BlackBerry Limited BB announced that its BlackBerry QNX software is now integrated into more than 235 million vehicles across the globe, per a report from TechInsights. This represents year-over-year growth of 20 million vehicle integrations.
In fiscal 2023, BlackBerry QNX secured more than 94 design wins from prominent automotive manufacturers such as Daimler Truck, Denso, Ford, Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover, Visteon, and others. BlackBerry’s QNX software is likely to benefit as the automotive industry moves toward a software-defined future.
Moreover, the company also revealed a significant surge in its BlackBerry QNX royalty backlog, which now stands at approximately $640 million as of fiscal 2023. This increase of 14% over three quarters demonstrates substantial growth compared to approximately $560 million reported at the first quarter of fiscal 2023-end.
BlackBerry Limited Price and Consensus
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Overall, the company is likely to benefit from increasing design wins and royalty backlog. Also, BlackBerry is well-positioned to capitalize on the expanding software-defined automotive landscape and contribute to the advancement of smart cities.
Headquartered in Waterloo, Canada, BB provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers devices and software platforms for managing security, mobility and communications among hardware, mobile apps and the Internet of Things.
In February, the company announced that Chongqing Yazaki Meter Co. had chosen the BlackBerry QNX Neutrino Realtime Operating System (RTOS) to power its digital instrument cluster. The QNX Neutrino RTOS supports 64-bit ARMv8 computing platforms and Intel x86-64 architecture and provides the necessary technology to power the automotive industry’s next-generation vehicles.
Prior to that, the company unveiled QNX Accelerate, an initiative that makes the cloud-powered versions of its QNX Neutrino RTOS and QNX OS for Safety available on the AWS Marketplace.
BlackBerry currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). Shares of the company have lost 16.7% in the past year against the sub-industry’s growth of 31.8%.
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Blackbaud’s earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in the last four quarters, the average surprise being 10.4%. Shares of the company have jumped 17.8% in the past year.
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