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财报电话会议:Akoustis Technologies营收增长,但面临挑战

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      Akoustis Technologies(纳斯达克股票代码:AKTS)公布,2024财年第三季度收入增长7%,达到750万美元。尽管与运营商客

  

  

  Akoustis Technologies(纳斯达克股票代码:AKTS)公布,2024财年第三季度收入增长7%,达到750万美元。尽管与运营商客户的Wi-Fi 6E计划意外终止,但该公司对Wi-Fi 7市场的机会持乐观态度,并准备在今年晚些时候增加产量。Akoustis还在采取措施减少开支和现金消耗,目标是在未来9个月内实现运营现金流盈亏平衡。该公司正在积极寻求CHIPS法案的资助,预计明年将获得高达400万美元的税收抵免。法律上的挑战是存在的,因为Akoustis目前正在特拉华州的一个审判中为专利索赔进行辩护。

  Akoustis报告称,2024财年第三季度收入增长7%,达到750万美元。

  该公司预计,第二季度营收将持平至5%。

  Wi-Fi 6E项目意外结束,但该公司对此持乐观态度关于Wi-Fi 7。

  Akoustis预计将在9个月内实现经营性现金流盈亏平衡。

  该公司正在根据CHIPS法案寻求税收抵免,并估计退款280万至400万美元。

  Akoustis正在与Qorvo (NASDAQ:QRVO)进行诉讼,结果不确定。

  减少成本的措施预计每年可节省2 000多万美元。

  运营现金流盈亏平衡预计为1,100万至1,500万美元的季度收入和25%的利润率。

  该公司的目标是在未来几个季度实现两位数的毛利率。

  预计该公司第二季度的营收将持平或至多下降5%。

  意想不到的结果纳入Wi-Fi 6E计划可能会影响短期收入。

  Wi-Fi 7认证正在进行中,有9个项目显示出显著的活动。

  今年剩余时间的订单看起来很有希望,尤其是在下半年。

  该公司公布了每股0.14美元的非公认会计准则净亏损。

  Akoustis在过去的一年里讨论了项目的延迟和取消,主要是由于CHIPS法案。

  该公司在Wi-Fi 7上没有遇到类似的问题,而且订单正在增加。

  Akoustis Technologies(股票代码:AKTS)一直在积极管理其财务,并为Wi-Fi 7市场的增长制定战略。InvestingPro的数据为该公司当前的财务状况和市场地位提供了额外的背景。该公司市值为5602万美元,市盈率为-0.44,其估值反映了其盈利能力面临的挑战。截至2024年第二季度,过去12个月的调整后市盈率为-0.81,表明收益持续承压。

  收入增长仍然是一个亮点,截至2024年第二季度,过去12个月的收入增长了39.86%。然而,这一增长与同期-10.85%的负毛利率形成鲜明对比,强调了“InvestingPro Tip”,即Akoustis的毛利率疲软。

  投资者还应该注意到,根据“InvestingPro Tips”,尽管该公司最近股价面临挑战,但分析师已经上调了未来一段时间的收益。该股在不同的时间框架内都经历了大幅下跌,截至2024年的指定日期,该股一年的总价格回报率为-84.38%。这与“InvestingPro提示”一致,即股票价格变动相当不稳定,股票在过去一周,一个月和一年中遭受了重大打击。

  对于寻求更深入的分析和额外的“InvestingPro提示”的投资者,在InvestingPro For Akoustis Technologies上有18个以上的提示。这些建议可以让我们进一步了解公司管理债务、现金流和股价波动的能力。感兴趣的读者可以使用优惠券代码PRONEWS24访问这些提示并享受特别优惠,以获得每年或两年一次的Pro和Pro+订阅额外10%的折扣。

  接线员:你们好,女士们,先生们,欢迎参加Akoustis Technologies 2024财年第三季度电话会议。提醒一下,这次会议正在录音。在公司陈述结束时,Akoustis管理层将回答问题。[接线员说明]您可以在Akoustis网站的投资者关系部分获得电话的重播。谢谢你!

