Jerry Colella
Analyst · Stifel Nicolaus. Your line is now open
Thanks, Seth. Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us on the call today. In my prepared remarks this morning, I’ll review our results for the second quarter of 2016, including key business highlights and our integration of Newport Corporation. Following that, I’ll provide an overview of our strategic goals for 2016 and our outlook for the third quarter and 2016. Seth will follow me with further details on our financial results, discuss our operating model with synergies, which includes Newport and then we’ll open the call for your questions. Our second quarter results were strong across the Board, achieving sales of $326 million, which included two months of Newport results. Overall, business trends were very positive during the quarter. On a pro-form basis, as if the acquisition of Newport closed at the beginning of the first quarter, total revenue increased 9% sequentially. Our standalone MKS business recorded a very strong performance with revenue increasing 13% from the first quarter to $207 million, above the high end of our guidance range, while Newport revenue increased 3% sequentially on a pro-forma basis. Our semiconductor business has strengthened and we attribute this to the increased adoption of 3D NAND devices as well as significant design wins in other areas. As I said in prior calls, next generation lithography have seen significant delays and there appears a general introduction will not occur until the 5 nanometer node. As a result, we believe 3D NAND will continue to rely on multi-patenting production, which greatly benefits MKS due to its increased need for deposition and etched processes where MKS have the strong position. In deposition, there is an increasing shift towards atomic layer deposition or ALD. This quarter we received design wins on three new ALD tools, including RF power and massive for advanced oxide and nitrite ALD, remote plasma sources and valves for TiNitride ALD well as remote plasma, ozone, pressure control, valves and integrated process solutions for other ALD application. I’m also pleased to report that in etch processing we were also ordered a design win from a Korean OEM for [indiscernible] generators and matches. Our other advanced markets, which include industrial, life science and research customers, were up 10% sequentially on a pro forma basis and were $177 million. In these markets applications and customers are diverse, so I’d like to pick just a few examples to share. In life sciences Newport received an EMO design win for a laser base optical assembly for advanced blood analyzer. This win was a result of working closely with the customer who designed a revolutionary screening tool, and we anticipate continued business as a product goes into full production, next year. In the industrial market our power generators were selected by selected by the leading manufacturer of razors to coat blades to extend their life, and we continue to have follow-on business for numerous of the coating applications. These are just a couple of examples for the diversity of our business, but they reflect to combined strength of the advance technologies that MKS and Newport have offered. Moving on to our strategy, we remain focused on achieving sustainable profitable growth in the business cycle. We plan to realize this by continuing to broaden our leadership position in all of our served markets and by using this technology leadership, to actively help to all of our customers most critical problems. Internally we refer to this as solve together, succeed together, which reflects our goal to provide customers with the critical technologies they need, so we both proper. As we discussed earlier, we aggressively pursuing opportunities, created by current technology inflection in our semiconductor segment, including 3D NAND, ALD and multi-patent. Moreover we intend majorly improved our profitability while efficiently deploying capital for increase shareholder value. As we successfully execute on this strategic initiatives, we also find ourselves at an inflection point in our business strategy similar to when we went public. At that time the company decide to grow the business and evolve from a component company to an integrated subsystem provider. This drove our surround the chamber initiative and resulted in MKS being the first consolidator in the critical sub-system portion, of the semiconductor industry. We acquired companies with differentiated technology to become the lead critical system company in our serve markets. With the Newport acquisition, we’re setting our path to grow our semiconductor business with both OEM and end users in the front end and increase our exposure in growth in the back end as well. Which we see as an opportunity to further accelerate our growth potential. Additionally, we plan to accelerate growth in our other end markets. MKS is proud of our 13 year history, of an almost 8% CAGR in these markets and we see significant prospects for growth and market share gains, continuing outside of the semiconductor market. Our multidisciplinary team is well on their way with integration activities and we remain confident and our ability to achieve our synergy targets of $35 million within 18 to 36 months after closing. Furthermore we’re identifying and will always continue to drive synergy opportunities across the combine company. To ensure we achieve these strategic goals, we have a made a number of organizational changes, including establishment of two business units, within the company, the original MKS products are now within back in analysis business unit, while the Newport products are now within the light and motion business unit. We have pointed new leadership team within light and motion and have centralized many of corporate support functions. Moreover, we expanded our Board and added Bob Philippi, Newport's former CEO, to assist with the integration process as well as ensure continuity. To further leverage our strong semiconductor position we have moved Newport semiconductor integrated solutions business group to report the vacuum analysis. This will leverage our key accounts strength in the semiconductor market to provide superior customer solutions and support with a goal of driving higher level of profitable and sustainable growth. We believe we have the right team in place ensure a smooth integration and anticipate that these changes will stream line the organization and improve efficiency. We have conducted a number of very positive senior-level meetings with leading customers to communicate our promise of partnership and technical collaboration. We plan to attack our expanded SAM by aggressively pursuing opportunities in both the semiconductor frontend and backend. We have an integrated sales team and now have joined engagements with key semiconductor accounts including Applied Materials, ASML, KLA-Tencor, Lam Research and CEMIS. In fact as a result of this combined activity we have already received an order for residual gas analyzers from a Newport customer with a new major key account for MKS. We are keenly focused on accelerating revenue growth across non-semi end markets by leveraging key account relationships, accelerating end used engagement, identifying cross selling opportunities as well as product integration affords. We have completed the first phase of our sales restructuring to focused growth in non-semi markets. The initial targets include analytical instrumentation, industrial processes and other areas will follow. I am happy with our initial affords and I look forward to updating you on our integration progress in future calls. Lastly, our capital deployment strategy remains centered on delevering the balance sheet over the next 24 months, while maintaining our strong commitment to our dividend. At this point I would like to turn over to the third quarter, we are very encouraged by the trends we are seeing across our business and expect this will continue in the third quarter. In the semiconductor market, demands for 3D NAND and foundry and logic manufactures are expected to beginning to ramp 10 nanometer production in the second half of the year. We are also very pleased with the growth in our OLED business for displays and believe our momentum this segment will continue to expand over the course of the year. In our other markets, we expect to capitalized on selling cross-selling opportunities and more over to accept these strong demand trends to continue into 2017. Based on these factors and looking at current business levels, we anticipate combined Company sales in the third quarter it a range from $345 million to $385 million and at these volumes our non-GAAP net earnings could range from $0.64 to $0.86 per share. With that I’ll turn the call over to Seth to discuss our financial results and expand upon our guidance.