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LG Display Co., Ltd. (LPL) Q1 2012 Earnings Call Transcript

Published at 2012-04-24 14:21:03
Executives
Hee Yeon Kim – Head, IR Department J. S. Park – Head, TV Marketing Department Kevin Choi – Vice President, IT Marketing Department
Analysts
Matt Evans – CLSA Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities Jeffrey Toder – RBS Daniel Chang – SK Securities Kim Dong Joon – UBS Securities Marco Tobisen – Barclays
Operator
Good morning and good evening. First of all, thank you all for joining this conference call and now we’ll begin the conference of the Fiscal Year 2012 First Quarter Earnings Results by LG Display. This conference will start with the presentation followed by a division of Q&A session. (Operator Instructions) Now, we shall commence the presentation on the fiscal year 2012 first quarter earnings results by LG Display.
Hee Yeon Kim
Welcome to LG Display first quarter year 2012 conference call. My name is Hee Yeon Kim, Head of IR Department. On behalf of LG Display, I would like to welcome everyone to our global quarterly earnings conference call. I’m joined by our IR staff, as well as, representatives from TV Marketing and IT Marketing. J. S. Park is heading up the TV Marketing Department; Kevin Choi is Vice President of IT Marketing Department. Next slide please. Before we move on to the earnings results, please take a minute to read the disclaimer. I would like to remind everyone that results are based on the consolidated IFRS accounting standards and are unaudited. Next slide please. This conference call will take an hour. Before we go into the Q&A session, please allow me to highlight our first quarter year 2012 result, performance highlight and outlook. Originally, our panel shipment for first quarter was expected to be similar to the fourth quarter with a channel inventory restocking demand and new model line-up by set makers, as well as launch of our differentiated products. However, some delay in the schedule of differentiated product and new model development resulted into 4% shipment decrease. Operating loss continue to while panel price remained stable after slight decline all in the quarter. Cost reduction recorded low single-digit. There is improvement effort to increase competitiveness in first quarter affected the result negatively due to some delay of new model shipments. As most of the issues have been already resolved, we expected these efforts to bear fruit in second quarter leaving to the meaningful improvement in the results. Looking at second quarter, the demand is expected to be stronger, while the inventory level industry-wide remains low. Order from our customers is expected to be strong with new model line-up in preparation for the sports events. As a portion of differentiated products including FPR 3D, panels for smart devices continues to expand, in an improving market situation, we expected a sound profit in second quarter. However, as the global economic scale remains uncertain, there are some uncertainties in the market which could potentially impact the panel shipments. Looking at the overall Display industry, we feel it is indisputable that LCD has entered maturity and slow growth stage. LG Display has carefully carryout thorough analysis in the strategic direction and investment plans with the following three points under consideration. Number one, the optimization of the interesting LCD business, number two, taking leadership in the largest OLED TV market and number three, finding future growth engine. China investment which is to be carried out near future will also be a part of LCD business optimization by expanding access to the China market and obtaining cost to comparativeness. We will tell you more about these long-term strategic direction and investment plans in the next quarter earnings. Now moving on to our financial results, on page seven -- on page three, revenue in the first quarter rose KRW 6.6 billion, down 6% quarter-on-quarter. The demand was strong compared to traditional seasonality, however, delay in the differentiated products and modest development schedule resulted in manufacturing capacity decline. This resulted in 4% shipment decline compared to the previous quarter. After panel prices dropped slightly in all the months, it remained stable throughout the quarter. Operating loss increased to KRW 178 billion and operating margin to minus 3%, while EBITDA margin remained stable at 13%. Net income was minus KRW 129 billion. Moving on to slide four, looking at our financial positions and ratios. Cash and cash equivalents rose by KRW 60 billion to KRW 2.4 trillion. Inventory was maintained at the highest level at KRW 2.2 trillion. Debt level rose slightly recording in net debt-to-equity ratio of 29%. Moving on to slide five, looking at our cash flow. Cash at the beginning of the quarter was KRW 2.3 trillion. Cash flow from operating activities resulted in cash inflow of KRW 656 billion. Cash flow from investing activities resulted in an outflow of KRW 1.3 trillion and cash flow from financing activities resulted in an inflow of KRW 677 billion. As a result, the net change in cash was inflow of KRW 60 billion. Moving on to our shipment and ASP on slide six. Looking at our shipment, it decreased by 4% quarter-on-quarter, recording 8.1 million square