O CEO da Csco, John Chambers, está a fazer comentários muito positivos sobre a sua empresa na Conferência Global das Telecomunicações da UBS Warburg. Brilhante, como sempre, está a entusiasmar o mercado.
Aqui transcrevo alguns dos pontos que ele focou:
"1. Management feels more comfortable with things it can control, especially market share and expenses. This is reflected in the company's revenue and gross margin performance relative to its competitors. But John acknowledged that customers have become more cautious. Key point: If the economy improves, 90% of CIOs at a recent Cisco meeting indicated that they would increase their IT budgets for items not related to head-count.
2) The company believes it can maintain healthy gross margins by managing suppliers, exiting product lines and entering new areas. Interestingly, CSCO delivered its strong gross margins last quarter despite lowering prices on nine of its top 10 products.
3) Cisco has no plans to reduce head-count.
4) Backlog is comfortably above the $1.4 billion reported in the 10-K. Lead times for most products are at three to six weeks, so while long-term visibility isn't great, they feel they have a good read on near-term demand.
5) The service provider market continues to be challenging, and Cisco's plan assumes the capex environment will get worse before it gets better. It may pursue more partnerships in this area.
6) Growth prospects are driven by three items: recovery in the economy, increase share with service providers, enter nine new growth markets. "
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