Leading Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has outperformed other companies in the race for profits, despite rising revenues due to US sanctions.In this regard, according to a foreign news agency, Huawei’s annual revenue in 2021 was lower than in 2020, but profit increased by more than 75%.
This is the first time the Chinese company has lost annual revenue due to US sanctions, but the budget saw a dramatic increase in profits thanks to smartphone brand sales and the server business.
Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou told a news conference during a news conference that despite the decline in revenue in 2021, our profitability and cash flow have increased, we now have to overcome the uncertainty. Are more qualified.
Meng Wanzhou is thought to have returned to China in October last year after fighting a legal battle against US deportation in Canada for almost three years on fraud charges.
The company’s revenue in 2021 decreased by 28.5% over the previous year and stood at 636.6 billion yuan.
In contrast, profits rose 75.9 percent to 113.7 billion yuan, largely due to sales of the Honor brand and server business, but details were not disclosed. Revenue from all three key sectors of the company declined.
Consumer electronics was once the most important sector of the company, whose revenue fell by almost 50% in 2021.
Career business, including the telecom and communications equipment sector, saw its revenue decline by 6.97%, while enterprise business (including servers and cloud services) declined by 2%.
It is believed that Huawei’s business was badly affected by the US actions against the company. In May 2019, former US President Donald Trump blacklisted Huawei, making access to US technology impossible.
The United States has barred Huawei from purchasing key components, such as microchips, and as a result, the Chinese company has lost access to Google services, forcing it to develop its own operating system.
Huawei is seeking to step into new areas, including enterprise computing, wearables and health technology, smart car technology and software, following the impact of the US sanctions on the smartphone business.
Huawei is the world’s largest telecom network gear supplier and some time ago was the world’s second largest smartphone company and at one point even became the number one company.
But as a result of US sanctions, it has now slipped below the top 10 smartphone companies. In October, Huawei announced January sales of its phones Decreased by 32% during September 2021
