Jabil Circuit

Industry: Electronic Instruments Controls

Fortune Rank: 199

Jabil Circuit designs and manufactures electronic circuit board assemblies and systems for original equipment manufacturers in the communications, computer peripherals, personal computers & consumer product industries. For the FY ended 8/31/05, revenues rose 20% to $7.52B. Net income rose 39% to $231.8M. Results reflect increased sales of instrumentation and medical products and the absence of a $1.3M acquisition-related charge.

Jabil Circuit, Inc. is a worldwide independent provider of electronic manufacturing services (EMS). The Company designs and manufactures electronic circuit board assemblies and systems for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the aerospace, automotive, computing, consumer, defense, instrumentation, medical, networking, peripherals, storage and telecommunications industries. Jabil serves its OEM customers with work cell business units that combine high volume, highly automated, continuous flow manufacturing with advanced electronic design and design for manufacturability technologies. The Company's customers are Cisco Systems, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, International Business Machines Corporation, Lucent Technologies, Inc., Marconi Communications plc, NEC Corporation, Nokia Corporation, Quantum Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics and Valeo S.A. In March 2005, the Company acquired the electronics manufacturing business of Varian, Inc.

Jabil Circuit

Jabil Circuit achieved revenue of $11,684.50 million in 2010 but posted a loss of $-1,165.20 million.

Jabil Circuit' rank improves

The company ranking improved in 2010, moving up the Fortune 500 list to 199th compared to 212th in 2009. This was based on its 2009 revenue of $12,780 million (a change of -1 million compared to 2010) and profits of $134 million (a change of $-135 million compared to 2009).

Another point of view

To many investors, profits are more important than revenue a company earns, If the Fortune 500 was ranked by profits instead of revenue then Jabil Circuit would be ranked 471st rather than 199th due to the fact it made a loss of $-1,165 million in 2010.

Jabil Circuit Revenue* Profit* Fortune Ranking
201011,685-1,165199
200912,780134212
200812,29173219
20067,524232303

* US$ Million

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