Earnings alert: Nokia sees lower profit
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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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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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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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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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Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, said its results for third quarter would be better than earlier forecast due to higher-than-expected handset sales.
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Investors will be looking to see if the world&#39;s top mobile phone maker Nokia can sustain momentum at its recovering handset unit into the key Christmas season when it reports earnings next week.
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Investor's Business Daily - It's still No. 1 in cell phones, but Nokia has lost some market share.
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Analysts predict growth in mobile phone sales will drop below 10 percent this year.
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Infineon&#39;s net profit fell to $54.6 million in the fourth quarter from $63 million in the third quarter of last year. The net result came up short of analyst forecasts of $169 million.
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Palm Inc.  posted lower  quarterly earnings on Thursday as increasing sales of its Treo  smartphones were offset by a downturn in its more profitable  handheld computers.
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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.
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Nokia Corp. reported a 13 percent drop in fourth-quarter earnings Thursday, but said it had recovered some market share, revenue had increased and it predicted more growth in 2005.