John Marchetti
Analyst · Stifel
Thanks, Tom. Our second quarter results were ahead of our expectations, particularly in optical communications where, despite not being able to recognize all of the consigned shipment revenue that we expected, the business grew on both a sequential and year-over-year basis. While the demand environment remains somewhat uncertain, our new programs continue to ramp and add visibility to our near-term outlook, giving us confidence that our fiscal third quarter sales, excluding any contribution from the remaining consignment revenue, should increase sequentially in both our optical and non-optical segments on a normalized basis. Our optical communications business performed a bit better than expected in the quarter, decreasing only 1% sequentially and increasing 3% year over year. On a normalized basis, excluding the impact of the consignment revenue on our operations, the optical communications business decreased 5% quarter over quarter and 2% year over year. Our split between telecom and datacom in the quarter was approximately 71% to 29%, with the telecom segment up on both the sequential and year-over-year basis, while the datacom segment decreased quarter over quarter but grew compared to the same period a year ago. Similar to other quarters, growth in our optical communications business was driven by advanced optical components and modules, including 100 gig, while the improvements in our datacom business were driven by 10 and 40 gig solutions. As we look into the March quarter, we are expecting both our telecom and datacom businesses to increase modestly on a sequential basis. Our non-optical business performed pretty much in line with expectations, up 11% year over year and 1% sequentially, driven by increases in our automotive and sensor segments. Similar to our optical business, we are expecting the non-optical portion of our fiscal 3Q revenue to increase modestly on a quarter-over-quarter basis. We continue to win new programs on existing customers in both our auto and laser businesses and remain encouraged by the long-term outlook for this segment. In terms of our new business efforts, revenue from new accounts again represented more than 10% of revenue in the quarter, up from approximately 4% of revenue in the same quarter last year and increasing by more than 30% sequentially. Year-over-year growth in this category was driven by contributions from both new optical and non-optical programs. As Tom mentioned in his opening remarks, we are encouraged by the increased visibility that we are beginning to see in terms of the sustainability and predictability of this revenue contribution, and we are continuing to make new investments in this area to help drive additional opportunities. In order to better lead these efforts, we've added two new executives to our ranks. Todd Baggett has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing. Todd brings more than 25 years of experience in electronics manufacturing to Fabrinet, including senior sales roles at Jabil Circuit and Epic Technologies. He will lead our worldwide sales and marketing efforts and oversee the expansion of our existing sales force and marketing efforts over the coming quarters. We're also pleased to have Bobby Singh join as Executive Vice President of U.S. Operations. Bobby brings more than 19 years of EMS operations experience to Fabrinet, with senior operations roles at Jabil and Flextronics. He has led operations teams in different parts of the globe and will lead our U.S. operations and oversee our efforts to establish a world-class NPI center and contract manufacturing operations in the U.S. We are excited to have Bobby and Todd join the Fabrinet team and believe the establishment of a world-class U.S.-based NPI center, along with the expansion of our sales force, are critical to the long-term success and growth of Fabrinet. With that, I would now like to turn the call over to TS for a review of the financial results.