Nokia Profit Drops But Sees Strong Sales
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Nokia, the world&#39;s biggest cell phone maker, reported lower third-quarter earnings on Thursday after cutting prices to claw back market share, but said sales were strong as it enters the key Christmas season.
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HELSINKI, Finland -- Nokia Corp. on Tuesday cut its operating margin targets, blaming increased exposure to the network infrastructure business. It also predicted global sales of mobile phones would grow by 10 percent in 2007.
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U.S. stocks were little changed on Thursday after cell phone maker Nokia Corp.  raised its earnings forecast and weekly jobless claims fell more than Wall Street's forecast.
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Profits continue to drop despite strong sales of Palm's Treo smartphone.
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Nokia was a leading gainer Wednesday as European stock markets clawed back some of the steep losses from the previous session.
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AT&T Inc.  on Tuesday posted higher-than-expected quarterly profit on strong wireless subscriber growth, but results of the first two days of iPhone sales fell short of forecasts.
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Robust demand for cheaper phones  boosted third-quarter earnings at Nokia Oyj, the world's  biggest maker of mobile phones, with the better than expected  result sending its shares sharply higher.
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Profit margins from Vodafone continuing businesses fell from 39.6 per cent to 38.7 per cent, the mobile phone operator said on Tuesday as revenue growth outpaced the rise in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
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Nokia reported a 44 percent rise in net profit for the fourth quarter, on sales that increased 34 percent. The company estimates 1.14 billion phones were sold in 2007, 40 percent of them bearing the Nokia brand.The company made net profit for the quarter of &#8364;1.84 billion ($2.7 billion as of Dec. 31, last day of the period reported), up from &#8364;1.27 billion a year earlier.Sales for the quarter rose to &#8364;15.7 billion from &#8364;11.7 billion a year earlier. Growth was dampened by the weakening dollar: at constant currency rates, sales would have grown by 40 percent, the company said.Nokia is counting on its&#160;acquisition of digital mapping data provider Navteq, and its move into the Internet services business, to drive future growth, Chief Financial Officer Rick Simonson said in a conference call with analysts.Basic mobile phones sales now account for less than half the group&#39;s revenue, down from 60 percent a year earlier. Although sales volumes increased, the average selling price of such phones dipped from &#8364;89 to &#8364;83.Around the world, shipments in the quarter increased 26.5 percent, with growth topping 40 percent in Asia. Growth could have been faster were it not for shortages of certain components, Nokia said. Sales fell in North America, Nokia&#39;s smallest geographic market, where shipments dropped 13.6 percent to 5.1 million phones. Nokia blamed the drop on its progressive withdrawal from the market for phones based on CDMA technology, used mainly in North America, to focus on the GSM technology used worldwide.Nokia&#39;s multimedia division saw a 42 percent increase in sales, to &#8364;3.03 billion, and a doubling of operating profit, driven by the success of consumer smartphones such as the N73 and N95, which the company describes as &quot;multimedia computers.&quot; It shipped over 11 million Nseries devices and over 2 million of its Eseries enterprise devices during the quarter.New phones and multimedia devices that began shipping in volume during the quarter accounted for about 30 percent of profits and revenue, said CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.The company also saw sales more than double at Nokia Siemens Networks, its network equipment joint venture with German conglomerate Siemens.Looking ahead, the company expects mobile phone sales to dip slightly in the first quarter, picking up to grow 10 percent for the full year. It also expects its share of that market to grow, although average selling prices will likely continue to decline, it said.&quot;Much work remains in order to realize our ambitions,&quot; Kallasvuo said. &quot;We will not underestimate the competition.&quot;Nokia will have to address its problems in North America if it wants to increase its share of the mobile phone market further, said Gartner research vice president Carolina Milanesi.The company is working with U.S. operator&#160;Sprint Nextel to build a nationwide WiMax network, but Milanesi does not expect sales of WiMax devices to compensate for the company&#39;s falling CDMA market share during 2008.&quot;It&#39;s not going to happen overnight,&quot; Milanesi said.Simonson found a silver lining to the cloud over Nokia&#39;s performance in North America: with such a small share of the U.S. market, the company has little exposure to the country&#39;s economic troubles.
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Nokia Corp. on Tuesday cut its operating margin targets, blaming increased exposure to the network infrastructure business.Comment
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Growth at Nokia Corp.&#39;s (NYSE: NOK - message board) Networks division continues to keep company net sales afloat, with the Finnish vendor today predicting healthy times ahead for the cellular infrastructure market.
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Mobile phone maker Nokia raised its  third-quarter sales and earnings forecasts on Thursday on the  back of strong market demand, reversing a recent spate of grim  outlooks and sending its share price higher.
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Analysts at IDC predict annual growth in mobile phone sales will drop below 10 percent this year, casting doubt on Nokia's more upbeat outlook for 2008.
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The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia reported lower third-quarter earnings on Thursday after cutting handset prices to win back market share but said sales volumes were strong as it moves into the key year-end shopping season.
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Nokia&#39;s net profit jumped in the third quarter as the company made up for the falling average selling price of its phones by shipping more of them, the company said Thursday.For the three months ending Sept. 30, net profit increased 85 percent over the third quarter of 2006, to &#8364;1.6 billion ($2.3 billion). Net sales rose 28 percent to &#8364;12.9 billion. Earnings per share rose 90 percent to &#8364;0.40.The company shipped 112 million units, 26 percent more than in the same period a year before. Nokia estimates it holds a 39 percent share of the mobile market.The ASP (average selling price) of mobile phones, however, has fallen from &#8364;90 to &#8364;82, Nokia said. The company said it expects the ASP to continue to decline but volume demand to increase through the end of this year and next.The most dramatic change came from Nokia&#39;s Enterprise Solutions business unit, which includes security appliances and software as well its E Series phones, which are aimed at business users. Operating profit for the unit was &#8364;88 million compared to a &#8364;65 million loss in the third quarter of 2006. Nokia attributed the rise to strong sales of its E65 model.Nokia Siemens Networks reported a 120 percent operating profit decline, which Nokia said was due to restructuring costs and other one-time items. The division, launched in April, is a combination of Nokia Networks and Siemens&#39; carrier-related operations for fixed and mobile networks. Nokia said it has identified &#8364;500 million in savings in combining the two entities that will be realized at the end of 2008.However, sales for Nokia Siemens Networks increased 7 percent over the second quarter of this year, which was the first quarter Nokia reported results for the division.