meters. This is due to the temporary capacity allocation for the development of differentiated products and new developments. ASP based on LCD module price remained flat after slight decline only in the products and it recorded $669 in first quarter, a 2% quarter-on-quarter decreased. Moving onto our product mix on slide seven. In first quarter, TV product mix is 47%, monitor 21%, notebook 15%, tablet 5%, mobile 12%. New tablet PC shipments in the first quarter stop by temporarily delay in production, which reduced the revenue portion in first quarter. However, as the normal shipping is to begin in the second quarter, the revenue percentage is expected to rise back to the previous level. Moving on to slide eight and looking at our capacity. Our manufacturing capacity decreased 8% quarter-on-quarter to 10.2 million square meters due to the shorter number of working days in addition to temporary capacity allocated to the development of differentiated product and new models. Next, return to our outlook section. We expect the better demand in second quarter as customers prepared for new model line-up before the sporting event while industry inventory remains low. We expect our total shipments to increase by around 10% quarter-on-quarter and ASP to show a slight upward trend. This quarter as explained established the foundation for strengthen and the comparativeness, we then approach emphasizing differentiated products, as well as new models. With the foundation that we’ve laid on top of the improved market situations, we expect to show better results and began moving towards the turnaround in the second quarter. As always, as we will continue to rate the industry, rate it’s differentiated and world class product. With that, I will end my summary of first quarter and future outlook, and we would be happy to take your questions. To use the time efficiently, please limit to three questions per person. Operator, proceed to Q&A session please.
Operator
(Operator Instructions) The first question will be provided by Mr. Matt Evans from CLSA. Please go ahead, sir. Matt Evans – CLSA: Hi. Good evening. Thanks for taking my call. First question is in reference to your comment that some new products were delayed in the first quarter and you said that the issues are mostly resolved and things will be normal in this quarter? So do you mean by that that already in April those issues are resolved and you’re not able to ship those delayed products or is it something that you’re just saying during the quarter at some point in before the end of June, you will be shipping those products?
Hee Yeon Kim
Yeah. If -- as I mentioned to you previous that reserve, the shipment was already started in April. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. And so that -- and the shipments, can you comment as to whether they’re at sort of mature volumes, mature yields or is it still sort of ramping up?
Hee Yeon Kim
Yeah. Definitely. We are okay in terms of yield and other things, everything is okay. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. And I wondered if you could elaborate on the first of the three strategies you mentioned in terms of optimizing the existing business? Could that mean for example, no longer producing 32-inch commodity TV panels and using your capacity for more value-added products?
Hee Yeon Kim
Actually the philosophy for the optimization of LCD is, yeah, that we will move towards the valuable product segmentation. However, it doesn’t mean we will not do any more for the 32-inch. What I’m trying to say is, we will be more focus on the valuable products such as differentiated products. We don’t have any specific size and categories yet. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. My third question is, can you give us some sense of how you are thinking about capacity going forward? I understand you have this sort trade-off where if you convert an LCD fab to OLED or if you move equipment from Greater China then your capacity will reduce, but on the other hand, you don’t want to increase your gross capacity because the industry is over, already over supplied. So, can you help us understand how you’re thinking about that trade-off and what the various strategies could be?
Hee Yeon Kim
Actually it’s a bit difficult to mention about the overall capacity trend because we are not finalized yet, but our strategy movements including OLED fab and China fab. However, anyway maybe this year and next year we will do some of the investment activity such as OLED or China fab, or both of that. But anyway we will try to limit our LCD capacity and we’re not highly unlikely to increase the LCD capacity anymore. So if we will do any -- we will make this -- we will work decision making for the China fab, the total LCD capacity will remain stabilized. Matt Evans – CLSA: So that means that if you convert one of the existing fabs for example then you would buy new equipment to keep the LCD capacity constant. Is that what you are saying or you are saying, it could only go down?
Hee Yeon Kim
Actually if we have any new capacity increase for the LCD, it means that we might have a high potential of LCD conversion to OLED. So, all in all, the function of the LCD and OLED capacity increases should remain flat going forward. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. Thank you.
