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Imaging components supplier Sunny Optical reports 67pc rise in 2016 net profit

Company predicts demand for high-end smartphone cameras to remain strong

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The growth in social media has helped spur demand for high-end camera technology in smartphones. Photo: David Wong

Sunny Optical Technology (Group), a major manufacturer of smartphone camera modules and lenses, saw its shares decline on Tuesday after reporting revenue last year that missed analysts’ estimates amid a significant increase in net profit.

The Hong Kong-listed company, which is a supplier to Chinese smartphone juggernauts Huawei Technologies, Oppo and Vivo, attributed its difficulties last year to lingering weakness in the mainland economy.

“Despite all kinds of uncertainties, the group believes that in 2017 the demand for high-end cameras on smartphones will still be strong,” Sunny Optical founder and chairman Ye Liaoning said in a statement.

Sunny Optical’s share price opened at HK$58.70 (US$7.56), up from Monday’s close, but lost ground for the rest of the trading day to finish down 4 per cent to HK$55.10 on Tuesday.

The company posted a 66.8 per cent jump in net profit to 1.3 billion yuan (US$188 million), from 761.6 million yuan in 2015, driven by healthy volume growth and improved margins of its smartphone and vehicle lenses as well as handset camera modules.
Sunny Optical is a supplier of phone camera technology for Huawei. Photo: Handout
Sunny Optical is a supplier of phone camera technology for Huawei. Photo: Handout

Revenue grew 36.6 per cent last year to 14.6 billion yuan, compared with 10.7 billion yuan in 2015.

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