Good afternoon, and welcome to Diodes Incorporated Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. At the conclusion of today’s conference call, instructions will be given for the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded today, Thursday, August 4, 2022. I would now like to turn the call over to Leanne Sievers of Shelton Group Investor Relations. Leanne, please go ahead.

Good afternoon, and welcome to Diodes second quarter 2022 financial results conference call. I’m Leanne Sievers, President of Shelton Group, Diodes Investor Relations firm. Joining us today are Diodes Chairman, President and CEO, Dr. Keh-Shew Lu; Chief Financial Officer, Brett Whitmire; Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Emily Yang; Senior Vice President of Business Groups, Gary Yu; and Director of Investor Relations, Gurmeet Dhaliwal. Before I turn the call over to Dr. Lu, I’d like to remind our listeners that the results announced today are preliminary as they are subject to the company finalizing its closing procedures and customary quarterly review by the company’s independent registered public accounting firm. As such, these results are unaudited and subject to revision until the company files its Form 10-Q for its 2022 fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2022. In addition, management’s prepared remarks contain forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, and management may make additional forward-looking statements in response to your questions. Therefore, the company claims the protection of the Safe Harbor for forward-looking statements that is contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ from those discussed today, and therefore, we refer you to a more detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Forms 10-K and 10-Q. In addition, any projections as to the company’s future performance represent management’s estimates as of today, August 4, 2022. Diodes assumes no obligation to update these projections in the future as market conditions may or may not change, except to the extent required by applicable law. Additionally, the company’s press release and management statements during this conference call will include discussions of certain measures and financial information in GAAP and non-GAAP terms. Included in the company’s press release are definitions and reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP items, which provide additional details. Also throughout the company’s press release and management statements during this conference call, we refer to net income attributable to common stockholders as GAAP net income. For those of you unable to listen to the entire call at this time, a recording will be available via webcast for 90 days in the Investor Relations section of Diodes website at www.diodes.com. And now, I’ll turn the call over to Diodes Chairman, President and CEO, Dr. Keh-Shew Lu. Dr. Lu, please go ahead.

Thank you, Leanne. Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. I’m pleased to be reporting today our achievement of the sixth consecutive quarter of record revenue, gross profit and earnings. This accomplishment is a strong testament to our team’s continuous execution, especially considering the COVID-related quarantine in China and Taiwan that constrained the production during the quarter. In the Shanghai area and other major cities, we shift our manufacturing facility to closed-loop operations for two months in the quarter, yet still delivered results above the mid-point of our guidance. Notably, second quarter revenue grew approximately 14% year-over-year, while adjusted earnings per shares grew 58% over the same period. Our execution was also evidenced by our achievement of 41.2% gross margin, which was the fifth consecutive quarter of improvement and the second consecutive quarter above our target model of 40%, largely due to product mix improvements. Contributing to this improvement was our industrial and automotive end markets reaching a combined total of 41% of revenue for the first time, which exceeded our 2025 business model target of 40%. The automotive market, which represented a record 14% of the revenue in the quarter. The main and key focus area for Diodes as we continue to gain strong traction with both new and existing customers in all regions. Also during the quarter, we successfully closed our acquisition of onsemi’s South Portland, Maine wafer fab facility, which provides additional available capacity to support our future growth, especially in the automotive and industrial end markets. We were pleased to welcome the SPFAB workforce to the Diodes family as we continue to maintain operational efficiency and fully integrate this facility into our global manufacturing operation. With our third quarter expectations indicating our 10th consecutive quarter of revenue growth and overall record results, Diodes has solidly positioned itself not only as a reliable supplier and a partner to our customers, but also a consistent performing investment for our shareholders. With that, let me now turn the call over to Brett to discuss our second quarter financial results and our third quarter 2022 guidance in more detail.

