David Anderson
Analyst · Bank of America. Your line is open
Thanks again, Michael and thanks for the kind words. I greatly appreciate them. Please turn to Slide 3. Overall our first quarter revenue and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share exceeded our expectations. Revenue exceeded the high-end of our outlook by $263 million ending at $2.19 billion. Revenue was up 16.6% sequentially and up 25.4% from the first quarter of last year. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share at $0.83 exceeded the high-end of our outlook by $0.09 and was up 40.2% sequentially and 72.7% over the first quarter of last year. I will discuss our end market revenue, non-GAAP margin and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share performance in more detail in a few minutes. Please turn to Slide 4. From a GAAP perspective we reported net income of $38 million which resulted in diluted earnings per share of $0.54 for the first quarter. This was up $0.53 sequentially and $2.70 from Q1 of last year. The $0.53 sequential increase in GAAP diluted earnings per share resulted largely from a $30.6 million non-cash goodwill impairment charge that was recorded in the fourth quarter of 2018 and negatively impacted GAAP diluted earnings per share in the fourth quarter by $0.43. The $2.70 year-over-year improvement in GAAP diluted earnings per share was mainly driven by a non-cash tax charge in the first quarter of last year of $2.27 per share related to the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. My remaining comments will focus on the non-GAAP financials for the first quarter of fiscal 2019. At $151.2 million gross profit was up $27.4 million from the prior quarter. Gross margin came in at 6.9% which was 30 basis points higher than our final reported Q4 financials. Operating expenses were flat sequentially for the quarter at $65.4 million. As a percentage of sales operating expenses were down 50 basis points to 3%, largely as a result of our ability to contain our costs while delivering a higher level of sales for the quarter. Operating margin was 3.9% which was up 80 basis points sequentially at the high-end of our outlook and up 120 basis points compared to Q1 of last year. We made progress in Q1 toward our goal of getting our operating margins back to the 4% range as quickly as possible. Other income expense of $14.1 million was up $7.2 million when compared with last quarter and up $11.1 million from the first quarter of last year. This sequential and year-over-year increase in OIE is largely attributed to increased borrowings on our credit facility needed to fund higher levels of inventory that is supporting our customer demand requirements as we work through ongoing supply constraints on certain component parts. The tax rate for the quarter was 17.5% of pretax income which was slightly better than our expectations of 18% as a result of a slightly more favorable geographic distribution of our profits. We earned $59.2 million in net income with our non-GAAP diluted earnings per share coming in at $0.83 which was above the high end of our outlook for the first quarter. non-GAAP diluted earnings per share were up $0.23 or 40.2% from Q4 and up $0.35 or 72.7% from Q1 of last year. This was based on 70.9 million shares outstanding on a fully diluted basis for Q1. Please turn to Slide 5. I will now give you some color around our end market segments for the first quarter. Fiscal 2019 is off to a solid start with each of our end markets achieving double-digit growth on a sequential and year-over-year basis. Communications Networks were $779.7 million or 35.6% of Q1's total revenue. This was up 13% sequentially and up 14.9% year-over-year. Industrial, Automotive, Defense and Medical was $1.18 billion or 54.1% of revenue for the quarter. This was up 18.3% on a sequential basis and up 33.5% compared to the same period a year ago. Growth was solid across all four subsegments on a sequential and year-over-year basis. Cloud Solutions consists of cloud computing, storage systems, point-of-sale, casino gaming and set-top boxes. This segment was $225.8 million or 10.3% of revenue in the first quarter up 20.9% sequentially and up 25.3% compared to the same period a year ago. Sequential growth was largely driven by shipments to our new tier 1 cloud service provider that continued to ramp during the first quarter. A contributor to the sequential and yearly growth across a number of our end market segments was a slight stabilization of component lead times and our team's ability to partner with our customers and suppliers to satisfy our customers' pent up demand requirements. Please turn to Slide 6. The Integrated Manufacturing Solutions segment represents printed circuit board assembly and test, final system assembly and test, as well as direct order fulfillment. As you can see from the graph on the left, the IMS segment revenue was up $239 million from last quarter at $1.79 billion. Our gross margin was down 10 basis points to 6.2% compared to the prior quarter. The full profit contribution flow-through from the increased revenue growth in this segment was partially offset by the timing of the collectibility of certain tariff costs as well as the collectibility of other expected cost recoveries from our customers. On the right is our second segment, Components, Products and Services. Components include printed circuit board fabrication, backplane assemblies, cable assemblies, enclosures, precision machining and plastic injection molding. Products include computing