X-FAB Second Quarter 2022 Results

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Highlights Q2 2022:

› Revenue was USD 188.8 million, at the upper end of the guided USD 180-190 million, up 17% year-on-year (YoY) and up 6% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ)

› Strong growth and continuously strong demand across all key end markets

› EBITDA margin of 22.5%, within the 20-24% guidance

› EBITDA was USD 42.5 million, down 2% YoY and up 3% QoQ

› EBIT was USD 24.0 million, down 2% YoY and up 8% QoQ

Outlook:

› Q3 2022 revenue is expected to be in the range of USD 182-192 million with an EBITDA margin in the range of 20-24%. This guidance is based on an average exchange rate of 1.02 USD/Euro.

› Management adjusts the full-year guidance to revenues in the range of USD 750-790 million and an EBITDA margin in the range of 22-25%. The full-year guidance is based on an average exchange rate of 1.06 USD/Euro.

Revenue breakdown per quarter:

¹ Consumer, Communications & Computer

Business development

In the second quarter, X-FAB generated revenues amounting to USD 188.8 million, at the upper end of the guided USD 180-190 million, up 17% year-on-year and 6% quarter-on-quarter.

Revenues in X-FAB’s core markets – automotive, industrial, and medical – reached USD 154.7 million, up 20% year-on-year and 7% quarter-on-quarter. Their share in the Group’s total revenues further increased to 82%.

X-FAB recorded strong double-digit growth in the second quarter across all its key end markets and achieved record revenues in the automotive as well as industrial business. Revenues were supported by a favorable product mix, price increases as well as growth in quantities produced, reflecting the focus on increasing wafer output amidst the persisting chip shortage, but also the accelerating demand driven by the transition to electric vehicles and green energy. Silicon carbide (SiC) revenues continued to grow strongly in the second quarter amounting to USD 12.8 million, up 78% year-on-year and 5% quarter-on-quarter. In addition, the successful ramp up in volume production of X-FAB’s automotive 180nm technology at X-FAB France contributed to the automotive growth of the second quarter. This brought the share of the French site’s revenues based on X-FAB technologies up to 52% while the legacy business further decreased, in line with targets.

In the second quarter, X-FAB’s CCC business (Consumer, Communication & Computer) recorded revenues of USD 33.6 million, up 4% year-on-year and 3% quarter-on-quarter.

Prototyping revenues in the second quarter came in at USD 20.5 million, flat year-on-year and down 17% quarter-on-quarter. This is mainly due to several customer-specific projects having reached production milestone, and thus, now being accounted as volume production revenues.

Demand continued to be strong throughout the past quarter. This is however not reflected in second quarter bookings, which totaled at USD 162.6 million compared to USD 239.3 million in the previous quarter. In light of ongoing negotiations relating to price increases as well as long-term agreements with customers, X-FAB had paused accepting firm orders for 2023 until commercial conditions are fixed. Progress is being made to achieve the target to cover about 70% of X-FAB’s business with long-term agreements.

Due to persistently high demand, the allocation of capacity had to be continued throughout the quarter and X-FAB remains in close contact with its customers to agree on minimum quantities required to ensure supply chain stability on the customers’ side.

Prototyping and production revenue per quarter and end market:

Operations update

Operational excellence and productivity improvements continued to be a primary focus at all manufacturing sites to meet the customers’ demand. The delivery of new equipment as well as the ongoing activities to have them installed and qualified were key to eliminate production bottlenecks and increase wafer output.

X-FAB proceeded with its capacity expansion program across all sites to prepare for the expected long-term growth and kicked off a major expansion project at X-FAB Sarawak, Malaysia. In line with the high demand for the automotive 180nm technology, X-FAB plans to invest more than USD 500 million over the next three years to significantly increase manufacturing capacity of this technology platform. Once the investment is completed, the site’s processing capacity will increase by about 50%.

