Good afternoon. My name is Connor and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Sanmina Corporation First Quarter 2016 Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Paige Bombino, Vice President of Investor Relations, you may begin your conference.

Thank you, Connor. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Sanmina's first quarter fiscal year 2016 earnings call. A copy of today's release is available on our website in the Investor Relations section. You can follow along with our prepared remarks in the slides posted on our website. Please turn to the Safe Harbor statement. During this conference call, we may make projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of the Company. We caution you that such statements are just projections. The Company's actual results of operation may differ significantly as a result of various factors including the state of the global economy, economic conditions in the electronics industry, changes in customer requirements and sales volume, competition, and technological change. We refer you to our quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These documents contain risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our projections or forward-looking statements. You'll note in our press release and the slides issued today, that we have provided you with statements of operations for the three months ending January 2, 2016 on a GAAP basis, as well as certain non-GAAP financial information. A reconciliation between the GAAP and non-GAAP financial information is also provided in the press release and the slides posted on our website. In general, our non-GAAP information excludes restructuring costs, acquisition and integration costs, non-cash stock-based compensation expense, amortization expense and other infrequent or unusual items to the extent material. Any comments we make on this call as it relates to the income statement measures will be directed at our non-GAAP financial results. Accordingly, unless otherwise stated in this conference call, when we refer to gross profit, gross margin, operating income, operating margin, taxes, net income, and earnings per share, we are referring to our non-GAAP information. I would now like to turn the call over to Jure Sola, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Thanks Paige. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome. Thank you all for being here with us today. With me on today's conference call is Bob Eulau, our CFO.

Good afternoon, everyone.

For agenda, Bob will review our financial results for our first quarter fiscal year 2016. I will follow up with additional comments about Sanmina's results and future goals, then Bob and I will open for question-and-answers. And I'll turn this call over to Bob. Bob?

Thanks, Jure. Please turn to the Slide 3. Overall, the first quarter was a mixed start to fiscal year 2016. Revenue of $1.53 billion was down 6.2% on a sequential basis and down 8.2% from the first quarter last year. Non-GAAP EPS was $0.58, which was at the midpoint of our guidance for the quarter. This was based on 81.2 million shares outstanding on a fully diluted basis. During the quarter, we used $29 million to repurchase a total of 1.4 million common shares. Cash flow from operations was good at $63 million for the quarter, and free cash flow was $34 million. I'll discuss cash in more detail in a few minutes. Please turn to the Slide 4. From a GAAP perspective, revenue was down 6.2% or $102 million from Q4 to $1.535 billion. We reported net income of $27.1 million which resulted in earnings per share of $0.33 for the first quarter. This was down relative to last quarter by $3.45. You may recall that last quarter our GAAP results included an incremental release of our valuation allowance against deferred tax assets. If you exclude this one-time tax item, earnings per share were flat with last quarter. My remaining comments will focus on the non-GAAP financials for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016. At $125.7 million, gross profit was down $2.7 million from the prior quarter. Gross margin came in at 8.2%, which was 40 basis points better than we reported in Q4. We are very pleased with both gross profit and gross margin given the lower revenue. Operating expenses were down $2 million for the quarter at $64.7 million. This represents a 10 basis point increase in operating expenses as a percent of revenue compared to Q4. Spending was down this quarter primarily due to the…

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…

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Steven Fox with Cross Research. Your line is open.

Good afternoon. First off, if you could provide a little bit more color on the software acquisition and its contribution going forward to the business financially. And then my second question would just be looking at your revenue and gross margin guidance off of the 8.2% gross margins you just did, you're expecting some better revenues, but the gross margins at the midpoint would be down a little bit, so maybe if we could foot that, that would also be helpful. Thanks so much.

