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Veeco Instruments Inc. (VECO)

Q1 2012 Earnings Call· Mon, Apr 30, 2012

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Operator

Operator

Good day, everyone, and welcome to Veeco First Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call. Today's call is being recorded. For opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn the conference over to Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations, Ms. Debra Wasser. Ms. Wasser, please go ahead.

Debra Wasser

Management

Thank you, operator, and thank you all for joining today's call. Joining me today are our CEO, John Peeler; and our CFO, Dave Glass. Today's earnings release was distributed at 4 p.m. this afternoon and is available on the Veeco website. Also posted on our site is a PowerPoint overview of our first quarter financial results. This call is being recorded by Veeco Instruments and is copyrighted material. It cannot be recorded or rebroadcast without Veeco's expressed permission. Your participation implies consent to our taping. To the extent that this call discusses expectations about market conditions, market acceptance and future sales of the company's products, future disclosures, future earnings expectations or otherwise make statements about the future, such statements are forward-looking and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made. These factors are discussed in the Business Description and Management's Discussion and Analysis section of the company's report on Form 10-K and annual report to shareholders and in our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and press releases. Veeco does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, including those made on this call, to reflect future events or circumstances after the date of such statements. During this call, management may address non-GAAP financial measures. Information regarding such non-GAAP financial measures, including reconciliation to GAAP measures and performance, is available on our website. I'll now turn the call over to John for opening remarks.

John Peeler

Management

Thanks, Deb, and thank you all for joining our call. Dave is going to start off by reviewing our first quarter results. After that, I'll provide an update on business conditions and our outlook. And then we'll take your questions. Dave?

David Glass

Management

Thank you, John. Starting off on Slide 5, Veeco's first quarter 2012 revenues were $140 million, down 27% sequentially and down 45% from a year ago. First quarter revenue was at the top of our revenue guidance range of $115 million to $140 million. GAAP net income from continuing operations for the quarter was $16.5 million or $0.42 a share compared to GAAP net income of $58 million or $1.36 per share in the first quarter of last year. Non-GAAP net income was $19 million or $0.49 per share for the quarter compared to $61 million or $1.44 from last year. Adjusted EBITA of $25 million or 18% of sales was above our guidance. First quarter gross margin was 46.7%, above our guidance range of 43% to 45% and well above last year -- last quarter's 43.3% margin. Gross margin strength came from a high number of final acceptances and a favorable mix this quarter. Our team in China has done a great job working with customers to get MOCVD systems installed and accepted. Veeco's operating expenses were $43 million, excluding amortization, down from $48 million last quarter as the company continued its drive to reduce discretionary spending. This included a $1.4 million reduction in SG&A. In R&D, our 2012 strategy is to maintain our nearly $100 million annual rate of investment, which is about flat versus 2011 after being hiked by over $40 million or 68% from 2010. This sustained high rate of spending allows us to invest in new products across all of our businesses. As you can see from our results, we're executing well during the downturn, with strong performance on the gross margin line and good management of expenses. Turning to Slide 6. You can see that of our reported $140 million in revenue, 68% was…

John Peeler

Management

Thanks, Dave. While the MOCVD market is still at low levels, we're executing well and delivering good performance in a tough market. Moving to Slide 12, I'll start with a review of our current business conditions. So MOCVD bookings grew modestly in the first quarter, utilization rates at key customers in Taiwan and Korea have reached over 80% and our MOCVD bookings grew sequentially in both Taiwan and Korea. Some of our top Chinese customers are seeing high tool utilization levels, and we're see increasing quoting activity. While all of this is encouraging, we've not yet seen a clear in selection in our customers buying patterns. Our LED customers remain cautious about capacity investment, and it's still unclear when the MOCVD market will pick up in a big way. Turning to Slide 13. On the other hand, there's some very positive trends. Consumer awareness is increasing and there's growing attention from the mainstream media. Just over the last few weeks, there've been featured stories about LEDs in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA TODAY and on msnbc. And you can walk into Home Depot or Lowe's and see sections devoted to LED lighting. And both in the New York and in Washington, D.C. area, I've seen 40-watt bulbs for under $10 and high-quality 60-watt bulbs for about $15 at Home Depot. Philips recently reported year-over-year LED lighting increases driven by strong construction growth in Asia and recovering trends in North America. And we see more of our LED customers positioning their businesses for success in lighting. It's actually hard to find anyone who doesn't agree that LEDs will become the dominant lighting technology. On Slide 14, we've updated our MOCVD forecast for the lighting market to account for changes we've seen over the last couple of years. The…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] We'll take our first question from Krish Sankar with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Krish Sankar

