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Camtek Ltd. (CAMT)

Q2 2013 Earnings Call· Thu, Aug 8, 2013

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Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Camtek Second Quarter 2013 Results Conference Call. All participants are present in listen-only mode. Following management’s formal presentation, instructions will be given for the question-and-answer session. (Operator instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded August 8, 2013. I would like to remind everyone that forward-looking statements for the respective company’s business, financial condition, and the results of its operations, are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated. Such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to product demand, pricing, market acceptance, changing economic conditions, risks in products and technology development and the effects of the company’s accounting policies as well as certain other risk factors, which are detailed from time to time in the company’s filings with the various securities authorities. I would now like to hand the call over to Mr. Ehud Helft of CCG Investor Relations. Mr. Helft, would you like to begin?

Ehud Helft

Management

Thank you and good day to all of you. I would like to welcome all of you to Camtek’s second quarter 2013 conference call. And I would like also to thank Camtek’s management for hosting this call. With us on the line today are Mr. Roy Porat, Camtek’s CEO; and Mr. Moshe Eisenberg, Camtek’s CFO. Roy will start the call by discussing recent developments within the Company and in the market and will also discuss the outlook. Moshe will give an overview of Camtek's performance in the second quarter and summarize the financial results. We will then open the call for the question-and-answer session. Before we begin, may I remind our listeners that certain information provided on this call are internal Company estimates, unless or otherwise specified. In addition, during this call, certain non-GAAP financial measures will be discussed. These are used by management to make strategic decisions, forecast future results, and evaluate the Company’s current performance. Management believes that the presentation of non-GAAP financial measures is useful to investors’ understanding and assessment of the Company’s ongoing core operations and prospects for the future. A full reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP financial measures is included in today’s earnings release. I would now like to hand over the call to Roy. Roy, please.

Roy Porat

Management

Thank you, Ehud. Hello and good morning to everyone. Thank you for joining us. Let me begin by saying that we are content with Camtek's financial results in the second quarter. On a sequential basis, we grew revenues by 23% and reported non-GAAP operational profit of $1.2 million or $0.04 per share. We witnessed growth and demand for both our semiconductor and PCB product while the diversity in our product offering allowed us to smooth the fluctuations and demand. A slight drop in demand in one product is compensated by an increase in demand in the other product. The overall strength in our core business continued to improve during the quarter, including the PCB side of our business. Revenues of $22 million is a good indication for the return and spending cycle. We do expect some bumps along the way, but the overall expectations are for long semiconductor capital equipment spending. Looking ahead into the second half of 2013, we do see some pushouts in expected orders and in some orders on hand. Having said that the general atmosphere is cautious, but positive. With planning, discussion and expectations for a continuous growth into the second half or the beginning of the next year. The market holds numerous opportunities that we aligned to our plans, the first and most immediate is the continued strengthening of a leading position in the back-end semiconductor market. The challenges that new advanced packaging technologies are creating may add additional data point’s collection to the process and allow us to sell our products into more areas along the new process, which are being developed. We are certainly in a good position to enjoy these opportunities as they enfold. We continue to see good market acceptance of our Phoenix system in the PCB inspection business. Last but…

