Fabrinet (NYSE:FN), a leading provider of advanced optical packaging and precision optical, electro-mechanical and electronic manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers of complex products yesterday reported their fiscal fourth quarter 2017 financial results.
Fabrinet reported adjusted fourth quarter earnings of $0.86 per share which beat analyst expectations of $0.83 per share and they reported preliminary second quarter revenues of $370.05 million which also beat analyst expectations of $363.7 million.
Fabrinet CEO’s Comments
CEO Tom Mitchell called the results “strong,” noting that the quarter was Fabrinet’s 12th in a row of year-over-year revenue growth. Mitchell credited combination of growth from both existing customers and new customer programs. Mitchell cited “strategic” developments of the year ended, including increasing manufacturing capacity “substantially,” and expanding abilities outside the optical communications market. “With our expanded capacity and a robust pipeline of opportunities, we are optimistic that our success in fiscal year 2017 will extend into fiscal year 2018,” said Mitchell. Barrons
FN Technical Analysis
FN opened trading yesterday at $40.20 which was up from the previous day’s trading close of $40.08. Shares closed trading yesterday at $39.82 and spiked down after market to $36.25, equivalent to a 9% decrease from the closing price. Taking a look at the daily chart we can see the last time FN traded below these levels we have to go back to May 31st when it traded at $35.23.
Taking a closer look at the daily chart we can see that before the spike down FN had already been in an overall downward trend dating back to July 24th when it traded at $46.87. FN has a float of 35.95 million shares and traded 1.99 times the normal daily trading volume on Monday.
For trading purposes, I would like to see FN open trading on Tuesday below $37.50 and if it does I would be looking to take a short position at the bell. My stop loss would be $0.25 from my entry position fearing anything more than that and the stock would start to fill in the gap down.
Company Profile
Fabrinet provides optical packaging and precision optical, electro-mechanical, and electronic manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers of optical communication components, modules and sub-systems, industrial lasers, medical devices, and sensors.
It offers a range of optical and electro-mechanical capabilities across the manufacturing process, including process design and engineering, supply chain management, manufacturing, printed circuit board assembly, packaging, integration, final assembly, and test.
The company’s products comprise switching products, such as reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers, optical amplifiers, modulators, and other optical components and modules that enable network managers to route voice, video, and data communications traffic through fiber optic cables at various wavelengths speeds, and over various distances; tunable lasers, transceivers, and transponders; and active optical cables, which provide high-speed interconnect capabilities for data centers and computing clusters, as well as Infiniband, Ethernet, fiber channel, and optical backplane connectivity.
It also offers solid state, diode, gas, and fiber lasers used across various industries, including semiconductor processing, biotechnology and medical device, metrology, and material processing; and sensors, such as differential pressure, micro-gyro, fuel, and other sensors used in automobiles, as well as non-contact temperature measurement sensors for the medical industry.
In addition, the company designs and fabricates application-specific crystals, lenses, prisms, mirrors, and laser components and substrates, as well as other custom and standard borosilicate, clear fused quartz, and synthetic fused silica glass products. It operates in North America, the Asia-Pacific, and Europe. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is based in George Town, the Cayman Islands.