Analyst

John, the main question I had is -- clearly you're seeing utilization rates improve at the customer side. So what do you think is the apprehension for them to like keep waiting orders? Is there something else they're looking at? Are they looking at the final demand picture? Or why is there a reluctance for them to place more MOCVD tool orders?

John Peeler

Management

Well, I think it's been a tough year in the market for a lot of our customers, and they're going to wait until they're really sure that the market's going in the right direction. They're all trying to improve their profitability, and everybody's just going to be a little more cautious than usual.

Operator

Operator

We'll move next to Stephen Chin with UBS.

Stephen Chin

Analyst

Just a follow-up question on the MOCVD base case in 2013. If we assume Veeco has 50% market share in MOCVD and we make some conservative assumptions, we get a base case EPS for Veeco and adjust for MOCVD of well over $2 in EPS in 2013. Just want to make sure we were drawing the right kind of conclusions on your 2013 initial review for Veeco?

John Peeler

Management

Well, I'm not going to forecast EPS for 2013 here. But the fact is the signs are there that the market is going to pick back up, and we expect 2013 to be a growth year. So the projections here are not -- they're relatively conservative.

Operator

Operator

And we'll move on -- take our next question from Bill Ong with B. Riley & Co.

William Ong

Analyst · B. Riley & Co.

Can you tell me about how many different customers make up about 80% of your overall revenue a year ago when the business was strong? And what is it currently, just given the more challenging environment? And then how many LED customers, if any, dropped out due to bankruptcies or consolidation or other related events?

John Peeler

Management

Dave, you want to take a stab at that? I'm not sure we've got the facts.

David Glass

Management

Yes, on the customer content. I don't know the facts a year compared.

John Peeler

Management

I can tell you, we have not lost a lot of customers to bankruptcy or other events like that. That's been relatively limited. There has been some that -- and I don't know if they went bankrupt or not, but they just kind of faded away, but...

David Glass

Management

In the third tier, none of the Tier 1 or Tier 2 customers.

John Peeler

Management

Yes, I can't give you a distribution change in top customers though.

Operator

Operator

And we'll move on, take our next question from Edwin Mok with Needham & Company.

Y. Edwin Mok

Analyst · Needham & Company.

I was wondering off the MaxBright that you guys have talked about, right? How, have you seen -- given that you talked about customer utilizations picking up, right? Have you seen customers start looking into buying MaxBright to replace their existing equipment because of -- they drive down lower cost? And if not, then you talk about tripling or reduce your cost factor of 3. How long do you think you can achieve that goal?

John Peeler

Management

So we have seen customers trading in or replacing older equipment with newer equipment. And as of this point in time, our 465i as a single reactor or MaxBright as a multiple reactor system, they both have very good performance, and we brought the updates through on both systems. So we are seeing customers upgrade, but it's a relatively small number at this point. And we've had a philosophy to enable customers to upgrade older generation systems to newer versions where possible. And if you go back, though, 2 generations, we can't upgrade those. You need to replace those. So we're seeing some replacement, and we're seeing some upgrade activity. And I -- so I think that's moving forward pretty well. Our objective over time is to continue to deliver systems that have a lower and lower cost of ownership, and ultimately put the older systems at a significant disadvantage and have customers replace those with newer systems. Over the last few years, we've launched tremendous improvements in productivity and yield, and we expect to do the same over the next 3 years and that's how we'll get the additional reductions in epi cost.

