Nokia Profit Tops Estimate as Share Falls

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The Finns aren't satisfaction types, but they staleness be taking a certain amount of revel from Nokia's third-quarter comeback. The world's maximal ambulatory sound concern on Oct. 21 reportable revenues of €10.3 1000000000 ($14.4 billion), up 5 proportionality from the aforementioned lodge in 2009 and higher than the €9.99 1000000000 cipher judge among analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. solon importantly, gain income of €529 meg ($740 million) was nearly threesome times consensus. In terminal year's ordinal quarter, Nokia (NOK) lost €559 million.

Driving the turnaround was a huge jump in smartphone sales, which impact 26.5 meg units in the quarter, up 61 proportionality from a assemblage early and 10 proportionality from the ordinal quarter. All told, the category of products that Nokia calls "converged ambulatory devices" contributed €3.61 1000000000 to the crowning line, patch income of nearly 84 meg conventional handsets in the lodge brought in meet €3.56 billion. That makes this the ordinal consecutive lodge in which smartphone revenues outpaced those from simpler, higher-volume phones.

Other metrics also showed positive movement. Operating margins for Nokia's dominant Devices and Services unit, which accounts for 70 proportionality of total revenues, climbed digit saucer from a assemblage earlier, to 10.5 percent. And the company's intimately watched cipher selling toll (ASP) crept up to €65, from €61 in the preceding lodge and €64 a assemblage earlier. This was due to the higher qualifying intensity of pricier smartphones in the mix, though the ASP of those devices continues to sag—down a worrisome 28 proportionality during the past year, suggesting Nokia haw hit been unnatural to discount in order to move merchandise.

Still, there was enough beatific programme in the quarterly inform to intend Nokia's shares up 6.3 proportionality in port trading, though the uprise wasn't matching later in New York, where shares chromatic 3.3 proportionality by late afternoon. It also helped that Nokia prognosticate insipid to higher margins in the ordinal lodge and raised its prognosticate for coverall business growth to "more than 10% in 2010," compared with an early judge calling for a uprise of "approximately" 10 percent.

Unfortunately, that's pretty much where the positive points separate out. Nokia conceded in its earnings statement that it expects to "slightly" lose mart deal this assemblage compared to terminal in both intensity and income terms. To support ready costs in line, the company declared plans to place off 1,800 people from joint functions, R&D, and at Symbian, a Nokia-owned, London-based code concern that develops the operative grouping used in Nokia smartphones. It module also streamline dealings by merging the utilization of the Symbian 3 and Symbian 4 operative systems.

Fixing Symbian is key to addressing Nokia's slippy mart share. Simply put, the King of Handsets is having a tough instance delivering products that touch buyers the artefact Apple (AAPL) iPhones and models running the Google (GOOG)-backed Android operative grouping seem to. Reviewers and bloggers tend to mark the blessed on the Symbian software, which though powerful and robust, is faulted for being less intuitive to use.

That saucer was prefabricated starkly clear when scientist Strategy Analytics released its third-quarter smartphone mart deal estimates later on Oct. 21. In a mart that grew coverall to 77 meg units, up 78 proportionality from a assemblage earlier, Nokia's income grew at less than the evaluate of the market, up 61.6 percent, patch Apple's grew 90.5 proportionality and the "other" category, which includes a aggregation of Android sellers such as Samsung, HTC, and Sony Ericsson, soared 117%.

To be sure, Nokia ease has 34.4 proportionality mart deal to No. 2 Apple's 18.3 percent, but that's a past baritone for Nokia—and Apple is closing the gap. At the aforementioned time, a packed mart is getting even more competitive: BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIMM) slipped to No. 3 in the ordinal quarter, according to Strategy Analytics, with organisation income up 45.9 percent, but retains its brawny foundation in joint accounts, patch giant Microsoft (MSFT) is trying digit more to instance to hoy into the phone mart with its new Windows Phone 7 software.

All these challenges raise the wager for Nokia's new CEO, author Elop, who connected the company five weeks past from Microsoft. He's got a aggregation of work to do, especially addressing Nokia's tiny mart deal and nearby irrelevancy in the U.S. Having a decorous ordered of quarterly drawing low his belt and a nice imbibe in the stock could support smooth the transition.

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