Motorola XOOM and ATRIX 4G sales are ‘disappointing,’ analyst claims

By on Apr 5, 2011 at 4:17 PM
mobile April 5, 2011

Another analyst has cut revenue estimates for Motorola Mobility, again citing poor sales of the company’s key products as the driving force behind the downward revision. Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette on Tuesday revised his full-year 2011 revenue estimates downward from $13.7 billion to $12.25 billion. Further emphasizing his position on Motorola, he revised his full-year 2012 revenue estimates down from $15.34 billion to $13.62 billion as well. “Based on our checks, we believe overall sell-through trends for of the Xoom and Atrix have been disappointing,” Faucette said in a note to investors. “In particular, we believe Atrix’s lower-than-forecast volumes are a result of the $49 iPhone 3GS and the HTC Inspire, which kept Atrix sales well below forecast in spite of the marketing focus put on the Atrix by AT&T.” Faucette’s note follows a similar note from RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Sue last Friday, in which he cut Motorola sales estimates for both the first and second quarters of 2011.

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  • Anonymous

    wow… i didn’t see this one coming… not

  • the rock says

    and also it would help to actually have 4g capabilities

  • http://twitter.com/Joebread Joe Bread

    WOW! ATT screwed them real good by hindering the device to 3G speeds. Maybe if they had their freaking HSPA+ network up and running already the Atrix could be selling better! GEEZ

    • Anonymous

      That’s right motorola and google never could have screwed up. I believe this is definitely apple’s fault.

  • Youngjboy

    As a Droid 1 owner, this is an easy one. Xoom sales are lower than they could be due to Moto releasing the 3G only version first at that high price. Atrix sells could be better if ATT actually had their 4G lit up.

  • http://twitter.com/EricSeale Eric in Cupertino

    If Mot opened an AOSP Atrix ROM Kitchen I would switch

  • Bringit

    shocking!

  • Knarf

    Only in a make believe world is making $12.25 billion revenue will be considered poor. Where is the comparison of the “analyst” claiming Moto would “only” earn $10.00 billion heck earning $12.25 billion is a boon in that comparison.

    • http://twitter.com/adamjayreid Adam Reid

      If your overhead is 12b, then making 12.25b would make you poor. Idk what their overhead is, but neither do you. My guess would be that 12.25b would lead them either with very little profits or being in the red, and that’s probably why the analyst isn’t bullish on them

    • Anonymous

      motorola says they are going to lose between 22 and 62 million this first quarter. Revenue is How much money they take in. Not how much they earn.

  • Anonymous

    Aout the xoom… I womd if it has anything to do with PRICE GOUGING POTENTIAL BUYERS… Just saying

    • Anonymous

      Ah, you speaking English?

      Just sayin’

      • Anonymous

        it was late… i was typing on an iPad… the baby was wrestling in my
        arms… can i get a pass?

      • Anonymous

        If you are a Goofan (aka Apple Hater) then absolutely you can get a pass. You can get 20 passes as far as we are concerned. :-)

  • Jroc869

    xoom needs a price fix, and who really cares about locked down android devices on the AT&T network.

  • Anonymous

    Dear Motorola,

    Please stop using terrible quality displays and I will start buying your products.

  • Anonymous

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    XOOM sales are disappointing??!?

    Who saw THAT coming??!?

  • Anonymous

    maybe if Motorola would hire Charlie Sheen and a few random hussies as spokespeople they could convince teh internets (and this one analyst) they are winning?

  • Betelgeuse Orion

    of course the xoom sales are dissapointing, its not even fucking released in canada, the sales would be 0

  • JUSTQUAN2

    i honestly think vzw and motorola has to do with the xoom not selling. you offer this thing and want EVERYBODY to have data on it in another 2yr contract?? that is a kick in the ass. i have the xoom and absolutely hate vzw. so tethering i will do via my phone and jus be happy. instead of being greedy they should have sold it for $600 and month to month like the ipad and im sure people would have got on it. not as much as that damn ipad but quite a few would have picked one up.

  • http://twitter.com/eatURgruel J

    Personally, I don’t like Motoblur or the UI. The laptop dock is great, but I would use the phone by itself more often. And the line-up for Motorola on ATT has sucked. The Flipside and Flipout suck due to screen size and the Bravo is nice @ 800mhz but no flash on the camera.

  • http://www.theworldgrowsold.com Mundus Senescit

    They should have gotten the Atrix on Verizon LTE, it would have sold much better. It will be interesting to see how well the Bionic does. That may be my next phone…

  • Anonymous

    Comment on Atrix, Moto simply made so much noise on features (laptop & Media Dock) which users did not really care about or needed. 98% of the time, people will be using the atrix as a phone, not a computer. HELLO MOTO!

    What Atrix needed badly was Gingerbread and the ability to efficiently utilize the beast of a processor it has.

    i wont comment on the xoom as i own no tablet

  • Anonymous

    The Xoom is too expensive and the Atrix has a locked bootloader, motoblur and fake 4g. I’m not surprised. The xoom is dead in the water with the galaxy tab undercutting it and the htc flyer actually doing impressive innovative things, both for less money.

  • Anonymous

    I hope the Atrix fails miserably! I can’t believe at&t is charging that much for the “laptop” dock AND making you pay for tethering! As for the Xoom, we all know that’s too expensive – but that didn’t stop me.

  • userofphones

    If the Atrix’s sales aren’t what they should be, it might be because AT&T cancelled the contracts with third-party vendors such as Wirefly and Let’s Talk. You pretty much can only buy the Atrix at full price from AT&T, and that will turn off many customers.

  • worldbfree4me

    Subscribers have got to have incentive to go out and purchase a new phone. If I’m an ATT subscriber, chances are pretty good that I have an iPhone or some other phone already and it is under contract. If ATT want’s me to buy an ATRIX they need to give me the latitude to get out of my current contract before the 2 years deal is up and reasonable trade-in value on my current phone. Or else, it’s just like lease car market, where buyers are taken out of the car market for 3-4 years guaranteed!

  • fr3dd0

    aside from the iphone ATT customer seem to all want free or cheap phones. the inspire at $99 is even a stretch for the customers i deal will, while the customers shopping sprint almost avoid the cheap/free phones and want to buy the $200 phone (evo / epic)…

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