Operator

Operator

We'll move next to Colin Rush with ThinkEquity.

Colin Rusch

Analyst

I guess this is a follow-up just on your last answer. Can you talk about your customers' pricing power with declining prices, and how you see the tool service and upgrade pricing tracking that, and where you might see that flow through the P&L as you move forward?

John Peeler

Management

So clearly in a down cycle, everyone competes harder for the business that's available. And that generally puts pressure on our margins and on the industry margins. That's happened. On the other hand, the customers can also go down the upgrade path. And if they have systems that are 2 years old or so or 3 years old and they want to bring them up to the current generation, they can do that. There's not tremendous pricing power there because the alternative is to hold out and sell them a new system. So I would say they have less pricing power there. On the Services front, for the first year while systems are under warranty, there's a lot less Services content for those systems. But as more and more of these reactors come out of warranty, it gives us a bigger install base to sell in. And that's one of the reasons you'll see our Services revenue growing. The second reason is, we put a lot of focus on this, and we've come out with a lot of new Services products that are really attractive to our customers. So kind of 2 factors that are driving the growth we're getting.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] We'll move and take our next question from Carter Shoop with KeyBanc.

Carter Shoop

Analyst · KeyBanc.

When we look at market share in the last 3 quarters or so, you've been receiving orders at about twice the rate as you closest peer on the MOCVD side. So the question is, once we see a recovery in tools in the 2013-2014 time frame, do you think that level of market share is sustainable?

John Peeler

Management

Hard to say. We're hesitant to predict market share because we know it's a competitive market, and we're always in a fight to gain more. But I think if you look at the track record over the last 3 years, we've done -- or last 2 years, we've done exceptionally well. And the curves are fairly consistently moving up to the right with our market share. And clearly, in this quarter, we increased our market share even further. So we focus on providing the best system and the best support to our customers and let the rest happen.

Operator

Operator

We'll move next -- and move to Brian Lee with Goldman Sachs.

Brian Lee

Analyst

John, I was wondering how much visibility do you have on the utilization rates that you're talking about. I've picked up -- them actually remaining at current levels going forward. And I guess a quick follow-up question if I may is just, if I look at the updated MOCVD demand outlook that you provided, you're implying a higher peak versus what we saw last cycle. Just wondering how much impact you're incorporating from the potential transition to larger wafer size over time?

John Peeler

Management

So as far as visibility into utilization rates, we get that both from our customers and from industry data. It's pretty well reported at least on China -- excuse me, on Korea and Taiwan. And so that's pretty available information. They have been moving up, and we hope they'll continue to move up. I think they're at -- they're starting to get to the regions where customers usually start to think about buying more equipment. So I think that's a good sign. Our model assumes that as far as our forecast model, it assumes that customers will increasingly move to larger wafer sizes, that they will improve their yield and that they will improve brightness and therefore, need less LEDs in various applications like TVs or for a given size light bulb. So we put all of those factors in there and then estimate what will be required. It's a lot of assumptions and -- but we think our model is reasonably good. And we've drawn the nuclear winter case on the bottom where if lighting demand gets really stretched out and yields go up at the same time and lots of things happen, how bad it could get, we don't think that's going to happen. And we've also drawn an upside base that if things -- if we get rapid adoption of lighting and maybe some government help or power company help or whatever, it could go pretty fast. So we try to focus on what's most likely, which is our blue band there with the line down the middle.

Operator

Operator

We'll take Timothy Arcuri with Citi.

Timothy Arcuri

Analyst

So 2 things for me. First of all, I was looking at an Investor Presentation from last May, and you were talking about the general lighting market being 5,000 tools at the time and now it's about half that. So I'm sort of wondering in the model what was the biggest factor that changed during that period? That's the first question. And the second question is, we heard out of Taiwan there were some -- I thought maybe some customers that traded some tools in, at least the customers were sort of indicating that. So if you received a trade-in, how do you account for that in terms of the bookings and in terms of where the trade-in goes? Does it go into inventory, I guess?

