ABB Robotic Profits

2011 proved to be a wild­ly suc­cess­ful year for ABB. ABB​’s net income was up by 24% in 2011. Their orders rose 17% with rev­enues up 16%. The full-year orders hit $40 bil­lion for the first time.

The increase in prof­itabil­i­ty in the fourth quar­ter of 2011 was due to strong rev­enue growth com­bined with cost sav­ings. The mea­sure of prof­itabil­i­ty tracked by man­age­ment rose 18% from that time the year before. 

The surge in orders could be due to the increas­ing demand for low-loss pow­er trans­mis­sion sys­tems as well as demand from indus­tri­al cus­tomers for high-effi­cien­cy equip­ment that reduces oper­at­ing costs. 

In 2012, the net prof­it shrunk by 15%. ABB blames a tough mar­ket and insists it held its ground. Their num­ber of orders remained rel­a­tive­ly stable.

Con­sis­ten­cy is key to ABB, and it proved it can deliv­er con­sis­tent results since sales still grew by 4% in 2012. Also con­sis­tent is the grow­ing elec­tric­i­ty con­sump­tion, indus­tri­al­iza­tion in emerg­ing mar­kets, and the need to increase ener­gy and efficiency.

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