Steve, add to your comments. First of all, on the software that we acquired, it's part of our new ISIS. We had a partnership with this small company for few years and it's a very unique thing. We have a couple of customers that are interested in this product. Actually we have one customer that’s signed up to it. So it was the right thing to do. I think strategically it can add a lot to our company, and that's all I really can say about that right now for competitive reason. But I think it's going to be exciting, the most important, it will help us deliver a higher margin in the new ISIS products. So it’s an exciting thing for Sanmina. Regarding the margin for next quarter, we have a lot of new programs that are coming in that will affect our margins a little bit, but it’s all going to depend on the mix to see if the mix is there, I think we have a pretty good opportunity but the new products, a lot of new products come in, also the expansion, the growth with our Motorola Solutions, we're going to start shipping to them in February and March. So all those things add there, there's some risk there but we feel very comfortable what's in front of us. Bob, anything else you want to add to that?

I agree, I mean the IMS margin was fantastic in the first quarter, and I think it's difficult to assume that’s going to continue at that level. I mean we're going to try to get it back there, but it was really a very good quarter, very good mix and very good execution.

Great, that's helpful. Just one quick clarification. So MSI, the new MSI programs are in the guidance for two-thirds of the quarter basically?

Yes.

Okay. Thank you very much.

Your next question comes from the line of Jim Suva with Citibank. Your line is open.

Thanks and congratulations to you and your team. It sounds like the clarification that Motorola is in for the next quarter, which is fine, can you help us understand so we can look at organic versus inorganic so we don't extrapolate that type of growth going forward? How much is Motorola bringing into your revenues, or how we should think about that?

Well first of all, we're not going to break it down Jim but let me tell you, we are entering a long term strategic relationship with MSI. This is really a complement to our existing partnership that we have with them. It’s a customer that we've been working on for many, many years. This is a huge win for us. Therefore, we are taking over - transferring over this operation to us in the second quarter, sometime in February timeframe. So we definitely expect some revenue, we don’t know how much that’s going to be at this time. We have a certain number in our forecast, but going forward, it's a substantial customer and we're very excited about it.

Okay. As a follow-up, when we think about your revenue guidance for next quarter and the earnings guidance for next quarter, should we say it has been pretty much all attributed to core Sanmina? Or is it the additional layers of these acquisitions that are really adding the material change?

I would say that most of the margin and the revenue comes from core Sanmina’s businesses. It's not - basically no major impact on our margin next quarter.

I agree. And part of the reason why we gave a little bit wider than normal range on revenue is because we don't know exactly what’s going to happen if that acquisition gets completed, but it’s – as Jure said, a very good piece of business with an existing customer and it’s eventually an asset purchase, and it’s kind of investment we would have to make if we were winning incremental programs with that customer.

Just to add, it's really - Jim it's the extension of our existing partnership as I said earlier, so it’s a big win for us.

Great, thank you. And then your comments regarding your key initiatives are to grow the Company. Obviously, it's hard to control what the world and demand forecasts are. So are you calling for us to pretty much guide - bake in for this year, so it's growth in total for the Company? And if so, is the growth incremental -- mostly from the acquisitions of the fold-in of the businesses as opposed to organic?

Well, first of all, we believe that most of our growth is still going to continue to be growing from our organic base, and also with MSI, we looked at that as an organic relationship that we had with this company for last 20 years. We expanded with them about two years and we're going to expand it. Back to the growth, we definitely believe today everything that we see will grow. And in our core business, Sanmina's core new businesses, we’ve been working in last couple of years to really win the new programs which we did a really good job there. So overall we expect to be stable. We cannot control economy. If something falls off the cliff, that's what I said earlier, I think our company is in the best position that we've been now for long, long time to be able and/or no matter what happens. So we're really excited what's in front of us, at the same time we've been investing heavily in technology, engineering. We continue to provide a lot more and a lot of different services to our customers. So I think we are very well positioned no matter what, to continue to grow. I think our future looks lot better than if I could have told you six months ago.

Thank you and congratulations to you and your team.

Your next question comes from the line of Andrew Hong with B. Riley. Your line is open.

I was wondering if we could dig into a little more detail on Components, Products, & Services. I agree that there's a lot of room for improvement here, but what can you do this fiscal year to drive revenue higher in this segment? And then aside from overhead absorption and mix, what can you do to improve the gross margin?