John Peeler

Management

Yes. So first of all, the last May Investor Presentation, the 5,000 was for 5 years and the 2,500 is for 4 years. So that's a chunk of it. But clearly, the market, I think what we've seen is that our customers have gotten faster brightness improvement than we had predicted and better yield improvement. We've also seen a TV market that has evolved slower. There's been slower penetration into the LED TV, and the manufacturers are more and more getting at basically being able to build TVs with less LEDs. So if you look at our new forecast versus our old forecast, the old forecast is a little higher than our upside on our newer forecast. So it's not half, but we clearly did drop it down. On the other hand, it still represents some spectacular growth and a tremendous amount of business to come, and we're confident that we can get a big share of that.

David Glass

Management

So Tim, this is Dave. I'll comment on your inventory question or your trade-in. When we do a trade-in like that, and I'll just first point out that the case I assume you're referring to is for very old machines, they're not any of our recent models. Basically, what we do is we look at them and we divide -- in that case we divide it into 3 parts. Some are sold, that they're really just scrap value. Others we figure can be used for parts in our parts and consumables business, and then some can be refurbished and sold. And we review each of those on a basis of fair value. So anything that goes into inventory is an estimate of the fair value that we get.

John Peeler

Management

I think the -- I would just add to that. We value these tools at a relatively low value because they're very old tools, but we have taken some trade-ins.

Operator

Operator

And we'll move next our next question from Vishal Shah with Deutsche Bank.

Vishal Shah

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

John, you mentioned that your utilization rates at some of your key customers in Taiwan and Korea are up. It seems like some of your Taiwanese customers running at almost 100%. And your orders were up in those 2 regions sequentially in the first quarter. It will appear that those 2 regions should be strong in the second quarter as well, and then you also reported a big order from a Chinese customer. So is it fair to assume that your Q2 bookings that are -- at least for the MOCVD business are tracking relatively strong at least sequentially compared to Q1? And how should we think about some of your other customers in China, particularly given that they're also on the road trying to raise money. Are they coming back? And is that the reason why you are seeing an increasing quote activity?

John Peeler

Management

The utilization rates are up in Korea and Taiwan. They're also up with key customers in China. So those things are happening. We're not predicting bookings for Q2. And Q1 clearly ramped versus Q4. We can hope that Q4 will be the trough, and we'll have all that behind us and we'll be ramping up. But we've kind of promised ourselves internally that we only call upturns in the rearview mirror. So we'll run the business conservatively, and we're ready to flex up and meet any demand that's out there. But we're kind of waiting for the real orders with real deposits, and then we'll be there. There are a lot of good signs, though.

Operator

Operator

The next question will come from Chris Blansett with JPMorgan.

William Peterson

Analyst

This is Bill Peterson calling in for Chris. I guess, I think last time you talked about a revenue level around $100 million being a breakeven point. Are we below that now? And if so, what level is it now? And what can we expect it to be even throughout the year?

David Glass

Management

Yes. I think -- I mean, to be clear what we said was at a level of $100 million, we're profitable. So the breakeven point is actually a little bit less than that, but still the same.

Operator

Operator

And next, we'll take Patrick Ho with Stifel, Nicolaus.

Patrick Ho

Analyst

John, in terms of your comment about the SPV and TV market, should that recovery could accelerate the MOCVD recovery? Can you just give a little bit of color of whether you believe that there's enough capacity, I guess, in place? Or is there still excess capacity in that marketplace? Or do they need to add, I guess, new tools should that industry turn?

