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Sigma Designs In Freefall; Backs Off Old FY ‘09 Guidance
Excerpt: Sigma Designs (SIGM) shares are down sharply this morning after the company late yesterday disclosed disappointing results for its fiscal first quarter ended May 3. As Tiernan Ray noted in a post yesterday, the company missed the Street consensus at both the top line and the bottom line.
The company’s post-earnings conference call (seetranscript) was less than encouraging. Sigma said it expects FY Q2 revenue to be up slightly on a sequential basis; given the $56.9 million reported in Q1, the old Street consensus estimate of $69.2 million clearly looks way too high. In response to a question on the call, the company indicated that its old guidance of revenue for the full year of $300 million to $350 million was no longer valid, although it did not actually provide new guidance.
“I think as a result of this call and what we indicated we’re pulling away from that range,” VP of strategic marketing Kenneth Lowe said on the call. “I think at this point in time we’re going to pull that guidance.”
The company seems to be facing significant issues in both of its two primary businesses: providing chips for IPTV set-top boxes and for Blu-Ray disk players…
