Engadget's Japanese version reported that Sharp, which is invested by Hon Hai, will launch a smartphone product with its own OLED panel in the fall. Sharp Vice President Nomura said in a financial report briefing on July 31 that "Sharp has started producing OLED panels in June and will be used on Sharp's smartphones in Q3."
According to the Asahi Shimbun, Sharp has invested tens of billions of yen in the OLED panel manufacturing line at the Mie Plant and the (Earth) plant, and the OLED panel will be installed on the high-end models of its own brand "AQUOS". Demonstrating the quality of OLED panels, the goal is to sell them to external companies such as Apple and China's smartphone factories in the future.
In addition, the Nikkei News reported that Nomura Satoshi said on July 31 that "the company will use the funds at hand to buy back the Sharp preferred stock held by Mitsubishi UFJ Bank and Mizuho Bank and cancel it." Nomura Seimei pointed out that "I hope to buy back preferred shares twice before June 2019."
Sharp once planned to issue new shares by raising funds through public offerings, raising about 216.2 billion yen, of which 185 billion yen will be used to deal with “negative inheritance (bank-held preferred stock)”, but then Sharp will use US-China trade frictions Due to the increase in stock market instability, the above capital increase plan was cancelled.
According to the Harvest XQ Global Winner System quotation, as of 10:10 am on the 1st of Taipei time, Sharp arrogantly 6.15% to 2,744 yen, up to 2,795 yen (up 8.12%), a month and a half (June) Since the 15th, the new high standard.
Sharp announced its earnings report for the previous quarter on July 31. The revenue increased for the sixth quarter, and the profit of the industry increased by 45% and earned money for the eighth quarter.
Japan's IT-related research company BCN announced its investigation report on July 13 (consolidating actual sales data of Japanese electricity stores), pointing out that Sharp, who defeated Sony in 2017 as a Japanese Android smartphone, will continue to enter 2018. Stabilizing the position, during the H1 (Jan-June) period in 2018, Sharp won a market share of 1/4 (25.9%) in the Android smartphone market in Japan (excluding the Apple iPhone), with a 6.1 percentage point The gap is pushing Sony to continue to be the first.
In addition, during the H1 period, Sony ranked second in the Japanese Android smartphone market with 19.8% market share, but the gap between Huawei and the third-ranked Huawei (H1 market share of 18.4%) was only 1.4 percentage points. . According to the data released by BCN, Sony's market share in the Android smartphone market in Japan was 20.1% and Huawei was 17.5% during the period from January to May 2018. The gap between the two parties was 2.6 percentage points.