Keysight Technologies breaks

Keysight Technologies breaks
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Keysight will focus its growth efforts in three areas: products for wireless communications, “modular” products that allow the combining of components for customized measurement devices, and software testing programs. Three decades ago, about 10 to 20 percent of the company’s engineers in Sonoma County were assigned to developing software, Nersesian noted. Today, that number exceeds 50 percent and will continue to increase.
Nersesian insisted that Keysight won’t branch out of electronic measurement as both HP and Agilent earlier did. The company now controls only a quarter of the global sector’s $12 billion in sales, he said, so there remains plenty of room to increase market share.
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Analysts said Keysight will benefit from the large amounts of cash it generates — the company reported a hefty return on investment capital of 31 percent for the last fiscal year. The challenge now will be finding the best place to invest those funds.
The sales growth cycles for electronic measurement devices can be relatively short and are often based on which manufacturer is first to market with some new feature, said Richard Eastman, an analyst in Milwaukee with Robert W. Baird & Co. Boosting Keysight sales, he said, will mean finding ways “to shorten the time to market for your new products.”
Analysts also expect Keysight will expand its offerings by purchasing smaller companies with valuable products.
“It’s pretty clear from their initial indications that they intend to be active” with acquisitions, said Ross Muken, a senior managing director and partner of New York-based ISI.
While the analysts are watching the company’s growth efforts, local business officials are applauding the fact that Keysight decided to place its global headquarters in Santa Rosa.
“This was a big vote of confidence in Sonoma County,” said Dick Herman, president of 101 MFG, a Petaluma-based alliance of manufacturing executives.
Even some Keysight workers privately have noted the selection likely ensures that the Santa Rosa facility will remain open, even if the company should ever need to downsize elsewhere.
Ben Stone, executive director of the Sonoma County Economic Development Board, said the county has benefited greatly under Hewlett-Packard and Agilent, both from its good-paying jobs and from its workers who served as leaders in United Way fundraising drives and as volunteer mentors for school children. He said he looks forward to “a rebirth of that heritage” under Keysight.
“They’ve really made their facility available and their people available in all sorts of ways to the community,” Stone said.
Jonathan Coe, president and CEO of the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce, said the county also will benefit by having such a “substantial and high-quality” company headquartered here.
“I think that’s going to be a plus for all of us,” Coe said, “sort of benefit by association.”
Knight, the analyst with Janney, is among those planning to visit the new company headquarters.
“Analysts and investors will definitely find Santa Rosa a new destination because Keysight is there,” he said.
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