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Hitachi GST and HDS: 4CQ09 Financial Results
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Fri, February 5th, 2010
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Y/Y revenues: -1% for storage systems, +5% for HDDs
Storage solutions revenues (HDS and Japan)
| (in ¥ billions) |
4CQ08 |
4CQ09 | 9 mo. 08 |
9 mo. 09 |
| Revenues | 83.0 | 82.0 | 261.0 | 224.0 |
| Growth from previous year |
-1% |
-14% |
Hard disk drives (Hitachi GST) revenues in ¥ billions
| (in ¥ billions) |
4CQ08 |
4CQ09 | 9 mo. 08 |
9 mo. 09 |
| Revenues | 118.9 | 125.0 | 573.3 | 451.7 |
| Growth from previous year |
5% |
-21% | ||
| Operating income |
0.4 | 12.3 | 21.4 | 9.2 |
Hard disk drives (Hitachi GST) revenues in U.S. $ millions
| (in $ millions) |
4CQ08 |
4CQ09 | 9 mo. 08 |
9 mo. 09 |
| Revenues | 1,252 | 1,394 | 5,574 | 4,821 |
| Growth from previous year |
11% |
-14% | ||
| Operating income |
4 | 137 | 208 | 106 |
(Source: Hitachi Ltd.)
Hard disk drives (Hitachi GST) in number of units
| (in thousands) |
4CQ08 |
4CQ09 | Growth | 9 mo. 09 | 2009 |
% 2009 |
| Notebook, CE 2.5-inch | 11,900 | 14,400 | 21% | 48,200 | 50,600 | 55% |
| Desktop, CE 3.5-inch |
8,700 |
7,100 |
-18% | 36,200 | 31,700 | 35% |
| Enterprise | 1,300 | 1,700 | 7% | 5,700 | 5,500 | 6% |
| Emerging (automotive, etc) |
360 | 840 | 133% | 1,140 | 2,070 | 2% |
| External HDDs |
- | 880 | NA | - | 1,550 | 2% |
| TOTAL | 22,260 | 24,920 | 12% | 91,240 | 91,420 | 100% |
(Source: Hitachi Ltd.)
Our comments :
Sales of storage systems in Japan and outside (HDS) decreased 1% from
fiscal 4CQ08 to 4CQ09, and revenues of Hitachi GST are up 5% in yens
and 11% in U.S. dollars for the same two periods.
Shipments of HDDs increased 12% with desktop units continuing to
decrease (-18%) as sales of notebook devices are up 21%. But Hitachi
GST got good results in enterprise drives (+7%)
against its main competitor in this field, Seagate, and recorded
continuing surprising growth (+133%) in HDDs for specialized markets
like the
automotive
industry. For the first time, since its acquisition of Fabrik including
storage brands G-Technology and SimpleTech, Hitachi disclosed the results of
its external HDDs, 880,000 being sold in the last quarter and 1,550,000
during the year 2009.
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