With huge oversupply in some industries, and big rises in raw-materials costs, many manufacturers are having to endure wafer-thin margins.

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Below-average return on capital and equity than its peers, along with potential rig oversupply could be problematic for the Swiss company.

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With the bad loans and their collateral freed from contracts and available for resale and the legal structural changes returning the market to stability with natural constraints on oversupply, the train building market should rapidly return to full health.

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With weak consumer demand and oversupply of semiconductors in the market, semiconductor manufacturers are delaying their expansion plans indefinitely, and that???s what we're seeing reflected in ASML's guidance.

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Of course, we are concerned that margin compression in the memory products market may be unavoidable, but we tend to agree with the UBS analysts that oversupply concerns may already be priced in.

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Weaker-than-expected off-peak season demand and a global supply crunch of HDDs coupled with low demand for PC DRAM chips and the oversupply of mobile DRAM impacted profit margins, in which the memory portion saw its revenue slip to 4.89 trillion won.

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The slowdown in PC shipments, combined with intense competition and macro headwinds, has placed DRAM market in oversupply.

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