  Kenneth Boller:谢谢你,接线员,大家早上好。欢迎参加Akoustis 2024财年第三季度电话会议。我是首席财务官肯·博勒,今天和我在一起的是我们的创始人兼首席执行官杰夫·希利;公司法律顾问Drew Wright;以及业务发展执行副总裁Dave Aichele。在我们开始之前,请注意今天的陈述包括对我们业务前景的前瞻性陈述。本次电话会议中包含的除历史事实陈述以外的所有陈述,例如对我们战略和运营的预期,包括产品开发的时间和前景以及客户订单和设计胜利;可能的合作或伙伴关系;诉讼事项;预期的财务和经营结果是前瞻性陈述。这些前瞻性陈述是基于公司今天的预期做出的预测,并受到许多风险和不确定性的影响。公司和我们的管理团队不承担更新在今天的电话会议上所做的任何前瞻性陈述的义务。我们在提交给SEC的文件中提到了可能导致实际结果出现重大差异的重要因素。请参阅我们向美国证券交易委员会提交的最新表格10-K和表格10-Q,以更好地了解这些风险和不确定性。此外,我们今天的演讲也将涉及一些非公认会计准则的财务指标。这些指标与最直接可比较的公认会计准则指标的对账已在akoustis.com的投资者部分公布。现在我想把电话交给Jeff Shealy, Akoustis的创始人兼首席执行官。

