Skyworks Named to the Globe 100 for the Third Consecutive Year
WOBURN, Mass., Jun 13, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS), an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, today announced that it has been named to the Boston Globe's list of top performing public companies in Massachusetts for the third consecutive year. The Globe 100 ranking, which is now in its 23rd year, is based on several financial factors including year-over-year revenue growth and profit margin, as well as return on average equity. This year, only 90 Massachusetts companies were named to the Globe 100 list, which reflects the lingering effects of the challenging economic climate. Last year only 82 companies made the list.
"Skyworks is honored to be amongst Massachusetts' most highly regarded and well performing companies once again this year," said David J. Aldrich, president and chief executive officer at Skyworks. "Last year Skyworks delivered $1.1 billion in revenue, achieved the highest profitability in the company's history and solidified our number one position in analog semiconductor solutions for mobile devices. This year is off to an even stronger start and as a result, we look forward to improving our position within the Globe 100 next year."
About the Globe 100 Ranking Methodology
The Globe 100 list ranks Massachusetts-based companies whose stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ, the New York Stock Exchange, or the American Stock Exchange. Rankings are based on financial data for the four quarters ending closest to December 31, 2010, and for corresponding quarters a year earlier. To qualify for the Globe 100, a company must have been public for the entire 2010 calendar year and reported revenue and profit for both 2009 and 2010. Companies are ranked on four criteria: return on average equity, one-year percentage change in revenue, one-year percentage change in profit margin, and 2010 revenue. The rankings may be seen at: www.boston.com/globe100.
About The Boston Globe
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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 without limitation information relating to future results and expectations of Skyworks (including without limitation certain projections and business trends). Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "forecasts," "intends," "believes," "plans," "may," "will," or "continue," and similar expressions and variations or negatives of these words. All such statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and other important factors 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, uncertainties and other important factors include, but are not limited to: whether we are able to satisfy the closing conditions and close our acquisition of Advanced Analogic Technologies; whether we are able to successfully integrate SiGe Semiconductor's and/or Advanced Analogic Technologies' operations; uncertainty regarding global economic and financial market conditions; the susceptibility of the wireless semiconductor industry and the markets addressed by our, and our customers', products to economic downturns; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage inventory; losses or curtailments of purchases or payments from key customers, or the timing of customer inventory adjustments; the availability and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry, assembly and test capacity, raw materials and supplier components; changes in laws, regulations and/or policies in the United States that could adversely affect financial markets and our ability to raise capital; our ability to develop, manufacture and market innovative products in a highly price competitive and rapidly changing technological environment; 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; fluctuations in our manufacturing yields due to our complex and specialized manufacturing processes; delays or disruptions in production due to equipment maintenance, repairs and/or upgrades; our reliance on 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; our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards, and to identify opportunities in new markets; uncertainties of litigation, including potential disputes over intellectual property infringement and rights, as well as payments related to the licensing and/or sale of such rights; 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; 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; and our ability to continue to grow and maintain an intellectual property portfolio and obtain needed licenses from third parties, 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.
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