{"id":15533,"date":"2025-06-15T20:09:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T20:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/?p=15533"},"modified":"2025-06-15T20:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T20:12:22","slug":"makalot-cautious-on-h2-outlook-amid-tariff-fx-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/makalot-cautious-on-h2-outlook-amid-tariff-fx-pressures\/","title":{"rendered":"Makalot Cautious on H2 Outlook Amid Tariff, FX Pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Makalot expects a weaker second half as U.S. tariffs and Taiwan dollar strength pressure orders and margins. Clients are delaying purchases pending final tariff clarity, with rates as high as 49% in key production countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>The company is slowing expansion, sharing tariff costs with clients, and hedging currency risk, where a 1% Taiwan dollar gain cuts profit by around USD 334,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Despite challenges, Makalot posted a record 2024 net profit of USD 139.3 million, with Q1 2025 profit up 13.5% year-on-year to USD 42.8 million. Q1 revenue reached USD 331.5 million. A record cash dividend of USD 0.57 per share was approved.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makalot expects a weaker second half as U.S. tariffs and Taiwan dollar strength pressure orders and margins. Clients are delaying purchases pending final tariff clarity, with rates as high as&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15548,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533\/revisions\/15548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}