“Worldwide provider of navigation, communications and information devices, Garmin Ltd. was downgraded to Sell by Citigroup. In addition, the firm’s analyst, Jeremy David, lowered the price target to $42.00 from $68.00,” Zacks reports via Yahoo Finance.
“Per David, the upcoming launch of Apple’s iWatch [sic] might have an impact on the demand for Garmin’s wearable devices, especially in the core GPS fitness watch category,” Zacks reports. “David anticipates Garmin’s Fitness revenues to accelerate in the near term but decline after 2016 due to increasing competition, especially from Apple.”
“Also, Garmin expects revenues and margins to remain flat in full-year 2015,” Zacks reports. “The weak outlook along with increasing competition from Apple has triggered a downward momentum in the company’s estimates in the recent times.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple Watch’s impact is going to hit far and wide. This is just the beginning.
Looking at their “wearable technology” products, they mostly look like “Casio” watches from the ’90’s and Nike Fuel Band. And they seem to subscribe the “more is better” philosophy.
They might look to another line of desperate work such as:
“Fred Garmin, Male Prostitute.”
wait till they come out with the “G. P. S.trap” add on band for the Apple Watch, and voila ! no more garmin
Who needs it in a strap. A simple bluetooth GPS in the form factor of a clip-on pedometer is all you need to ditch the iPhone for a run or bike ride with your Apple Watch.
It’s not the watch Garmin’s concerned about as much as Apple’s Carplay.
Last I heard, the lion’s share of Garmin’s revenues came from avionics, not consumer devices.
-jcr
Yep. The G1000 aint cheap.
Actually – the majority of Garmin’s revenues (nearly 50%) come from Automotive – not avionics.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/13050649/1/garmin-grmn-earnings-report-q4-2014-conference-call-transcript.html
Garmins quality control is terrible and they deserve to die.