Re: DS Doing Well in Japan

[Herb Chong]

their stock has been tanking for the last while. why? because even if they 
are selling as many as they can make, they are not making as many as they 
promised in press releases and in quarterly reports. all but Canon are 
revising downwards their sales figures which means profits go down. it's 
worse than it sounds since the rate of prices dropping isn't changing. 
that's still better than Konica Minolta, which expects to post yet another 
annual loss in the digital imaging products division. they're net positive 
because the copier division makes lots of money.

Pentax is one of the Big 5 camera vendors from Japan, for the moment. being 
at the top of the top 5 sales list or not on it at all is worthy of comment. 
being on it alone only means that they aren't irrelevant yet. the continued 
drop in stock price means those that have the money don't believe the 
company is on the right track and are selling.

Herb....
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: DS Doing Well in Japan


I have seen posts that Pentax is selling the istD and istDs as fast as 
they can make them.
If their manufacturing is at capacity, and they are selling everything 
that comes off the end of the assembly line, then they are doing OK.