Okay, first of all, we have a lot of new qualifications at pipeline and some new programs across all our businesses. So, from that point of view we definitely see that will help us drive improvement in our improved efficiencies – that efficiencies will drive the margins. We also have some bigger programs that are coming up in these segments. We talked about the new ISIS opportunity, I think that will help us drive the margin. We also look at our defense and aerospace. That should continue to move in the right direction. That industry went through lot in the last three, four years. We got a lot of good opportunities in the pipeline both at the component level and the product level, so we expect that. We've got a fair amount of stuff on the optical side of our businesses that should help us. And then also oil and gas is in there. That's been a really tough right now, we don’t have a lot of hope for oil and gas this year but we continue to invest in that industry because we think the long term is the right thing to be there. So overall, I think we're doing the right things here. We're tuning things up and we continue to expand our customer base and most importantly we got some new programs coming up. And all those things together will drive the margins. We do expect to improve the margin this coming quarter, I don’t know how much but definitely they should be better than what they were in the first quarter.

Okay, thank you. I have just one quick follow-on, on Motorola Solutions, if that's okay.

Yes it is.

Is it fair to say that the Penang facility accounted for more than 50% of Motorola Solutions' manufacturing needs?

It’s up there. We can't make a comment how much it is because we can’t talk about our customer stuff. But it’s a big - it’s the right thing for Sanmina, most importantly a very strong partnership that we earned through many years, our performance. Sanmina is well positioned to be able to provide a quality that this company is looking for and technology. So, it's most important as we always said and as Bob said earlier we said all the time, it's the quality of the customer, quality of the customer, somebody that can be repeatable, repeatable. I believe as long as Sanmina executes well, this is a customer that is repeatable for many years in the future. So, it’s a good win for us and it’s the right product mix for us. And we can support it from components to finished goods.

Thanks very much.

Your next question comes from the line of Sean Hannan with Needham & Company. Your line is open.

Okay, great. In terms of looking at the industrial and medical segment, and obviously defense, so last quarter there weren't a whole lot of positive expectations for the segment. In terms of the broader segment, particularly industrial, there was some softening, I think, for perhaps yourself, as well as some other peers at the end of 2015. Can you talk a little bit about what you ultimately saw and where we are today as a general feel for where those end markets are? Any comments around forecast volatility?

Yes. First of all Sean, this is a segment that we've been focusing for a long time, so I just want to make sure it's clear. We still believe today that industrial, medical is the place for us to be for a long term. We had basically weakness and it wasn’t just a one customer, we had some customers that was up, some customers that were down but overall when you look at the bucket, it was below our forecast. Today those forecasts are more stable, if you look at our medical side of the business, we have a lot of new programs coming up. Those programs take long time to get qualify medical side of the business but good thing about it, once you qualify, once you win it therefore ever and same thing goes for defense and aerospace industry. We always be in a product side of that business but we really been focusing last three years to expand it in printer circuit boards, in back plants, mechanical, the whole interconnect and so on. So, and of course industrial side, so I think Sanmina has a wider customer base today, more stable base. So we see if anything going forward for the rest of the year assuming that economy is something let's stay stable, let’s say normal as I can forecast today, I think our forecast is very stable. We don’t really anything major there, except in oil and gas that can give us any headaches but oil and gas already is so low that it can’t affect us anymore. So that's our only side of the industrial bucket that I would say is really weak. The rest of it is pretty stable.

Okay. So just to clarify, versus a quarter ago, for that entire reporting segment, sounds like the forecast volatility has improved. There's more stability in your -

Yes, definitely better ability today, yes.

Okay. And then in terms of the new wins that you're - not necessarily that you're ramping in the immediate quarter and for the year, but in terms of the win environment. Can you talk a little bit about what you've accomplished so far this year? Any color you can provide to compare that, say, versus the momentum in the start of 2015 through this point. And how are you seeing the focus from a segment standpoint of those wins if there is really any differential?

Well first of all, Sean we have been working now for a long time to diversify customer and also the markets. So if you look at just industrial, medical and defense really we spend a lot of time to diversify the segment. We continue to add technology and services for that segments and I think that's one of the reasons we’re being successful and we expect to be even more successful because we are investing in that segments. But overall as a company, we're trying to really go after the opportunities that have allowed us to deliver a little bit better margin. We’re trying to change the model here. And I know it's not showing yet, where we need to be. We’re not happy with our results today. We think what we’re working on has a lot more upside and that's what why we show up to work every day, that's why we are still excited what's in front of us. So as long as economy corporate, I really believe we have enough in our pipeline to continue to do well in 2016 and hopefully by sometime end of this calendar year, some of these even bigger programs that we are working on we are starting to show up. So we are really excited what's in front of us but it's one quarter a time, Sean.