Operator
The following questions will be presented by Mr. Andrew Abrams from Avian Securities. Please go ahead, sir. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: Hi. Could you just talk about CapEx in general for this year? Do you expect any changes in your cash-out CapEx. I think you were talking about for originally?
Hee Yeon Kim
For now we don’t have any material change. It is KRW 3 trillion or KRW 4 trillion, but if, right now we are in the process of our -- reviewing our strategic forecast. So if there is some decision making for the OLED or other things, yeah, there is some possibilities to -- it would be changed, but we cannot expect any material change, maybe it should be around KRW 4 trillion or slight over KRW 4 trillion. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: And in terms of your first quarter and expected second quarter cost down, can you give us some indication there?
Hee Yeon Kim
Every quarter we are targeting low single or mid single-digit cost reduction. But in first quarter our cost reduction was mid -- low single-digit. We are targeting similar level in second quarter as well. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: And is that both on the material side and on the design side or is it toward one side or the other of those?
Hee Yeon Kim
All side. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: Okay. And lastly, on your potential plans for China, the facility that would build there, just to make sure I understand this correctly, would essentially be replacing OLED -- converted OLED capacity somewhere else. So, the LCD side, even if you did do the China fab would stay roughly the same regardless of what the OLED capacity is, I just want to make sure I understand that? And if in fact you did make a decision on China, would that actually -- would the construction start this year and how long do you think that process would take before you were up and running?
Hee Yeon Kim
In conclusion, we will -- the overall China fab, yeah, we already have a conclusion for this China fab issue. But how we’ll -- how many more than less improved or the China fab will be new fab or not, this is not decided yet. So, all-in-all, as I mentioned before, Korean and China fab total capacity issues will not be that different from now. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: Okay. So it’s a zero sum even with the China fab, that’s just kind of where I was going.
Hee Yeon Kim
Actually it can be minus capacity or XY plus capacity. It’s totally depending on the Asian market demand situation. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: Got it. And no timing has been set yet, is that correct?
Hee Yeon Kim
I think, in this year, we will do -- we will do our China fab. We would start the China at groundbreaking. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: Some time. Right. Some time this year for groundbreaking. Okay. Thanks very much. I appreciate it.
Operator
The following questions will be presented by Mr. Jeffrey Toder from RBS. Please go ahead sir. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Hi. Good evening. Few questions. Kind of back to the capacity question, but narrow our timeframe. There was a sharp drop in capacity and you gave some reasons for that in first quarter. Do you expect the second quarter capacity figure to return to the fourth quarter figure or do you expected it to still below that number?
Hee Yeon Kim
Our second quarter capacity should be similar as Q4 numbers. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: It would be similar to Q4 numbers. Okay.
Hee Yeon Kim
Q4 numbers. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. And then, I know we’ve this question about three times, but I just want to make sure, I’m clear on this. So when you talk about long-term capacity staying roughly static, you’re talking about total capacity of combined LCD and OLED? Is that correct?
Hee Yeon Kim
Yeah. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. Good. Okay. Let see -- and a few housekeeping questions just to get out of the way, your utilization rate in first quarter?
Hee Yeon Kim
Its low 90%, low to mid 90% based on our -- based on our production capacity. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. Good. And when you gave your ASP guidance, is that on a like-for-like area basis or is that on a blended basis?
Hee Yeon Kim
Sorry. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Your ASP guidance…
Hee Yeon Kim
ASP guidance. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Yeah. Is that one a like-for-like basis or a blended basis?
Hee Yeon Kim
It’s apple-to-apple basis. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. And on a blended basis since as you mentioned you’ll be ramping up some new products, what would you expect your -- how would you expect your ASP to perform?
Hee Yeon Kim
In first quarter or in second quarter? Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Second quarter. First quarter is already comped.
Hee Yeon Kim
Second quarter. In first quarter, our product mix was very similar, so blended ASP and apple-to-apple price change was very similar but in second quarter, we already guided apple-to-apple price is likely to rebound. The blended ASP is likely to rebound at low to mid single-digit. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. Good. Can you -- okay -- so no changes on the OLED front. Did you give at the local meeting any guidance as to when the ground breaking in China would occur?
Hee Yeon Kim
China. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: China ground breaking, you said this year...
