What does the company do?
QLogic Corporation (QLogic) is a designer and supplier of storage networking, server networking, data networking and converged networking infrastructure solutions. The Company’s solutions are sold primarily to original equipment manufacturers and distributors. QLogic sells Fibre Channel and Internet Small Computer Systems Interface, host bus adapters; InfiniBand host channel adapters; and Fibre Channel over Ethernet, converged network adapters, which it collectively refers to as Host Products. It sells Fibre Channel switches, including stackable edge, blade and virtualized pass through switches; InfiniBand switches, including high-end, multi-protocol directors, edge and blade switches, and storage routers for bridging Fibre Channel and iSCSI networks. The Company also sells Fibre Channel controllers, iSCSI controllers and converged network controllers, all for select embedded and target applications. In April 2009, QLogic acquired NetXen, Inc.
How much does the company sell and earn?
Investors need to know how much stuff or services a company sells, and how much of that total it keeps as income (or profit) to grow its business or return to shareholders. The more of each, the better. In general, look for companies that sell and earn more than peers.
- QLogic Corp one-year sales: 548.47 Mil.
Difference from the average for the Semiconductor - Integrated Circuits group: -92.20% - QLogic Corp one-year income: 81.11 Mil.
Difference from the average for the Semiconductor - Integrated Circuits group: -92.95%| Sales & Income (past 12 months) | Company | Industry |
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| Sales | 548.47 Mil | 7.03 Bil | | Income | 81.11 Mil | 1.15 Bil |
How fast is the company growing?
- QLogic Corp one-year sales growth: -25.10%.
Difference from the average for the Semiconductor - Integrated Circuits group: -17.80 pct. pts. - QLogic Corp one-year income growth: -47.10%.
Difference from the average for the Semiconductor - Integrated Circuits group: -17.20 pct. pts.| Sales & Income Growth (past 12 months) | Company | Industry |
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| Sales Growth | -25.10% | -7.30% | | Income Growth | -47.10% | -29.90% |
How profitable is the company?
Investors prefer companies that increase profit margins -- the percentage of sales that they keep -- every year. This is accomplished either by lowering expenses or raising prices. Look for companies that consistently find ways to squeeze more profits out of sales than their peers.
- QLogic Corp one-year net profit margin: 14.8%
Difference from the company's 5-year average net profit margin: -5.0 pct. pts.
Difference from the average for the Semiconductor - Integrated Circuits group: 5.4 pct. pts.
| Net profit margins (%) |
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| Company | 14.8% | | Company 5-Yr Avg. | 19.8% | | Industry | 9.4% |
How is the company's financial health?
The debt/equity ratio shows how much a firm has borrowed as a percentage of its stock equity. The lower, the better.
- QLogic Corp debt/equity ratio: 0.00.
Average debt/equity ratio for the Semiconductor - Integrated Circuits group: 0.06.
| | Company | Industry |
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| Debt/equity ratio | 0.00 | 0.06 |
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