Taiwan`s Foxconn, the world`s largest contract electronics maker and a key Apple supplier, posted a 14.5 percent fall in first-quarter net profit on Monday, lagging estimates despite a strong quarter for the U.S. iPhone maker.
Net profit for the first three months of 2018 for the company known formally as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co reached T$24.08 billion ($809 million), the company said in a filing to the Taiwan stock exchange.
That was down 14.5 percent from T$28.168 billion a year earlier, according to Reuters` calculations. The first-quarter result was also lower than an average estimate of T$28.71 billion from nine analysts, Thomson Reuters data showed.
In May Apple reported resilient iPhone sales in quarterly results that topped Wall Street forecasts.
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