell over 4% on Tuesday morning after the corporate reported a weaker-than-expected outlook for the present quarter, blaming gradual smartphone glass gross sales.
Corning makes a wide range of totally different elements and provides most of the prime electronics firms, like Samsung and Apple, which experiences earnings this week amid concern over slowing client electronics gross sales. However there may be optimism that slowing electronics gross sales will not damage the high-end of the market as a lot as inexpensive gadgets.
Corning mentioned it anticipated $3.55 billion in core, or adjusted, gross sales for the fourth quarter, wanting a FactSet analyst consensus of $3.75 billion.
The corporate mentioned that it will wait to see constructive indicators earlier than telling buyers about future restoration within the enterprise.
Within the quarter ending in September, Corning noticed smartphone unit gross sales decline 14% on an annual foundation, and pill and pocket book demand fall 17%, Corning CEO Wendell Weeks mentioned on an earnings name. He added that annual automotive manufacturing can also be behind its beforehand anticipated tempo.
“So now the query is, when will the glass market get better?” requested Weeks. “My reply is we wish to see further constructive proof earlier than we information a strong restoration in glass demand.”
Corning’s largest enterprise is making cables and elements for fiber-optic methods, which grew 16% to $1.31 billion throughout the quarter.
However the firm noticed a 28% annual decline throughout the quarter to $686 million in gross sales in its shows applied sciences division, which makes glass for smartphones and different pc shows.
And the buyer electronics slowdown would not appear to be getting higher this yr, Weeks mentioned.
“We now anticipate smartphones to be down about 12% for the yr, and we anticipate pocket book and pill demand to say no 15%,” Weeks mentioned. “We anticipate the year-over-year decline in smartphones, notebooks and tablets to be higher within the second half than within the first half.”
Corning reported third-quarter gross sales of $3.49 billion, below FactSet’s consensus of $3.66 billion, and adjusted earnings per share of 51 cents, in step with expectations.
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