Technology Vendor Financials Quarterly Analysis Q3 2007

Publication Date	March 2008
Publisher	Datamonitor
Product Type	Brief
Pages	14
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	DAT10752

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Summary

Introduction

Datamonitor's technology vendor financial research captures financial data from a representative sample of the largest public firms in the technology sector. This analysis provides a look at quarterly revenues, profits and market capitalization for companies in the telecoms, communications infrastructure, security, IT services, hardware, and business applications sectors for Q3 2007.

Scope

Covers global markets, including North America, EMEA and the emerging markets in APAC and Latin America. Includes IT generalists, telecoms, communications infrastructure, security, IT services, hardware, information management, and business applications. Features a regularly updated market capitalization index.

Highlights

The total revenues contributed by the top IT and telecom vendors amounted to over $510 billion during the quarter ending September 2007. The key trends observed during this quarter include Telecom sector reported 12% year-on-year revenue growth in Q3 2007;and Telecommunications sector reported high profit growth driven by wireless sector growth. Other trends include IT generalists providing software, hardware and services witnessed share price volatility; Technology vendors improved their presence in the Asia-Pacific region; HP, Samsung and EDS generated largest revenues among IT vendors in Q3 2007; and Vodafone, Nokia and Samsung posted the highest net profits in their respective segment.

Reasons to Purchase

Understand which tech vendors are performing well, and which are suffering. Analyze trends in the industry as a whole. Benefit from analyst insight into technology evolution and external business pressures which shape the fate of the major IT suppliers.

Content

CATALYST
SUMMARY
ANALYSIS
- The telecoms sector reported year-on-year revenue growth of 12% in Q3 2007
- The software infrastructure industry grew by 19% as enterprises focused on improving their IT efficiency
- Business application vendors reported 18% revenue growth driven by increased demand from SMEs
- Pricing pressures prevailing in the security market are impacting upon the growth of security solution providers
- Consumer demand has boosted communication infrastructure and applications vendors' revenues
- The telecommunications sector reported high profit growth driven by the wireless sector
- Content-centric collaboration within enterprises necessitates adoption of content management solutions
- IT generalists providing software, hardware and services witnessed share price volatility
- Use of next-generation technologies increased the share price of equipment vendors
- Technology vendors improved their presence in the Asia Pacific region
- Hardware vendors derived over 40% of revenues from the Asia Pacific region in Q3 2007
- HP, Samsung and EDS garnered the largest revenues among IT vendors in Q3 2007
- Vodafone, Nokia and Samsung posted the highest net profits in their respective segments
- Business application vendors are expected to maintain high growth by focusing on SMEs
Appendix
- Definitions
- Datamonitor consulting
- Disclaimer
List of Tables
- Table 1: Vendors considered for the analysis
List of Figures
- Figure 1: Revenues reported by IT and telecoms segments, Q3 2006-Q3 2007 ($ bn)
- Figure 2: Revenue and profit growth as reported by IT and telecoms segments, Q3 2006-Q3 2007 (%)
- Figure 3: Market capitalization reported by IT and telecoms sub-segments, July-September 2007
- Figure 4: Revenue breakdown by geography, July-September 2007
- Figure 5: Top three companies by revenues, July-September 2007
- Figure 6: Top three companies by profit, July-September 2007