Buy and hold tight till all Data Centers in China, Japan, Usa, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, France, Europe, Australia, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Africa, South America and etc etc all up and need Hdd and Ssd
Actually today's movement is very solidifying and reinforcing for JCY's up trend momentum, this is despite market is weaker due to pull backs of many index linked stocks.
At the beginning of the HDD industry, all the drives were made in USA (Ampex, Burroughs, Control Data, IBM, Memorex, Univac, STK), and then also in Europe (Bull, Siemens) and Japan (Fujitsu, Hitachi). But they were high-priced high-margin units for mainframes where the workforce to build them was a small percentage of the global price.
There was a big change when PCs arrived in a more price sensitive market. The first two storage companies to land in Asia were probably Tandon and Micro Peripherals in 1981 to manufacture floppy disk drives in Singapore.
But the real pioneer was Tom Mitchell, who decided in 1982, or only three years after the birth of Seagate, to transfer all production of 5.25-inch HDDs from Santa Cruz, CA, to Singapore. He was highly unsatisfied by the "high cost, marginal quality and poor availability of labor" in California. He also had the good fortune to fall upon a remarkable local engineer, S.C. Tien, to help him in his efforts.
Seagate's success inspired many imitators in Singapore and then in other Asian countries with lower salaries.
Today all HDDs are manufactured in only six Asian countries by the remaining producers: Hitachi GST (acquired by WD) in China, Thailand and Singapore Seagate in China, South Korea (acquired Samsung HDD for a small quantity) and Thailand Toshiba in China, Thailand and the Philippines The manufacture of HDDs cannot be completely robotized and need huge number of workers for assembling components and testing. WD has around 62,000 employees and Seagate 53,000 worldwide, the huge majority in their manufacturing facilities. And you have to pay them. That's why the HDD makers are hiring people with salaries as low as possible and the gap continues to be enormous between USA and these Asian countries.
For the IMF World Economic Outlook Database, October 2010, the average minimum ANNUAL salary for workers was $1,500 in China, $2,053 in the Philippines, $2,293 in Thailand and $4,375 in Malaysia. Per comparison, it's $729 per median WEEKLY earnings in USA according to the United States Bureau of Labor (January 27, 2012) among full-time wage and salary workers not union members. Result: between 9X and 25X more in the U.S.
That's why it's impossible to build plants in North America to be competitive in the HDD industry.
But there is another reason. With few exceptions, all the components into HDDs (disks, heads, motors, PCBs, enclosures, etc) are built in Asia because their makers have installed their factories near HDD assembly plants to offer a better service to their huge customers.
These two reasons explain why we are not going to see any HDDs made in USA in the near future. It's the same for PCs, notebooks, tablets, smart phones and the majority of high-tech devices.
The manufacture of HDDs cannot be completely robotized and need huge number of workers for assembling components and testing. WD has around 62,000 employees and Seagate 53,000 worldwide, the huge majority in their manufacturing facilities. And you have to pay them. That's why the HDD makers are hiring people with salaries as low as possible and the gap continues to be enormous between USA and these Asian countries.
FUTURE PROSPECT B4. VARIANCE FROM PROFIT FORECAST Not applicable as the Group has not issued any profit forecast for the period under review. (The rest of the page has been intentionally left blank) The reported quarter total HDD storage market showed a 3% increase Quarter on Quarter (QoQ) in units shipped and 22% QoQ total Storage Capacity shipped, increasing to 262 Exabytes(EB). This is the 2nd straight quarter that the industry is seeing unit HDD shipment increase. The industry has also reported that inventory levels in the supply chain are back to normal levels. Based on current market trends and barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Group expects the performance of the second half year to be better than the first half. The group is projecting that our factory capacity utilisation rate will increase as our customers improve their units shipped. Our short to medium term strategy remains to strengthen our core in the storage industry while diversifying into other industries. We aim to be recognized as a Quality focused, engineeringbased precision casting, machining, and assembly company. We remain focused in growing our portfolio. We strongly believe that being vertically integrated in Mold making, Casting, Machining and Coating gives us a strategic advantage in the industry to capitalise on the disruption in supply chain driven by the world’s geopolitical tensions. We are working with new customers in product qualifications. We do recognise that this is a slow and laborious, part by part qualification, process and will take 2-4 years to reach some maturity. The group remains invested in the long-term partnerships to grow together with our customers.
. Based on current market trends and barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Group expects the performance of the second half year to be better than the first half.
BUSINESS REVIEW JCY International Berhad and its subsidiaries (“the Group”) is principally involved in the manufacturing of precision components and sub-assembly. For more than two decades, the Group and its predecessors have been a leading component supplier and contract manufacturer for the Hard Disk Drive (“HDD”) industry.
For more than two decades, the Group and its predecessors have been a leading component supplier and contract manufacturer for the Hard Disk Drive (“HDD”) industry.
IT TAKES 20 YEARS TO SET UP HDD & SSD FACTORIES
VERY HIGH BARRIER TO ENTRIES (GLOVES TAKE ONLY 6 MONTHS)
FOR NEXT 3 to 5 YEARS JCY, NOTION & DUFU WILL DOMINATE THE HDD & SSD Markets
Dear Calvin Tan, In terms of Solid Disk Drive (SSD) and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) producers, Notion and Dufu are much better than JCY. But I cannot afford to buy them. So, I have no choice but to buy JCY. May I know what is target price of JVY, which I.bought at RM0.445.
Dear Calvin Tan, In terms of Solid Disk Drive (SSD) and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) producers, Notion and Dufu are much better than JCY. But I cannot afford to buy them. So, I have no choice but to buy JCY. May I know what is target price of JVY, which I.bought at RM0.445
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