It gave no forecasts for its current quarter.īlackBerry plans to shed 4,500 jobs, or more than one-third of its workforce, as it shrinks to focus on corporate and government customers. The company does not provide sales data beyond the regional view.Įxcluding the Z10 writedown and restructuring costs, BlackBerry reported a loss of $248 million, or 47 cents a share. In previous quarters BlackBerry had said Venezuela was a strong market. After four quarters of revenues of around half a billion dollars in that region, sales sank to $196 million. The sharpest decline in BlackBerry’s sales came in Latin America. We see no reason to be more optimistic than them.” The auditors were not convinced that BlackBerry can sell it or sell it at prices that the company was hoping for. “They bought a lot of inventory hoping to sell it. “This write-off is very real,” said Morningstar analyst Brian Colello. The phone has sold badly with businesses and consumers alike. The loss included a writedown of about $934 million for unsold Z10 phones, a touchscreen model that the company had hoped would reverse its fading fortunes. Investors absorbed the shock of the drastic revenue decline last Friday, when a pre-announcement about the dismal results slashed 17 percent from the Canadian company’s market value. Its shares were little changed by early afternoon.

Revenue fell 45 percent from a year earlier to $1.6 billion, and BlackBerry’s cash pile - made up of cash and equivalents, short and long-term investments - fell by more than $500 million to $2.57 billion. 20 that the poor results were coming, said its net loss for the second quarter, ended on Aug.

The report showed Blackberry turned in a particularly limp performance in Latin America, a region it recently touted as a enthusiastic supporter of its devices. TORONTO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd reported a quarterly loss of nearly $1 billion on Friday, in line with a warning it gave last week, just days after the smartphone maker accepted its largest shareholder’s tentative $4.7 billion bid to take it private.

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