Gerade heute hat ABMAmro die gesamte Peergroup abgewertet.
Thursday February 28, 12:00 pm Eastern Time
RESEARCH ALERT-ABN Amro cuts contract
manufacturers
LOS ANGELES, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Brokerage ABN Amro on Thursday cuts its earnings
estimates for four of the top five U.S. contract manufacturers, saying recent data indicates the
recovery in the telecom sector, a key customer, is progressing more slowly than expected.
Analyst Keith Bachman lowered
estimates for Celestica Inc. (NYSE:CLS
- news), Jabil Circuit Inc. (NYSE:JBL - news), Sanmina-SCI Corp.
(NasdaqNM:SANM - news) and Solectron Corp. (NYSE:SLR - news),
citing evidence of a delay in the recovery in telecom spending and
indications that the recovery may be ``modest at best.''
He said capital spending cuts by major telecom carriers such as BellSouth
Corp. (NYSE:BLS - news) were a bad sign, as was Motorola Inc.'s
(NYSE:MOT - news) outlook for global wireless spending.
The $100 billion electronics manufacturing services (EMS) sector derives
most of its business from high-volume, low-margin production of products
such as cell phones, data and networking products, and video game
systems.
But Bachman's note was not entirely negative. ``We remain optimistic on the enterprise market and believe that a recovery in
(information technology) spending is under way, lead by storage area networking,'' he said.
Bachman lowered the calendar 2002 earnings estimate on Celestica to $1.40 a share from $1.49, and cut his 2003 estimate to
$1.75 from $1.87. He lowered his 2003 revenue estimate to $12.5 billion from $13.1 billion.
For Jabil, Bachman lowered his fiscal 2002 earnings estimate to 40 cents a share from 46 cents, and his revenue estimate to
$3.5 billion from $3.6 billion. For 2003, he cut his earnings estimate to 65 cents a share from 76 cents, and his revenue forecast
to $4.2 billion from $4.5 billion.
For Sanmina-SCI, he cut his fiscal 2002 earnings estimate to 11 cents a share from 15 cents and his revenue forecast to $10.2
billion from $10.5 billion. For fiscal 2003 he cut his earnings estimate to 50 cents a share from 62 cents but left his revenue
forecast unchanged.
For Solectron, he cut his fiscal 2002 earnings estimate to 18 cents a share from 22 cents, and cut his revenue estimate to $12.5
billion from $12.8 billion. For fiscal 2003, he cut his earnings estimate to 40 cents from 50 cents and cut his revenue forecast to
$15 billion from $15.3 billion.
He did not change any estimates for the other top-tier contract manufacturer, Flextronics International Ltd. (NasdaqNM:FLEX
- news).
Good Luck!
PS Ich habe bei 15,20$ die Reißleine gezogen(KK 19,20 :-( )