The trick: Headline Over Filing
AI servers are now more than half of Foxconn's revenue, a first.
Foxconn's own release shows what half the revenue buys: a 6.12 percent gross margin, thinner than last year.
Foxconn's Q2 2026 results, reported August 12, show AI servers crossing 51% of revenue for the first time, with revenue up 41% to NT$2.53 trillion and record net profit of NT$59.97 billion, and management guiding high double-digit cloud growth for Q3.
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the same release prints gross, operating, and net margins of 6.12%, 3.75%, and 2.37%. Gross margin fell 0.21 points in the record quarter. Net margin slipped too. Per the Wall Street Journal, Morgan Stanley expects Foxconn's high-end rack share to fall to 39% this year from 51% in 2025, and CEO Michael Chiang named TSMC's sold-out CoWoS packaging, which Foxconn does not control, as the ceiling on 2027 growth.
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The trick has a name
We call it Headline Over Filing: the document underneath says something else. You'll see it again. Learn to spot it →
Receipts
- Supports foxconn.com:
Gross profit margin, operating profit margin, and net profit margin were 6.12%, 3.75%, and 2.37%, respectively.
- Context techtimes.com:
AI server revenue crossed 51% for first time; Vera Rubin ships Q4 as TSMC CoWoS stays sold out
- Refutes thenextweb.com:
Gross margin was 6.12%, down 0.21 percentage points on a year earlier. Operating margin did improve, to 3.75%, up 0.60 points. Net margin sat at 2.37%, slightly below last year.
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