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Kindle Fire Sales Estimates & Kindle Fire HD Sales Estimates based on Browsing Share Among Tablets

Pacific Crest analyst Chad Bartley this week raised his Kindle Fire sales estimates saying: «We are raising our 2012 sales forecasts to 14.9 million from 12.7 million.

Not exact matches

The company's comparable sales for the third quarter were down 3 percent, including an estimated negative impact from a fire at one of its distribution centers in August.

The New Democrats have repeatedly attacked what they deride as a «fire sale» of valuable assets, arguing it's irresponsible to count revenue from such sales before they've happened and suggesting the estimates themselves are unrealistic.

This could be seen as both an attempt to compete against the high sales of the recently released new Nexus 7 FHD (estimated to sell 3.5 million units in 2013), as well as be seen as an indication of the 3rd launch of new Kindle Fire tablets drawing nearer.

So well, in fact, that on Sunday evening he raised his estimate for fourth - quarter Fire sales to six million units from five million, proclaiming the device a true tablet market contender.

By comparison, the $ 199 Kindle Fire, which went on sale last fall, has sold about 5 million, according to an average of estimates by several analyst firms.

Is 6 million an accurate estimate of Kindle Fire sales, or should the number be lower or higher?

We don't have any comparable Kindle Fire sales figures to contrast with that, but consider this: Analysts estimate Amazon sold approximately 3.9 million Kindle Fires in 2011.

That's Tricia Duryee at GeekWire, in Amazon Fire Phone sales estimated at 35,000 — equal to just 25 % of employee base.

The latest estimate for the Fire Phone, which debuted July 25, pegs sales at no more than 35,000 during its first 25 days on the market — that's nearly one for every four employees currently working at the e-commerce giant.

As well as raising his expectations for sales of the Fire, Bartley also lowered his sales estimate for Kindle ereaders from 28 million to just 24m but he pointed out that this was not as a result of the increase in Fire sales and probably down ot more competition int he market.

Five million Kindle Fire units becomes the first reliable estimate of Kindle sales (based on Apple, Samsung and Amazon supplied information rather than guesses from analysts.)

Let's look at ways to estimate Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD sales — both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Android tablet sales spiked to an estimated 39 percent of the tablet market last quarter, but by some measures, the Kindle Fire accounts for 40 percent of all Android tablets sold during that time frame.

Amazon didn't release any Kindle Fire sales figures, but iSuppli was able to estimate the tablet's performance at a respectable 3.9 million units sold.

Bartley also increased his Kindle Fire 2012 sales estimate from 12 million units to 14.9 miilion units, partly due to the expected new models.

Kopelman, who had previously estimated that sales of the Kindle Fire tablet in 2012 would hit approximately 14 million units, has lowered his estimates to 12 million.

Bartley also increased his Kindle Fire 2012 sales estimate from 12 million units to

Chad Bartley of Pacific Crest has increased his Kindle Fire 2012 sales estimate from 12 million units to 14.9 miilion units, partly due to the expected new models.

Despite selling an estimated six million Kindle Fire tablets during the holiday season alone, it is not seen as cutting into Apple's slice of the action as the company announced record iPad sales for the three months leading up to Christmas.

Forrester Research estimates Kindle Fire sales for Q4 2011 to come in at 3 million units, based on the Nov. 15th release date.

However, let's be ultra conservative and say they fire sale it for $ 50 mm (While at the lab I collected estimates on the resale value of the equipment in the lab and estimated the actual property inside to be worth $ 10 mm at a minimum).

Looking back, we enjoy the benefit of hindsight... but let's not under - estimate the existential threat to the company at the time: Operating free cash flow was minimal, there was little opportunity to realise assets (except at fire - sale prices) in 2009 - 11, almost EUR 400 million of net losses, investment write - downs & goodwill impairments were recorded in the five years ending in 2012 (which actually understates a near - 85 % collapse in net equity), as the banks kept shrinking their committed facilities & imposing harsher terms (and seriously considering pulling the plug).