John Peeler

Management

Our customers use the tools for lighting, as well as backlighting. So you kind of have to look at the 2 markets together. And we see ongoing growth in demand for lighting -- general-purpose lighting. And we see more and more reactors dedicated to that. So they are picking up the slack and using up unused capacity. I think, all in all, if you have a region with 80% capacity, that's to satisfy -- that is being used to satisfy both lighting and backlighting. And if either market -- as either market moves up, the excess capacity goes down. So one thing we know is that lighting will continue to ramp. It will continue to use more of the MOCVD capacity. And so if the TV market gets better at the same time, either people buying more TVs or there's a higher penetration in LED TVs, that's going to accelerate the overall buying. So they're really tied together.

Operator

Operator

Next, we have Olga Levinzon with Barclays Capital.

Olga Levinzon

Analyst

Two questions. Regarding your longer-term MOCVD forecast, I was wondering how much of that sort of 2,500 tool demand represents replacement of existing tools?

John Peeler

Management

So most of it is new tools. I mean, there is some replacement built into that, but the vast majority is new tools without replacing older tools. There's some small percentage where customers will replace tools that are 4 years old or older. And -- but in that case, one new tool replaces a bunch of old tools. So it's mostly just plain old new equipment buys.

Olga Levinzon

Analyst

Got it. And then touching on your gross margin, clearly very strong results in the current quarter and you indicated that part of that had to do with an increase in final acceptance. And it seems like your guidance, and that's a midpoint of about 45%. Given that -- is that the level that we should be assuming in the second half of the year given your full year revenue guidance assumes a similar type of midpoint? Or will the gross margin be higher or lower due to the product mix between Data Storage and MOCVD?

David Glass

Management

Yes, Olga, I would -- I'll focus on the guidance that we're giving forward. One thing that happened this quarter, to be clear, it's a combination of higher level of acceptances as well as mix. We had a variable product mix this quarter. The other thing to realize is, with this -- the number of acceptances we had in the first quarter, for instance, the proportion of acceptances to our total revenue has impacted margins as well. But going forward, look more towards the second quarter guidance we're giving is what you'd expect going forward.

Operator

Operator

Next, we have David Duley with Steelhead Securities.

David Duley

Analyst

What percentage of Service revenue do you think the MOCVD business? Can it be up to 15% or 20% of the equipment sales? And did you have any 10% customers during the quarter?

John Peeler

Management

I'll take the first part. It can be up to 15% or maybe even more of the out-of-warranty equipment. So if you think of Services revenue, it's more related to installed base that's out of warranty than it is to kind of current revenue. So -- but over a long period of time, it's not uncommon for companies in the semiconductor business to get to 20-plus percent of sales in overall or even 30% of sales in services. So MOCVD market, I believe, will be lower because of the nature of the customers and the nature of where they are right now. But clearly, there's a growing opportunity, and we think we'll do well in that. And clearly, we're doing well because we're gaining more and more of that business. And Dave, why don't you take the other.

David Glass

Management

Yes, on the 10%, that's really an annual measurement that we do for the 10-K. We don't track or report that on a quarterly basis. So we'll see how the rest of the year unfolds. And then at the end of the year in our 10-K, we'll report the 10% customers.

Operator

Operator

We'll take that from Daniel Amir with Lazard.

Daniel Amir

Analyst

Can you give us a bit of commentary what this current situation in China is in terms of -- for your business and kind of what your best thought of maybe when China has a stimulus plan for demand of LED lighting?

John Peeler

Management

In our business, we sold a lot of tools over the last 2 years. We continue to sell more tools. We've got a number of large customers who are making very good LEDs and ramping their business and planning to continue to invest. We've got other customers who are at an earlier stage and still improving their performance and learning to make better and better LEDs. One thing you saw the last quarter is we got a lot of acceptances. So people are installing our tools and using them. They're installing them and accepting them. And well over 80% of what we've shipped to China has been installed and accepted. So I think there's a good trend there, and things continue to move along. We do hear about incentives for end-market demand in China. We expect that those are coming, and I think that's going to help drive growth even more. But I think the business conditions are improving from what we see, and it's -- they're going to be a major supplier of LEDs.

