Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (Form: 8-K)  

 


UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

     
Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported):   January 17, 2008

Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

     
Delaware 1-5560 04-2302115
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(State or other jurisdiction
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(Commission
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(I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation) File Number) Identification No.)
      
20 Sylvan Road, Woburn, Massachusetts   01801
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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(Zip Code)
     
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:   781-376-3000

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Former name or former address, if changed since last report

 

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Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

The information contained herein and in the accompanying exhibit shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, amended (the "Exchange Act"), or incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

On January 17, 2008, Skyworks Solutions, Inc. announced its financial results for the three month period ended December 28, 2007. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. uses non-GAAP financial measures of operating results, net income and earnings per share, which are adjusted from results based on GAAP to exclude certain charges and non-recurring items. These non-GAAP financial measures are provided to enhance the user's overall understanding of our current financial performance and our prospects for the future. Specifically, we be lieve the non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to both management and investors by excluding certain charges and non-recurring items that we believe are not indicative of our ongoing operations and economic performance. Additionally, since we have historically reported non-GAAP results to the investment community, the inclusion of non-GAAP financial measures provides consistency in our financial reporting. Further, these non-GAAP financial measures are one of the primary indicators management uses for planning and forecasting in future periods. The presentation of this additional information should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.





Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(c) Exhibits

99.1 Press Release dated January 17, 2008, announcing Skyworks Solutions, Inc.’s financial results for the three month period ended December 28, 2007.






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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

         
    Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
          
January 17, 2008   By:   /s/ Donald W. Palette
       
        Name: Donald W. Palette
        Title: Vice President and Chief Financial Officer


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Exhibit Index


     
Exhibit No.   Description

 
99.1
  Press Release dated January 17, 2008, announcing Skyworks Solutions, Inc.’s financial results for the three month period ended December 28, 2007.
EX-99.1
     
Skyworks Media Relations:
  Skyworks Investor Relations:
Pilar Barrigas
(949) 231-3061
  Thomas Schiller
(949) 231-4700

Skyworks Grows Top Line 11 Percent and
Operating Income 26 Percent Sequentially in Q1 FY08

Expands Gross Margin to 39.8 Percent and Posts $0.17 of EPS on a Non-GAAP Basis; Generates a
Record $55 Million of Cash Flow from Operations;
Anticipates a Better than Seasonal Q2 and Guides above Consensus Estimates

WOBURN, Mass., January 17, 2008 – Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: SWKS), an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, today announced first fiscal quarter 2008 results for the period ended December 28, 2007. Revenue for the quarter was $210.5 million, up 11 percent sequentially and better than the company’s guidance for 9 percent growth.

On a non-GAAP basis, operating income for the first fiscal quarter was $28.6 million, up 26 percent sequentially from the $22.7 million reported in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2007, while net income was $27.9 million versus $23.0 million, respectively. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $0.17 -— $0.01 ahead of consensus estimates and a record for the company. On a GAAP basis, operating income for the first fiscal quarter was $21.0 million compared to $18.2 million in the prior quarter, while net income was $19.1 million versus $22.0 million, respectively. GAAP diluted earnings per share was $0.12.

   “Skyworks delivered solid results in the December quarter with operational execution translating into improved profitability,” said David J. Aldrich, president and chief executive officer of Skyworks. “Our linear products momentum, share gains at key handset OEMs and increased multimode sales fueled double-digit top-line growth and both record earnings per share and cash flow generation. The Skyworks team continues to make significant progress towards our stated goal of becoming the market leader in semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity.

1 First Fiscal Quarter Highlights

    Expanded gross margin to 39.8 percent on a non-GAAP basis (39.1 percent on a GAAP basis)

    Achieved a 13.6 percent non-GAAP operating margin (10.0 percent on a GAAP basis)

    Generated a record $55 million of cash flow from operations

    Retired $49 million of convertible debt

    Introduced custom RF solutions for automatic meter reading applications

    Increased shipments of GSM and WCDMA base station RF ICs to Huawei, a rapidly emerging leader in network infrastructure

    Ramped multimode front-end solutions at Samsung

    Enhanced multimode FEM market position by increasing EDGE and WCDMA shipments with a new tier-one handset OEM

    Launched front-end modules at Research in Motion

    Extended partnership with MediaTek, one of the world’s fastest growing solution providers in China, to now include power amplifiers and front-end modules

Second Fiscal Quarter 2008 Outlook

“We expect to largely offset handset seasonality with growth from our linear products portfolio and multimode handset content gains,” said Donald W. Palette, vice president and chief financial officer of Skyworks. “Accordingly, we anticipate delivering approximately $200 million in revenue and diluted earnings per share of $0.15 on a non-GAAP basis in the seasonally low March quarter.”