Thanks, Dr. Lu, and good afternoon, everyone. As part of my financial review today, I will focus my comments on the sequential change for each of the line items, and we’ll refer you to our press release for a more detailed review of our results as well as the year-over-year comparisons. Revenue for the second quarter 2022 was a record $501 million, an increase of 3.9% from the $482.1 million in the first quarter 2022. Gross profit for the second quarter was also a record at $206.5 million, representing a record 41.2% of revenue, increasing 5% or 40 basis points from $196.7 million or 40.8% of revenue in the first quarter 2022. GAAP operating expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were $100.3 million or 20% of revenue, and on a non-GAAP basis were $99.7 million or 19.9% of revenue, which excludes $4 million of amortization of acquisition-related intangible asset expenses, $0.2 million of acquisition-related costs and a $3.6 million gain on insurance recovery. This compares to non-GAAP operating expenses in the prior quarter of $99.5 million or 20.6% of revenue. Total other expense amounted to approximately $5 million for the quarter, consisting of $7.8 million of unrealized loss on investments, $1.6 million in interest expense, a $1.8 million foreign currency gain, a $1.6 million of other income and $861,000 of interest income. Income before taxes and non-controlling interest in the second quarter 2022 was $101.2 million, compared to $90.8 million in the previous quarter. Turning to income taxes. Our effective income tax rate for the second quarter was approximately 18.2%. GAAP net income for the second quarter of 2022 was a record $80.2 million or $1.75 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $72.7 million or $1.59 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2022. GAAP…

Thank you, Brett, and good afternoon. Second quarter revenue increased 3.9% sequentially and above the mid-point of our guidance, which, as Dr. Lu mentioned, was a notable accomplishment considering the COVID-related lockdown in Taiwan and China that resulted in shifting our manufacturing facilities closed-loop operation, primarily in Shanghai in major surrounding locations. Looking more closely at second quarter revenue, we have record revenue across all regions. Worldwide POS revenue was down slightly, mainly due to the weakness in the euro. Asia POS was supported by very strong demand and increased sequentially even despite the COVID-related lockdown in Asia. Distributor inventory in terms of weeks increased slightly quarter-over-quarter, which is still within our defined normal range of 11 to 14 weeks. Overall demand and backlog remained very strong. Looking at the global sales in the second quarter. Asia represented 74% of revenue; Europe 14%; and North America 12%. In terms of our end market, industrial represented 27% of Diodes product revenue, computing 24%, consumer 19%, communication 16%, and automotive 14% of the product revenue. We achieved record revenue in automotive, industrial, consumer and communication markets. Our Pericom product also set a new revenue record, which is the seventh consecutive quarter. I would also like to point out that our automotive, industrial end market combined totaled 41% of the revenue, which exceeds our 2025 target of 40% of the total revenue. Our record revenue in multiple end markets demonstrated Diodes strength in our execution. Despite the reported slowdown in low MPC and smartphone segments, we have been able to quickly adjust our support to the high-demand market segments like automotive and industrial as well as other area within the communication market that are seeing growth like 5G, optical and networking. This has been a key advantage for Diodes that has contributed to…

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Tristan Gerra with Baird. Your line is now open.

Hi, good afternoon. In the context of some of your lead times starting to come down, what percentage of your demand you believe exceed your supply right now? And how does that compare versus the beginning of the year?

Hi Tristan, this is Emily. I think overall, our demand, our backlog is still extremely strong. Like I mentioned in my speech that there is pockets of areas that there’s definitely some slowness like the low-end PCs or the smartphone or some of the consumer area. But what we’ve been doing is actually utilize and balancing the demand and focus on the strong demand areas like automotive, industrial. And you can actually see from the results that we just shared just alone for automotive, we actually have 36% year-over-year growth, industrial is 43%. So I would say, all in all, right, the demand is still stronger than our supply at this moment.

Great. And then any way we could quantify your exposure to IGBT as maybe as a percent of revenue? And remind us of potentially how you get to silicon carbide technology over time?

Well, hi, this is Gary. Let me try to answer this question for you. Basically, we don’t have IGBT, okay? Yes, we don’t have IGBT. And we are working very hard try to get a silicon carbide and in place. We do have our design team for silicon carbide. And possibly, we’re going to have our silicon carbide product released to the market at the end of this year.

Great. That’s very useful. Thank you.

Your next question comes from the line of William Stein with Truist. Your line is now open.

Great. Thank you. Emily, as always, so many great details, but sometimes it’s a little bit hard to make sure we’re capturing the big picture. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like you are seeing downturn in demand in certain parts of consumer, compute, comms. What I think you’re saying is that you’re making up that shortfall in industrial and automotive, is that correct? And maybe more to the point, are there pockets within those three weaker end markets, the 3 Cs, as I think you’ve called them in the past? Are there pockets of those that are strong enough to capture or to require the demand for products that were in other parts of those end markets that – where there’s weakness? And is it sustainable? I think that’s the more important thing. Is it something you think is sustainable beyond Q3? Or you think we’re heading to a phase where perhaps lead times continue to fall and backlog and demand continue to fall in these end markets, and it might have a contagion to other areas?

