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What the results of Vitrox and Unisem are telling us - felicity

Tan KW
Publish date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019, 06:42 PM
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Friday, October 25, 2019

 
When I write this article, I guess some have yet to realise the consequence of how the trade war will affect some of the companies.

Just read here.

Vitrox and Unisem, among the larger listed semiconductor companies in Malaysia just announced poor results.

Vitrox, which has been one of more better performing companies in Malaysia over the last few years, just announced a close to 40% drop in revenue against the similar quarter last year. Unisem is worse, it just registered a poor quarter, moving into losses.



Vitrox's case, I think the recent quarter is more of a everything just went awry in a quarter where, many companies would want to reduce their purchases of machineries due to the uncertainties. As for Unisem, it is a packaging house (OSAT) which provides assembly for customers who sells chips to the final product assembler.

As mentioned in my previous article, the value chain for Unisem would not augur well for this type of companies i.e. Inari, Unisem, MPI. Unisem has foreseen this and in the last year, it partnered with a Chinese company to address this situation.

The system or box build guys will have a different situation in the long run as one can see in VS Industry's result.



 
 

 

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speakup

terrible results also no limit down? WTF!

2019-10-25 20:48

PaulNewman

Unisem recorded a loss making quarter due to exceptional items related to their indonesian operation. Without this expense, they would have made a profit

2019-10-26 08:27

Jonathan Keung

Trade war benefits no one. Not all tech companies are the same. The shift in supply chain will benefit Vietnam more than Malaysia

2019-10-26 08:56

UnicornP

NASDAQ is there to support.

2019-10-26 09:01

Icon8888

Bad result reflects past

Good time coming

Unisem Chengdu subsidiary should benefit from China de Americanisation of supply chain

2019-10-27 11:53

UnicornP

Yea bottomed-out quarter it is. Sometimes you just gotta bet. No bet no gain.

2019-10-27 17:50

value88

It is true that Vitrox reported inferior earnings QoQ and YoY, but not Unisem.
Unisem's July-Sept'19 earnings was impacted by one-off loss from reversal of retirement benefits in PT Unisem and exceptionally high tax rate. If exclude those one-off loss, Unisem actually register profit in this quarter and EPS is also higher QoQ.
I am surprise Felicity who is an experienced stock investor didn't look into the details of Unisem's quarterly report and jumped to conclusion that Unisem did poorer in this quarter.

2019-10-27 22:15

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