Wearables?Are you kidding me, HTC?
Releasing a wearable could be a diversion into an unproven market at a time when focus has never been more crucial. The company’s comments feel at once like a hedge against the possibility that Apple may release a watch in 2014 — a rumor second in persistence only to the Apple TV idea — and also like an attempt to prove it can keep up with its Android rivals Samsung and LG.
Samsung blanketed airwaves and billboard with Gear ads, and one can expect the same treatment with a Galaxy Gear 2 device — something HTC would be hard-pressed to counter.
LG has a deep bench of products and a history of manufacturing everything from robot vacuums to washer-dryer sets to TVs to phones.
宏達電現在需要的是專注力,此刻見獵心喜未必討喜。
HTC需考量中階機款是價格和獲利壓力最大的產品線,而高端機款在美國電信商改變補貼策略下也有壓力,雖然HTC目前現金水位約530億元,且HTC傾向保留營運資金,股利政策將調整,對今明年展望不樂觀,預警每股將分別虧損6.74元、 12.17元。
- Morgan Stanley
HTC預估第2季獲利太樂觀,從先前釋出的財測來看,執行率恐要打折。雖然旗艦款M8將帶動產品組合,但在高階飽和下,預料中階款競爭力更勝於M8,但能見度相當有限,在經濟規模改善前,預估HTC第2季至第3季將持續虧損,全年每股虧損恐達1.87元。
- UBS
今年HTC智慧手機出貨年減3.3%約僅1920萬支,在Lenovo購併Motorola後,對HTC中高階款將有更大的壓力,今年每股恐虧損1.5元。
- CIMB
雖然HTC轉進中階款,但去年中階產品貢獻獲利僅有25%,是疲弱的產品線,今年要看HTC中階款進一步的布局策略,給予賣出評等,下修目標價至94元。
- Goldman Sachs
2011年1月10日加入HTC的原中國區總裁任偉光,
在2013年8月的組織重整中,辭任總裁一職,由HTC北亞區總裁董俊良兼任,而任則改任中國區新業務拓展。當時外界咸認,任偉光遲早離開HTC。如今坐實,
任偉光已跳槽至Electrolux中國區擔任總經理。
自1997年起即歷任Nokia、Simens、Motorola、LG、HTC等手機廠高管,任偉光是手機行業的資深老兵,如今棄手機,轉投家電。