Yaniv Arieli
Analyst · Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead
Thank you, Gideon. I’ll start by reviewing the results of our operations for the second quarter 2015. Revenue for the second quarter of $13.4 million closer to the higher range of our guidance, primarily due to strong licensing revenue and growing LTE shipment, the revenue breakdown is as follows. Licensing related revenue was $7.7 million reflecting 57% of our total revenue, 76% higher as compared to the second quarter of 2014. Royalty revenue was $5.7 reflecting 43% of total revenue up 17% on a year-over-year basis the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth. Quarterly gross margin was 88% on U.S GAAP basis and 89% on non-GAAP basis. The non-GAAP quarterly gross margin excludes approximately $42,000 of equity based compensation expense. Total operating expenses for the quarter were $11.8 million at the lower range of our guidance total OpEx for the second quarter included aggregate equity based compensation expense of approximately 0.8 million and $0.3 million for the amortization of acquired intangibles and cost associated with the acquisition of RiveraWaves. Our total operating expenses for the second quarter excluding equity based compensation expenses were $10.7 million at the low to mid range of our guidance. Due to allocation of some R&D expenses to cost of goods for special design service licensing deal, our overall combined non-GAAP cost of goods and OpEx expenses were similar to the two prior quarters. Non-GAAP net income for the quarter is $0.2 million and diluted net income per share was $0.01. Non-GAAP net income and diluted EPS for the second quarter of 2015 was $1.3 million and $0.06 respectively. Non-GAAP net income and diluted earnings per share for the second quarter excluded equity based compensation expenses of $0.8 million and the impact of amortization of the acquired intangibles and costs net of taxes of $0.3 million associated with the acquisition of RiveraWaves. Other related data, shipped units by CEVA licensees in the first quarter of 2015 were 206 million, down 12% sequentially but up 4% from the first quarter shipments of 2014. Of the 206 million units reported 167 million units or approximately 81% were for handset baseband chips, reflecting higher than normal seasonal decrease of 17% from 201 million units of baseband chips reported and shipped in the prior quarter and a decrease of 10% from 186 million units shipped a year ago. The significant decrease was associated with lower 2G related shipments. In the non-handset baseband volume shipments continued to increase both sequentially and year-over-year a 20% and 227% respectively mainly due to the ramp up of Bluetooth shipments by a number of customers. Our quarterly handset baseband royalty ASP was up 15% sequentially and 25% year-over-year due to favorable mix of LTE product. As of the end of June 28 licensees were shipping products incorporating our technologies, same as the prior quarter. This reflects one new handset baseband customer which has started to ship offset by an older customer the discontinued and old product line post an M&A transaction. And for the balance sheet items, as of the end of June, cash, cash equivalent balances, marketable securities and bank deposits were $126 million. In the second quarter, we paid approximately $1 million as part of the prior commitment in connection with acquisition of RiveraWaves. In addition, we have future pending payments of approximately $3 million in connection with acquisition. Our DSOs for the second quarter were 64 days, better than the previous quarter, but still slightly higher than the 50 to 60 days of historical value. Regarding our share buyback program, we purchased approximately 176,000 shares during the second quarter at an average price of $19.5 per share for approximately $3.4 million. We plan to continue our stock buyback program in 2015 and look for other strategic investments that we can reinforce our market leadership in DSP and connectivity IP. In the last quarter we generated about $3 million from operating cash flow, our depreciation was $0.3 million and fixed asset expense of 0.4 million. At the end of June our headcount was 254 people of which 200 are engineers. Now for the guidance. As Gideon stated, we experienced strong demand for licensing across our product portfolio. Our pipeline for the third quarter in robust and as such we expect to continue the momentum as demonstrated in the last six quarters. On the royalty front, initial review of the royalty report we received thus far affirmed our annual growth projection. For the third quarter, we expect an increase of 40% in royalty revenue on a year-over-year basis. Our guidance for the third quarter, revenue for the third quarter is expected to be in the range of $15 million to $16 million. Gross margin is expected to be approximately 91% of GAAP and 92% of non-GAAP basis excluding equity based compensation expense. U.S. operating expenses are expected to be in the range of $11.9 million to $12.9 million. Of our anticipated OpEx for the third quarter, $1.3 million is expected to be attributed to equity based compensation expenses and 0.3 million to amortization of acquire intangible and related expense. Our non-GAAP OpEx is expected to be in the range of $10.3 million to $11.3 million. Net interest income is expected to be approximately $200,000, non-GAAP tax rate for the third quarter of approximately 12% and share count for the third quarter on a non-GAAP basis approximately 21.2 million shares. Our U.S. GAAP diluted net income per share is expected to be approximately $0.07 to $0.09 and our non-GAAP EPS forecasted excluding aggregated $1.3 million for equity based compensation and $0.3 million for amortization related cost is expected to be in the range of $0.14 to $0.16 per share. Emily you could now open the Q&A session.