Core Technology News (Text/Roy) Dong Hongsi, chief financial officer of ASE Investment Holdings, said at the financial report meeting on the 30th that based on current customer orders, the utilization rate in the first quarter of next year is about 80%, and the revenue in the fou

Core Technology News (Text/Roy) Dong Hongsi, chief financial officer of ASE Investment Holdings, said at the financial report meeting on the 30th that based on current customer orders, the utilization rate of in the first quarter of next year is about 80%, and the fourth quarter revenue is estimated. It will be the same as the previous quarter to slightly increase, and the gross profit margin will be slightly better than the previous quarter. In the first quarter of next year, it will benefit from the strong demand for 5G and new product packaging and testing, and the performance is expected to be better than previous years.

Yueguang's optimistic outlook on the market outlook also inspired the company's stock price in Taiwan to break through the NT$80 mark on the 31st, reaching a nearly 17-month high.

Looking forward to next year, Dong Hongsi expects that the company will be optimistic about next year's operations, mainly because it is optimistic about 5G and the continuous increase in customer new products, which will drive the performance of semiconductor packaging and testing in the first quarter of next year. It is expected to be better than the same period in previous years, and electronic foundry services can Compared with the same period in previous years, the proportion of packaging and testing integration solutions is expected to continue to increase.

Sun Moonlight benefited from the traditional peak season and increased utilization rate in the third quarter, which led to a jump in operations. The consolidated revenue reached NT$117.557 billion (the same below), an increase of 29.6% from NT$90.741 billion in the second quarter and NT$107.597 billion in the same period last year. The increase was 9.3%, a new single-quarter high since the establishment of Investment Control.

's consolidated gross profit margin in the third quarter was 16.3%, a quarterly increase of 0.9 percentage points and an annual decrease of 0.8 percentage points. Net profit attributable to owners of the parent company was 5.734 billion yuan, a sharp increase of 113% in the quarter and a decrease of 8% in the year, which was the highest in the past four quarters. Net profit after tax per share was 1.35 yuan.

ASE Investment Holdings' cumulative consolidated revenue in the first three quarters of this year was 297.159 billion yuan, with a consolidated gross profit margin of 14.96%. The consolidated operating profit in the first three quarters was 14.821 billion yuan, with a consolidated operating profit margin of 4.98%. The net profit attributable to owners of the parent company in the first three quarters was 10.467 billion yuan, and the basic net profit after tax per share in the first three quarters was 2.46 yuan.

Picture source: ASE Investment Control

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