Right. So yes, let me explain a little bit more in details, right? So we specifically talk about 3C: consumer, communication and computing. If we just refer to the Q2 result, we actually still have a record revenue with the consumer. And within the consumer, we still see certain areas shows a little bit more weakness than the others. So yes, you’re absolutely right. Within the same market end market, there are still different areas that with strong demand and definitely some softness. So what we’ve been doing in order to achieve the record is actually shifting our capacities to really support the good focus areas that will continue. Like within the consumer, we’ve been talking about IoT areas and stuff like that. We’re still seeing a lot of strength, right? With communication, I think everybody knows that we have slowed down, especially China smartphone area. But within communication, again, we have a record, right? So how do we do that? We’re still seeing a lot of strength related to 5G enterprise-related networking optical area. So again, that’s how we achieve the record. So basically utilize the capacity. And that, again, is actually one advantage for Diodes is we do have that kind of flexibility, can dynamically adjust the support and focus on the right area, which the area we’ve been talking about giving us the focus, right? Computing, even within computing, low MPCs, motherboards, definitely, we’ve seen softness. But anything related to enterprise, cloud computing server storage, we’re still seeing strength in that area. So I think it’s kind of matching what we’ve been saying all along on top of the automotive, industrial focus. This within each of the segments, we actually have specific pocket areas of focus. So we’ll continue that drive towards.

I’d like to talking about one additional strategy we have been talking about, okay? When we designed the product, we designed it such that they go to multiple in market, okay? So for example, if you design a product for this play in the PC, that product can be used in automotive. When you’re talking about for cell phone, like a mouse pad, the same middle product can go to automotive. And that’s why when we – when Emily talking about, we adjust our capacity to support the demands for different end market is by that, okay? So if for the cell phone slowdown, but we take that capacity, evaluate that product to support automotive. And you can see our automotive growth is very strong. Similar trend for industrial. So the strategy we’re using is we force the designer to design the product for multi-market.

Okay. I appreciate that. Thank you. If I can ask one brief follow-up. I’m hoping you can help us understand what’s going on with the South Portland fab. I assume, I mean it seems pretty clear you have to have a manufacturing services agreement in place. And so you probably got some revenue from that in the quarter. So can you help us understand, maybe help us size that and understand how long that support agreement lasts and the timing to run your own products in that fab? Thank you very much.

Well, actually, this kind of the country support for the seller, onsemi is actually good for both site. It’s a win-win strategy. The important is for us to qualify the product into that fab, it takes a while, including develop the process and qualify the product and we reach the product for production, it takes one year or even longer. And during that time period, we can take that capacity to support the sales and that way, helping us to deduce the cost. And so this is a win-win. And we believe we should be able to – when they slowdown or when they deduce their loading, we can pick up the loading at the same time. So – and if you’re talking about how much, we are not announced the – or we are not disclosed the percent of the revenue for our functioning business from there. But it’s – one thing we can tell you it’s not material. It’s very small amount, the number. The key important if you look at our third quarter guidance, we still show almost 4% growth and its result record revenue and continue that 10th executive quarter of revenue growth. And that’s all, organic majority of the growth will be coming from organic.

Yes. Thank you.

Your next question comes from David Williams with Benchmark. Your line is now open.

Hey, thanks so much. Appreciation, let me ask the question. Apologize for the background noise here. But I wanted to ask real quickly, maybe just on – maybe on the automotive side, how do you see that trending over time? Tell us – you’re making very good progress and now you have a little better supply into that market. Just kind of curious how you think about that growth trajectory?

Well, I think, David, if you just look at our track record, right, we’ve been consistently growing. From 2013, our compounded annual growth rate to 2021 is 30%. And with the Q2 result, it’s actually 36% year-over-year growth. So with all the demand creation of the pipeline and all the engagement that expanding in this area with strategic customers, we’re pretty confident that projection of the growth will continue.

Great. Thanks so much. And I realize this is a shorter-term view, but just kind of wondering how you think about capacity in the near-term and maybe what the impact of margins would potentially be if we saw a more dramatic slowdown in the macro. And I’m realizing you guys are navigating this much better. But if we did see a significant pullback in the macro, how do you think about the margin impact and maybe some of this capacities coming online? Thank you.