Hee Yeon Kim
China, yeah... Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Is that like second quarter or is that like fourth quarter?
Hee Yeon Kim
It’s not decided yet for now, but maybe it will be soon. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. And is ground breaking in China included in your -- and whatever you’re going to do already included in this year’s CapEx forecast?
Hee Yeon Kim
Yeah. It is already included but amount is very negligible because most of the cash outflow will be done in next year. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. Good. Make sense. Okay. Now for depreciation, so P98 is coming online. So you expect depreciation I think to increase in 2Q. Can you give guidance figure for that?
Hee Yeon Kim
We are scheduled to ramp up P98 fab in May. So lastly our monthly depreciation expense for P98 is around KRW30 billion, so you can calculate quarterly numbers. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. So that starts in May. Okay. Great. That’s really good. Okay. And let’s say just one other -- two other quick ones, sorry. When you mentioned in your strategic initiatives, your third one was fund future growth engines. And that, of course, is excluded from optimization of the existing business and OLED leadership. What kind of other growth engines would you be referring to?
Hee Yeon Kim
For that area is only to mention about there. So that’s why I mentioned that we were more -- we were giving you more ideas next conference call. It’s just to deliver our ideas. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. Are those factors all related to display or could you look at other types of businesses that use similar processes?
Hee Yeon Kim
We can cover other types of business, but it will be related to our display business. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. And I wonder if you could just go over your global forecast for capacity demand growth and also for tablet, notebook, monitor and TV shipment numbers.
Hee Yeon Kim
Jeffrey, you already asked it, repetition. Please call us later for the numbers. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay.
Hee Yeon Kim
Thank you.
Operator
The next question will be presented by Mr. [Daniel Chang] from SK Securities. Please go ahead sir. Daniel Chang – SK Securities: Hi. Thanks for taking my question. I have two quick questions, OLED and one on LCD. My first question on OLED is, will there be any other TV sizes released other than the 55-inch that you announced, will there be, yeah? And my second question is, I know it’s a little bit early to talk about profitability for OLED, but when you released the TV panel in the second half, is there a possibility that you will be selling that a loss? And also for LCD, can you tell us the specialty panel portion for the first quarter and your plans for the second quarter?
Hee Yeon Kim
Right now, we only have 55-inch OLED television size, because they are over capacity, they are limited. Daniel Chang – SK Securities: Okay.
Hee Yeon Kim
And it’s very early to mention about the profitability related to the OLED side, it’s in very initial stages. And also its ratio should not be that high. So if we mention about the profitability for the OLED side, it should be better maybe next year. Daniel Chang – SK Securities: Okay.
Hee Yeon Kim
And for differentiated product portion in Q1, it is over 40% and we’re already on 40%. In Q2, it might be close to 50%. Daniel Chang – SK Securities: Okay. Is there a possibility it could go over the 50%, or is it more close to 50% or is it more close to 45%?
Hee Yeon Kim
Close to 50%. Daniel Chang – SK Securities: Okay. Thank you very much.
Operator
The following questions will be presented by Mr. Matt Evans from CLSA. Please go ahead, sir. Matt Evans – CLSA: Thanks. I wanted to ask if the flexible OLED is considered -- if you categorize that on the future growth strategy/new business, or is that under the second point? And -- yeah.
Hee Yeon Kim
Definitely. Matt Evans – CLSA: Let’s consider the new -- potential new growth in our existing business, right?
Hee Yeon Kim
Especially with the flexible they should be within new growth engine revenues. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. And could you give us some glass other input for P9 in 2Q and 3Q?
Hee Yeon Kim
P98 modern glass input, in an early stage, they should be -- they should be 15 or 20K and the full scale, it should be 60K. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. And can you comment at all on any plans to produce high PPI, so called retina type displays for notebooks in the next six months. Is that something in your schedule? J. S. Park: Yeah. But very limited of the quantity. However, the customers who look out for the high PPI panels for the notebook is growing continuously, and we believe that next year the more quantity is expected for the high PPI panels. Matt Evans – CLSA: Could you give us a range of the -- roughly what the PPI would be, that you’re talking about. And perhaps what the current PPI is in mainstream books just to give us a sense of the increase? J. S. Park: Actually, there are so many various PPIs which the customers are requesting. But the -- we believe around 400 or 400 something PPI would be like popular on next year. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. Thank you very much.
