Pegatron Corp (和碩), a key assembler of Apple Inc’s iPhones, expressed optimism on Friday that the traditional peak season in the second half of the year would drive revenue growth and help its overall operations outperform the first half.
“Revenue in the second half of the year is expected to surpass that in the first half, as the period typically marks the industry’s peak season,” a Pegatron official told the Taipei Times by telephone on Friday, after the company reported first-half revenue of NT$539.76 billion (US$18.48 billion), up 7.07 percent from the same period last year.
The company said it would continue to closely monitor developments related to US tariffs and foreign exchange fluctuations, while pressing forward with overseas capacity expansion.
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The company established a manufacturing facility in Mexico last year, with mass production of servers at the site expected to begin in the third quarter, said the official, who declined to be named.
Pegatron had previously disclosed collaboration with a leading US electric vehicle (EV) maker, and the official added that the company also plans to launch new products with two other automakers from the US, Japan or Europe, with mass production expected to begin by the end of this year, the official said.
The company on Thursday posted revenue of NT$78.77 billion for last month, up 11.05 percent year-on-year, but down 8.07 percent from a month earlier.
Second-quarter revenue totaled NT$267.33 billion, rising 5.37 percent compared with the same period last year, but slipping 1.87 percent from the previous quarter, the company said.
While the front-loading of orders ahead of US President Donald Trump’s planned tariffs on Taiwanese goods boosted the company’s sales in the second quarter, the sharp appreciation of the New Taiwan dollar against the US dollar weighed on revenue, the official said, without disclosing the exact figure of foreign-exchange losses.
Pegatron shipped 990,000 notebook computers last month, up 27.74 percent from the previous month, the company said.
Total notebook shipments in the second quarter reached 2.37 million units, up 25.39 percent quarter-on-quarter and 18.5 percent year-on-year, surpassing the company’s earlier forecast of low-teens growth, it said.
The front-loading effect was particularly strong for its notebook shipments in the second quarter, the official said.
However, the outlook for third-quarter notebook shipments remains unclear, as most clients are adopting a wait-and-see approach on tariffs, the official added.
Server shipments also performed better in the second quarter than in the first quarter, the official said.
The company last month said that it expected server shipments in the second half of the year to outpace those in the first half.
As Pegatron’s artificial intelligence servers have completed product verification by a mid-sized US cloud service provider and are expected to begin shipments in the second half, it would benefit the company’s third-quarter revenue growth, Yuanta Securities Investment Consulting Co (元大投顧) said in a note on Friday.
However, the potential absence of another wave of front-loaded notebook orders and growing competition from Chinese smartphone brands could weigh on Pegatron’s business, Yuanta said.
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