Book-to-bill: rigid up, flex down.BANNOCKBURN Bannockburn (băn`əkbûrn', băn'əkbûrn`), moor and parish, Stirling, central Scotland, on the Bannock River. Textiles are manufactured in the parish. , IL -- The North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. rigid board book-to-bill ratio Book-to-Bill Ratio The technology industry's demand-to-supply ratio for orders on a "firm's book" to number of orders filled. Notes: This ratio tells whether the company has more orders than it can deliver (if greater than 1), has the same amount of orders that it can for October 2005 rose to 1.14, while the continent's flex book-to-bill ratio declined sharply to 1.10. The combined (rigid and flex) industry book-to-bill ratio in October 2005 declined slightly to 1.13. But the combined ratio has become less relevant to analysts, however, due to the divergence divergence In mathematics, a differential operator applied to a three-dimensional vector-valued function. The result is a function that describes a rate of change. The divergence of a vector v is given by between the rigid PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. and flexible circuit segments of the industry in growth rates Growth Rates The compounded annualized rate of growth of a company's revenues, earnings, dividends, or other figures. Notes: Remember, historically high growth rates don't always mean a high rate of growth looking into the future. and book-to-bill patterns. These ratios are based on monthly data collected from PCB producers participating in IPC's monthly PCB Statistical Program. The ratios are calculated by dividing the value of orders booked over the past three months by the value of sales billed during the same period from the companies in IPC's survey sample. A ratio of more than 1.00 suggests that current demand is ahead of supply, which indicates probable near-term growth. Rigid PCB shipments are down 3.6% and bookings are up 31.5% in October 2005 from October 2004. Year to date, rigid PCB shipments are down 4.6% and bookings are up 1.5%. Rigid PCB shipments from the survey sample decreased 18.3% from the previous month and rigid bookings decreased 12.8% from the previous month. Flexible circuit shipments are up 49.1% and bookings are down 62.7% in October 2005 from October 2004. Year to date, flexible circuits shipments are up 29.9% and bookings are up 17%. Compared to the previous month, flexible circuit shipments from the survey sample increased 14.7% and flex bookings decreased 77.3%. For rigid PCBs and flexible circuits combined, industry sales billed (shipments) in October 2005 increased 8.5% from October 2004, and orders booked decreased 0.4% from October 2004. Year to date, combined industry shipments are up 1.9% and bookings are up 5.3%. Combined industry shipments for October 2005 are down 10.2% over the previous month, and bookings are down 35.9% over the previous month. EDITED BY ANDY ANDY Andrew ANDY US Popular Abbreviation for Andrews AFB SHAUGHNESSY |
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