  Jeffrey Shealy: Thank you, Ken, and welcome everyone to our FY ‘24 fiscal third quarter conference call. Revenue in the March quarter increased 7% sequentially to $7.5 million filter related revenue was up 13% quarter-over-quarter and was the third highest quarter in the history of the company. During the March quarter, we had two customers that each made up greater than 10% of our reported revenue. XBAW related sales accounted for the top four customers and six out of the top 10 customers. Our top 10 customers made up 64% of revenue. Our top 25 customers made up 78% of revenue. In terms of regional sales, three out of our top 10 customers were Asia based. From a regional standpoint, 48% of our sales come from Asia, followed by 39% of sales coming from North America, and 13% of our sales coming from Europe. Finally, our top two customers were Asia based customers and collectively made up 36% of sales. During the March quarter, we unexpectedly experienced a major Wi-Fi 6E program abruptly sunset with one of our carrier customers. We had previously secured a design win with this carrier customer for Wi-Fi 7 and have already received production orders for this platform beginning in the September quarter. Overall, we are tracking nine design wins in Wi-Fi 7 AP platforms and we see a growing trend to ramp major Wi-Fi 7 programs for enterprise and carrier customers in the second half of 2024. We remain bullish in Wi-Fi 7 and are currently in the early stages of production ramp with multiple tri-band and quad-band programs. As a result, we are guiding the June quarter revenue to be flat to down 5% given the Wi-Fi 6E sunset and imminent transition to Wi-Fi 7. The company continues to focus on expense and cost savings to significantly reduce cash burn moving forward. For the March quarter, cash burn was down 31% sequentially. Ken will detail our ongoing activities and impact on reducing our cash burn during his upcoming comments. I would now like to take a moment to discuss updates involving the company's activity related to the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. Regarding CHIPS Act funding, there are two detailed updates to share with investors. As of the end of the March quarter, we are members of six microelectronics ME Commons Hubs funded by the Department of Defense. Membership to these hubs is critical as it allows access to be part of the hub proposal team for new government research programs. We currently have two active research programs under one hub membership and we are waiting on the decision with the first proposal potentially worth several million dollars annually beginning in the second half of calendar 2024. Furthermore, we are currently pursuing several new memberships with additional ME hub centers and will detail our efforts and progress moving forward. Second, the CHIPS Act of 2022 includes a provision for a 25% refundable investment tax credit or CHIPS ITC on investments in facilities that manufacture semiconductors that were placed in service after December 31, 2022. We currently estimate the amount of the refundable tax credit applicable to Akoustis to be between $2.8 and $4 million over the next nine months to 12 months. Next, I would like to discuss several updates in our primary target markets beginning with Wi-Fi. Our first milestone for the March quarter was to ramp XBAW filter production for two programs at a Wi-Fi 7 tier 1 enterprise class OEM. We successfully commenced pre-production deliveries at two ODMs for our customer during the quarter. One of the two programs included our first single-crystal filter for enterprise Wi-Fi as it solves a difficult co-existence requirement while providing higher power handling for our customer solution. Our second milestone was to ramp XBAW filter production for Wi-Fi 7 with a new tier 1 enterprise class OEM. While we did not commence ramp, we have received initial purchase orders in support of the program and expect the program to ramp in the September quarter. Our third milestone was to secure a design win for a Wi-Fi 7 solution with a tier 1 network enterprise class OEM. We completed this milestone and announced two design wins in our press release earlier this month on May 1. Looking ahead in the June quarter, we expect to ramp XBAW filter production for Wi-Fi 7 with a tier 1 enterprise class OEM. We also plan to secure multiple design wins with a tier 1 carrier for Wi-Fi 6E and 7. And finally, we expect to release at least seven new XBAW filters into production targeting Wi-Fi 7 tri-band and-quad band architectures. Next, I would like to discuss our recent developments in the 5G mobile market. During the March quarter, we expected to deliver the second of three Wi-Fi filters to our tier 2 5G mobile RF front end module making customer. We have a foundry contract with this customer for a total of three filters. We now have shipped the first-two filters. The third filter is still under customer design control and has not yet been released to the foundry. Finally, we continue our engagement with our fifth mobile partner offering our XBAW process and foundry for their module and discrete product needs. We have shipped this partner multiple XBAW dye for engineering evaluation or a future Wi-Fi 7 multiplexer application for the mobile market. Our anticipated milestone for the June quarter includes securing a purchase agreement with a new tier 1 Asia partner focused on mobile and other market segments. I will now discuss our progress in our network infrastructure business. During the March quarter, we successfully achieved approved supplier status with two tier 1 infrastructure customers. Second, we successfully completed NRE development and delivered filters for the 5G n104 7-gigahertz band for massive MIMO architectures to a tier 1 network infrastructure customer. During the quarter, we experienced softness in XBAW filter shipments to our 5G network infrastructure customers. However, we expect flat growth of shipments for the remainder of calendar 2024 due to slow deployments of 5G small cell infrastructure hardware. For the June quarter, we expect to secure development order for band n104 filter targeting massive MIMO with a tier 1 customer. Finally, before handing the call off to Ken, I would like to provide an update on our defense and other markets business. As previously mentioned, our biggest success in the defense and other market segment was the introduction of our new XP3F technology, which incorporates a new revolutionary and patented multilayered nano material that incorporates our single-crystal piezoelectric material. This new nanomaterial was developed with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA to scale the XBAW technology to frequencies up to 20 gigahertz. During the March quarter, we continued work on our multi-million dollar Phase 2 contract option, which extends our current DARPA COFFEE program and the funding through December 2024. As a result, during the March quarter, one of our top five customers were in our defense and other business category. In addition, we delivered our new XForge PDK to two defense customers for ongoing foundry engagements to facilitate their upcoming filter designs. Furthermore, we completed the design and sampled new 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi CPE automotive XBAW filters to two non-automotive customers. In our contract business, our proposal on a new multi-million dollar program with the Office of Naval Research or ONR to fund RF filter multiplexers incorporating our XBAW and P3F single-crystal nanomaterials technology has been accepted for award, and we are in the process of finalizing the contract with our customer so that we can begin performing in summer 2024. For the June quarter, in the defense and other market segment, we are expecting to secure our new government contract focused on advanced XP3f filter architectures beyond 20 gigahertz. Further, we expect to secure a CV2X design win with a tier 1 automotive customer focusing on the European market and we expect to release at least two new XBAW filters into production targeting CV2X and timing applications. And now, I would like to hand the call over to Ken to go through our financial highlights.

  Kenneth Boller:谢谢你,Jeff。截至2024年3月31日的第三季度,该公司报告的收入为750万美元,比截至2023年12月31日的上一季度增长了7%。根据美国公认会计准则(GAAP),第三季度的营业亏损为2260万美元,其中750万美元的收入被670万美元的劳动力成本、810万美元的商誉减值费用、330万美元的折旧和摊销费用以及总计1200万美元的其他运营成本所抵消。因此,GAAP每股净亏损为0.26美元。按非公认会计准则计算,营业亏损为1250万美元,每股净亏损为0.14美元。第三季度的资本支出为30万美元,运营活动中使用的现金为780万美元,由于我们的费用削减努力,比去年第四季度减少了31%。由于当前Wi-Fi 6E计划的结束以及从Wi-Fi 6E向Wi-Fi 7的过渡,我们预计6月份季度收入将持平至下降5%。如前所述,我们仍然看好Wi-Fi 7,目前正处于生产的早期阶段。在费用方面,我们继续采取积极的费用削减和成本节约措施,以及寻求投资税收抵免或itc,我们估计所有这些都将使我们的经营性现金流消耗率在6月季度再降低30%。考虑到顶线预测,目前CHIPS ITC退款的时间,以及最近成本节约的全面影响,我们预计在未来9个月内实现经营性现金流盈亏平衡。现在我想把电话交给杰夫。

