Young-Joon Kim
Analyst · Needham & Company. Please go ahead
Thank you. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining our call today. First of all, I'd like to welcome both, So-Yeon Jeong, our Head of IR; and Dr. Young Woo, our CFO, to their first earnings call at MagnaChip. Both will play important roles as MagnaChip opens a new chapter as a pure-play standard products company. I also want to acknowledge changes in our Board of Directors. Semiconductor veteran Mr. Camillo Martino was named Chairman in June and Ms. Liz Chung of Microsoft Korea joined our newly expanded Board in July. During the second quarter, our team executed well and delivered excellent results in keeping with our commitment to safety of our employees and continuity of services to our customers. We demonstrated our ability to be resilient to the impact of the COVID-19. We continue to take further steps to mitigate potential risks related to the health and safety of our employees and to the supply chain management. Key non-GAAP financial metrics exceeded our expectations. Revenue for the combined business came in above the high end of the guidance range due to strong demand in our Power and Foundry businesses. Gross margin surpassed expectations driven by improved product mix and higher fab utilization. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share from continuing operation was $0.13 as compared to $0.03 in Q1. On a sequentially flattish revenue, our bottom line improved due to higher gross margin. For the fifth consecutive quarter, we generated operating cash flow. In Q2, the cash flow from operations was $36 million. At the end of second quarter, our cash balance increased to $192.8 million, marking the highest level since the IPO in March 2011. In addition to delivering outstanding financial results, our team has made substantial progress with the pending sale of the Foundry business and Fab 4. I am comfortable with our progress to date, and we are working diligently to complete the remaining tasks to close this transaction. These tasks are mostly related to separating the shared R&D infrastructure and building. We are separating the IT systems, reestablishing a new IT infrastructure and a new quality and reliability assurance lab for the continuing business, relocating our OLED test and development center and transferring power process R&D capability from Fab 4 to Fab 3. I am proud of and thankful for what our team has accomplished during the quarter. Based on the progress we've made so far, we are now slightly ahead of our internal schedule and anticipate that the transaction will likely close in the third quarter instead of our previous estimate of the September, October time frame. Now let's take a close look at the continuing business, starting with Display. During the second quarter, we completely exited all non-auto LCD DDIC business as part of our strategic efforts to improve profitability and sharpen focus. As a reference point, we have reported approximately $6 million of non-auto LCD revenue as recently as Q1. If we use an apple-to-apple comparison, our Q2 Display business revenue would have been 2.7% down from Q1 had we adjusted for this change. COVID-19 negatively impacted the global smartphone market during Q1 and extended into Q2. But we performed relatively well compared to the market during the first half 2020. According to the market data, global smartphone market declined about 20% year-over-year during the first half of 2020, but our OLED DDI business was up 12.4% in the first half. The above-market performance was due in part to the accelerated launch scheduled from some of our customers. Our Q2 OLED DDIC revenue was $67 million, down 3.9% sequentially and down 8.3% year-over-year. Let me highlight four key takeaways for our Display business. Firstly, regarding our new product launches. On our Q1 earnings call in May, we said we expected smartphone makers using our OLED drivers to launch 18 models in the first half, 10 models being scheduled to launch in Q2. Actually, 12 models were launched, bringing the total launch of 20 new smartphone models in the first half. Secondly, regarding customer design wins, we won 8 new OLED DDIC design wins in Q2, including 5 based on the 28-nanometer manufacturing process. Our 28-nanometer products feature notable reduction in chip size and power consumption and continue to demonstrate strong design momentum in this growing product family. Thirdly, regarding advanced features in 5G phones. We are expanding our high frame rate, HFR OLED DDIC product line. We launched 5 HFR OLED DDIC products to date. And all of these now support 144 hertz for full HD plus displays and 120 hertz for the QHD plus displays. Faster display response time is vital to full-featured 5G smartphones, and we are well positioned to capitalize on the booming 5G smartphone industry. Our revenue from 5G smartphone accounted for about 20% of the total OLED revenue in first half 2020. Finally, regarding diversification, we continue to diversify the OLED business into automotive applications. During the second quarter, we taped out our first OLED automotive product. Leveraging our strategic alignment with major OLED panel makers, we plan to expand our design wins for automotive displays. Looking ahead, while quarterly revenue may fluctuate, we remain excited about the long-term outlook for the OLED market trend and our unique position. Recently, we experienced