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HONG KONG — ACL Semiconductors (OTC Bulletin Board: ACLO), a leading China-based distributor of Samsung memory electronic products in Hong Kong and Southern China, reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2010.
Quarterly Highlights:
• Net revenue up 35% year-over-year to $102.3 million
• Initiated NAND Flash products to capture larger market share
• Over 150 customers in Hong Kong and Southern China
Mr. Alan Yang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ACL Semiconductors, commented, “The third quarter of 2010 demonstrated another quarter of year-over-year revenue growth. Our total revenue was up 34.6% in the quarter ended September 30, 2010, as compared to the same period last year. These outstanding results also reflect the success of our business model and the macro economic factors across Hong Kong and Southern China. Most importantly, we are proud of the distribution and product research we supply to Samsung, as we are positioned to be a leading distributor of Samsung memory products in Southern China. During the quarter, we began to promote Samsung's high density NAND Flash (4GB and above) in order to capture a larger market share as well as to push the high density products to the mainstream market. This promotion was successful, which resulted in our increased sales volume for the quarter.”
For the quarter ended September 30, 2010, ACL Semiconductors reported net revenue of $102.3 million, an increase from $76.0 million, or 34.6%, compared to the same period last year. The year-over-year revenue growth was primarily due to an increase of sales volume in the PRC market. Net loss for the quarter ended September 30, 2010 was $77,000, compared to net income of $1.0 million in the same period last year. The net loss resulted primarily from increased pricing pressure on our products and our promotion of Samsung's NAND products. Earnings per diluted share was $0.00 for the quarter ended September 30, 2010, as compared to $0.03 in the same period last year.
Gross profit for the quarter ended September 30, 2010 was $950,000, down 60.6% from $2.4 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2009, primarily due to lower margins resulting from the factors mentioned above. Gross margin for the quarter ended September 30, 2010 was 0.9%, down from 3.2% as compared to the quarter ended September 30, 2009. The decrease in gross profit and gross margin was mainly due to the decrease in the average selling prices of our products as the market became saturated with excess supply.
Mr. Yang continued, “During the quarter we continued to pursue initiatives to improve our internal financial performance and minimize unnecessary costs. We recorded an 11.2% decrease in operating expenses as compared to the corresponding quarter in 2009. We expect our sales turnover to remain stable in the fourth quarter of 2010. We also expect global market demand and the average selling prices of our products to remain stable in the fourth quarter 2010. We are confident in our outlook as the electronics sector is expected to grow for the remainder of the year and we are well-positioned to take advantage of the foreseeable growth in China's market.”
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That is really a nice piece of composition just based on the data available through internet. Atleast as a whole the prices of all the components are going down. In general is it driven by reduced demand or due to increased supply? DRAM is definitely a special case since the IC industry is always moving toward the better process to produce very high speed devices which is not really required by majority of the elctronic devices excluding the telecom infrastructure equipment.
Thanks for this, Barbara! I'm very interested to see what the future holds in the photovoltaic space specifically. As you say, there's a lot of focus being put on reducing the manufacturing cost. Long-term, that will be crucial, because I feel that we're going to need to see just absolutely dramatic reductions in cost and improvements to the technology before that whole industry really matures and takes off.
Obviously there will continue to be growth there, but it's the kind of thing that I don't see REALLY exploding for another decade or two.
Thx for the infomation, definitely there is lot of new developements in technology every day hence most of the IC's get outdated and they dont suite the requirement hence there is lot variation in demand with respect to time. I agree there is going to be lot of new revolutions going to take place in the field of photovoltaic cells, as the world is moving towards live green and everyone feels their device can be powered with the resource which is abundantly available hence the prices of this will be high till they will reach a saturation point. next if we are looking into solid state drives they have been put into minimum use one may be because of the cost now since they want to plunge into the markets they might be looking into cost reduction.
The universal pricing strategy is based on both demand and supply (demand vs supply). So this two factors, demand and supply are interrelated. But in this case am thinking in a different way. During November – December season, many of the European & western countries plans for reducing their production target, when compare with the rest of the year. Most of the employees are in holiday & celebration mood. So the companies reduce their purchasing target. Mean time due to the excess availability of the components in the market either distributors or component makers are forced to offer discounts to attain their year end selling targets.
Prices in PV may come down more quickly than anticipated–iSuppli just issued a report on China's investment and output goals over the next few years. Look for it under “Latest Research” –hope it helps!