Edwin Roks
Analyst · B. Riley Securities.
Thank you, Sean. Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for joining us for our first quarter 2026 conference call. At TTM Technologies, we are focused on designing and manufacturing complex products and solutions in 2 strategic directions. The first is advanced interconnect, which includes highly complex printed circuit boards, substrates and advanced packaging. The second strategic direction built on our advanced interconnect technology to design and manufacture sophisticated modules, subsystems and systems. Examples of this include our RF modules, thermal and power management systems etch and AI processing products as well as complex subsystems and fully integrated mission systems. We believe the future of electronics lies in speed to market, high reliability and efficient technology interim. The markets in redo business continue to demand highly complex technology solutions in an increasingly compact size and footprint. Our strategy is to stay at the cutting edge of advanced interconnect technologies through innovation and continue to move up the value chain into complex modules and subsystems that combine sensors, actuators RF and Photonics. We engaged early with our customers to ensure alignment on product development and speed to market while also enabling optimal management of their complex supply chains. From a demand standpoint, we are experiencing healthy multiyear tailwinds due to our participation in 2 key megatrends currently driving economic growth, artificial intelligence and defense. We previously stated that approximately 80% of our net sales are related to these 2 megatrends, and that this puts us in a unique position to benefit our investors. Our ability to seize these organic growth opportunities requires our continuous focus on technological innovation as well as expanding our capacity across our strategic footprint. We are further investing capital and resources to take full advantage of these opportunities today and in the future through our global footprint, which offers our customers manufacturing options across 24 sites located in China, Malaysia, Canada and the United States. We stand well positioned to support this growth across our end markets, and we are tracking well ahead of our previously communicated plan to grow revenues 15% to 20% per year for the next 3 years and to double our earnings from 2025 to 2027, which were closed that were reiterated on our February 4 earnings call. In our commercial segment, we are highly focused on supporting the demand wave of artificial intelligence in the data center and networking end markets where customer demand has materially accelerated. We are also focused on evolving opportunities in the use of automation and AI in our medical, industrial and instrumentation end markets, while we remain strategically positioned in automotive where our highly valuable solution designs are positioned to benefit from competitor consolidation and have additional transfer application into other markets. In our airspace and defense end markets, we continue to excel with our leading position in advanced interconnect products and we work to expand our product offerings in indicated and electronics, including modules, subsystems and full mission systems. Recently, we were proud to be a participant in the success of Artemis-I mission with our microelectronics, PCBs and assemblies for both the space large vehicle and the Orion crew capsule. As for this, current state of the defense budget as well as the geopolitical environment considering the conflict in Iran, our solutions are ever present in the categories of advanced radar systems, advanced gaming systems, missiles and decoys, electronic surveillance systems and satellite and ground-based communication systems. In the commercial aerospace market, we recently won an award from an innovative electric autonomous aerospace company for light passenger travel to provide the sense and the void radar system for their autonomous aircraft. I'll now begin with an overview of our business highlights from the quarter. Then we'll follow up with a summary on our Q1 fiscal 2026 financial performance and our Q2 and fiscal 2026 guidance. We will then open the call to your questions. We delivered an excellent first quarter of 2026, and I would like to thank our employees for delivering these results. We achieved sales of $846 million and non-GAAP EPS of $0.75 per diluted share, both above our guidance issued in early February and both all-time quarterly highs. Sales grew 30% year-on-year, reflecting continued demand trend in our data center and networking end markets driven by the requirements of AI while our medical, industrial and instrumentation and aerospace and defense end markets also experienced strong growth. The company adjusted EBITDA margin was 15.7% in the first quarter of 2026 compared to 15.3% in the prior year, largely reflecting positive mix impacts. Non-GAAP EPS of $0.75 per diluted share was a 50% improvement year-on-year. The aerospace and defense end market represented 40% of first quarter 2026 sales. Sales in the Aerospace and Defense market grew 11% year-on-year for the first quarter. The sales growth in defense market continues to be a result of positive tailwinds in defense budgets, our strong strategic program alignment and key bookings for ongoing programs. During the first quarter of 2026, we saw significant A&D bookings related to the Alteams Air Defense Radar, APS 153 maritime surveillance radar and a transportable radar safaris system for ballistic missile detection and tracking. In addition, we continue to see an increase in bookings for respective programs and we also have first booking that was confirmed to support Golden Done. A&D book-to-bill was [indiscernible] for the quarter, which led to a program backlog of $1.6 billion, similar to a level a year ago. We expect second quarter 2026 from this end market to represent [indiscernible] 36% of our total sales, while still delivering both year-on-year and sequential growth. Sales in the data center and networking end market represented 36% of our first quarter 2026 sales. This end market experienced 61% year-on-year growth in the first quarter above our growth expectation and reflecting continued demand strength from our data center and networking customers, building out the AI data centers. For the second quarter of 2026, we expect this end market to represent 42% of net sales. The medical industrial instrumentation end market represented 16% of the first quarter 2026 sales. This end market saw a year-on-year growth of 61% during the first quarter aided by healthy demand of AI-enabled robotics in medical, automated test equipment for AI applications in instrumentation. A notable example when in the quarter was for a major continuous glucose monitoring customer products with our involvement on both the current and next generation, which will feature a materially smaller footprint and more powerful performance. For the second quarter of 2026, we expect medical, industrial and instrumentation end markets to represent 14% of total sales, growing both sequentially and year-on-year. Automotive sales represented 8% of the first quarter of 2026 sales. We continue to be very selective in this market to focus on higher value-add products that carry margin profiles consistent with our financial goals as we also believe long-term business cycles should migrate back towards advanced capabilities. We are also supporting our Tier 1 automotive customers as they transition some of their more advanced capabilities towards products, in ancillary end markets. We expect the automotive end market to represent about 8% of our total sales in the second quarter of 2026. The overall book-to-bill ratio was 1.41% for the first quarter of with the commercial reporting segment at 1.65% and the A&D reporting segment at 1.10%. At the end of the first quarter of 2026, the 90 days backlog, which is subject to cancellations, was $787 million compared to $517 million a year ago. Now then Bailey will summarize our financial performance for the first quarter. Dan?