an upswing in demand for our OLED products. This recent increase in demand is outstripping our supply capability in Q3 because of insufficient lead time. The standard lead time for our OLED products is 2.5 to 3 months. Now let's turn to the Power business. The total annual power semiconductor market is approximately $45 billion, which presents us a tremendous opportunity for longer-term growth. It is important to note that today, our manufacturing process, R&D, was centralized in our main Fab 4 facility to support both our Fab 4 and Fab 3. With the closing of the pending Foundry transaction, Fab 3 will become a dedicated fab for our power business. Currently, critical product development and sizable production for Power are conducted at fivefold. Therefore, we will now be transferring all of our Power process R&D to Fab 3 and plan to equip the fab to continue supporting our customers seamlessly. We also strengthened our power business leadership recently by hiring a 35-plus-year veteran of power semiconductor as the general manager. Our Power business remains an essential part of our long-term growth and diversification strategy. Now let's talk about our Power business in Q2. Power revenue experienced a strong rebound from Q2 as China showed some signs of recovery from the global pandemic. The revenue came in at $39.8 million, up 20% sequentially and down 16.7% year-over-year. We saw pent-up demand for our medium-voltage MOSFET products driven by the increased popularity of personal transportation, such as e-bike and e-motorcycles in China. We are seeing growth momentum with our Power IC product line. Our Power IC for one of the applications in the solid-state drive is gaining traction at a global memory company, and we are expanding our Power IC lineup to serve a notebook PC and smartphone application in addition to TV applications. During Q2, we saw design win and design win activities across MB MOSFET, Battery FET, Super Junction MOSFET and Power IC product lines, addressing a wide range of application. We are encouraged by a growing design pipeline in our Power business. Turning to the Foundry Services Group, Foundry Services Group revenue was $95.8 million, the highest recorded revenue on 8-inch line since the IPO. Revenue was up 11% sequentially and up 31% year-over-year driven by the surge in demand for work-from-home related products as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now let's talk about our strategic transition. The sale of Foundry business and Fab 4 allows us to transform into a streamlined, pure-play products company focused on the attractive display and power markets. While we can't be immune to the risk of macroeconomic conditions, we are fundamentally resetting our business goal. And I'd like to share with you our key goal that we are targeting to achieve by 2023. First, profitable revenue growth. For Display, we will ride on the continued global adoption of OLED panels by smartphone makers as well as the proliferation of new OLED applications. For Power, we will focus on premium products and penetrating new high growth segments such as the automotive market. While we improve our financial performance in existing businesses, we may also consider inorganic growth options that are synergistic and EPS accretive if the right strategic opportunity presents itself. We plan to grow at a double-digit CAGR from 2020 to 2023. Second, gross margin; for Display, we exited the low margin non-auto LCD business. We will capitalize on this as we launch new products in emerging Display applications. For Power, through a combination of reestablishing our R&D center, increasing our manufacturing output in Fab 3 and also leveraging external foundry services, we will drive a more favorable product -- premium product mix. Considering all this, we plan to consistently achieve above 30% gross margin in a few years. Third, operating expenses; the continuing operations are currently carrying some stranded costs, which make some time to unwind. As a streamlined standard product company, we will rightsize OpEx and exercise financial discipline. Collectively, these initiatives will bring a significant improvement to our operating income. As I mentioned during last earnings call, our goal is to first reach a 10% adjusted operating income level of the standard product business and then to continue to improve thereafter. By the end of first quarter of 2021, we should be largely freed of approximately $21 million in annual interest expenses, which will substantially benefit our net income. We are not stopping here. These goals are important milestones in our continuous journey towards profitable growth. Today, we share with you some financial benefits of the new MagnaChip. Once the pending transaction closes, we will be able to share more financial metrics. We also plan to host an Analyst Day in the future and present strategic initiative to illustrate how we will get there. In summary, we delivered better-than-expected financial results while accelerating the closing schedule of the pending Foundry business sale. We will continue our execution to deliver a successful close and strengthen our business foundation for profitable growth. We remain well positioned to navigate through this challenging time. And as the industry environment improves, we will emerge stronger and capitalize on attractive market trends. Now I will turn the call over to Dr. Woo and come back for Q&A.