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.

Hon Hai (2317.TT): March Revenue Was Highest at the Same Period of Record.

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

Hon Hai: U.S. Chip Restrictions Vs. China Have Put Hon Hai in a Stronger Than Ever Position

Hon Hai (2317 TT) Valuation still Attractive

A Look at Foxconn’s EV Platform – Should Tesla Be Worried?

Equity Bottom-Up

Hon Hai Precision Industry / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>The revenue/ gross profit/ GM %/ EPS is NT$1,889.8bn/ NT$113.9bn/ 6.03%/ NT3.2 in 4Q21. 4Q21 revenue is growth 34% QoQ, but growing -5.9% YoY.</li>
<li>We expect the material shortage would become more stabilized in 2H22. The revenue was better than expected since 2021, and it will become more challenging in 2022. </li>
<li>2025 EV revenue is about US$600bn. Hon Hai is targeting at 5% market share and aim at US$1,000bn revenue scale.</li>
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The revenue/ gross profit/ GM %/ EPS is NT$1,889.8bn/ NT$113.9bn/ 6.03%/ NT3.2 in 4Q21. 4Q21 revenue is growth 34% QoQ, but growing -5.9% YoY.
We expect the material shortage would become more stabilized in 2H22. The revenue was better than expected since 2021, and it will become more challenging in 2022. 
2025 EV revenue is about US$600bn. Hon Hai is targeting at 5% market share and aim at US$1,000bn revenue scale.


Hon Hai(2317.TT): It Will Be More Challenging in 2022, but Hon Hai Will Focus on EPS.