Apple released the second quarter of fiscal year 2018 (as of March 31, 2018 ). The net revenue was $61.137 billion, up from $52.896 billion in the same period last year. The proportion of international sales was 65%, and that of Greater China was $13.024 billion, it is up 10.726 billion from the $ 21% billion in the same period last year. Net profit was $13.822 billion, up 11.029 billion from $ 25% in the same period last year.
Dell technologies announced a net loss for the first quarter (as of May 4) narrowed to $0.636 billion, compared to $1.17 billion for the same period of the previous year. Total revenue rose 19% to $21.36 billion. Customer solution revenue rose 14% to $10.3 billion, and business revenue rose 16% to $7.4 billion. PC shipments increased by 6.4%, and revenues from the VMware business segment rose by 12% to $2 billion.
HP Inc. announced the second quarter of fiscal year 2018 (as of April 30, 2018 ). Net revenue for the quarter was $14.003 billion, up 12.385 billion from $ 13% in the same period last year. Among them, the print business revenue was USD 5.241 billion, and the personal system business revenue was USD 8.762 billion. Net profit for the quarter was $1.058 billion, compared with $0.559 billion for the same period last year.
Lenovo Group Ltd .) it was announced that its earnings for 2017/18 were converted to losses, and the net profit for the fourth quarter also fell by 69% year on year, mainly affected by the one-time non-cash asset off of US $0.4 billion resulting from tax reform. As of the end of March, Lenovo had a net loss of $0.189 billion, compared with a net profit of $0.535 billion in the previous year. The net profit for the fourth quarter of the first three months of this year was $33 million, the same period of the year was USD 0.107 billion. Lenovo Group's annual revenue was $45.35 billion, up 5% from the previous year. Its fourth quarter revenue was $10.64 billion, up 11% year on year.
Asus consolidated revenue for the first quarter of 2018 was NT $99 billion (about $3.32 billion). The net profit before merger in the first quarter was NT $3.5 billion, and the net profit after merger was NT $2.6 billion.
Acer Inc. (Acer Inc.) consolidated revenue for the first quarter of 2018 was NT $54.804 billion (about $1.84 billion), a slight decrease of 2.2% from the same period last year. The operating profit is RMB 0.547 billion, the net profit before tax is RMB 1.024 billion, and the net profit after tax is RMB 0.708 billion.
Seagate Technology announced that its net profit rose to $0.381 billion in the third quarter (as of March 30), compared with $0.194 billion in the same period of the previous year. Revenue rose from $2.67 billion to $2.8 billion.
Western Digital Corp reported that the company had a $61 million surplus in the third quarter and recorded revenue of $5.01 billion in the same period.
Imaging and office equipment
Canon Inc. (canon Inc.) released its first quarter of 2018 financial report. In the first quarter, the turnover of the Canon group reached 960.7 billion yen (about $8.72 billion), a 972.8 billion reduction from 1.2% yen in the same period last year. Net profit was 57.1 billion yen, up 55.1 billion from 3.7% yen in the same period last year. In the office product business field, the turnover in the quarter reached 455.7 billion yen, the same as that in the same period last year. The revenue in the image system business field was 221.8 billion yen this quarter, a slight decrease of 8.4% year on year. The overall business in the medical system business field reached 117.1 billion yen. The business turnover of industrial equipment and other products increased by 16.1% year on year, reaching 188.5 billion yen.
Fujifilm Holdings released its financial report for FY 2017 (April 1-20, 2017-March 31 ). Revenue in the fiscal year was $21.923 billion, with an operating profit of $1.177 billion. In the image industry, sales revenue reached $3.45 billion, an increase of 12.1% year-on-year compared with the previous fiscal year. In the healthcare and high-performance materials sector, sales totaled $9.032 billion, up 11.5% year-on-year from the previous fiscal year. In the file processing sector, sales revenue was $9.44 billion, down 3.1% from the year-on-year comparison with the previous fiscal year.
Nikon Corporation released the financial report for FY 2017 (April 1-20, 2017-March 31 ). The fiscal year's revenue was 717.1 billion yen (about $6.5 billion), a 749.3 billion reduction from the 4.3% yen in the previous fiscal year. The profit for the fiscal year is 56.3 billion yen, and that for the previous fiscal year is 0.774 billion yen. The net profit of the fiscal year is 34.8 billion yen, and that of the previous fiscal year is 3.97 billion yen.
Xerox announced its first quarter of 2018 performance. The total revenue for the quarter was $2.435 billion, compared with $2.454 billion in the same period last year. Net profit for the quarter was $23 million, compared with $40 million for the same period last year.
