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2008 Connector Industry Yearbook
Research Report C-122-08
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Published August 2008

2008 Connector Industry Yearbook

Each year, Bishop & Associates prepares the Connector Industry Yearbook based on annual reports provided by publicly traded connector companies. Income statements and balance sheets are consolidated for the past ten (10) years, (5) years, and most current year, providing benchmarks on the industry and the overall performance of the public connector companies. Featured in each issue are:

Consolidated history of the public companies including:

Key Financial Measurements (1997-2007)
Balance Sheet $ (1997-2007)
Income Statement $ (1997-2007)
Balance Sheet percent (1997-2007)
Income Statement percent (1997-2007)

Fifteen-year history of performance by company, with industry averages for the following financial measurements:

Selected Connector Manufacturers
Selling, General, & Administrative percent (1993-2007)
Net Income percent (1993-2007)
Return on Assets (1993-2007)
Long Term Debt/Equity (1993-2007)
Accounts Receivables Turnover (1993-2007)
Inventory Turns (1993-2007)
Cost of Goods Sold percent (1993-2007)
COGS + SG&A percent (1993-2007)
Current Ratio (1993-2007)
Return on Equity (1993-2007)
Liabilities to Equity (1993-2007)
Average Collection Period (1993-2007)
Days Inventory (1993-2007)

A chronological description of important 2007 industry events.

Organizational structure of the public companies included in the Yearbook, including profiles and photographs, when available, of the personnel managing these companies.

2007 Yearbook Company Sales increase 7.2 Percent

The following table provides consolidated fiscal year sales for public companies included in the 2008 Connector Industry Yearbook.

Consolidated Sales - Yearbook Companies

Net Income

Profits for the Electronic Connector Industry decreased in 2007 with average net income of 8.0 percent of sales, compared with 9.0 percent in 2006.

The lowest net income as a percent of sales occurred in 2002 at 3.2 percent. Between 1998 and 2002, net income decreased from 7.8 percent of sales in 1998 to 3.2 percent of sales in 2002. Between 2003 and 2007, net income increased from 4.7 percent of sales in 2002 to 8.0 percent of sales in 2007.

The following chart provides a history of net income for the Connector Industry from 1993-2007.

Yearbook Companies Net Income - Percent of Sales

Cost-of-Goods Sold (COGS)

COGS increased in the five years between 1998 and 2002 from 65.5 percent of sales to 76.2 percent. Between 2003 and 2007, COGS decreased from 75.6 percent to 73.8 percent.

In the fifteen-year period between 1993 and 2007, COGS was at its lowest in 1997 at 64.5 percent and reached its highest level in 2002 at 76.2 percent. Between 1998 and 2007, COGS increased from 65.5 percent to 73.8 percent.

Selling, General & Administrative (SG&A)

For the five-year period 2003 to 2007, SG&A decreased from 16.2 percent to 13.9 percent. Between 1998 and 2002 SG&A decreased from 20.1 percent in 1998 to 16.9 percent in 2002. SG&A dropped between 1993 and 2007 from 20.0 percent to 13.9 percent.

Average SG&A for the five-year period 2003 to 2007 was 15.0 percent and the average for the ten-year period 1998 to 2007 was 16.6 percent.

Return on Assets

Return on Assets increased for the five-year period between 2003 and 2007 from 4.5 percent in 2003 to 8.3 percent in 2007. Between 1998 and 2002, Return on Assets decreased from 7.5 percent in 1998 to 2.9 percent in 2002.

Return on Assets was the highest in 1996 at 7.9 percent and the lowest in 2002 at 2.9 percent.