BlackBerry, the Canadian multinational manufacturer of mobile phones which have been losing market relevance, presented on Friday losses that surprised analysts and had a sharp drop in the stock.
The results for the quarter between March and May are an improvement over the same period of 2012. The company had revenues of 3071 million (9.4% more than last year) and losses of 84 million, substantially below the loss of 518 million reported a year ago. A set of analysts polled by Reuters expect the company to be able to show a profit.
BlackBerry said to have sent to the retail 6.8 million phones during the quarter in question, 2.7 million of which were the two latest models equipped with the operating system BlackBerry 10, which had very positive reviews by the industry analysts and the specialized press, but that has been successful in attracting consumers. According to IDC data, in the first quarter of this year, Windows Phone, Microsoft has surpassed the BlackBerry, whose global market share shrank from 6.4% to 2.9%. The Microsoft platform reached 3.2%, far from the leaders Android and iOS.
“The BlackBerry Nokia suffers syndrome: rapid decline in sales in the old platform and a much slower adoption of new,” he wrote on Twitter IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo.
In the presentation of results, the executive, Thorsten Heins, warned that the company will also introduce losses in the next quarter and that “the transition takes time.”
Following the presentation of results, the share price of BlackBerry had a sharp fall in New York Nasdaq. At the time of this writing, fell 25.14% to $ 10.84.
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