Jure Sola
Analyst · Cross Research. Your line is open
Thanks Bob. Ladies and gentlemen, I will review the business environment, add a few more things to what Bob said for the first quarter and I’ll talk about outlook for second quarter and the rest of the fiscal year 2016. So, let me add few more highlights to what Bob already told you for the first quarter. The way I will summarize first quarter is overall good quarter. Our revenue, yes, was softer than what we forecasted and basically that was driven across all our markets. But we did deliver a solid operational execution and we also delivered a solid operating margin improvement despite a mix market environment. And we also delivered as Bob mentioned strong cash flow. During the quarter we continued to make improvement and we continued to win new business and expanding our customer base. I can tell you that we are well positioned to take advantage of business opportunities as market demand improves, so well positioned from that point of view. Now please turn to Slide 11. I’d like to give you some highlights here on our first quarter revenue by end markets as you can see top 10 customers delivered 48.2% of our revenue. As we continue to diversify revenue by end markets and customers, and we do a lot of focus here because that's the key to our strategy is to continue to diversify markets and the customer base. Book-to-bill for the first quarter was positive 102:1. Let me give you some more highlights on the segments itself. Industrial, medical and defense, beginning of the quarter we did forecast it to be down but it was a little more down approximately 7.5% driven by weakness across industrial, defense and medical. Communication networks delivered 29% of our revenue. That was slightly down of 3.4%. Beginning of the quarter we thought it was going to be a flat but it was slightly down. The weakness was on our older products but on a positive side the new products such as networking and optical and mobile broadband were pretty stable during the quarter. Embedded computing and storage was 21% of our revenue, that was also down 8.9% from the last quarter driven by weak demand from storage and automotive, rest of the products were pretty stable. Now please turn to Slide 12. Let me talk to you about revenue outlook by market segments for the second quarter. For the second quarter we see overall stable market, growth will be driven by new projects. So for industrial, medical and defense segment, we are forecasting to be nicely up, driven by industrial and that will be mainly driven by new projects. Medical, we're also forecasting to be slightly up and defense. For communication network we're forecasting for next quarter to be flat. Overall we see stable environment and especially in the networking optical and mobile broadband. Embedded computing and storage we're also forecasting to be slightly up driven by automotive, storage and other products. Now let me talk to you about what we expect for the rest of the fiscal year 2016. Overall, we are still optimistic that fiscal year 2016 will be a growth year for us. Today we see overall demand to be stable with our customer base. We have a strong pipeline of new and existing projects that we have been working on for long time. We believe that these programs will start to ramp up in the second quarter and we are starting to see that nicely right now. We also extended our partnership with Motorola Solution. This is a great customer win for us. We extended our long-term partnership, but this is taking it to the next level. We expect this transaction to be closed this coming February. For Motorola Solution we'll be producing government public safety equipment at the high end. As I said earlier, it's a great win for Sanmina, and this is something that is sustainable and should be there for many years to come. Let me also add few more comments on business segments. We break our business in two buckets, Integrated Manufacturing Solution and Components, Products & Services. As Bob mentioned, integrated manufacturing solution did pretty well in our first quarter. And what we see today, this will continue to do well and should see a nice growth starting in our second quarter. Components, Products & Services the mix itself was not favorable in the first quarter and demand was weaker than what we forecasted. But for second quarter, we expect to see some growth and improvements in our product mix and strong pipeline that we have and new opportunity should help us drive the growth. I think the key again back to this mix, Components, Products & Services, that revenue growth is the key to drive the margin expansion in this segment. Overall, we continue to invest in business development and we believe this is what's going to drive our growth in the future. Let me also make a few comments about Sanmina's future. Where are we going from here? What we see today? I am personally still very optimistic about Sanmina's future. Our strategy is working. The whole strategy is built around focusing on our customer's success by providing higher end technology solution for mission-critical products and services. We continue to be investing in talent and new technologies and diversify in our business to deliver a better financial results that are sustainable and consistent for many years to come. I can tell you the company is executing well. That is the key to win in the future. Also when we make comments about global economy, global economy is still hard to predict in this environment. There is lot of ups and downs there, but company is ready for any economical environment. We are well diversified and we are well positioned in our industry. So please turn to Slide 13. In summary again, for our first quarter good results in this challenging environment. Most important, we continue to deliver solid margin improvement on sequential basis. And for second quarter, we're forecasting demand to be stable; growth will be driven by new programs and we'll continue to generate cash flow, strong cash flow. For rest of the fiscal year 2016, we'll continue to diversify with our key customers and end markets and we're going to continue to focus to drive sustainable growth and profitability. So, ladies and gentlemen, now we'd like to thank you all for your time and support. Operator, we're now ready to open the lines for question and answers. Thank you again. Operator?