Operator

Operator

We'll move next to Ahmar Zaman with Piper Jaffray.

Ahmar Zaman

Analyst

Most of my questions have been answered but recently, we've heard some of your Chinese customers have had issues with staffing and finding qualified engineers. Can you give us an update on that? And then I have a quick follow-up.

John Peeler

Management

Well, with a country that's taken a lot of MOCVD tools in the last couple of years, clearly, there is a challenge with staffing and various positions are in high demand. We see China kind of pulling people out of Taiwan and other regions to accelerate their performance. We started a couple of years ago building a training center in China, and that center -- because we realized that with the equipment sales that were going in, that we're going to need to train a lot of people. And just recently, we trained our 500th person on our products, and we'll continue to do that. But it takes time to solve this problem, and it is -- we are feeding a lot of talent into the country and helping to bring up their knowledge base.

Ahmar Zaman

Analyst

And then in the second half of 2011, you had some issues with recognizing shipments or actually shipping tools given, I think, part of it was the fact that your customers weren't ready. Going forward, as orders begin to pick up and utilization levels go up, what's different this time around that in terms of your visibility and your ability to -- or your customers' ability to accept tools?

David Glass

Management

Ahmar, this is Dave. I'm assuming that the 2011 revenue recognition is -- you're remember is probably related to bifurcation, which wasn't a problem or an issue with the tools. It was the fact that it was a new tool. And under the accounting rules, we didn't recognize revenue until we had a track record of a few acceptances on the MaxBright. And then we got that by midyear and of course, those things have all been flowing through revenue. Now we're shipped.

John Peeler

Management

Yes, I think the other thing that's different is a lot of companies have built a lot of fabs. So what we did find ourself facing a year ago was that people ordered tools and they were building a fab, and the fab got delayed by 3 months, and they took a tool, but the fab wasn't ready to install it and turn it on. So we had some delays on there. I wouldn't call it revenue recognition, but we had some customer facility readiness delays. There's been a tremendous amount accomplished in terms of building LED fabs in China. So that's probably the biggest thing that's different.

Operator

Operator

We'll move next to Mehdi Hosseini with Susquehanna International.

Mehdi Hosseini

Analyst

Yes, so John, going back to Slide 14, talking about the base range. How should we think about overall bill of materials for the finished lighting unit? And how do you see that bill of material coming down? And is that -- are those assumptions dialed into MOCVD procurement that goes into the cost of the LED chip?

John Peeler

Management

Yes, they're absolutely dialed in because it's actually -- the decreasing cost of the LED and the whole bill of materials that really drives adoption. So as those price curves come down, we get a lot faster adoption. I think the biggest driver on all of this is brightness level. When our customers achieve higher levels of brightness, if you achieve a 25% brightness improvement, you tremendously reduce the bill of materials. You don't need as much as heat sink. You don't need as much of a power driver. You don't need as many LEDs. So brightness coming up will really help this and will continue to help it. And we certainly factor those things into our forecast. I think -- what we're seeing in the stores around here and that is walking into the store and buying stuff is that the prices are coming down pretty fast and that there is a real change going on. You see that online, also. So a lot more availability, more brands, big name brands that you never saw their light bulbs before. I saw LG light bulbs before somewhere; I had never seen an LG light bulb. So there's more product. There's more education of the consumers. Both Home Depot and Lowe's have displays that teach you what color temperature is. So there are a lot of things happening, and I think they're positive and will help drive this adoption.

Operator

Operator

And that will be from that Satya Kumar with Crédit Suisse.

Satya Kumar

Analyst

I want to go back to an earlier point on market share. First off, I think you're doing a spectacular job on that front. If I take a look at your orders or revenues, whatever metric and compare that to Aixtron, it seems like your market share might have moved closer to the mid-70s. And if I take the midpoint of your full year revenue outlook, it seems like you're thinking the second half is sort of flat with sort of the Q2 run rates. So I just wanted to get a little bit deeper into whether you are thinking your market share gets closer to this 50% rate in the back half or stays at this pretty high level at the mid-70s in Q1? And a separate second question, I like the slide on power electronics that you guys gave us. Wondering if you could just talk about how many tools might be needed to convert, say, $1 billion of power electronics chip revenues over to the MOCVD process?

