Product and Service

Companies included in retail –technology solution/products sector in information processing equipment industry primarily sell technology solutions and industrial products by their stores.

 

Demand for Product and Service

As indicated by the typical company data, the demand for electronic products and service has been growing both from in-store and online in the past two years probably as a result of increased consumers’ confidence.  

The Sector

Sector’s Current, Trend, Causes behind trend, and Future

Current and Trend
  1. It seems that the in-store demand for consumer electronic and computing products including service and content has been rebounding in the past two years.
  2. It seems that the online demand for consumer electronic and computing products including service and content has been continuingly strong and growing fast in the past three years.
Causes behind the trend
  1. Generally, we think that the declining in-store sales of some major retailers, which have been diluted by other alternative retail channels as a result of changes in shopping habit of consumers, has been offset by strong recovery of macro-economy and fast increasing confidence in consumers.
Industry Future
  1. While strong increase in consumption stimulated by recovery of economy helps offset the slowing traffic of major in-store retailers, companies may find that demand will continue to be driven by their online platform and they will be facing increasing competition from other online sellers due to lower barriers to entry.

Numbers

General Financial Performance of Companies In the Sector

It seems that the demand for consumer electronic and computing products and content selling by companies in this sector has been strong and growing fast in the past two years thanks to continuingly strong demand from online sales (more than 20% annual growth in comparable sale since 2016) and as well rebounding of in-store sales (2% and 4% for comparable sales in 2017 and 2018 ).
The typical gross margin is about 23% and with a SG&A as percentage of sales of 19% the operating margin is about 4% in 2018. The typical enterprise price/EBI ratio is 19.

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