Operator
Currently, there are no participants with questions. (Operator Instructions) The following questions will be presented by Mr. Jeffrey Toder from RBS. Please go ahead, sir. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Hi. Can I ask my last question again? Can you give your forecast for 2012 capacity and demand increase as well as shipments by segments?
Hee Yeon Kim
By segment? Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Yeah. Like Hewlett notebook, monitor and TV --
Hee Yeon Kim
In terms of capacity, we don’t have any individual capacity site. We only have a total capacity. In terms of the industry capacity growth, this year we’re expecting that 5% capacity growth and demand growth which should be around 10%. By application, we only have shipments growth, namely demand growth. Television we are expecting 10% shipment growth and more than 80% mid single-digit smartbook is close to 50%. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. And that’s panels or units?
Hee Yeon Kim
It’s on panel shipment. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. Great. Okay. That was my last question. Well, one other question actually. For touch, unit sale, can you tell me where you are on that and when you do you plan to be in commercial production?
Hee Yeon Kim
In case of unit sale, we’re already ready for the R&D and the production base. So we are waiting for the final confirmation from our customers. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. And I assume this is for small size for handset size. When do you think you might be ready for say a smartbook type product...
Hee Yeon Kim
Actually -- for that questions, please understand also we cannot mention about that issue. Jeffrey Toder – RBS: Okay. Great. Thank you very much.
Operator
The following questions will be presented by Mr. Andrew Abrams from Avian Securities. Please go ahead, sir. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: Thank you. I’m sorry. I just missed what you said about capacity and the individual groups. If I heard it correctly you said total capacity increase for 2012, for you would be 5% or is that for the industry overall?
Hee Yeon Kim
Industry 5% and also our capacity growth is around 5%. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: And on the demand side, you said 10% for the industry and similar for yourself I assume?
Hee Yeon Kim
No, in case of industry, it is around 10%, but in case of LG Display, it’s around 20%. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: Okay. And in terms of the individual, I heard -- I thought I heard you say monitors plus, 2%, smartbooks 50%, but I missed the first one, which one was that?
Hee Yeon Kim
Television 10%. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: TV 10%. Okay. Thanks very much. I appreciate – I’m sorry. Just what about if we look at the small panel markets meaning anything under 10 inches or 9.7 inches, would you have a growth number for that?
Hee Yeon Kim
Your question is for the smartphone and small-sized tablets? Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: Yeah. Right.
Hee Yeon Kim
We are expecting this should be 40% y-o-y. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: Plus 40% year-over-year.
Hee Yeon Kim
Yeah. It’s almost the smartphones. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: Right. So there is -- it’s getting harder to kind of put those in separate categories the small panel versus the smartbooks seems like that, but -- so 40% there and 50% for smartbook. Terrific. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
Operator
The following questions will be presented by Mr. Matt Evans from CLSA. Please go ahead, sir. Matt Evans – CLSA: Thanks, again. One of your competitors or perhaps two of your competitors seem to be getting good initial demand for 39-inch and 50-inch panels. My understanding is that you probably can’t make these in the short-term because your capacity is committed but you might be able to manufacture them next year. Could you comment on that too? J. S. Park: I think 50-inch will have a potential to increase the volume because of industry side, we have lots of [10, 7] capacity. But, however, 39-inches, the volume will be limited because only Gen-6 lies before 39. And also 50-inches global whole set makers are trying to launch that product for 39-inch only for – mainly for Chinese makers, so 50-inch is bigger than 39, I think. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. And with regard to the Windows on 8 -- sorry -- Windows 8 tablets and -- sorry -- notebooks. Is there a potential to ship notebook panels with touch in volume in the next 12 months? J. S. Park: Yeah. But in a notebook, that is there but different type of touch. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. Could you give us any sense of the size of that market in the next 12 months, would that be very niche or could that be something that becomes mainstream for ultrabooks in 2013 for example? J. S. Park: Actually, we’re also indicating on that demand with our customers but our customers also, I don’t have concrete number yet. So we need to wait and see for the touch notebook demand of other net customers. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. And finally could you give us an update on Oxide TFT, what the conversion capacity, schedule is or anything like that and in particular if you would be shipping any Oxide TFT TV panels this year?
