papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (02/09/88)
These are at least a week old, but I am posting them since nobody has done so. CBM announced the quarterly results for the quarter ending December 31, 1987. CBM posted a $27.7 million income on a $281.7 million revenue, a 27% increase over the same period one year earlier. Increased revenues were due to increasing Amiga sales, now accounting for 40% of the revenue. Demand for Amiga computers outstripped supply. The sales projections of last July were confirmed. This means that there are now over half a million Amigas out there. -- Marco
hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis) (02/10/88)
In article <6834@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu () writes: >These are at least a week old, but I am posting them since nobody has done so. >CBM announced the quarterly results for the quarter ending December 31, 1987. >CBM posted a $27.7 million income on a $281.7 million revenue, a 27% increase >over the same period one year earlier. Increased revenues were due to >increasing Amiga sales, now accounting for 40% of the revenue. Demand for >Amiga computers outstripped supply. The sales projections of last July were >confirmed. This means that there are now over half a million Amigas out there. > >-- Marco We prefer to think that, rounded to the nearest million, there are a million units out there ! Hedley
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (02/02/90)
This is the Quarterly Earnings Report for Commodore International, just published in the Wall Street Journal: Year Dec 31 1989 1988 ---------------------------------------------------- Sales.......... $310,700,000 $349,000,000 Net Income..... 11,300,000 38,200,000 Avg Shares..... 32,458,000 31,901,000 Shr Earns: Net Income .35 .52 6 months: Sales.......... 476,000,000 549,200,000 Net Income..... 4,800,000 47,800,000 Avg shares..... 32,331,000 31,971,000 Shr Earns: Net Income .15 1.50 Commodore is listed as "Quarterly Earning Surprises" in the Negative section, since it reported .35c quarterly profits/per share instead of an expected .66c. So, this quarter broke the series of losses of the past two quarters, but earnings were not that good either (as with most other computer companies). -- Marco -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Xerox sues somebody for copying?" -- David Letterman -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
dixon@cs.nps.navy.mil (Roger Dixon) (02/03/90)
In article <22612@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >This is the Quarterly Earnings Report for Commodore International, >just published in the Wall Street Journal: > >Year Dec 31 1989 1988 >---------------------------------------------------- >Sales.......... $310,700,000 $349,000,000 > 6 months: >Sales.......... 476,000,000 549,200,000 Does anyone out there have what this translates to in units sold by type and region? ******************************************************************************* Roger Dixon Standard Disclaimer ARPAnet (Defense Data Network): dixon@cs.nps.navy.mil *******************************************************************************
wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne C Knapp) (02/03/90)
In article <811@cs.nps.navy.mil>, dixon@cs.nps.navy.mil (Roger Dixon) writes: > >Year Dec 31 1989 1988 > >---------------------------------------------------- > >Sales.......... $310,700,000 $349,000,000 > Does anyone out there have what this translates to in units sold by > type and region? I'll make a guess. Since the Amiga counts for over 50% of the buiness, let's say 55%. Plus 500's probably outsell other Amiga systems 2 to 1 or better. Now remember that some things like external drives, hard disks, some software must be in that figure too. I venture to guess that Commodore sells take in maybe $750 per average Amiga system sold. So my guess would say: $310,700,000 * .55 / $750 = 227846 Amiga systems this last quarter. Last quarter is by far the best for the year most likely so that would imply that around 500,000 Amiga systems are being sold per year. That is a lot better that I expected. Still some of those may be replacements, and there are bound to be other factors, and my numbers are just guesses. So I would say the 500,000 has to be the top possible number. Now if Europe is outselling the states 3 to 1 that would say: 125,000 Amigas per year in the state 375,000 Amigas per year outside the states. The US number of a 125,000 a year seems reasonable from what data I hear. The outside of the states number is really hard for me to judge. Wayne Knapp
Jim.Priestle@afitamy.fidonet.org (Jim Priestle) (02/15/90)
I think the C= loses were do to the very expensive ads that didn't really generate the sales they had hoped. They expected the ad cost to make the last quarter look bad. -jim- -- ------------------------------------------------- Jim Priestle - via FidoNet node 1:110/300 UUCP: uunet!dayvb!afitamy!Jim.Priestle ARPA: Jim.Priestle@afitamy.fidonet.org -------------------------------------------------| >>>> The // Air Force Institute of Technology | > // Amiga Users BBS/UFGateway | > \ // Dayton, Ohio (513)-252-7681 | > X/ 1:110/300 | -------------------------------------------------|