Taiwan Tech Focused Senior Analyst

Patrick Liao

Being invited, I joined Sellside, i.e. JPMorgan, Nomura and Macquarie, totally around 9-10 years. Before that, I joined International Data Corp (https://www.idc.com/) to be the Asia Semiconductor analyst for nearly 2 years, and being invited to do personal lectures in TSMC, UMC, Samsung and etc. In my working experiences, I also had the chance to join Taiwanese panel company, AUO (2409.TT) and the buyside, Chinalife (2823.TT), totally for over 1 year.
I obtained MS degree from the Tsing-Hua University. Then I worked in the Taiwan Semiconductor companies for around 11 years. I had several US patents during my stay in the Semiconductor industry.

Being worked in the sellside and buyside, I deeply dived in the Greater China Semiconductor industry and directly covered some companies, like TSMC (2330.TT, TSM.US), UMC (2303.TT, UMC.US), Vanguard (5347.TT), ASE (3711.TT, ASX.US), SPIL (merged with ASE and delisted), KYEC ( 2449.TT), JCET (600584.CH), ASMPT (522.HK), GWC (6488.TT), WinSemi (3105.TT), Mediatek (2454.TT), Silergy (6415.TT), Novatek (3034.TT), Guoxin Micro (002049.CH) etc.

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Equity Bottom-Up

Hon Hai Precision Industry / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Hon Hai's revenue was NT$1,408bn in 1Q22. We expect the OPM and EPS would be ~2.2% and ~NT$2.18 in 1Q22.</li>
<li>It's a gradually increase for end-product shipment in 2021, but we think it might be followed by a slower season in 2Q22.</li>
<li>Hon Hai's target is to address the profit in 2022. For 2022, we believe it could be the lowest revenue in 2Q22.</li>
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Hon Hai's revenue was NT$1,408bn in 1Q22. We expect the OPM and EPS would be ~2.2% and ~NT$2.18 in 1Q22.
It's a gradually increase for end-product shipment in 2021, but we think it might be followed by a slower season in 2Q22.
Hon Hai's target is to address the profit in 2022. For 2022, we believe it could be the lowest revenue in 2Q22.


Hon Hai (2317.TT): 1Q22 Preview/2Q22 Outlook- For 2022, It Could Be the Lowest Revenue in 2Q22.