Sean Smith
Analyst · Needham & Company. Your line is open
Thanks, Peter, and good morning, everyone. I'll provide a brief analysis of our financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015, review our operating results, balance sheet, cash flows, and forecast. During the first quarter, as Deno and Peter stated, we agreed to a private exchange of $57.5 million of convertible notes, due on April 1, 2019, for existing convertible notes, due April 1, 2016. The 2019 notes retain the same interest rates of 3.25%, and strike price of $10.37 per share as the 2016 notes. In connection with the exchange, we incurred approximately 900k in transaction expenses. Please refer to Slide 4 for our GAAP to non-GAAP net income and EPS reconciliation as we review the first quarter. For purposes of our discussion, I will be comparing our non-GAAP operating results which exclude the convertible notes transaction expenses. Please turn to Slide 5, 6, and 7, which show us sequential quarterly IC and FPD revenue performance. First quarter revenue was approximately 123.5 million, which was within our guided range, 121 to 126. Revenues for IC photomask were a 101.5 million, up 2.1 million sequentially. Revenues for high-end IC photomask, which are 45 nanometers and below were up 8% sequentially to 36.4 million or 36% of total IC sales. Sequentially, high-end IC revenue increased 2.9 million primarily related to increased high-end tape outs in Taiwan. This was partially offset by a slight decrease in sequential mainstream revenue of 800k. Revenues for FPD photomask were 22 million down 11% sequentially at 2.9 million. The decrease was primarily related to reduced mainstream FPD orders that Peter alluded to. High-end FPD revenue for the quarter was 15.4 million up 200k or 1% sequentially. Now, breaking out sales geographically, 71% of Q1 sales were from Asia, 22% from North America, and 7% from Europe. Now, let's continue through the income statement. Gross margin for the first quarter was 22.8%, up a 140 basis point sequentially. The increase was related to reduced manufacturing costs and increased high-end revenue for the quarter. As a reminder, we were negatively impacted by certain increased manufacturing costs from the fourth quarter, and we had stated on our call that these costs were not expected to be recurring. SG&A expenses for the first quarter were 11.9 million. SG&A increased modestly by 400,000 sequentially. R&D expenses, which consist principally of continued development for our global advanced process technology, can cause, and advanced nodes were 4.7 million, down $1.1 million sequentially. And during the quarter, we generated operating income of 11.6 million or 9.4% of sales, up from 7.5% in Q4, despite the decreased sequential sales of 800,000. EBITDA as defined in our credit agreements for the quarter was $34 million or 136 million on an annualized basis. Other expense net exclusive of the convertible note transaction costs for the quarter, were down 200k sequentially to 400,000, principally driven by reduced interest costs. During the third quarter, we recorded tax provision of 3.1 million, higher than our guided range of 2 million to 2.5 million, due primarily to increased income generated at our taxable entity. Minority interest for the quarter was 3.3 million and primarily consisted of DNP share of PDMC's profits for the first quarter. Minority interest expense increased 900k during the quarter. GAAP net income was 3.8 million or $0.06 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income was 4.7 million or $0.07 per diluted share, which was at the high end of our guided range. At the end of the first quarter, we had approximately 1500 full-time employees which equates to annualized revenue per employee of 329,000. Now, turning to the balance sheet; cash and cash equivalents at the end of the first quarter amounted to 169 million. Our net cash, which is cash less debt was 29 million at the end of the quarter, down 22 million sequentially principally due to previously planned CapEx payments. CapEx payments during the quarter amounted to $40 million. Working capital at the end of the quarter was $144 million as compared to a $197 million at the end of Q4. The decrease was due primarily to an increase in accrued CapEx of $35 million sequentially, coupled with CapEx payments. Accounts receivable at the end of the quarter increased $4.7 million sequentially to $99.3 million primarily as a result of timing as we had a stronger month in January than we did in October, the last month of Q4, 2014. Accounts payable and accrued current liabilities at quarter end amounted to $167 million, up 38 million sequentially, primarily as a result of previously mentioned accrued CapEx. At the end of the quarter, $67 million of CapEx was accrued for. Please turn to Slide 9 as we review our capitalization. Total debt at quarter end was a $140 million; a principal component of outstanding debt include a $115 million, 3.25 senior unsecured notes, 50% of which are due April, 2016 and 50% due April 1, 2019, and approximately 25 million in capital lease obligation. Our leverage ratio at the end of the quarter was 1.11 time. During the quarter and through today, we have not borrowed on our five-year $50 million credit agreements. Taking look at our cash flows; cash provided by operations for the first quarter was approximately $22 million. Depreciation and amortization was 20.8 million. Cash flow used in investing activities in Q1 2015 amounted to approximately 40.3 million, which is primarily all CapEx. And net cash used by financing activities amounted to approximately $2million. Please turn to Slide 10 as we take a look ahead. Taking look at CapEx, we expect our cash CapEx needs to be in the range of 100 million to 110 million for 2015. We do however have the flexibility to accelerate or decelerate our spend depending upon market conditions and opportunities. We expect to generate free cash flow in 2015. And our investments are principally geared towards high-end leading-edge products for IC and FDP applications. Our visibility, as always continues to be limited as our backlog is typically one to two weeks. For Q2 2015, we do expect to experience some modest impact related to Lunar New Year in Asia. We are projecting revenue for the second quarter of 2015 to be in the range of $121 million to $128 million. During 2015, our tax rate will be effective by the flow of income from jurisdictions for which we may have credit and upon our limited ability to recognize tax benefits in areas in which we are taxable. For the second quarter of 2015, this will equate to a range of 2.7 million to 3.7 million in whole dollar terms. For fiscal 2015, we estimate our total taxes in the range from 12 million to 15 million. We will continue to be impacted by minority interest expense related to PDMC, and we are estimating minority interest expense to be approximately $2.5 million to $3.5 million for the second quarter. As a result, based upon our current operating model, we estimate earnings per share for the second quarter of 2015 to be in the range of $0.04 to $0.09 per diluted share. In summary, on Slide 11, I'll leave you with a few key thoughts. First, we expect top and bottom line improvement in 2015. Second, we expect our EBITDA to grow in 2015. And third, we are confident about our business model and our ability to grow market share at the high end. We see continued opportunities in our customers' businesses and node migration plans and we have a strong financial position and excellent technology to capitalize in those plans. And finally, we expect to continue to build on the momentum that we have established over the last past few years as a leader in advanced photomask technology. Now, I would like to turn the call over to the operator for questions and answers.