2Q16 PC shipments rise in USA but Mac shipments decline
This was kind of expected. Given that the tablet craze has come down a bit and given that most Apple customers are holding on for new MacBooks to be announced, there is an increase in PC shipments while Mac shipments declined. The PC shipment increase YoY is only in the states while both PC and Mac global shipments registered negative growth. Total of 64.2 million computers were shipped in 2Q16 and 15.2 million PCs were shipped in North America. Lenovo remained global leader while Dell captured the top stop in American market from HP. Apple, on the other hand lost a position in America (to Lenovo) and in global shipments (to Asus). HP is on right path to capture top spot in global shipments from Lenovo as Lenovo is the only top 5 PC makers registering negative growth.
Table 1
Preliminary Worldwide PC Vendor Unit Shipment Estimates for 2Q16 (Thousands of Units)
|
Company |
2Q16 Shipments |
2Q16 Market Share (%) |
2Q15 Shipments |
2Q15 Market Share (%) |
2Q16-2Q15 Growth (%) |
|
Lenovo |
13,198 |
20.5 |
13,491 |
19.9 |
-2.2 |
|
HP Inc. |
12,284 |
19.1 |
12,063 |
17.8 |
1.8 |
|
Dell |
9,788 |
15.2 |
9,490 |
14.0 |
3.1 |
|
Asus |
4,695 |
7.3 |
4,637 |
6.8 |
1.3 |
|
Apple |
4,559 |
7.1 |
4,793 |
7.1 |
-4.9 |
|
Acer |
4,417 |
6.9 |
4,401 |
6.5 |
0.4 |
|
Others |
15,354 |
23.9 |
18,975 |
28.0 |
-19.1 |
|
Total |
64,295 |
100.0 |
67,851 |
100.0 |
-5.2 |
Source: Gartner (July 2016)
“One of the ongoing problems in the PC market has been the price hike in selected regions due to the weakening local currency against the U.S. dollar,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner. “The price issue has impacted the EMEA and Latin America regions for the past year. However, PC shipment declines became rather modest in the second quarter compared with previous quarters, which suggests a fading currency impact.
“All regions except North America experienced a PC shipment decline. The Latin America region was still very weak largely because of political and economic instability. PC shipments in Latin America are expected to fall below 5 million units for the second quarter of 2016, which is a decline of more than 20 percent from the second quarter of 2015. These shipment results would be some of the lowest in the history of the Latin America PC industry.”
Table 2
Preliminary U.S. PC Vendor Unit Shipment Estimates for 2Q16 (Thousands of Units)
|
Company |
2Q16 Shipments |
2Q16 Market Share (%) |
2Q15 Shipments |
2Q15 Market Share (%) |
2Q16-2Q15 Growth (%) |
|
Dell |
4,105 |
27.0 |
3,769 |
25.1 |
8.9 |
|
HP Inc. |
4,010 |
26.3 |
3,975 |
26.5 |
0.9 |
|
Lenovo |
2,209 |
14.5 |
2,022 |
13.5 |
9.2 |
|
Apple |
1,873 |
12.3 |
2,064 |
13.8 |
-9.3 |
|
Asus |
751 |
4.9 |
721 |
4.8 |
4.2 |
|
Others |
2,277 |
15.0 |
2,457 |
16.4 |
-7.3 |
|
Total |
15,223 |
100.0 |
15,007 |
100.0 |
1.4 |
Source: Gartner (July 2016)
“While vendors and channels generally have more optimistic expectations of PC sales compared with the past, there is still a chance to have a potential inventory built. This will depend on how PC market demand picks up in the second half of this year for both the business and consumer segments,” Ms. Kitagawa said. “The second and third quarter are typically PC buying season for the U.S. public sectors. Positive second-quarter results could suggest healthy PC sales activities among the public sectors. There is an opportunity for a Windows 10 refresh among businesses, which we expect to see more toward the end of 2016 to the beginning of 2017.”
