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Analog Beats Own Q3 Earnings Guidance But Outlook Weak (ADI)

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Wider margin and lower operating costs helped Analog Devices (NASDAQ: ADI) to post 3.8% increase in the fiscal third quarter profit.

For the quarter ended Aug 3, Analog Devices reported net income of $176.2 million compared to a profit of $169.8 million, in the same period of last year. Non-adjusted EPS was flat at 56 cents a share as the company had more number of shares outstanding in the latest period. Stripping out onetime items such as debt extinguishment expenses, restructuring costs and some other charges, adjusted earnings stood at 57 cents a share, a penny higher than year-earlier adjusted earnings.

Revenue edged down 1.3% to $674.2 million.

Earlier in May the Company projected earnings of 51 cents to 56 cents a share on revenue of $655 million to $685 million.

Gross margin shrank to 64.5% from 65.6% in the same quarter of last year.

Operating expenses contracted 3.7% to $226.7 million as R&D related expenses fell in the latest period. In the year earlier quarter, the Company took a charge of $5.8 million linked to special items that inflated operating costs.

Revenue- declined 5% at the auto-segment, edged up 1% at communications segment while it fell 3% at the industrial segment. Revenue from consumer business slipped 6% in the latest quarter.

For the current quarter, Analog Devices expects earnings to come in the range of 55 cents to 61 cents a share on revenue of $675 million to $700 million. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters were anticipating earnings of 59 cents a share on revenue of $697 million.








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