ASE Holdings pointed out that the gross profit margin for the second quarter of 2018 was 16.2%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from the 16% in the first quarter, compared with 18.4% for the same period in 2017, a decrease of 2.2 percentage points. Operating profit of 5.387 billion yuan, operating The interest rate of 6.4% is 6.6% lower than the first quarter, which is 0.2 percentage points lower than the same period in 2017, and is also reduced by 1.5 percentage points.
In the profit-making part, ASE invested in the second quarter of 2018. The net profit attributable to the parent company reached 11.463 billion yuan, a substantial increase of 447% from the second quarter of 2.096 billion yuan, a 46% increase from the 7.784 billion yuan in the same period of 2017. EPS per share was 2.7 yuan. Accumulated, ASE Holdings' revenue for the first half of 2018 was 149.467 billion yuan, up 12.7% from 135.577 billion yuan in the same period of 2017. The combined gross profit margin came to 16.12%, compared with 18.17 in the same period of 2017. %, which is a decrease of 2 percentage points. The net profit attributable to the parent company is 13.559 billion yuan, up 30.3% from 10.406 billion yuan in the same period of 2017. The EPS per share is 3.2 yuan, which is better than the 2.63 yuan in the same period of 2017.
ASE has further pointed out that from the perspective of product application, communication products account for about 51%, personal computers account for about 15%, and automobiles, consumer electronics and others account for about 34%. In addition, the top ten customers account for ASE. Holding the ratio of overall revenue in the second quarter of 2018 is about 52%. As the ASE, Chief Operating Officer Wu Tianyu said at the shareholders' meeting, the tone of quarterly growth in 2018, plus the third and fourth quarters The customer demand is quite healthy. Therefore, from the customer's demand for the company's capacity allocation, the order transparency is expected to be very strong in the second half of 2018. Therefore, overall, the operational development in the second half of 2018 is expected to be better than the first half.