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Filtronic

March 2018

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Latest H1 results at Filtronic were impacted by two things. First, the impending move of mobile technology to 5G standards has had a pincer effect on Filtronic’s sales of its antennas, as its main tier 1 OEM in the US stopped ordering. Then its broadband business, which had received two large multi year defence orders for transmit receive modules last September, was also impacted through no fault of its own due to third party component issues. As it was, latest H1 results to end November showed sales down from £21.6m to £12.8m. In a business where there is a high drop through, Filtronic did well to maintain any profitability at all, with an adjusted operating profit of £0.9m down from £1.8m. Duri ...

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