Jonathan Kim
Analyst · Needham & Company. Your line is open
Thank YJ and good afternoon to everyone on the call. YJ spoke in some detail about the quarterly revenue performance in our operating segments, so I will focus on the year-over-year comparison and discuss the operational levers we are pulling in real time to improve gross profit and overall profitability. MagnaChip reported, on a GAAP basis, revenue of $688 million for 2015, a 54.3 million or 8.6% increase compared to $633.7 million for 2015. This was primarily to an increase in revenue related to mobile AMOLED display products which was offset in part by a decline in foundry revenue stemming from the closure of a negative 6-inch wafer fabrication facility in February 2016. Revenue in our Family Services Group was 274 million for 2016, a 15.8 million or 5.8% decrease compared to revenue of 290.8 million in 2015. The year-over-year decline was due primarily to a 54 million net decline in revenue due to the closure of our 6-inch fab offset by an increase in our 8-inch foundry business. Revenue in our Standards Product Group was 413.4 million for 2016, a 71.1 million or 20.8% increase compared to 342.3 million for 2015. The improvement was primarily due to a significant increase in revenues related to our display solutions business line in general and AMOLED display drivers in particular. Revenue in our display solutions business line was 282 million for 2016, 74.5 million or 35.9% increase from 207.5 million for 2015. The increase in revenue was primarily attributable to 91.2 million higher sales of mobile AMOLED display drive ICs partially offset by 15.8 million revenue decrease in large display products. Revenue in our Power Solutions business line was 131.5 million for 2016, a 3.3 million or 2.5% decrease from 134.8 million for 2015. The decrease in sales was primarily due to the deliberate reduction by MagnaChip of sales of low contribution margin MOSFET products as part of our portfolio optimization process. Turning now to gross margin, we achieved meaningful progress in 2015 on our [indiscernible] gross profit. Our total gross profit was 156.2 million for 2016 compared to 134.9 million for 2015 for a 21.4 million or 15.8% increase. Gross profit as a percentage of revenue for 2016 increased to 22.7% compared to 21.3% for 2015. Gross profit improved in both of our operating segments. Gross profit from our foundry services segment was 59.4 million for 2015, a 3.2 million or 4.9% increase compared to 66.2 million for 2015. Gross profit as a percentage of revenue for 2016 increased to 25.3% compared to 22.8% for 2015. The increase in gross profit was mainly attributable through a better product mix. The increase in 8-inch utilization rate throughout 2016 had a positive the impact to gross profit offset in part by absorbed labor cost from the remaining headcount from our legacy 6-inch fab. Gross profit from our standard products group segment was 87.2 million for 2016, 19.1 million or 28% increase from 68.1 million for 205. Gross margin for 2015 increased to 21.1% compared to 19.9% in 2015. Our strategy to fill our fabs reducing a cost and maximize cash flows was successfully executed in 2016. Now, we’re implementing the next phase of our plan to boost gross margin, by being more selective about incoming business opportunities and by continuing to reduce costs. The company this month launched a new headcount reduction plan that is expected to be two to three times larger than the 2016 program, which resulted last year in a reduction in headcount of 169 employees. The expected payback period is estimated at approximately 1.5 years, with estimated annual cost savings from $20 million to $27 million, depending upon the final size of the workforce reduction. The company expects to use $30 million to $40 million of the proceeds from the Exchangeable Senior Notes Offering completed earlier this year to pay the severance and other benefits to affected employees. We believe that a headcount reduction will improve gross profit and reduce operating costs, while still preserving the company's ability to grow and serve customers’ needs. The company anticipates that gross margin will begin to improve as costs begin to shift with lower manufacturing and other costs associated with them. Labor costs [Technical Difficulty] from the headcount reduction program. We believe that 2017 headcount reduction will also have a positive effect on adjusted EBITDA, which was 14.1 million in Q4 2016, up sequentially from 10 million and highest since first quarter of 2014. For the year, adjusted EBITDA totaled 40.7 million as compared 0.8 million in 2015. We expect that gross margin and adjusted EBITDA, both will improve sequentially throughout 2017, beginning in Q2. Now, turning back to the P&L and operating expenses for Q4. Total SG&A and R&D expenses in Q4 totaled 40.9 million or 22.6% of revenue compared to 38.5 million or 20% of revenue in Q3 and 37.5 million or 24.6% of revenue in the fourth quarter in the year ago period. This increase in Q4 was primarily due to a one-time 2.8 million fee related to consulting services. MagnaChip had a net foreign currency loss of 49.6 million in Q4 compared to a gain of 33.2 million in Q3 2016 and compared to net foreign currency gain of 17.1 million for the comparable fourth quarter in 2015. A substantial portion of our net foreign currency gain or loss is non-cash translation gain or loss associated with the inter-company long term loans, but this financial yardstick is not necessarily a relevant measure of our business performance. Net loss on a GAAP basis for the fourth quarter of 2016 was 49.8 million or $1.42 per basic share as compared to third quarter net income of 29.9 million or $0.86 per basic share and $0.85 per diluted share and a net income of 22.9 million or $0.66 per basic and diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2015. Net loss in the fourth quarter of 2016 was attributable primarily to a non-cash foreign exchange loss on intercompany loans. Adjusted net income, a non-GAAP financial measure, for the fourth quarter of 2016 was $1.6 million or $0.05 per basic share and $0.04 per diluted share, as compared with an adjusted net loss in the third quarter of 2016 that totaled $1.3 million or $0.04 per basic share and compared to adjusted net income of $5.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2015 or $0.15 per basic and diluted share. Turning to the balance sheet, cash and cash equivalents totaled 83.4 million at the end of the fourth quarter as compared with 75.4 million at the end of the third quarter. As of December 31, 2016, we entered into an agreement to sell a building that had been used to house the company's 6-inch fab that has become vacant. MagnaChip received total proceeds of 18.2 million, including a 1.7 million value added tax which is reported as restricted cash. We are obligated to perform a certain removal construction work that is expected to be completed by the end of March 2017. Accordingly, once the construction obligation is completed, the proceeds will be recorded as cash and cash equivalents on the consolidated balance sheet. Inventory at the end of fourth quarter was 57 million compared with 72.1 million in Q3 and 57.6 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2015. We continue to focus on managing working capital while also producing sufficient levels of inventory needed to support the growth of our business. Accounts receivable was 61.8 million as compared with 66 [ph] million at the end of Q3 and as compared with 63.5 million at the end of the fourth quarter 2015. Capital expenditures in Q4 were 7.4 million and 18.7 million for 2016. We completed a 75 million exchangeable notes offering last month and raised an additional 11.25 million after initial purchasers exercised their rights to purchase additional principal amount of the note. At that time, we said we will use 30 million to 40 million of proceeds to implement the 2017 headcount reduction, 15 million to 20 million to help fund capital expenditures, up to 15 million for a stock buyback with the remainder allocated for general corporate purposes. In connection with the transaction, we executed a stock buyback totaling 11.4 or 1.8 million shares. We are currently evaluating our capital expenditure plan while we anticipate that 2017 CapEx requirements to be approximately 25 million. We may increase our CapEx from this level during 2017 if we anticipate a need to meet for increased customer demand. In summary, we're taking aggressive steps now to further reduce costs, streamline the company and shore up the balance sheet in order to build upon the operational progress we’ve made so far to turn around MagnaChip. Now, let me turn the call back to YJ for his closing comments and first quarter financial guidance. YJ?