Datamonitor's technology vendor financial research captures financial data from a representative sample of the largest public firms in the technology sector. This analysis provides a look at quarterly revenues, profits and market capitalization for companies in the telecoms, communications infrastructure, security, IT services, hardware, and business applications sectors for Q3 2007.

Scope

Covers global markets, including North America, EMEA and the emerging markets in APAC and Latin America. Includes IT generalists, telecoms, communications infrastructure, security, IT services, hardware, information management, and business applications. Features a regularly updated market capitalization index.

Highlights

The total revenues contributed by the top IT and telecom vendors amounted to over $510 billion during the quarter ending September 2007. The key trends observed during this quarter include Telecom sector reported 12% year-on-year revenue growth in Q3 2007;and Telecommunications sector reported high profit growth driven by wireless sector growth. Other trends include IT generalists providing software, hardware and services witnessed share price volatility; Technology vendors improved their presence in the Asia-Pacific region; HP, Samsung and EDS generated largest revenues among IT vendors in Q3 2007; and Vodafone, Nokia and Samsung posted the highest net profits in their respective segment.

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