NEENAH, WI – Plexus Corp. announced fourth-quarter revenue was $426 million, an increase of 6.8% year-over-year.
Plexus targets revenue growth in the range of 15% to 18% in 2008.
Dean Foate, president and CEO, commented, "Our return on invested capital for fiscal 2007 of 17.6% was above our weighted average cost of capital and consistent with our long-term financial model. Despite being at the low end of our revenue guidance for Q4, we exceeded our earnings expectations, driven primarily by a favorable mix of customer programs, better than expected labor efficiencies and strong performance by our engineering services organization (Technology Group) ...
"Looking forward, we are expecting a strong start to fiscal 2008, with Q1 revenue in the range of $440 million to $460 million with single digit growth in all of our Market Sectors, with the exception of our Defense Sector, where we expect sequential revenue growth to exceed 25%. Including the production push-out from Q4 and a small follow-on order from our large defense customer, we are currently expecting approximately $54 million in revenue from this program in Q1 followed by approximately $26 million in Q2."