Estimated non-GAAP diluted earnings per share excludes approximately $5 million of FASB Statement No. 123(R) — related expenses.

Non-GAAP results, which are a supplement to financial results based on GAAP, exclude certain charges including equity-based compensation, amortization of intangible assets, baseband exit charges, and non-recurring items. The company believes these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to both management and investors by excluding certain charges and non-recurring items that may not be indicative of Skyworks’ ongoing operations and economic performance.

Skyworks’ First Fiscal Quarter 2008 Conference Call

Skyworks will host a conference call with analysts to discuss its first fiscal quarter 2008 results and business outlook today at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (ET). To listen to the conference call via the Internet, please visit the investor relations section of Skyworks’ Web site. To listen to the conference call via telephone, please call 888.715.1389 (domestic) or 913.312.0689 (international), confirmation code: 4895435.

Playback of the conference call will begin at 9:00 p.m. ET on January 17, and end at 9:00 p.m. ET on January 24, 2008. The replay will be available on Skyworks’ Web site or by calling 888.203.1112 (domestic) or 719.457.0820 (international); passcode: 4895435.

About Skyworks

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity. The company’s power amplifiers, front-end modules and direct conversion radios are at the heart of many of today’s leading-edge multimedia handsets. Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks also offers a diverse portfolio of linear products that support automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, industrial and medical applications.

Headquartered in Woburn, Mass., Skyworks is worldwide with engineering, manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout Asia, Europe and North America. For more information, please visit Skyworks’ Web site at: www.skyworksinc.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This news release includes “forward-looking statements” intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include information relating to future results and expectations of Skyworks (including certain projections and business trends). Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “believes,” “plans,” “may,” “will,” “continue,” similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. All such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those projected, and may affect our future operating results, financial position and cash flows.

These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: global economic and market conditions, such as the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry and the markets addressed by our, and our customers’, products; our ability to develop, manufacture and market innovative products in a highly price competitive and rapidly changing technological environment; fluctuations in our manufacturing yields due to our complex and specialized manufacturing processes; our reliance on a several key customers for a large percentage of our sales; fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our third party semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; the availability and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry, assembly and test capacity and raw materials; our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards, and to identify opportunities in new markets; losses or curtailments of purchases or payments from key customers, or the timing of customer inventory adjustments; our ability to rapidly develop new products and avoid product obsolescence; our ability to retain, recruit and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees in the positions and numbers, with the experience and capabilities, and at the compensation levels needed to implement our business and product plans; lengthy product development cycles that impact the timing of new product introductions; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage inventory; unfavorable changes in product mix; the quality of our products and any remediation costs; shorter than expected product life cycles; problems or delays that we may face in shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in achieving higher levels of design integration; economic, social and political conditions in the countries in which we, our customers or our suppliers operate, including security and health risks, possible disruptions in transportation networks and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; our ability to continue to grow and maintain an intellectual property portfolio and obtain needed licenses from third parties; and the uncertainties of litigation, including disputes over intellectual property, as well as other risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Note to Editors: Skyworks, Skyworks Solutions, Helios and Intera are trademarks or registered trademarks of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. All other brands and names listed are trademarks of their respective companies.

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SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

                                 
                    Quarter Ended
                    Dec. 28,   Dec. 29,
(in thousands)           2007   2006
Net revenues
          $ 210,533     $ 196,030  
Cost of goods sold
            128,195       120,714  
 
                               
Gross profit
            82,338       75,316  
Operating expenses:
                       
   Research and development
    34,094       30,412  
   Selling, general and administrative
    25,287       24,028  
   Restructuring & other charges
    -       5,473  
   Amortization of intangibles
    1,932       536  
 
                               
      Total operating expenses
    61,313       60,449  
Operating income
            21,025       14,867  
   Interest expense
            (2,208 )     (3,249 )
   Other income, net
            2,050       2,155  
 
                               
Income before income taxes
            20,867       13,773  
Provision for income taxes
            1,789       1,736  
 
                               
Net income
                  $ 19,078     $ 12,037  
 
                               
   Earnings per share:
                       
      Basic
  $ 0.12     $ 0.07  
      Diluted
  $ 0.12     $ 0.07  
   Weighted average shares:
               
      Basic
    160,319       161,183  
      Diluted
    162,836       162,880  

SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
UNAUDITED RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP MEASURES