  杰弗里·希利:谢谢你,肯。在结束之前,我想把电话交给德鲁·赖特,我们的公司总法律顾问来提供当前诉讼事宜的最新进展。

  Drew Wright:谢谢你,Jeff。我想从我们所有诉讼事宜的最新进展开始。我将从德克萨斯州的专利诉讼开始,其中Akoustis是原告,Qorvo是被告,涉及Akoustis从康奈尔独家授权的专利。康奈尔大学正在作为共同原告加入此案。自上次财报电话会议以来,Qorvo的一家晶圆供应商提出动议,要求撤销传票,并提交了一份多方审查,也称为知识产权审查,质疑康奈尔360专利的有效性。Qorvo随后以自己的知识产权挑战了康奈尔大学的360专利。我们还处于案件处理的初期阶段。更重要的是,在特拉华州的诉讼中,Akoustis是被告,Qorvo是原告。这起诉讼始于两年多前,指控内容包括专利侵权、虚假广告、虚假专利标记、挖走员工、盗用商业秘密、不公平竞争、RICO和民事阴谋。Qorvo关于虚假专利标记和RICO的指控在审判前被撤销,这是一个好消息。经过两年半的时间,这起诉讼已经进入了上周开始的审判阶段,预计将于本周结束。该诉讼以侵犯两项专利、虚假广告、盗用商业秘密、不正当竞争和民事串谋等罪名进入审理阶段。上周,Qorvo提交了它的事实证人和几名专家证人。预计Qorvo将于今天上午提交最后一名专家证人并结案。本周,该公司将有机会讲述自己的故事。审判预计将在本周末之前交给陪审团,陪审团预计将在未来几天内做出裁决。我们现在并将继续对Qorvo的指控进行有力辩护。然而,任何审判的结果都是不可预测的。特别是,各方专家使用的理论导致了对Qorvo声称的损害的非常不同的估计。我们相信我们的专家所使用的理论是基于事实和法律的。然而,如果陪审团采纳Qorvo专家的理论,陪审团可能会做出8位数的裁决。因此,这场诉讼可能会对公司的价值、运营和融资能力产生重大影响。有了最新消息,我想把电话交给杰夫。

  杰弗里·希利:谢谢你,德鲁。我们的专利高频XBAW和XP3F滤波器的市场机会仍然很大。我们将继续积极地工作,以实现我们的每一个既定目标,并在我们取得进展的同时,继续提供我们执行这些目标的最新情况。我想向投资者强调,随着我们从Wi-Fi 6E向Wi-Fi 7的业务转型,以及向汽车网络基础设施和国防市场的扩张,管理层将继续专注于改善我们的损益表。我们继续努力追求产品成本节约,以降低商品成本,提高我们的毛利率。我们已采取必要措施,在未来几个季度减少经营性现金消耗。我们认为,在当前的经济环境下,这样做是谨慎的。此外,我感谢我们的员工,他们的辛勤工作,热情和奉献精神,共同努力,使我们的公司在未来几个季度实现增长。最后,我还要感谢一直支持公司的股东们。在此,我欢迎投资界人士提问。接线员,请回答第一个问题。

  接线员:现在,我们将进行问答环节。[操作说明]我们的第一个问题来自B. Riley证券公司的Craig Ellis。请继续你的问题。

  克雷格·埃利斯:是的。谢谢你们回答问题,也谢谢你们今天早上给我的颜色。首先,我想深入挖掘一下今年上半年的收入动态。所以大家要明白,从6年级到7年级有一个项目过渡,但我想澄清的是,这个过渡的规模——我们在上半年看到了。我认为,我预计日历上半年的收益约为1900万美元。看起来会更接近15%那么,除了下半年回归7%的增长之外,与公司的预期还有其他差异吗?与此相关的是,向7过渡的风险是什么这个项目在今年的第四个日历季度或明年左右开始对你有影响,但可能会晚一点?欣赏这些项目的颜色,伙计们,开始吧。