and storage products, defense and aerospace products, memory and SSD modules, as well as optical and RF modules. Services include design and engineering as well as logistics and repair services. In aggregate, the revenue for this segment was up $74 million to $456 million with gross margin up 230 basis points from Q4 to 8.9%. The sequential CPS segment gross margin improvement was mainly attributed to a $12.5 million non-cash older period adjustment booked in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018. This adjustment related to upfront contract cost within one of our Products businesses that were capitalized in the inventory and had accumulated during fiscal 2016 through the third quarter of 2018. Please turn to Slide 7. Here we are showing you the quarterly trend in our key non-GAAP P&L metrics. Revenue was up 16.6% from last quarter and up 25.4% over Q1 of last year to $2.19 billion. Gross profit increased 22.2% from last quarter to $151.2 million. Gross margin of 6.9% was up 30 basis points from last quarter. Our operating profit increased 46% from last quarter to $85.8 million, this leg to operating margin of 3.9%, an 80 basis point improvement compared to Q4. We saw an improvement in our operating margin in Q1 in line with our expectations, but this was not in line with the expected contribution margin flow-through on the incremental revenue we shipped in Q1. We continue to drive toward our goal of getting operating margins back to the 4% range as quickly as possible. non-GAAP diluted earnings per share grew 40.2% sequentially to $0.83. The 40.2% sequential improvement resulted from the increased volume and cost containment in Q1 as well as the negative impact of the older period adjustment on non-GAAP diluted earnings per share in the fourth quarter of 2018. Please turn to Slide 8. Our balance sheet remained strong. Our cash and cash equivalents were $409.3 million at the end of the quarter, cash was down $10.2 million from the previous quarter, accounts receivable was up $167.3 million, contract assets were $419 million and inventory was down $319.8 million. We'll talk more about contract assets and inventory in a moment. From a liability standpoint we had a $15.5 million decrease in accounts payable during the quarter. Our short-term debt was up $115 million from last quarter to $708.4 million. Our short-term debt includes the $375 million notes due in June 2019 that are classified as current on the balance sheet. On November 30, we amended our $500 million secured revolving credit facility to provide for fully committed $375 million secured delayed draw term loan which can only be used to fully satisfy the company's 4.375% senior secured notes that are coming due in June 2019. The revolving commitments under this amended credit agreement expire on November 30, 2023. In conjunction with the setting up of this term loan, we have entered into forward interest rate swap agreements that effectively convert our variable interest rate obligations to fixed interest rate obligations through December 1, 2023. Through December 29, 2018 we had entered into interest rate swaps with an aggregate notional amount of $200 million that had an effective interest rate of approximately 4.5%. In the first quarter, we repurchased approximately $7 million worth of common shares. Specifically we repurchased approximately 273,000 shares at an average share price of $25.68. We have approximately $101 million available under our Board authorized repurchase plan that is subject to compliance with our debt covenants. As of the end of the quarter we had $14 million in long-term debt and our gross leverage was approximately 2.2 based on our total debt. Overall, our balance sheet and capital structure remain in great shape. Please turn to Slide 9. Here we are showing you the quarterly trend in our balance sheet metrics. Cash was consistent with prior quarters in the $400 million range. Cash flow from operations for the quarter was a usage of $78.4 million. Net capital expenditures for the quarter were $36.6 million which was down from the same quarter of last year and slightly below our expectations for Q1 of this year. We ended the quarter with negative free cash flow of $115 million which was down compared to the prior quarter and missed our expectations. Our cash generation for the first quarter was negatively impacted by the continued buildup in our contract assets and inventory to support our customers' requirements during the supply constrained environment. In the upper right quadrant we are showing the trend in inventory turns and dollars with the first quarter of 2019 shown on the old versus new basis. As I mentioned on last quarter's call, Sanmina adopted the new revenue recognition standard referred to as ASC 606 on a modified retrospective basis. As I previously indicated, we did not expect the adoption of ASC 606 to materially impact our revenue or earnings per share which was the case for our first quarter of 2019. However, ASC 606 did have an impact on our balance sheet. With the recording of revenue on an overtime basis for the majority of our non-product revenue stream, we are required to reflect work in progress and finished goods inventory along with a profit element as contract assets which is essentially unbilled receivables. As a result, at the end of Q1 we had $419 million of contract assets and a $1,054 million of inventories on our balance sheet. For comparative purposes from an inventory turns perspective we have provided the inventory turns calculation for Q1 under