Alco Holdings Limited provided consolidated earnings guidance for the year ending March 31, 2019. The group is expected to record a net loss of not less than HKD 370 million for the year ending 31 March 2019. Net loss for the previous year was approximately HKD 86 million. The expected increase in net loss of the group were mainly due to the following reasons: Sales of the Group decreased by approximately 24%. Which is partially due to the shortage of global supply of central processing units for the manufacturing of notebook and tablet products. Another impact to the decrease in sales is that, since USA is its main market, the trade war between USA and China has further dampened the sentiment of buyers in placing orders during the year. Keen price competition and the prices for critical components maintained at high levels in 2018 caused an erosion of gross margin during the year.