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Nokia makes a 2012 Q4 profit of $585 million, sells 4.4 million Lumia
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By Daniel Cooper posted Jan 24th 2013 6:03AM 137
From somewhere atop a Finnish mountain, Stephen Elop is both bellowing and
whispering Nokia's fourth quarter and full-year financials. The world's
former number one has finally made a quarterly profit, with the final three
months of the year raking in $585.7 million. However, the baggage for those
previous losses weighed low on the annual report, pinning the company to a $
3 billion loss for its overall performance in 2012.
A big chunk of the quarterly profit came from the Nokia Siemens Networks
infrastructure business, which chipped in with an operating profit of $334
million, while Nokia's Device business contributed $367 million. Nokia
confirmed that it shipped 4.4 million Lumia handsets and 2.2 million Symbian
smartphones during this period and, while those numbers are still sliding,
the higher margins on phones like the Lumia 920 have had a positive effect
on the bottom line. America, however, still hasn't fallen in love with the
company's phones, with sales increasing from 300,000 to 700,000 -- but as of
yet that's hardly enough to say they've been a big hit.
On the upside, Nokia begins 2013 with a reasonably clean slate. It's cashed
out another $250 million donation from Microsoft and has seen its net cash
reserves increase for the first time in over a year -- up to $5.8 billion
from $4.6 billion in the Autumn. The company has also decided not to grant a
dividend to its shareholders for the first time in over a century as it
hopes to keep adding to its corporate nest-egg.
