Holistic view on earnings20 Oct 2018 09:34
After digesting the earnings several times I have following take aways:
The company is clearly moving from a r&d organisation towards a business. I think they underestimated the amount of effort needed to come into business, but I observe the right things:
Automotive: focus on core competence and finding partnerships is a very good move. Project by project, no other way...
In general I see that they have a serious focus on expanding own mfg (you only learn to bake the bread and keep innovative by doing)
Tdk,Murata and Avx licenses show that they have some serious IP in their hand. Quite confident that others will need to follow.
They mentioned that in Q1 they already sold the same like total year. If this is the case, what to expect from Q2, Q3 and Q4 ? Looks quite exponential and not linear.
Last year there were the quality issues, looks like these have been solved, no mentioning of any supply chain, rampup or quality issues at all.
One critical remark: the options for themselves came too early. They simply didnt deliver yet. I assume they underestimated the path to get into business and the job was done.. well.. the hard work just started.
Happy to get feedback, still holding strong (might eventop up a bit) and enjoy your weekend.