Yes. So let me answer that question. So if we look back for the past few quarters, we’ve been really emphasizing about the product mix improvement, right? So that has always been Diodes focus. We did have some price adjustment, but we talk about our focus is actually taking the opportunity to expand our engagement relationship with the customers, so we have a longer-term benefit. So with this approach, with the result for the last few quarters and we’ll continue to go down that path. So we’re pretty confident that our margin will continue to improve. Just based on the Q3 guidance, you can actually see, right? We continue to guide a higher 41.5% as a guidance. So that’s – I think the key message is we believe our direction and vision was correct from the past, and we will continue to drive the margin improvement from the product mix improvement side. Meantime, manufacturing efficiency has always been our focus, and we’ll continue to drive that direction as well.

Well, when Emily talking about product mix, one thing I’ve been emphasized when you focus on automotive, they are much higher margin. In automotive and industrial, they are higher margin than consumer, computing and communication, except the high end of the – those 3C area, right, when you’re talking about then, so when we change the product mix, you can see we focus more on automotive and industrial. One evidence to show you, we already get to 41% of our revenue out of computing – out of automotive and industrial. And because that if we continue growth in those segments, then we can continue to improve our margins.

Thanks, again.

Your next question comes from Matt Ramsay with Cowen. Your line is now open.

Thank you very much for taking my questions. The first question is, I guess, of how things are going with customers. Emily, maybe you can talk about this broadly and if you have any specific examples. We’ve had a few conversations over the last couple of years about how your company was able to bring on additional supply and have ample supply when many of your competitors did not when things got really tight during the pandemic. And one of the consequences of that is that Diodes was able to get qualified and break into a number of new customers and a lot of different end markets that that maybe you hadn’t been able to get into before because you guys had such supply. And I guess what I want to understand better is in the instances where that it did happen, how have the business relationships developed since you broke into those new customers? And how are you guys doing in sort of a land-and-expand design win point of view? If you could kind of characterize how those things are going, that would be great. Thank you.

Yes. So I think things is going well and continue. We’re actually seeing the momentum continues, right? For some of the customers, we got opportunity to break into the account. We actually continue to expand our overall dollar content within the same account. So like I mentioned, right, there’s still some imbalance of supply and demand. There’s still areas that we think, like automotive still shows a really strong demand. So we definitely continue to grow the relationship. Diodes, we are not interested to be a gap filler only. So we work with a lot of customers with long-term agreements and commitments and stuff like that. I would say the momentum is still very, very strong.

Right. Got it. Thank you. As my follow-up, I’m surprised it wasn’t asked yet, but just given some of the changes in the trajectory of end markets for your company, if you guys had any more specific commentary about how we should expect trends in each of the segments to go into the third quarter, just quarter-over-quarter growth rates. That would be really, really helpful. Thank you very much.

Okay. So let me answer this question as well. So automotive, I mentioned this already, we’re still seeing a lot of strength overall. So we continue to focus and drive. Industrial, again, there we’re seeing a lot of strength. So computing, I think we’re seeing more like a stabilized and we’re hoping that when some of the inventory depleted in the channel that we can see in some of the upside. There’s also some of the new chipset launch coming up soon. So that will also drive some of the momentum in this segment. Consumer, I think it’s very depends on the actual application and customer demand. It varies a little. But again, we focus on the IoT major block within the consumer area, so we continue to focus. I think communication, smartphone in China region and in Asia have some slowdown, but we’re also seeing one or two other smartphone vendors still showing strong momentum. So I think it’s a mix and match. Like I said, right, because we do have the capacity like Dr. Lu mentioned, we can shift things very quickly to really focus on the areas that we want to continue to drive and focus. I think that’s definitely a very key advantage overall to Diodes approach, right? So I think that’s pretty much about the five segments that you asked for.

Yes. But the key thing just to remember, when Emily talking about for Diodes, our backlog still very strong. Our demand is still very strong. So yes, we see pockets of the slowdown…

Or adjustments.

– or adjustments, it’s the inventory adjustment. But overall, we’re still very, very confident on our guidance, and that’s the reason we still guide, we’re going to have 4% growth. And this is really, we believe our strength of market demand still there.

Thank you both for the answer. I appreciate it. Thank you.

There are no further questions at this time. Dr. Lu, I turn the call back over to you.

Okay. Thank you for your participation on today’s call. You may now disconnect.