LENOVO Group Ltd's net profit jumped 34 percent in the last fiscal year ended in March, making it the only one of the world's top-five personal computer vendors to avoid a decline in the global PC industry, China's biggest PC maker said yesterday.Â
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A rise in market share and booming smartphone sales propelled Lenovo's net profit to US$635 million, beating analysts' estimates of US$618 million. In contrast, Hewlett-Packard and Dell saw a slowdown in their net profit.Â
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Meanwhile, Lenovo, the world's No. 2 PC maker, generated a revenue of US$33.9 billion, up 15Â percent.
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"Despite a challenging macro-economic environment and an ongoing PC industry transformation, Lenovo is not only the fastest growing among all major PC players, with a record market share, revenue and profitability, (but) more importantly, our smartphone and tablet business saw dramatic growth," Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo chairman and CEO, said in a statement.
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In the January-March quarter, global PC sales shed 14 percent year on year, according to International Data Corp, a US-based IT research firm.At the end of March, Lenovo's PC market share rose to 15.3 percent from 13.2 percent a year earlier. In the same period, it narrowed the gap with market leader HP whose share fell to 15.7 percent from 17.7 percent, according to IDC.
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Lenovo's US market share was nearly 9 percent, a new record in the firm's history. Its market share in China, the world's No. 1 PC market, rose to 35 percent.
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Lenovo's full-year smartphone sales jumped 3.6 times, ranking it No. 2 in the domestic market behind Samsung.Â