Okay, thank you. Last question here, within the communications space, it sounds like you have expectations for generally flat. Can you expand on what you're feeling from customers within that segment? It seems like there certainly continues to be some puts, some takes. Are there pockets of softness that you're needing to really overcome with new ramps? Is there a large magnitude of new ramps in order to provide that offset? Help us to think about what's coming through in that segment and providing the stability for the forecast that you're giving us here today.

Yes, well first of all the forecast for the second quarter for us is stability comes really from the new projects that we have in that segment. So, we’re very fortunate, lot of the technology that we’re working on today, what we’re shipping is really state of our technology from most of our customers. So demand in that type of product is little bit, I would say better visibility. Some of the older products is not as good but the newer products are doing well and for us that's what is really holding that stability in that quarter. I think longer term if I look at the rest of the calendar year, I think overall we are optimistic for communication network based on the projects that we have and also the forecast that we have seen from our customers.

And MSI being a part of that?

MSI is in a different bucket.

Okay. Thank you.

Your next question comes from the line of Christian Schwab with Craig-Hallum Capital Group. Your line is open.

I got dropped a little bit earlier, so I apologize if this was answered. The high end of gross margins for the quarter just ended, is there one or two things specifically you can point out that drove that?

The main thing for us was we had very good gross margins in IMS segment really as I said in my remarks, which you might not have heard is, we had the best margin there we’ve had since we started the segment reporting and that was really result of very good mix and very good execution by the team.

Okay, well congratulations on that. As we look to uses of cash flow in the future, are there more tuck-in acquisitions and new customer costs to be absorbed for programs as a use of cash versus buybacks? Or is it going to continue to be a combination of both?

I’d say overall it’s going to continue to be a combination. So the good news I think is it, the share repurchase programs sets a very high bar for the acquisitions that we take a look at and we look at everything on a risk adjusted basis and only make the strategic acquisitions if it, it clearly adds value to our shareholders. I think we're in a great position right now as we continue to generate cash to look for those opportunities and if we find them great, if we don't, we'll just continue to repurchase our shares.

Great, no other questions thanks. Congratulations on a good quarter.

Operator, we have a time for one more question.

Your final question comes from the line of Mitch Steves with RBC Capital Markets. Your line is open.

Thanks for taking my question. Great quarter here. I just had a quick question on the share repurchase first. It looks like you guys reduced it by about $6 million year-over-year so far. Can you give us an update on what you expect to do throughout this year, through calendar 2016?

Well, as I may have said - I’m sure I've said in the past, we really view the program as an opportunistic program and we obviously are very comfortable repurchasing shares with the kind of price they’re out today. So we don’t have a specific target in mind. We have roughly - as of the end of quarter roughly $175 million remaining on our authorization and over some period of time we fully expect to use that authorization but we don’t have a specific amount that we’re targeting for the year.

Got it. And then second one, gross margins is still pretty solid here, but I'm curious what are the puts and takes in the Component & Product Services, it looks like the high end was about 10.4%. Now you're kind of at 8.7%. Can you give me an idea of what's driving the volatility there?

I'll take a first stab at that. By far, the biggest factor for that segment is revenue and we had real challenges on the revenue side for the last few quarters and because the contribution margins are so high and the fixed costs are high, whenever revenue goes the wrong direction it really puts us under pressure there. So that’s the number one factor and you made some comments earlier, I mean we think there is a lot of opportunity to improve. I would say, our services area continues to deliver solid profitability, it has been very stable but in both the components and the products area, we still think there is plenty of room to improve and there are very good opportunities that we’re working on right now.

Got it. Thank you very much.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's all we have today. I appreciate your time. If you have any more questions, if we didn’t answer anything please call right away or tomorrow whenever, and looking forward talking to you by next 90 days from now.

Thanks everyone.

Bye-bye.

This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.