Report
Anne Margaret Crow

IQE - Supply chain issues intensify

IQE has cut its FY19 revenue and profit guidance in response to reduced demand from wireless customers and an internal issue affecting a major photonics (not VCSEL - vertical cavity surface emitting laser) customer. Following a 25% share price fall, the shares are trading within the range created by photonics peers on most metrics.
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IQE plc

IQE is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of semiconductor materials. Co.'s primary business is the manufacture of compound semiconductor wafers or epiwafers using a process called epitaxy. Co.'s primary reporting segments are: Wireless, which covers electronic devices that communicate wirelessly; Photonics, which covers applications that either emit or detect light; Infrared, which uses indium antimonide and gallium antimonide engineered materials that enable high resolution Infrared systems; and CMOS++, which combines the properties of compound semiconductors with silicon.

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Edison Investment Research
Edison Investment Research

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Anne Margaret Crow

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