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Alcatel-Lucent net profit improves, sales down 6% in Q4

2015-02-06 08:46:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Alcatel-Lucent reported fourth-quarter revenues down 6 percent year-on-year to EUR 3.682 billion. Excluding currency effects and managed services, where the company has been exiting unprofitable contracts, revenues were up 2 percent. The company's gross margin expanded by 130 basis points to 34.7 percent in Q4, while the adjusted operating margin dipped to 7.7 percent from 7.8 a year ago. Net profit showed a strong improvement to EUR 271 million from EUR 134 million, helped by lower financing costs and higher tax benefits. Free cash flow, excluding restructuring costs, totaled EUR 420 million, down from EUR 550 million a year earlier. Alcatel-Lucent said it was making good progress on its Shift Plan with over 70 percent or EUR 675 million in cost reductions realised. The company reiterated its target to return to positive free cash flow in 2015, after a negative result of EUR 420 million last year. At year-end, it had a net cash position of EUR 326 million, versus a net debt position of EUR 132 million at 30 September.

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Apple passes Android in US smartphone market in Q4

2015-02-04 16:49:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) The launch of the iPhone 6 helped Apple overtake Android in the fourth quarter of 2014 for the first time since 2012, according Kantar Worldpanel. Apple took 47.7 percent of smartphone sales in the three months, whereas Android smartphones accounted for 47.6 percent. Windows' share fell to 3.8 percent from 4.2 percent a year earlier. The market researcher estimates that 12 percent of iPhone buyers during Q4 2014 were former Android users. iPhones are also attracting first-time smartphone buyers as 27.7 percent of iPhone sales in Q4 went to previous feature phone owners. Throughout the holiday quarter, the iPhone 6 was the best-selling smartphone in the US and was also the most popular smartphone to give as a gift. Samsung retained its number two spot in the vendor chart with the Galaxy S5 which was the second best-selling smartphone.

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Manning & Napier's Top New Holdings in Q4

2015-02-04 07:46:04| Furniture - Topix.net

Manning & Napier was founded in 1970 by Bill Manning and Bill Napier. The firm is majority employee-owned, which allows the company to have a direct stake in their investors' success.

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Higher Volumes Help Colgate-Palmolive Beat Currency Troubles In Q4

2015-02-04 07:40:22| Paper - Topix.net

The company fought back foreign currency headwinds on the back of across-the-board volume expansion, ably supported by price hikes. The company expects the combination of a benign commodity cost environment, the continuation of savings from the Funding the Growth program, and increased selling prices in emerging markets to facilitate gross margin expansion in 2015.

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