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Fabrinet (FN)

Q1 2017 Earnings Call· Mon, Nov 7, 2016

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Operator

Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Fabrinet's Financial Results Conference Call for the First Quarter of Fiscal 2017. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions on how to participate will be given at that time. As a reminder, today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to your host, Garo Toomajanian, Investor Relations.

Garo Toomajanian

Investor Relations

Thank you, operator, and good afternoon everyone. Thank you for joining us on today's conference call to discuss Fabrinet's financial and operating results for the first quarter of fiscal 2017 ended September 30, 2016. With me on the call today are Tom Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Fabrinet; and TS Ng, Fabrinet's Chief Financial Officer. This call is being webcast and a replay will be available on the investors section of our website located at investor.fabrinet.com. Please refer to our website for important information, including our earnings press release, including our GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation. I would like to remind you that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements about the future financial performance of the company. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from management's current expectations. These statements reflects our opinions only as of the date of this presentation and we undertake no obligation to revise them in light of new information or future events, except as required by law. For a description of the Risk Factors that may affect our results, please refer to our recent SEC filings in particular, the section captioned Risk Factors in our Form 10-K filed on August 17, 2016. We will begin the call with remarks from Tom and TS, followed by time for questions. I would now like to turn the call over to Fabrinet's CEO and Chairman, Tom Mitchell. Tom?

Tom Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer

Thank you Garo and good afternoon everyone. Fiscal 2017 is off to a strong start, with first quarter revenue up more than 50% from a year ago. We are benefitting from positive industry trends and growing demand for our manufacturing capabilities and expertise. In the first quarter both new and existing customers ramped programs orientated toward newer technology. We believe that current growth cycle in the optical market will continue to gain traction in fiscal 2017 driving further demand. As a result of this anticipated growth, we are excited to have opened our new manufacturing campus in Thailand, significantly adding to our capacity and supporting our future growth. We are currently in the process of installing manufacturing lines that we expect to be operational in the March quarter. I will now turn the call over to TS, for more details on the quarter and our outlook.

TS Ng

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Tom, and good afternoon everyone. I would like to provide you with more details on our performance by end market and our financial results. Total revenue in the first quarter was $332 million, an increase of 53% from a year ago and above the high-end of our guidance range. Non-GAAP earnings were $0.80 per share and were also above the high-end of guidance, due primarily to our revenue upside. As I review our result for the first quarter, keep in mind that in addition to strong market dynamics we also benefited from an extra week in the first quarter of fiscal 2017 as compared to a 13 week quarter in the first quarter of fiscal 2016. Adjusting for the impact of the additional week, revenue would have been approximately $308 million, an increase of 42% from a year-ago. Also we completed our acquisition of Exception EMS with two weeks remaining in the quarter and our results include a less than $1 million contribution from Exception to non-optical revenue. Exception did not materially impact non-GAAP earnings per share. In the first quarter, the optical market again led our growth as we saw growing demand especially for advanced technologies. Revenue from new business or new program that we started tracking in quarter one of fiscal 2014, represent 30% of revenue in the first quarter compared to 23% a year-ago. Within revenue, optical communication represented 77% of our total revenue, during the first quarter consistent with the prior quarter, as optical revenues of $256.8 million increased 66% from year-ago. Non-optical revenues of $25.2 million also saw increasing growth compared to recent quarter at 23% year-on-year. As I mentioned non-optical revenue include less than $1 million in revenue from Exception EMS with organic growth that was above 20% even without the contribution…

Operator

Operator

Thank you [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Troy Jensen of Piper Jaffray. Your line is now open.

Troy Jensen

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is now open

Hey congrats on a really good quarter Tom.

Tom Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer

Thank you.

Troy Jensen

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is now open

So Tom or TS, I got a question for you, I guess there’s been a lot of chatter recently about three sensing [ph] and it looks like [indiscernible] are B2B leaders in that category and there’s a fair chance that we may get some three 3D sensing acquisitions in some high volume cellphones for next year. So I'm just curious given that Light and Two6 [ph] seem to be best positioned for 3D sensing would that be something that you guys would manufacture for factors for those two?

TS Ng

Chief Financial Officer

Hey, Troy, this is TS. If you look at my understanding of 3D sensing it's pretty much unique to have the PCBA capability and to know how to handle optical components. You also now must have the capability of the subcontrol system, know how to handle subcontrol system. All these are within Fabrinet's core competencies. So obviously in the past we talked about perpetual computing, we even helped the automotive guys to do laser. So if a customer come to us, fit into our margin profile obviously this is what something we are best at. So obviously will be opportunity for us.

Troy Jensen

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is now open

All right, perfect. Do you have any sense on the amount of dollar content that you guys would touch something like this? And to my knowledge this is like a $2 to $3 part that will gone in the cell phones and historically you guys, do a high volume - low volume high specialty where it seems to be high volume or specialty, maybe not specialty but just thoughts on the opportunity here for you.

Tom Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer

Troy, this is consumer electronic, they come and go and like winning, by the time you know they might be gone or they might be ramp up suddenly. So honestly it’s hard to me to say at this moment. Now obviously we have a sensor segment, we report that during the earning call. So, you can continue to monitor that.

