IDC: Hard drive market is shrinking due to cloud shift
IDC data shows hard drive market is shrinking due to cloud shift HARD DISK STORAGE sales are almost at a standstill, according to recent figures that show just 0.3 percent growth, most of it in emerging markets. The International Data Corp (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, which reports statistics on purchases of hard drives, has shown revenues falling 1.4 percent year on year to $5.9bn in the second quarter, as more homes and businesses move from local hard drives and onsite servers to centralised cloud storage. "High-end storage sales fell for the fourth consecutive quarter in 2Q14," said IDC storage research director Eric Sheppard. "The high-end decline was not as striking as last quarter but it was coupled with a drop in midrange sales, suggesting weak demand is spreading to other parts of the market.
Wow, comment during 430am. This Raymond memang stress. Too much in jcy is it? Anyway wish you luck. Nand not killing off HDD/ it is helping more in hybrid. Which in turn help HDD also. Stop spinning lies lah.
share price can drop 5% in 2 days based on Ray information. If he convince just half of the 20 top holders to sell with his information where will the price be. Interesting to see.
I bought a Merc thanks to my investment in JCY. So thank you JCY. Fact: SSD will not be replacing HDD in the next 10 Years. Reason: there is not enough capacity in Semicon to make the amount of storage required by demand even if SSD prices = HDD prices
However, I will caution investment in JCY because the owner is playing games with the stock price. He is selling high and buying low and making many investors trapped. The owner does not care about other shareholders because he himself is the biggest shareholder and wants to make more money at the expense of the other smaller shareholders. I will stay away from this counter for now. I may be back when the time is right
Major shareholder Yong Yoon Kiong controls 1515 million shares or 74% and 1.25% dividend for 1Q 2015 yields RM18.9 million which is not inconsiderable. Repeat performance for 3 more Q and he has RM75.6 million. Why play around with the stock price using proxy names with all its attendant dangers when you have so much at stake. Just my view.
I advise Raymond - just need to convince the Yong Family 74.16% stake in JCY, n tell them JCY no more future, instead to convince us, and write so many comments here. i THINK to convince a person is much easy to convince a group of people!!!
This will hopefully be my last comment that I wish to share with those investors who are at a lost. Last month Mr Wong the ED of the company was quoted as follows" SSD is very efficient in processing, whereas HDD is suitable for bulk storage. The move by Western Digital to acquire SDD players is to complement their HDD business. To set up a new SSD plant is substantial. He further stresses that JCY has no intention of going into SSD business because of high investment cost and they prefer to diversify only into businesses related their core business. He also said that some companies go to consumer electronics (to diversify) but at the end it was disaster".; He further said that the company will spend at least 500 million in the next 10 yrs on automation and machinery.
On the company outlook, Mr. Wong said that the strengthening dollar and low oil price will benefit JCY business. Also economic recovery in the US is expected to see increase in IT spending. Judge for yourself the strong financials of the company and its diversified operations in Malaysia, Thailand and China and decide whether the company is well managed.
Lohman.... YYK listed and sold 25% of his JCY shares at RM1.60+. Now price at 0.70... And if drop, I would not worry. If drop further, which is YYK interest, is good for taking JCY private again and laugh all the way to the bank
becareful. in 2010 listing they announce 182m capex for expansion. then in 2012 after thai flood announce another 300m for expansion. earning have not improved much and some quarter even losses since. where is result of expansion and where the money gone? now announcing another 500m capex over 10 years? do your research carefully and be caution.
Can't blame investors for exercising caution given JCY's historical price volatility and SSD competition headwinds. Used to have competitor Eng Technology before it was taken private in 2012 at RM2 instead of RM2.50 in aftermath of Thai flood issues. Took me months of monitoring JCY before I bought some in mid 2014 but now I'm more comfortable. Five consecutive profitable Qs and accompanying dividends allayed some fears. But serious fund money is still not into the stock. Good or bad? Waiting for more clarity on SSD threat? You decide.
If YKK holds less than 75% share, it means he will buy. If he will buy, he will Make sure he buys cheap. So price will drop. When YKL share is >75%, he then needs to sell down and he will sell down high. That is how I play JCY. Now is not the time to buy because he will make the price down now to buy to his 75%
Interesting to see when Ray will talk to top 20 holders about ssd and how price will be affected. Is suicude for anyone to buy now as price can drop sharply anytime. He mention before he will wait for more to collect first before talking to top 20 holder. My advice for anyone want to buy is to wait for a major dip with big volume before buying otherwise will get burn by him.
you assuming they will all sell at once which is unlikely. if he talk to one party at a time, the selling maybe in stages and will be hard to predict when the price hit bottom. easy to be trapped because you do not know how many of the top 20 will sell.
saw the alliance bank giving TP RM 0.94 with very negative comment, if turn positive mean the price will be more. I think Ray have do his job, buy enough unit and now is time recommend by Bank one by one.
Where are those idiots keep on taking this counter will drop to RM 0.45, now they are laugh as they collected at lower price. Look at Unisem and MPI, where is the big bogus Raymond ?
Raymond was a new ID created to scaremonger with SDD threats, stating 30sen target price by June 2015, and also personally going to talk to top 20 shareholders to sell down JCY.
A first call was to cause panic selling. The second (i.e. of talking to top 20 shareholders) was to make sure those who panicked have sold out.
A person without vested interest would not have had so much time to write something like that. Having said that, those uncomfortable with SDD threat may sell their holding as the price is not too bad now. Those who hold on know their risk and rewards as well.
Come back on 30 June 2015 to check if Raymond is correct or not on his target price of 30sen.
I read the hidden message behind Ray’s comments and have quickly taken benefit by buying into JCY at low at that time. As at today, I am still right and making few % of paper gain. Will my interpretation on his intention still be right going forward? Let’s time tells.
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IDC: Hard drive market is shrinking due to cloud shift
IDC data shows hard drive market is shrinking due to cloud shift
HARD DISK STORAGE sales are almost at a standstill, according to recent figures that show just 0.3 percent growth, most of it in emerging markets.
The International Data Corp (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, which reports statistics on purchases of hard drives, has shown revenues falling 1.4 percent year on year to $5.9bn in the second quarter, as more homes and businesses move from local hard drives and onsite servers to centralised cloud storage.
"High-end storage sales fell for the fourth consecutive quarter in 2Q14," said IDC storage research director Eric Sheppard. "The high-end decline was not as striking as last quarter but it was coupled with a drop in midrange sales, suggesting weak demand is spreading to other parts of the market.
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