Huawei Technologies Co, the Chinese telecommunications and smartphone giant, reported a 32 per cent slump in sales for the first nine months of 2021, deepening a 29.4 per cent decline in the first half, as the company’s handset business was crippled by US sanctions.
Huawei, which is private but releases some financial data periodically, said it generated revenue of 455.8 billion yuan (US$71.2 billion) in the first nine months of 2021, almost a third less than the 671.3 billion yuan it posted in the same period last year. Its net profit margin was 10.2 per cent for the three quarters, up from 8 per cent in the same period last year, and 9.8 per cent for the first half of 2021.