Hee Yeon Kim
Well, there is size, right now in terms of via internal that kind of conversion, but this is finalized, yeah. As I mentioned before, we will give you more clear idea next conference call. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. Thank you.
Operator
Currently, there are no participants with questions. (Operator Instructions) The following questions will be presented by Mr. Matt Evans from CLSA. Please go ahead, sir. Matt Evans – CLSA: Sorry. Hello. Yeah. I think in the reimbursing you briefly talked about colorful to run rate, could you give us a sense of how quickly you’re introducing that for LCD and what the benefits of that in terms of cost reduction or performance?
Hee Yeon Kim
In the TV side, with limited portion we adopted color and -- a colorful on TFT process to reduce our processing cost. But in first quarter it is very complicated to quantify our cost reduction because it is mingled with yield growth because it is the initial stage. In second quarter we hope either give a chance to reduce our cost in that product but unfortunately that product portion is very limited at around at low 10% among total TV shipments. The total cost reduction intake is not that big, but eventually we will look to that kind of process, the cost reduction should be meaningful. Matt Evans – CLSA: And does that allow you to buy cheaper glass for the color filter side or?
Hee Yeon Kim
No. No. We have to use a similar quality glass now, but potentially possible in the future. Matt Evans – CLSA: I see. Okay. Thank you.
Operator
The next questions will be presented by Mr. Kim Dong Joon from UBS Securities. Please go ahead, sir. Kim Dong Joon – UBS Securities: Thank you very much. I have three simple questions. Firstly, how much inventory do you have at the end of the first quarter compared to the last quarter in terms of days? And secondly, we are hearing that the panel makers have been pressuring glass makers on the pricing recent quarters for of this. So how did your glass sourcing in place move in the first quarter that was my second question? And third question would be, if I understand correctly, depreciation expenses from your old Gen-8 fab will start to roll over from only next year around March or April. Could you please let us know how much depreciation decline we can expect from here, if we ignored the increase depreciation from the new Gen 8 fab?
Hee Yeon Kim
So inventory holding period in Q4 is over, it’s a slight over fourth week and first quarter it is slight over third week. And your second question is the price of glass... Kim Dong Joon – UBS Securities: Yeah.
Hee Yeon Kim
Cost reduction ratio? The glass cost reduction nowadays is a bit easier than other component side, but unfortunately we cannot give you the detailed numbers. But anyway, it is meaningful cost reduction for -- price reduction for the glass side in first quarter, maybe if you have the numbers from our supplier side that should be correct. Kim Dong Joon – UBS Securities: Sure. Sure.
Hee Yeon Kim
Your third question, you asked too many questions, I cannot remember your question, sorry, about that. Your third question is P81? Kim Dong Joon – UBS Securities: Yeah.
Hee Yeon Kim
Combination of -- when will the -- depreciation will be coming? Kim Dong Joon – UBS Securities: Yeah. And also how much?
Hee Yeon Kim
How much? Actually, it is finalized in first quarter year 2013 in terms of depreciation and among our P81 deprecation for quarter that is KRW 190 billion per quarter. So maybe in second quarter next year, we don’t have any depreciating expense for P81. Kim Dong Joon – UBS Securities: Yeah. How about the P8-2, is it from 2014?
Hee Yeon Kim
Yeah. That’s only 2014. Kim Dong Joon – UBS Securities: Thank you very much.
Operator
The following questions will be presented by Mr. [Marco Tobisen] from Barclays. Please go ahead, sir. Marco Tobisen – Barclays: Hey. I just wanted to ask the first question on the glass prices. I think you mentioned the -- your outlook on the first quarter, but could you give me idea on the next quarter or the second quarter? And I just want to make sure that the price pressure would be stronger than the other devices, am I correct? Those two questions?
Hee Yeon Kim
Your question is specifically for the glass side. So as I mentioned before in overall cases, our cost reduction should have been low to mid single digit in a quarter. We cannot give you any specific numbers for specific component side, please understand it is a situation. Marco Tobisen – Barclays: And so this number is for 2Q or the first quarter?
Hee Yeon Kim
First quarter and 2Q as well. Marco Tobisen – Barclays: Okay. So the price decline would not be -- would be about the same for first quarter and second quarter?