John Peeler

Management

Yes. So on the market share, it's hard for us to project market share for 2012. Have you seen an Aixtron forecast for what their revenue is for this year? We haven't seen that.

Satya Kumar

Analyst

It's your forecast. So obviously, it's pretty important for us to understand what you're thinking on the market share because it's pretty high right now.

John Peeler

Management

Yes, yes. Well, look, we're focused on winning. We're focused on building great products, delivering them to customers, supporting the customers and doing a good job. I think beyond that, I believe we've shown over the last couple of years that we can do a really good job of that in many, many ways. And we expect to continue to do that. On the power electronics, we hope to have that for you in the future. Right now, the challenge is how quickly GaN electronics will take off. We see a lot of R&D, and we're winning a lot of R&D. Our reactor runs much cleaner than other reactors in the industry, so we have an inherent advantage in low particles for any kind of applications with large die sizes. And so we're doing really well, and we're winning lots of really key customers in the R&D stage. But the challenge here so far is how quickly is GaN going to take off. And the outside forecast in the current side vary by an order of magnitude. So we're working to tighten that up. I think there are, as far as how many reactors per billions of dollars are required, really depends on where you are on the S curve. So in the early stages of market adoption, the capital intensity is very high. And you can have -- well right now, we have capital spending that's well above any kind of revenue that's there. And so the capital spend will be very high until the market really gets up to a volume size and then it'll come back down. But we'll work on getting you that number in the future.

Operator

Operator

And that will be from Aaron Chew with Maxim Group.

Aaron Chew

Analyst

I'm wondering if you could also just comment on the MOCVD pricing environment? Aside from differences in mix and given the gross margin performances, is it safe to assume your ASPs have really hung in there the last 2 quarters, and it's just really tools driving the revenue decline? And as a quick follow-up, I wonder if you can also comment quickly how much is driving the rise in DSOs in the quarter, maybe just talk generally and how financing terms have changed since last year?

John Peeler

Management

Yes, I'll take the first one, and Dave will take the second one. The pricing environment is tough in downturns when there aren't a lot of orders to be had. We all fight hard for those orders, and our margins have dropped significantly from where they were before. So there has been pressure on ASPs, and there has been a move to give the customers more for their money. So clearly, that's had an impact on margins. I think on the DSO, Dave, why don't you cover that?

David Glass

Management

Yes. First, to point out on the receivables, of course, the dollar value has gone down. When you're looking at the DSO, what you're seeing is the effect -- again, let me answer directly your question. We haven't really changed much in our pricing -- our receivables policy at all. But what you're seeing is, as the MOCVD business comes down and Data Storage and MBE or other businesses kind of maintain their level of sales, the proportion of MOCVD gets less and less. In that business, we have much shorter days turns because they're typically sold -- a large proportion of our MOCVD businesses is in China, those are typically on -- virtually all on letters of credit. And letters of credit turn very, very quickly because after the shipment when you liquidate the letter of credit, it's really just a matter of a couple of weeks, the timing that it takes to clear the LC. So as MOCVD becomes a smaller proportion of the total, it's expected that you'll see that DSO tick up. You're seeing Data Storage and MBE and the Services business become a larger component of the total.

John Peeler

Management

We don't generally get the positives from our Data Storage customer, and the payment terms are much longer. So with that being bigger, our receivables DSO is not going to look as good.

David Glass

Management

Turns in policy are still the same as they've always been.

John Peeler

Management

Okay. All right. Well, thank you for joining us today. We look forward to seeing you in the future.

Operator

Operator

And everyone, that does conclude our conference call for today. Thank you all for your participation.