TAIPEI — Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, reported on Monday a 47-percent jump in third-quarter revenue year-on-year that beat market estimates, fueled by strong artificial intelligence (AI)-related demand.
Revenue for the July-September quarter was T$3.03 trillion ($95.4 billion), well above an LSEG SmartEstimate of T$2.83 trillion that gives greater weight to forecasts from analysts who are more consistently accurate.
Strong AI demand led to robust revenue growth for its cloud and networking products division, while smart consumer electronics, which include iPhones, posted significant growth, the company said.
September revenue alone rose 38 percent year-on-year to T$1.16 trillion, a record for a single month and the first time it has surpassed T$1 trillion on a monthly basis.
AI-related operations are expected to continue growing in the fourth quarter, the company said.
Together with the traditional peak season for electronics products in the second half of the year, this should “support overall performance in line with current market expectations,” it said.
But it added that “it remains necessary to monitor the impact of a volatile global political and economic environment.”
Foxconn, formally called Hon Hai Precision Industry, does not provide numerical forecasts. It will report full third-quarter earnings on Nov. 12.
The company’s shares have gained 10 percent this year, underperforming a 72-percent rise for the Taiwan market. The stock closed up 1.2 percent on Monday ahead of the revenue data release. The benchmark index ended the day 2.6-percent higher.