Hee Yeon Kim
We hope we can do. We will have a same level cost reduction in second quarter, we try to. Marco Tobisen – Barclays: All right. Thank you.
Operator
The following questions will be presented by Mr. Andrew Abrams from Avian Securities. Please go ahead, sir. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: Just a follow-up on the glass question. Over the last two quarters, have you made any major changes in your glass suppliers and has that been an influence on price or was it just on a general basis that price has declined on the glass side?
Hee Yeon Kim
Actually from second half of last year, yeah, we have some material change on our glasses suppliers. So our preference, yeah, in the business area, our affordable price offer will be a best choice for us if their quality would be same. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: So, as far as your concerned going forward, you could either stay the way you are or return back to where you were before us on these prices -- price and quality are the same going forward?
Hee Yeon Kim
Yeah. I think although this relationship will follow the natural common sense. Andrew Abrams – Avian Securities: Got it. Okay. Thanks very much.
Operator
The next question will be presented by Mr. Matt Evans from CLSA. Please go ahead, sir. Matt Evans – CLSA: Thanks again. Could you talk a little bit about your open sell business, is that increasing this year, it seems to be an industry trend? J. S. Park: Currently, we’ve not decided. What size and how much volume we’re going to start. Open sell business is kind of business trends that we are considering, not fixed year. So we’re going to fix Q2 this year. Matt Evans – CLSA: And would you say that, that’s more driven by the customer demand or more driven by -- you guys trying to reduce costs? J. S. Park: Most of sub -- in cases by our customer because they’re going to reduce cost using their line to record and process line, those were except combined line. Matt Evans – CLSA: Is that potentially moving some of the value from the panel maker to the customer? How should we think about that? J. S. Park: In general, yeah. For considering all that, in return of the gain. Matt Evans – CLSA: Right. So, is this risk for LG Display? J. S. Park: I don’t think so. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. And another question I had is, could you comment on sell-through based on any data you may have seen or from internal research in China and Europe particularly, but also the U.S., perhaps you could frame that in terms of what you’re expectations would have been a month or two ago? J. S. Park: Your cash in the sell through growth rate q-o-q or y-o-y by region? Matt Evans – CLSA: I’m just -- really I just interested to know if it’s trending in line with the expectations or better or worse? I’m really -- roughly on a specific number versus what you would have budgeted for the beginning of the year perhaps or the beginning of the quarter? J. S. Park: Okay. I just in-charge of TV, so I’m going to talk about TV and in overall sell through demands slightly lower than our expectations, but by region, U.S. is better than our expectation and Japan almost same. However, China is a little lower than our expectations. And we expect Q2, it will be okay and almost slight -- I think it’s a slightly higher than our previous expectations. Matt Evans – CLSA: And how about Europe? J. S. Park: Europe, year 2011 was -- demand is at very low, so because we think Q2 in West Europe, demand will grow, also the Euro Cup and Olympic, we expect around high single digit or lower to the growth rate that we are expecting in Europe, including CIS and East Europe. Matt Evans – CLSA: And so far this year, has Europe been in line with your expectations, what would you say or is that one of the... J. S. Park: Yeah. West Europe a little lower than our expectation but East Europe and CIS still best growing area. Matt Evans – CLSA: Okay. And could I also ask the same question for notebook and monitor, perhaps panel demand but also similar end demand, you see that trending a bit better than expected three months ago or better or worse? J. S. Park: Actually, the global yearly demand was same as before the -- as we already explained, but Q2 is little bit strong, because most of the customers tend to build up for better school demand in advance, since they are trying to reduce the costs related cost. So they are trying to ship by better. And region wise, like TV, U.S. is strong and the China little bit lower than our expectation. In case of Europe still slow, but better than our expectation. Matt Evans – CLSA: That’s very helpful. Thank you very much.
Operator
Currently, there are no participants with questions.
Hee Yeon Kim
Operator, if there is no participant for waiting, we will end this conference call.
Operator
Yeah. You can wrap up the conference call.
Hee Yeon Kim
Yeah. On behalf of LG Display, we thank you for your participation in the first quarter earnings conference call. Should you have further questions, please contact either myself or my colleagues. Thank you.