the old methodology and the new methodology. As you can see, our inventory dollars under the old methodology were up $69 million sequentially to $1,443 million and our turns were basically flat at 5.6 times. Inventory continues to be a challenge largely driven by ongoing material shortages on certain commodities such as resistors, capacitors and discrete semiconductors. While we saw a slight stabilization of lead times during Q1, lead times are still extended compared to a normal market. As we indicated on our last call, we still anticipate the supply environment will remain constrained at least through the first half of calendar 2019 and possibly throughout 2019. We continue to work with our customers to better understand the demand outlook so that we can plan for the requirements with our suppliers. Our supply chain organization has done a good job partnering with our customers and suppliers to secure constrained parts to help meet our customers pent-up demand requirements which was instrumental in our ability to ship $263 million above the high end of our guidance despite the supply constrained environment. We will continue to work with our customers and suppliers to maximize the fulfillment of our customers demand while also working on addressing our elevated inventory levels and the impact on our cash flow. We also expect to continue to make improvements in our operational efficiencies and materials execution in the areas we can control in spite of this supply constrained environment. In the lower left quadrant we are showing cash cycle days which combines our cycle time for inventory, contract assets, accounts receivable and accounts payable. Overall based on the old methodology cash cycle time was basically flat sequentially at 47.1 days which was largely driven by a reduction in accounts payable days outstanding that was driven by unfavorable supplier payment terms mix and was offset by a reduction in inventory days and day sales outstanding was driven by the higher sales volumes in Q1. Finally, pretax ROIC increased by 6.6 percentage points to 24.2% from the prior quarter. Compared to the first quarter of last year, pretax ROIC improve 9.3 percentage points. Please turn to Slide 10. I will now share with you our outlook for the second quarter of fiscal 2019. Our view is that revenue will be in the range of $1.9 billion to $2 billion. GAAP diluted earnings per share will be between $0.59 to $0.69. This includes estimated stock-based compensation expense of $0.11 per share. On a non-GAAP basis we expect the gross margin will be in the range of 7.1% to 7.6%. Operating expense should be $67 million $69 million. This leads to an operating margin in the range of 3.7% to 4.1%. We expect that other income and expense will be in the range of $10.5 million to $11.5 million and our tax rate should be around 17.5%, and we expect our fully diluted share count to be around 71.5 million shares plus or minus half a million shares. When you consider all of this guidance, we believe that we will end up with non-GAAP earnings per share in the range of $0.70 to $0.80. For your cash flow modeling we expect that capital expenditures will be around $40 million while depreciation and amortization will be around $30 million. We expect net capital expenditures for 2019's fiscal year to remain in our most recent historical range of $110 million to $120 million. We expect to generate positive cash flow from operations in Q2 as we continue to drive better materials planning and execution partnering with our customers in this supply constrained environment that is expected to lead to a reduction in our investment in working capital. Overall we delivered solid results in the first quarter of fiscal 2019. Our revenue exceeded our outlook and was up 16.6% sequentially. We were at the high-end of our outlook on operating margins of 3.9% and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.83 exceeded the top end of our outlook by 0.09. We don't typically provide full year guidance; however, given the continuing supply constrained environment and our solid results in the first quarter, some of which was driven by pent-up demand, we feel it is important to provide you with our view on fiscal 2019's full-year sales growth. Based on our current pipeline we are cautiously optimistic that fiscal 2019 revenue will grow in the low teens. We will continue to focus on our operational execution, productivity and cost structure that will help drive us back to the 4% operating margin range as quickly as possible. I would now like to say a few words about my retirement plans. Deciding to retire is not an easy decision. While I've spent the last 17 years of my life working with and supporting the Sanmina family it is now time for me to start the next chapter in my life and focus more of my time on my other family. I have thoroughly enjoyed my career at Sanmina. Sanmina has come a long way since I first joined the company back in 2002 and it has been a privilege to work alongside such a talented and dedicated Sanmina team over all these years. I think Jure, Michael, Sanmina’s Board and all of Sanmina’s employees both past and present for all their support during my tenure at Sanmina. I am fully committed to ensuring an orderly transition to the new CFO. And I'm confident that the Sanmina team will continue to create value for its customers, suppliers, employees and shareholders under Michael's and Jure's strong leadership. I will now turn the call back over to Michael to further comment on our outlook for 2019.