{"id":34002,"date":"2012-09-12T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.thestockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/diodes-incorporated-diod-maintains-third-quarter-2012-guidance\/34002\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:03:00","slug":"diodes-incorporated-diod-maintains-third-quarter-2012-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/diodes-incorporated-diod-maintains-third-quarter-2012-guidance\/34002\/","title":{"rendered":"Diodes Incorporated &#8211; DIOD &#8211; Maintains Third Quarter 2012 Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-1408583772585547\";\n\/* SMW - News Links *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3490797620\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 15;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thestockmarketwatch.com\/stock.aspx?stock=DIOD\">Nasdaq: DIOD<\/a>)<\/strong>, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, today stated that it is maintaining its guidance for the third quarter of 2012, which includes the expectation that revenue will range between $162 million and $170 million. Gross margin is expected to be 28 percent, plus or minus 2 percent. Operating expenses are expected to be 21.4 percent of revenue, plus or minus 1 percent. The income tax rate for the third quarter is expected to range between 7 and 13 percent, and shares used to calculate GAAP EPS are anticipated to be approximately 47.2 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Diodes Incorporated &#8211; DIOD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Diodes Incorporated (DIOD), a Standard and Poor&#8217;s SmallCap 600 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowfinance.com\/russell-small-cap-completeness-index-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russell<\/a> 3000 Index company, is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets. DIOD serves the consumer electronics, computing, communications, industrial, and automotive markets. Diodes&#8217; products include diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs, protection devices, functional specific arrays, single gate logic, amplifiers and comparators, Hall-effect and temperature sensors; power management devices, including LED drivers, DC-DC switching and linear voltage regulators, and voltage references along with special function devices, such as USB power switches, load switches, voltage supervisors, and motor controllers.<\/p>\n<p>DIOD&#8217;s corporate headquarters, logistics center, and Americas&#8217; sales office are located in Plano, Texas. Design, marketing, and engineering centers are located in Plano; San Jose, California; Taipei, Taiwan; Manchester, England; and Neuhaus, Germany. DIOD&#8217;s wafer fabrication facilities are located in Kansas City, Missouri and Manchester, with two manufacturing facilities located in Shanghai, China, another in Neuhaus, and two joint venture facilities located in Chengdu, China. 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