Nokia profit dives 44% in 'clearly disappointing' Q2

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop on Thursday best summarized Nokia’s second quarter earnings: “our Q2 results were clearly disappointing.” The Finnish phone vendor saw operating profit slide a worrisome 44% to €391 million in the second quarter, down from 704 million in the first quarter and €660 in the second quarter last year. Revenue dipped 11% sequentially to €9.275 billion and EPS was cut in half to $0.06. Revenue from smartphone sales dropped 33% to €2.368 billion on shipments of 16.7 million units, down 34% from the same quarter in 2010 when Nokia shipped 25.2 million smartphones. Nokia still managed to top Wall Street’s expectations for the quarter, however, thanks to royalties from a patent s... »read more

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