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Canon Releases Q4 & Full Year 2016 Financial Results

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Canon Inc. has released their financials for the year 2016, as well as Q4 results.</p>
<p>You can download all of the financial information directly from Canon below.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.canon.com/ir/conference/pdf/conf2016e.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Canon Inc. FY 2016 Results</a> (PDF)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.canon.com/ir/conference/pdf/conf2016e-sum.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Fiscal Year 2016 Analyst Meeting Speech Summary</a> (PDF)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.canon.com/ir/results/2016/rslt2016e.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Results for Q4 & FY 2016</a> (PDF)</li>
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Interesting that ILC sales actually gained 2% for FY2016 (y/y unit sales). I wonder if that will be the case for any other major manufacturers (it wasn't as of the last quarterly results a few months ago).
 
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Jopa said:
Quite significant drop though... Going to buy a 35 1.4 II today to support Canon LOL.

what drop? sales remained in the + for ILC's ... even with sales $ when the currency was adjusted.

if i remember correctly, canon was better than projections.

they made a 1.2 billion USD profit in imaging systems on around 10 billion in sales.

I think they're going to be okay ;)
 
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rrcphoto said:
Jopa said:
Quite significant drop though... Going to buy a 35 1.4 II today to support Canon LOL.

what drop? sales remained in the + for ILC's ... even with sales $ when the currency was adjusted.

if i remember correctly, canon was better than projections.

they made a 1.2 billion USD profit in imaging systems on around 10 billion in sales.

I think they're going to be okay ;)

Well, it says Gross Profit -13.5% http://www.canon.com/ir/conference/pdf/conf2016e.pdf?
Not sure if I should return the lens - I kinda like it...
 
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From page 5 of http://www.canon.com/ir/conference/pdf/conf2016e-sum.pdf:

"The interchangeable-lens camera market for the full year was only down 9% to 11.5 million units, despite the temporary shortage of parts caused by the Kumamoto earthquake. This represents the first time in three years that the market contracted at a single digit rate.

As for our full-year unit sales, in addition to growing sales of new DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, we benefitted from the shortage of parts that impacted our competitors. As a result, our unit sales increased 2% to 5.67 million."

The above translates into 49.3% worldwide market shares for Canon in interchangeable lens cameras.

One word. WOW!

But this may just be a one-time thing due to shortage of parts for Canon's competitors as a result of the Kumamoto earthquake.
 
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Woody said:
From page 5 of http://www.canon.com/ir/conference/pdf/conf2016e-sum.pdf:

"The interchangeable-lens camera market for the full year was only down 9% to 11.5 million units, despite the temporary shortage of parts caused by the Kumamoto earthquake. This represents the first time in three years that the market contracted at a single digit rate.

As for our full-year unit sales, in addition to growing sales of new DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, we benefitted from the shortage of parts that impacted our competitors. As a result, our unit sales increased 2% to 5.67 million."

The above translates into 49.3% worldwide market shares for Canon in interchangeable lens cameras.

One word. WOW!

But this may just be a one-time thing due to shortage of parts for Canon's competitors as a result of the Kumamoto earthquake.

If you like your dSLR, you can keep your dSLR.

I did! After weighing everything, I went with the 80D as a smaller alternative to FF, rather than anybody's mirrorless. Very happy!
 
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Jopa said:
rrcphoto said:
Jopa said:
Quite significant drop though... Going to buy a 35 1.4 II today to support Canon LOL.

what drop? sales remained in the + for ILC's ... even with sales $ when the currency was adjusted.

if i remember correctly, canon was better than projections.

they made a 1.2 billion USD profit in imaging systems on around 10 billion in sales.

I think they're going to be okay ;)

Well, it says Gross Profit -13.5% http://www.canon.com/ir/conference/pdf/conf2016e.pdf?
Not sure if I should return the lens - I kinda like it...
that was due to currency valuation changes though.
 
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Woody said:
From page 5 of http://www.canon.com/ir/conference/pdf/conf2016e-sum.pdf:

"The interchangeable-lens camera market for the full year was only down 9% to 11.5 million units, despite the temporary shortage of parts caused by the Kumamoto earthquake. This represents the first time in three years that the market contracted at a single digit rate.

As for our full-year unit sales, in addition to growing sales of new DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, we benefitted from the shortage of parts that impacted our competitors. As a result, our unit sales increased 2% to 5.67 million."

The above translates into 49.3% worldwide market shares for Canon in interchangeable lens cameras.

One word. WOW!

But this may just be a one-time thing due to shortage of parts for Canon's competitors as a result of the Kumamoto earthquake.

hitting a 50% marketshare was most likely certainly due to their competition, hitting their sales targets was probably not due to the competition as much.
 
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