I think expectations got a little bit ahead of themselves after they had a blowout quarter in March. In March they put up 40 percent sequential revenue growth.
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We currently forecast what we believe is a 'reasonable' recovery, which includes assumptions for slightly below-average sequential growth in the third quarter of 3 percent, above average sequential growth in the fourth quarter of 4 percent, and a fairly typical first-year recovery in 2003,
For the first time since the September quarter of 2000, Asia Pacific sales had a modest increase on a sequential basis reflecting improved supply-demand balance in the PC market,
We anticipate 601 million in total revenue and 385 million in U.S. book, music, video revenue from Amazon in the third quarter, ... Our 385 million books, music, video projection is flat with second-quarter results however, if Amazon's sequential revenue growth in the sector actually comes in at 12 percent or higher, we believe the company could record as much as 650 million in total revenue.
The majority of AOL's profits are derived from its pure advertising and commerce revenue, so strong sequential growth in this line is critical to the long-term growth story.
The issues of collapsing windows will still be an important topic. But I do not think it's as hot or as controversial as it was in October. The vast majority of the studios have given us very strong, private and public, assurances that sequential release works for them as a business model.
It's nice to be going (to state) with those guys. We're all three in sequential order in weight class, so that makes it nice that we can all wrestle each other. Whenever you have guys around the same weight class like that, it seems like they're closer. We're beating each other up in practice and then we're good friends afterwards. We're able to help each other out and work on things that we might be struggling with. It's nice to have guys you're close with going down there with you.
There's an even more compelling argument. Any industry that goes through a tough time inevitably goes through a period of easy comparisons, that is, when the current environment, no matter how lousy, looks better than the year before. While January is no great shakes, ... sequential year-over-year revenue improvement is likely to resume in February and continue for every month through the third quarter of 2002.
We are pleased with our fourth quarter results which, we believe, again demonstrate the Firm's operating leverage and our ability to improve pricing as demonstrated by another sequential improvement in our flex gross margin and earnings per share. We believe that we can continue to migrate the Firm's flex revenue footprint to higher margin business, and are accelerating our hiring of permanent placement associates as the staffing cycle dynamics remain positive. We believe that our ability to generate cash flows from operations of 22.3 million in the fourth quarter, which are the highest quarterly cash flows from operations in the Firm's history, and our strong balance sheet will enable the Firm to capitalize on opportunities to accelerate our growth.
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
We're delivering solid profitability while maintaining lean channel inventories in a weak economic environment, ... Our balance sheet remains very strong, with over 4.2 billion in cash, and we are targeting a slight sequential increase in revenues and earnings per share in the September quarter.
This does not change our positive view on the stock, as we expect sequential operating improvements in the next quarters, particularly from the chemical division. We also believe that Alfa should benefit from a weaker peso.
Motorola's growth in sales has continued to accelerate, and our earnings are on an improving trend. We are especially pleased by the results in our new Broadband Communications Sector, which was formed after the merger with General Instrument, the improvements in our network systems business, and the sequential growth in quarterly earnings for semiconductors.
It's not likely a firm would double its revenue in a sequential comparison. One should assume that some of that's proprietary trading.
It's starting the process of being on the mend, but we've got a long way to go, ... My expectation was that Jaguar would show sequential improvement in its business results, and so far it has. At the same time, the Jag situation does not lend itself to a quick fix.
The fourth quarter capped a year of significant improvement for Teradyne. Throughout 2005, we had solid sequential growth in sales and bookings, strong fourth quarter profit performance in both our semiconductor test and non-semiconductor test businesses, and a much-improved balance sheet.