Seagate Quarterly Revenue Down Almost A Quarter

Seagate, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of storage equipment, has reported its fourth quarter revenue fell to $3.43 billion (£2.23bn), from $4.5 billion a year earlier. The results came in slightly above analyst expectations, however.

Seagate’s drive shipments were down 18 percent year-on-year, amid a serious slowdown for the PC market as a whole. Earlier this month, research and advisory firm Gartner reported that in the second quarter of 2013, worldwide PC shipments fell 10.9 percent year-on-year, as consumers have been tempted away by smartphones and tablets.

A shift in storage

Seagate shipped 53.9 million drives in the three months ending with June 28, down from 65.9 million a year earlier. This resulted in a net income of $348 million.

Overall results for the 2013 fiscal year show revenue of $14.4 billion– the second highest yearly result in the company’s long history – and net income of $1.8 billion.

Seagate shares, which have risen 24 percent in the last six months and are currently trading at all-time highs, closed at $45.31 on the NASDAQ on Tuesday.

“Seagate’s financial results reflect strong execution in a time of change, uncertainty and opportunity,” said Steve Luczo, Seagate’s chairman, president and CEO. “Looking ahead, we believe the market trends of data growth driven by cloud, mobile and open source advancement will present new and significant opportunities for Seagate.  We will continue to balance near-term financial performance and long term strategic development while maximizing shareholder value.”

The drop in revenue reflects the state of the computing industry, as part of the market shifts from traditional hard drives to Flash memory. Seagate had a late start with Solid State Drives (SSDs), but the company has been making progress with its new Flash strategy, revealed earlier this year.

On Tuesday, Seagate launched what it calls the “world’s fastest” enterprise hard drive. The Enterprise Turbo SSHD is a combination of spinning discs and NAND modules that provides up to a 3x increase in random performance over existing solutions.

How much do you know about storage devices? Take our quiz!

Max Smolaks

Max 'Beast from the East' Smolaks covers open source, public sector, startups and technology of the future at TechWeekEurope. If you find him looking lost on the streets of London, feed him coffee and sugar.

Recent Posts

Ofcom Grants License For Amazon Kuiper To Challenge Starlink In UK

New challenger for Elon Musk's Starlink in UK, after Ofcom grants earth station network licence…

3 hours ago

Openreach Tests 50Gbps Broadband Connection With Nokia

Possible broadband speed of the future? Openreach and Nokia test UK’s first live 50Gbps fibre…

4 hours ago

Jeff Bezos’s $10bn Earth Fund Halts Climate Group Backing – Report

Amazon founder and one of the world’s richest men, Jeff Bezos, has been accused of…

5 hours ago

DeepSeek Sends Data To Blacklisted China Mobile – Report

Researchers at Feroot Security undercover DeepSeek code that transfers data to servers under control of…

20 hours ago