  杰弗里·希利:嗨,克雷格。早上好。我是杰夫。谢谢你的问题。关于收入动态。正如我们在脚本中指出的,Wi-Fi 6E是我们的Wi-Fi 7客户之一,正在过渡。如你所知,Wi-Fi标准在今年年初被采用。Wi-Fi 7标准在今年年初被采用,所以这位客户突然决定过渡到Wi-Fi 7。就与之相关的动态而言,今年上半年,与Wi-Fi 6E项目相关的收入约为每季度100万美元。这就是本季度Wi-Fi市场的缺口。至于其他细分市场,我们之前预计复苏和基础设施建设将非常缓慢。所以这没什么好惊讶的。就我们的国防和其他业务而言,就我们与DARPA的合作而言,我们在国防方面正在进行的工作。这些生意果然如我们所料。本季度我们在GDSI代工服务业务方面表现不佳。有一些动态,我们在这个季度有一些亮点。我们正在密切关注当前季度的情况,我们感觉我们回到了正轨,每周都在关注这一情况。但我认为真正的头条是6E的一个项目,我想强调的是,我们都曾经在Wi-Fi 7中赢得了9个设计,这是同一个客户。所以他们只是他们正在过渡。至于你关于Wi-Fi 7的动态和潜在推动的最后一点,正如我们在准备好的评论中所说,我们在Wi-Fi 7中有9个项目,我们正在非常仔细地跟踪这些项目,它们在不同的客户群中是不同的。我们在3月份的季度开始支持Wi-Fi 7,预计9月份的季度会有一个增长。我们会继续监控,看看戴夫是否想给我的评论添加更多的颜色。

  大卫·艾切勒:是的。我想我要告诉克雷格的唯一一点是,Wi-Fi 6E我们去年讨论了很多延迟或项目推出或取消。这在很大程度上与CHIPS法案有关。我们在Wi-Fi 7上没有看到这些问题。正如Jeff所说,Wi-Fi 7将在今年年初通过认证,我们看到这九个项目有很多活动。这个(看不清)确实看到了日落,这是突然的,也影响了他们的ODM。我们已经看到Wi-Fi 7项目(技术难度)订单的增长。因此,我们对今年年底之前的订单情况有很好的了解。这是好消息,我们没有完全失去这个客户,这是一个项目的日落和这个新项目的斜坡和时机。因此,我们显然看好今年第四季度,我们将在今年下半年看到Wi-Fi 7的大量活动。

  克雷格·埃利斯:这种颜色真的很有用。谢谢,杰夫和戴夫。我将问Ken我的第二个问题,当我们看到毛利率和费用动态时,所以随着收入持平或下降,我预计毛利率在本季度将持平,然后随着销量的改善和费用管理方面的典范工作,我们将在日历年的下半年实现两位数的增长,在日历年的其余时间里,营业支出线的轮廓上有什么颜色吗?谢谢你!

  杰弗里·希利:早上好,克雷格。是的。所以我将对其中的一些项目发表评论。一是在节省运营费用方面,我们采取了很多积极的措施来减少在这方面的开支。我预计每季度运营支出将降至1000万至1100万美元。我们已经确定每年在运营成本上节省超过2000万美元。此外,在边际上,要记住的一个关键项目是,我们有17个项目在生产中,我们上个季度表示,明年这个数字将大约翻一番。我相信,我们有7到10个新产品将在今年第四季度投入生产,也就是本财年的6月季度。这些产品的成本结构都较低,尤其是这些产品的后端成本。因此,随着新产品上线,我们将看到改进。其中一些取代了所有更昂贵的产品,我确实预计我们的利润率将继续增长。是个位数。我预计未来几个季度将达到两位数。然后我们声明,我们的运营现金流盈亏平衡将在每季度1100万美元到1500万美元之间,具体取决于产品组合,这将带来大约25%的销售利润率。

  克雷格·埃利斯:明白了。谢谢你的颜色,肯。

  接线员:看来现在没有其他问题了。现在请杰弗里·希利作最后发言。

  杰弗里·希利:谢谢大家今天的时间。我们期待在下次更新电话中与您交谈,讨论当前季度的执行情况以及我们对未来的期望。谢谢你,祝你有美好的一天。

  接线员:今天的电话会议到此结束。您现在可以断开电话线了。谢谢你的参与。

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