Skyworks Raises Revenue and Earnings Outlook
Increases Current Quarter Guidance to
"As our upwardly revised outlook reflects,
"We also expect our recently announced joint venture with Panasonic to
further enrich our systems capabilities, broaden our technology
portfolio and enhance our financial returns," said
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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
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in the manufacturing yields of our third-party semiconductor foundries
and other problems or delays in the fabrication, assembly, testing or
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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
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DISCUSSION REGARDING THE USE OF NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
This press release contains a forward-looking estimate of non-GAAP diluted earnings per share that has not been calculated in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"). We estimate such forward-looking non-GAAP diluted earnings per share by excluding certain expenses and other items from the respective GAAP financial estimate. Management uses certain non-GAAP financial measures, including non-GAAP diluted earnings per share, to evaluate our operating performance and compare it against past periods, make operating decisions, forecast for future periods, compare operating performance against peer companies and determine payments under certain compensation programs. These non-GAAP financial measures provide management with additional means to understand and evaluate the operating results and trends in our ongoing business by eliminating certain non-recurring expenses (which may not occur in each period presented) and other items that management believes might otherwise make comparisons of our ongoing business with prior periods more difficult, obscure trends in ongoing operations or reduce management's ability to make useful forecasts.
We provide investors with non-GAAP financial measures because we believe it is important for investors to be able to closely monitor and understand changes in our ability to generate income from ongoing business operations. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures give investors an additional method to evaluate historical operating performance and identify trends, an additional means of evaluating period-over-period operating performance and a method to facilitate certain comparisons of our operating results to those of our peer companies. We also believe that providing non-GAAP diluted earnings per share allows investors to better assess the overall financial performance of our ongoing operations by eliminating the impact of share-based compensation expense, acquisition-related expenses, restructuring-related charges, litigation settlement gains, losses and expenses, certain deferred executive compensation and certain tax items which may not occur in each period presented and which may represent non-cash items unrelated to our ongoing operations. We believe that disclosing non-GAAP financial measures contributes to enhanced financial reporting transparency and provides investors with added clarity about complex financial performance measures.
We calculate non-GAAP diluted earnings per share by excluding from GAAP diluted earnings per share, share-based compensation expense, acquisition-related expenses, restructuring-related charges, litigation settlement gains, losses and expenses, certain deferred executive compensation and certain tax items which may not occur in all periods for which financial information is presented. We exclude the items identified above from non-GAAP diluted earnings per share for the reasons set forth with respect to each such excluded item below:
| Share-Based Compensation - because (1) the total expense is partially outside of our control because it is based on factors such as stock price volatility and interest rates, which may be unrelated to our performance during the period in which the expense is incurred, (2) it is an expense based upon a valuation methodology premised on assumptions that vary over time, and (3) the expense can vary significantly between companies due to factors that can be outside of the control of such companies. |
| Acquisition-Related Expenses - including items such as, when applicable, amortization of acquired intangible assets, fair value adjustments to contingent consideration, fair value charges incurred upon the sale of acquired inventory, acquisition-related professional fees and deemed compensation expenses, because they are not considered by management in making operating decisions and we believe that such expenses do not have a direct correlation to our future business operations. We believe including such charges does not accurately reflect the performance of our ongoing operations for the period in which such charges are incurred. |
| Restructuring-Related Charges - because, to the extent such charges impact a period presented, we believe that they have no direct correlation to our future business operations and including such charges does not necessarily reflect the performance of our ongoing operations for the period in which such charges are incurred. |
| Litigation Settlement Gains, Losses and Expenses - including gains, losses and expenses related to the resolution of other-than-ordinary-course threatened and actually filed lawsuits and other-than-ordinary-course contractual disputes, because (1) they are not considered by management in making operating decisions, (2) such gains, losses and expenses tend to be infrequent in nature, (3) such gains, losses and expenses are generally not directly controlled by management, (4) we believe such gains, losses and expenses do not necessarily reflect the performance of our ongoing operations for the period in which such charges are recognized and (5) the amount of such gains or losses and expenses can vary significantly between companies and make comparisons less reliable. |
| Deferred Executive Compensation - including charges related to any contingent obligation pursuant to an executive severance agreement, because we believe the period over which the obligation is amortized may not reflect the period of benefit and that such expense has no direct correlation with our recurring business operations and including such expenses does not accurately reflect the compensation expense for the period in which incurred. |
| Certain Income Tax Items - including certain deferred tax charges and benefits that do not result in a current tax payment or tax refund and other adjustments, including but not limited to, items unrelated to the current fiscal year or that are not indicative of our ongoing business operations. |
The non-GAAP estimate of diluted earnings per share presented in this press release should not be considered in isolation and is not an alternative for GAAP diluted earnings per share. Investors are cautioned against placing undue reliance on this non-GAAP financial measure and are urged to review and consider carefully the adjustments made by management to the corresponding GAAP financial measure. Non-GAAP financial measures may have limited value as analytical tools because they may exclude certain expenses that some investors consider important in evaluating a company's operating performance or ongoing business. Further, non-GAAP financial measures are likely to have limited value for purposes of drawing comparisons between companies because different companies may calculate similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures in different ways because non-GAAP measures are not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles.
This press release contains a forward-looking estimate of non-GAAP
diluted earnings per share for the third quarter of our 2014 fiscal year
("Q3 FY2014"). We are unable to provide a reconciliation of our
forward-looking estimate of Q3 FY2014 non-GAAP diluted earnings per
share to a forward-looking estimate of Q3 FY2014 GAAP diluted earnings
per share because certain information needed to make a reasonable
forward-looking estimate of GAAP diluted earnings per share for Q3
FY2014 (other than estimated share-based compensation expense of
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