Troy Jensen

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is now open

Okay. All right, fair, and last question for you TS. I think you talked you tend [ph] to normalize the numbers here to get to a sequential increase in revenues and looks like it's about 8% roughly. Can you just give us a sense for whether or not you think both Datacom and Telco kind of go roughly at their level or is one stronger than the other in the December quarter?

TS Ng

Chief Financial Officer

I think all along we’ve been saying that last four, five quarter now. Datacom is pretty strong, continue to enjoy year-on-year nice growth and we said telecom is accelerating. And right now we really see telecom is accelerating right now. So they are starting [ph] to impact. We will see growth in both segment but I think telecom will be growing faster from the way we - our vantage point. I don't know Tom you want to add anything.

Tom Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer

No, I agree with, I think telecom - and we see in past there are lines with that too, telecom will continue to grow faster.

Troy Jensen

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is now open

Thank you.

Tom Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer

Okay, [indiscernible].

TS Ng

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you. Bye.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from Patrick Newton from Stifel. Your line is now open.

Patrick Newton

Analyst · Stifel. Your line is now open

Good afternoon, Tom and TS, thank you for taking my question. Just a two part of question on your MPI facility. You talked about being on track to $10 million in revenue in the December quarter. Is that still the right level of breakeven? And then on the gross margin profile of the new product introduction facility given that it was a drag on this quarter, can you help us understand at what point the MPI gross margin actually becomes create to the market profile?

Tom Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer

So, let say in the 10-K and Q we always say about Fabrinet report only one segment. So Troy we would like to say that whether the UK or is the Santa Clara facility, it’s like building seven or building eight next door to our Pinehurst facility. So in the past I was asked about Fabrinet West, so we give some guidance and we are still approaching our guidance. Okay, $10 million by December, at that level we touch breakeven at gross margin level and then the quarter follow or so we touch breakeven at [indiscernible]. So that’s still the plan, we are marching towards the plan. Again UK, the same thing we are not going to breakdown UK but you have to judge revenue based on the total worldwide operation will be further tell 12.2% gross margin that include everybody. So you have to view that - again a lot of product might transfer from Santa Clara or UK to Chonburi, our new facility. So they come amid individual bigger entity P&L cloudy. Is that like make sense?

Patrick Newton

Analyst · Stifel. Your line is now open

Yes, that makes sense. I guess just shifting to capacity in Chonburi, could you talk at all about that the number of phase or square footage you currently have commitment for. And then you talked about initial revenue in the March quarter, but given the timing of ramps and qualification periods, when should we really start to see Chonburi kicking from a revenue tier 1 prospective?

Tom Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer

This is Tom. Last time when we talked I think that we said that we are that we - for spoken for capacity was about 10% directly and that number has now gone up to 25%, a little bit better than 25%. And that - so not got the interest [indiscernible] specific with days and [indiscernible] but in total it's about 25% are spoken for. That helps you?

Patrick Newton

Analyst · Stifel. Your line is now open

Yes, that’s very helpful. I guess if we look at that incremental uptick, is that being driven more by your optical business or the non-optical business?

Tom Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer

This is driven by well by optical business and non-optical business and that we continue to grow in both areas but the pace of company is growing about the same pace.

Patrick Newton

Analyst · Stifel. Your line is now open

Okay. And just last one is a clarification TS you talked about some product reclassification from datacom to telecom and then we can get that information on the website. But can you help us understand what products were reclassified.

TS Ng

Chief Financial Officer

Yeah in past we have the category called networking line. I mean those are customer assemble photonics integrator circ. And we use certain ratio to split within telecom and datacom. And also we saw some of the customer change - the same trend even can be either telecom or datacom depending on the application. So then more information about that to add and why we did that is we go back and reclassify the same transceiver shipment to the same customer in the same manner so we can compare. But if you look at 30,000 foot level our storage took hold, in other words datacom has been pretty strong in the last five, six quarters based on the year-on-year and telecom is late into the party and they are accelerating. So those are the basically the bottom line message and it's still intact.

Patrick Newton

Analyst · Stifel. Your line is now open

Understand the messaging but was there a certain product line like CFP, CFP2, 4 something like that that you've rolled out of the datacom or into telecom or anything that was more pervasive?

TS Ng

Chief Financial Officer

Not exactly. In the past certain customers we have to get the application. So now for example one of the customer at a long haul is actually telecom. In the past we didn't know the ownership to long haul. So we can't put in datacom. So we do that reclassification obviously. And then if I reclassify today I have to go back to restate the trend and that's what we are doing today.

Patrick Newton

Analyst · Stifel. Your line is now open

Great, thank you for taking my questions. Good luck.

Tom Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer

Thank you Patrick.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And I'm showing no further questions at this time. I'd like to hand the call over to Tom Mitchell for any closing remarks.

Tom Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer

We're going to thank you for joining our call. And we look forward to speaking to you again. Good night.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen thank you for participating in today's conference. That does conclude today's program. You may all disconnect. Everyone have a great day.