14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that yet another pair of companies have supplied the web with some information on their January performance, and ASRock and Pegatron went through significantly different experiences.
As end-users know, the first quarter of any year is generally seen as the slow season, in terms of sales.
Obviously, this is because the consumers have already exhausted, so to speak, much of their disposition and means to buy new products over the winter holiday season.
Thus, revenues usually end up falling in this period, especially during the month of January.
There have already been reports that attest to this, although some exceptions did exist when a company or another actually saw both a sequential and on-year growth.
Now, a more recent report deals with how Pegatron and ASRock are doing, and it appears their statuses are quite different.
ASRock is the one that did well, ending up with a massive on-month growth of 53.3% in consolidated revenues.
This corresponds to a figure of NT$1.05 billion and was owed to shipments of 800,000 motherboards. That said, for the whole year, the company may just exceed 9 million mainboard shipments.
If it is successful, the company will exceed the 2010 performance (8 million sales). Mass production of tablets starting in the second quarter is also among its plans.
Meanwhile, Pegatron didn't do so well, having suffered an on-year revenue drop of 14%, ending up with the sum of NT$29.22 billion.
It is the equivalent of US$1.01 billion and shows also a sequential drop of 6.3%. Mainly the low performance was due to less consumer electronics and PC sales during the off season.
Nevertheless, the outfit still has a positive outlook for the whole year, expecting revenues to jump by 30%, even though February is supposed to show a drop instead of a rise, of 10% that is.