上周五，一家相當小的企業科技設備公司就令人失望的業績發布預警，隨后一場“腥風血雨”席卷了股市中主要的硬件廠商。

上周五上午，總部設在硅谷的NetApp發布業績預警公告稱，上季度銷售額可能介于12.2~12.3億美元之間，較上年同期下降17%。就在兩個月前，該公司還預計當季銷售額為13.15~14.65億美元。NetApp為企業服務器和云服務商制造數據存儲設備。它還預計，下一財年收入可能減少5%~10%，而非此前預測的個位數上升。

今年年初以來，NetApp的股價一直基本持平，但在此番警告發布后，公司的股價到上周五中午時分已經重挫22%。

不利影響迅速擴大，原因則是投資者擔心企業IT支出將遠低于此前預期的水平。硬件制造商戴爾科技股價下跌10%，慧與公司跌8%，思科系統公司跌5%。在云軟件廠商中，VMware股價下挫9%，Box股價跌5%，Salesforce下滑3%。

NetApp沒有怎么解釋銷售額意外下降的原因。該公司的首席執行官喬治·庫里安在聲明中表示：“雖然我們對第一財季的初步業績數據感到失望，但我們仍然相信自己的長期策略以及自身業務模式的健康狀況。”

當前的中美貿易摩擦已經給科技股帶來了壓力。美國總統特朗普在上周表示，將再對3000億美元中國商品征收10%的關稅，其中包括許多科技產品。（財富中文網）

譯者：Charlie

審校：夏林

A disappointing financial warning from a fairly small player in the corporate technology gear market unleashed a bloodbath among the stocks of major hardware vendors on last Friday.

Silicon Valley-based NetApp warned on last Friday morning that its sales in its quarter that just ended would be between $1.22 and $1.23 billion, or about 17% less than the same quarter a year ago. Just two months ago, the company had said it expected to bring in $1.315 billion to $1.465 billion. The company, which makes gear for storing data on corporate servers and in cloud services, also said it expected revenue for its next fiscal year would decline by 5% to 10% instead of rising by single-digit percentage points as previously forecast.

The warning sent NetApp’s stock, which had been about unchanged in 2019, down 22% in midday trading on last Friday.

But the damage spread much wider, as investors panicked that corporate IT spending may be much weaker than previously anticipated. Shares of hardware maker Dell Technologies plummeted 10%, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise lost 8%, and Cisco Systems dropped by 5%. Among cloud software vendors, VMware lost 9%, Box fell 5%, and Salesforce lost 3%.

NetApp didn’t give much explanation for the surprise revenue plunge. “While we are disappointed that our preliminary results for the first quarter are lower than we had previously anticipated, we remain confident in our long-term strategy and the health of our business model,” CEO George Kurian said in a statement.

Tech stocks had already been under pressure due to the ongoing trade war between the United States and China. President Trump last week promised to impose tariffs of 10% on $300 billion more of goods imported from China, including many tech products.