Robot view of Motorola
Motorola Limited Company (New York Stock Exchange: Epigram) Enable surprised Wall Street on Thursday, reports the small profit in the second quarter, when the income dropped, robot that the telephone concentrated on even more when the company appears by itself may be handed over in the fourth quarter.
List in agenda 1: Motorola Q2 Income
2 Q08 2 Q09 changes
Income (U.S. dollar B) 8.1 5.5 -32%
Net income (U.S. dollar M) 4.0 26.0 times +550%
EPS (U.S. dollar) 0.00 0.01 apartments
Source: Motorola Limited Company
The profit is especially unexpected after losing in the first quarter of 231 million dollars of Motorola in the second quarter. Common CEO, income in company call, Greg Brown and Sanjay Jha, belong to urgent reduction of cost measure changing direction, especially in mobile devices divide.
Jha, operate that division, it was about the existing more of today’s teleconference in the past than he, when it clearly becomes, how much will be arranged his smartphone tactics based on robot last time and the whole 2010 this year for Motorola.
Motorola expects to start over 30 new telephones in the latter half of 2009. In order to hear Jha tell it, however, the first two smartphones, is based on google (Nasdaq: GOOG) The robot operating system from Motorola, it was everything that looked at and made.
” From my visual angle, have only that thing of two telephones really, ” Jha that the frankness admitted.
It is high first and low-grade model expect to be laid those vacations aside. It last Motorola Jha already write by ink with trade ” The main porter ” Assign them.
So, how will Motorola seem different from Hi-Tech computer company (HTC) to make the telephone of its robot (Taiwan: 2498) Mobile phone on now outside and it is the more from the manufacturer more? According to Jha, no single way.
” It operates the serious problem than anyone, ” Jha says. He only points out, Motorola is concentrating on ” Tight intergration ” Have it in Internet of apparatus and change, form the factor upwards.
Have it is several that take robot of Motorola tactics a lot of month, because mobile device unit delegation remain situation to be bad. The income is reduced by 45% to 1,800 million dollars in the second quarter. Compared with the losses of 346 million dollars for one one year ago, the unit announced the management losses of 253 million dollars.
Jha says he hopes to begin to change direction next year. ” If we do not make ends meet on the basis of one quarter in 2010, I will be disappointed. On an annual foundation, I will not prophesy. ”
Meanwhile, the sale that divides with the cable apparatus of the network at home reduces by 27% to 2 billion dollars, when the unit sale of enterprise’s mobility reduces by 17% to 1,700 million dollars.
However, the news about the profit rises by nearly 10% the stock today of Motorola, to 7.15 dollars per share.