Full-year capital expenditures are expected to come in at around USD 200 million. In the second quarter, they totaled USD 36.8 million, down 25% from the previous quarter. This is partially due to the longer than expected delivery schedules for equipment due to current tight supply chains. Thanks to the risk mitigation measures that X-FAB has put in place to ensure a reliable supply of raw materials, there were no supply bottlenecks impacting X-FAB’s production in the second quarter.

X-FAB also continued to expand capacities for SiC processing as well as SiC epitaxy, thus responding to the accelerating demand. Quarterly SiC bookings came in at USD 14.8 million, up 21% year-on-year and down 31% quarter-on-quarter following an extraordinarily strong previous quarter. The development of standard SiC process blocks, which allow customers to benefit from faster technology releases and a reduced time-to-market, keeps drawing interest from new customers, resulting in a marked increase of X-FAB’s SiC customer base.

Financial update

Second quarter EBITDA was USD 42.5 million with an EBITDA margin of 22.5%, within the guided 20-24%. Despite strong revenue growth, the EBITDA margin went down 0.5 percentage points compared to the previous quarter. Rising costs continued to put some pressure on margins. Additionally, there was an exceptional item concerning the award of an arbitration between X-FAB and a supplier. X-FAB made a provision for a portion of the award. This relates to interest payments in the amount of USD 12.4 million in the finance result as well as legal fees of USD 1.4 million in the general & administrative expenses.

In absolute terms, EBITDA was up 3% quarter-on-quarter and down 2% year-on-year due to a favorable one-off effect in the second quarter last year related to USD 6.5 million received in the context of a Covid-19-related government support scheme. Excluding this, the EBITDA increased 15% year-on-year.

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the second quarter amounted to USD 250.8 million, down 3% compared to the previous quarter end.

With a share of Euro-denominated sales amounting to 42% during the second quarter, the current weakness of the Euro had a negative impact on revenues. At a constant US-Dollar/Euro exchange rate of 1.20 as experienced in the previous year’s quarter, revenues of the second quarter would have been USD 10.5 million higher and EBITDA margin would have been 22.5%.

Management comments

Rudi De Winter, CEO of X-FAB Group, said: “In the current economic environment that is marked by a high level of uncertainty, I am very glad about the business X-FAB is in. We continue to see an unprecedented strong demand for our technologies, which is mainly driven by the accelerating electrification. This holds particularly true for the automotive market, where X-FAB has a strong presence. I would like to thank all X-FAB employees for being strongly engaged to maintain production lines running at full steam despite the challenges arising from Covid-19-related higher absence rates as well as increased logistical challenges.”

Procedures of the independent auditor

The statutory auditor, KPMG Bedrijfsrevisoren – Réviseurs d’Entreprises BV/SRL, represented by Jos Briers, has confirmed that the audit procedures, which have been substantially completed, have not revealed any material misstatement in the accounting information included in this press release as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2022.

X-FAB Quarterly Conference Call

X-FAB’s second quarter results will be discussed in a live conference call on Thursday, July 28, 2022, at 6.30 p.m. CEST. The conference call will be in English. Please register in advance of the conference using the following link: https://cossprereg.btci.com/prereg/key.process?key=PYG6B3TET.

The conference call will be available for replay for ten days following the event. Please call +1 617 801 6888 and enter the following passcode: 79065081.

The third quarter 2022 results will be communicated on October 27, 2022.

About X-FAB

X-FAB is the leading analog/mixed-signal and MEMS foundry group manufacturing silicon wafers for automotive, industrial, consumer, medical and other applications. Its customers worldwide benefit from the highest quality standards, manufacturing excellence and innovative solutions by using X-FAB’s modular CMOS processes in geometries ranging from 1.0 to 0.13 µm, and its special silicon carbide and MEMS long-lifetime processes. X-FAB’s analog-digital integrated circuits (mixed-signal ICs), sensors and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are manufactured at six production facilities in Germany, France, Malaysia and the U.S. X-FAB employs approx. 4,000 people worldwide. For more information, please visit www.xfab.com.

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