GoPro Inc announced a net loss of $76.3 million in the first quarter and sales fell from $0.2186 billion in the same period last year to $0.2023 billion. Despite a year-on-year decline in revenue, sales per unit product increased by 3%, showing that GoPro's recently available affordable hero camera has a strong market demand.
Software and information services
Microsoft released its financial report for the third quarter of fiscal year March 31 as of 2018. Microsoft's revenue in the third quarter was $26.82 billion, up 23.212 billion from $ 16% in the same period last year. Its smart cloud business revenue was $7.9 billion. The net profit measured by general accounting standards for the United States (GAAP) was $7.424 billion, compared with a net profit of $5.486 billion for the same period last year, up 35% year on year.
German commercial software company SAP released the first quarter earnings expected by the net profit supermarket market. The company seized the market share of its cloud business from its competitors Salesforce and Oracle, and its profit margin is recovering on schedule. In the first quarter of March 31, SAP's revenue was 5.26 billion euros (about 6.2 billion US dollars), and its net profit was 1.235 billion euros, Up 14% from the same period last year.
Customer Relationship software management company salesforce.com announced a net profit of $0.344 billion in the first quarter and $1 million in the same period of the previous year. Revenue rose from $2.4 billion last year to $3.01 billion.
Adobe Systems Inc announced revenue and profit exceeding expectations. The company announced a net profit of $0.6632 billion for the second quarter and $0.3744 billion for the same period of the previous year. Revenue rose from $1.77 billion last year to $2.2 billion.
IBM announced the first quarter earnings for fiscal year 2018. In the fiscal quarter ended March 31, IBM's net profit was $1.68 billion, compared with $1.75 billion for the same period last year, and the adjusted net profit for the first quarter was $2.3 billion. Revenue was $19.1 billion in the first quarter and $18.2 billion in the same period last year, exceeding analyst expectations. The IBM cognitive solutions Department earned $4.299 billion in revenue, $8.625 billion in technology services and cloud platform services, $4.174 billion in global business services, and $1.5 billion in system services.
Accenture announced revenue for the second quarter and sales exceeding expectations. Net profit for this quarter (as of February 28) rose to $0.9011 billion, compared with $0.8767 billion for the same period of the previous year. Net income rose from $8.32 billion to $9.59 billion, with both consulting and outsourcing business revenues rising and exceeding expectations.
HPE announced its financial report for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018. In the fiscal quarter ended April 30, the net revenue was $7.468 billion, up 6.8 billion from $ 9.7% in the same period last year. Net profit for the second quarter was $0.778 billion, with a net loss of $0.612 billion for the same period last year.
Dxc Technology Co announced its fourth quarter and annual results for the fiscal year ending in March 31, 2018. Revenue for the fourth quarter was $6.294 billion, with a net profit of $0.56 billion. Revenue for the entire fiscal year was $24.556 billion, and net profit was $1.751 billion.
Cognizant Technology Solutions, a professional service company, announced that the company's net profit fell to $0.52 billion in the first quarter and $0.557 billion in the same period of the previous year. Revenue rose by 10.3% to $3.91 billion.
The software company Blackberry announced a net loss for the fourth quarter (as of February 28) narrowed to $10 million, compared with $47 million for the same period of the previous year. Revenue dropped from $0.286 billion to $0.233 billion, of which software and service revenues were $0.218 billion, and handheld device revenues fell from $55 million to $2 million, the proportion of the company's total revenue dropped from 19.2% to 0.9%.
Symantec announced sales of $1.22 billion for the fourth quarter and $1.12 billion for the same period of the previous year.
Red Hat Inc, an open-source software company, announced a loss of $13 million billion in the fourth quarter, with a profit of $66 million in the same period of the previous year and a profit of $0.167 billion after one-time project adjustment, the same period of the previous year was USD 0.11 billion. Sales increased by 23% to $0.772 billion.
Hybrid cloud data company netapp Inc announced a net profit of $0.271 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $0.19 billion in the same period of the previous year. Revenue rose from $1.48 billion last year to $1.64 billion.
Autodesk, an enterprise software company, announced a loss of $82.4 million in the first quarter and $0.1296 billion in the same period of the previous year. Revenue rose from $0.4857 billion last year to $0.5599 billion.
Activision Blizzard's quarterly data was leaked in advance. The company's net profit for the first quarter was $0.5 billion, compared with $0.426 billion for the same period of the previous year. The net pre-quota rose from $1.2 billion last year to $1.38 billion. Net income rose from $1.73 billion last year to $1.97 billion.
Electronic game company Electronic Arts announced that in the fourth quarter, the company made a profit of $0.607 billion, compared with $0.566 billion in the same period of the previous year. Revenue rose from $1.53 billion last year to $1.58 billion.
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