                         
            Quarter Ended
               Dec. 28,    Dec. 29,
            2007   2006
(in thousands)                        
GAAP operating income
          $ 21,025     $ 14,867  
   Share-based compensation expense [a]
    5,007       2,026  
   Inventory step-up recognition [b]
    615        
   Restructuring & other charges [c]
          5,473  
   Amortization of intangible assets [b]
    1,932       536  
 
                       
Non-GAAP operating income
  $ 28,579     $ 22,902  
 
                       
            Quarter Ended
             
 
             Dec. 28,    Dec. 29,
 
            2007       2006  
 
                       
(in thousands)
                       
GAAP net income
          $ 19,078     $ 12,037  
   Share-based compensation expense [a]
    5,007       2,026  
   Inventory step-up recognition [b]
    615        
   Restructuring & other charges [c]
          5,473  
   Amortization of intangible assets [b]
    1,932       536  
   Tax adjustments [d]
    1,221       1,343  
 
                       
Non-GAAP net income
          $ 27,853     $ 21,415  
 
                       
            Quarter Ended
             
 
             Dec. 28,    Dec. 29,
 
            2007       2006  
 
                       
(in thousands)
                       
GAAP net income per share, diluted
  $ 0.12     $ 0.07  
   Share-based compensation expense [a]
    0.03       0.01  
   Inventory step-up recognition [b]
           
   Restructuring & other charges [c]
          0.04  
   Amortization of intangible assets [b]
    0.01        
   Tax adjustments [d]
    0.01       0.01  
 
                       
Non-GAAP net income per share, diluted
  $ 0.17     $ 0.13  
 
                       

[a] These charges represent expense recognized in accordance with FASB Statement No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment. Approximately $0.8 million, $1.2 million and $3.0 million were included in cost of goods sold, research and development expense and selling, general and administrative expense, respectively, for the three months ended December 28, 2007. Approximately $0.1 million, $0.5 million and $1.4 million were included in cost of goods sold, research and development expense and selling, general and administrative expense, respectively, for the three months ended December 29, 2006.

[b] During the quarter ended December 28, 2007, Skyworks acquired Freescale Semiconductor’s power amplifier and front-end module product line. The purchase accounting charges recognized during the quarter include a $0.6 million charge to cost of sales related to the sale of acquisition related inventory and $1.4 million amortization of acquisition related intangibles. Amortization expense of $0.5 million relates to a previous business combination.

[c] On October 2, 2006, the Company announced that it was exiting its baseband product area in order to focus on its core business encompassing linear products, power amplifiers, front-end modules and radio solutions. Restructuring and other charges recorded during the first quarter of fiscal 2007 primarily consisted of $1.4 million related to the write-down of technology licenses and design software associated with the baseband product area and $4.1 million related to lease obligations associated with the shut-down of certain locations associated with the baseband product area.

[d] During the three months ended December 28, 2007 and December 29, 2006, these charges primarily represent a non-cash tax charge related to the utilization of pre-merger deferred tax assets.

The above non-GAAP measures are based upon our unaudited consolidated statements of operations for the periods shown. These non-GAAP financial measures are provided to enhance the user’s overall understanding of our current financial performance and our prospects for the future. Specifically, we believe the non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to both management and investors by excluding certain charges and non-recurring items that we believe are not indicative of our ongoing operations and economic performance. Additionally, since we have historically reported non-GAAP results to the investment community, the inclusion of non-GAAP financial measures provides consistency in our financial reporting. Further, these non-GAAP financial measures are one of the primary presentations of this additional information should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.

SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET

                 
    December 28,   Sept. 28,
(in thousands)   2007   2007
Assets
               
Current assets:
               
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 205,016     $ 248,079  
Short-term investments
    2,464       5,700  
Accounts receivable, net
    166,647       167,319  
Inventories
    85,912       82,109  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
    9,299       10,511  
Property, plant and equipment, net
    162,497       153,516  
Goodwill and intangible assets, net
    517,949       494,332  
Other assets
    27,999       28,342  
 
               
Total assets
  $ 1,177,783     $ 1,189,908  
 
               
Liabilities and Equity
               
Current liabilities:
               
Credit facility
  $ 50,000     $ 50,000  
Convertible notes
          49,335  
Accounts payable
    69,227       56,417  
Accrued liabilities and other current liabilities
    40,149       41,471  
Long-term debt
    200,000       200,000  
Other long-term liabilities
    7,305       6,338  
Stockholders’ equity
    811,102       786,347  
 
               
Total liabilities and equity
  $ 1,177,783     $ 1,189,908  
 
               

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