In some respects, analog chips are the workhorses of the semiconductor world. When the chip market goes into its regular troughs, the analog makers like Analog Devices (NYSE:ADI) batten down the hatches, and prepare for a few quarters of sequential earnings decline before the inevitable stabilization and recovery. Although the global economic situation is precarious, Analog may largely be through the process of seeing order levels reset ahead of a recovery.
A Tough Close to a Challenging Year
There wasn't all that much good news in this fiscal fourth quarter for Analog Devices. Revenue fell 7% from last year and 6% from the preceding quarter. Sales were weakest in the industrial and communications categories, where both saw double-digit year-on-year declines. Sales to automobile manufacturers were quite strong, though, and sales to the consumer category were mixed - better from the fiscal third quarter, but down from last year.
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