14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that, despite how the PC market generally did decently over the past and current quarter, Compal Electronics had to deal with a drop in sales when it came to its mobile PC business.
Since the year is nearing its end and the month of December is well underway, IT companies are evaluating their financial situations.
As one would expect, the results were mixed, though there is a general leaning to the positive side since the market is recovering after the fairly financially troubled years of 2008 and 2009.
It would appear that a certain PC maker from Taiwan went through a less than stellar fourth quarter, or at least not very promising month of November.
Granted, Compal Electronics is definitely not the only company to register losses or shipment decline during November.
Nevertheless, the outfit still could not prevent its notebook shipments from falling by a more or less hefty percentage, 10% to be more exact.
This means that only 3.8 million mobile personal computers were shipped, even though some of its rivals actually pulled off some mild or outright high sales boosts.
For instance, Quanta sold 1.1 million units more than Compal itself, leaving its figure at 4.9 million for last month.
Fortunately, Compal was able to make up for its 'troubled' notebook business by scoring a monthly record in terms of LCD (liquid crystal display) shipments.
It estimates its shipments at 5.3 to 5.4 million for the whole year, which is not at all too shabby, though not nearly on par with the 8-10 million units it has planned for 2011.
Regardless, coming back to the notebook front, Compal expects sales to rebound during December. Since the holidays are in play and sales are set to shoot up, the outfit will not downward adjust its shipment guidance.