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Jabil Circuit, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides electronic manufacturing services and solutions. It offers electronics and mechanical design, production, product management, and after-market solutions. The company operates in three divisions: Consumer Electronics, Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS), and After-Market Services. The Consumer Electronics division offers cell phones and mobile products, televisions, set-top boxes, as well as peripheral products, such as printers. The EMS division produces networking, computing, storage, and telecommunications products, as wel

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Jabil Circuit (NYSE: JBL) is a leading electronics manufacturing services firm, providing comprehensive design, manufacturing and product management services to global electronics and technology companies. The firm works for original equipment makers in the automotive, storage, medical, networking, telecommunications, computer and consumer products industries. Top customers include Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE

My latest column is up at RealMoney.

I examine the electronics manufacturing industry, and say that if I had to choose I would buy Celestica (CLS) and avoid or short Jabil (JBL).

Cisco (CSCO) is the largest customer for both companies, but the end market exposure is very different. Celestica has just 11% of sales into consumer markets while Jabil has 29%. I think those markets are at risk right now. Other large customers include IBM(IBM - Annual Report) for Celestica and Nokia (NOK) and Hewlett Packard (HPQ - Annual Report) for Jabil.

Here is how the companies compare according to my models:

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