Moshe Eisenberg

Management

Thank you, Roy. Hello, everyone. You can find the detailed results in the press release issued earlier today. Revenues for the second quarter of 2013 were $22.3 million. This is a growth of 23% compared to a $17.6 million in the prior quarter. For the quarter revenues from sales and services to the semiconductor industry were 62% of our total revenues, amounting to $13.7 million. Revenues from sales and services to the PCB market were 38% of our total revenues amounting to $8.6 million. Our geographic breakdown of the revenue for the quarter was as follows; China was the strongest region during the quarter representing approximately 29% of our overall revenues, Taiwan was 19%, Korea was 24% and the rest of Asia was 12%. U.S. sales accounted for 9%, Europe and the Rest of the World was the remaining 7%. Unless otherwise mentioned I will now summarize the rest of our results on non-GAAP basis, which exclude any revaluation in respect of our Sela and DMD product lines and share-based compensation. The reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP also appear in the table at the end of the press release issued earlier today. Gross profit for the quarter totaled $9.9 million, representing a gross margin of 44.5%. This is compared to $8.3 million of gross margin of 45.8% in the previous quarter. The change in gross margin compared with the prior quarter is due to the change in the product mix between quarters and we don’t see any underlying trends here. Operating expenses in the quarter were $8.7 million compared with $8.2 million in the previous quarter. The main contributor to the growth in operating expenses was an increase in SG&A expenses in the quarter. Sales and marketing expenses grew to $3.2 million from $2.9 million in the prior quarter primarily due to the higher level of revenues in the quarter. R&D expenses were $3.5 million, marginally below the R&D expenses level of $3.6 million in the prior quarter. Operating profit for the second quarter of 2013 was $1.2 million or 5.4% of revenues compared to an operating profit of $0.1 million in the previous quarter.Net income for the second quarter of 2013 was $1 million or $0.03 per share compared to a net loss of $0.2 million or $0.01 per share in the previous quarter. Net cash and cash equivalent and short term deposits as of June 2013 was $17.6 million compared with $17.3 million as of March 31, 2013. It is important to note that in the quarter we reduced our debt level by $3.1 million. In this quarter we generated $1.1 million of operating cash flow. We will now open the call for questions. Operator?

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen at this time we’ll being the question-and-answer session (Operator Instructions) The first question is from Jay Srivatsa of Chardan Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Jay Srivatsa - Chardan Capital Markets LLC

Analyst

Thanks for taking my question. Roy, in terms of guidance, where are you seeing the push-outs, is it in the semiconductor space or in the PCB space?

Roy Porat

Management

Hi, Jay. Semiconductor space, I think some expected orders we have for in this quarter are actually pushed out and some orders we actually had on hand were customers called up and said, we want to pushed into Q4. I think the general indication right now is not a significant drop, but some push outs.

Jay Srivatsa - Chardan Capital Markets LLC

Analyst

Okay. Now Q4 tends to be seasonally soft in the past, do you expect these push outs to buck the trend or what is your read on how the rest of the year plays out because of these push outs?

Roy Porat

Management

I think, it’s a little bit too early for us to give a general guidance for Q4. But the general atmosphere not only from us, but I think for a lot of people in this industry is for a relatively good second half. So it’s going to be for sure better than the first half, as far as I see, sure as we can ever be sure. But I think being specific on Q4 other than difficult right now. But in general, I think that atmosphere is still positive, it’s not – I think at least from our view right now it’s more of a small pick up. Okay, but we’ll see. I think Q4 is a bit far processor to give specific indications.

Jay Srivatsa - Chardan Capital Markets LLC

Analyst

Okay. Well, in that case, can you quantify the magnitude of the push outs in terms of dollar terms?

Roy Porat

Management

From our point of view it’s probably around $2 million like I said.

Jay Srivatsa - Chardan Capital Markets LLC

Analyst

Okay. Let me ask a question at a higher level. Your commentary seem to suggest that the order activity is picking up and that is potentially on the beginning of some recovery in the capital equipment sector for semiconductors, help us understand how you see this recovery playing out, is it going to be a short upturn or is it going to be more gradual over the coming quarters. Help us understand that if you could.

Roy Porat

Management

I think there is a lot of hesitation it has to deal with some of the big players, it has to deal with some of the things we will hear about a capacity clearing out from, Apple moving from Samsung to (inaudible) excess capacity in Samsung on one hand. on the other hand, so I expect some things to clear out there, but things are developing also with Korea food-chain, I think a little bit difficult to foresee how things will pick up. And in general, as I said, some of the back-end guys are talking about excess inventories and then reducing this inventory attrition point and then things would pick up again, but to say that we have a very good global economic market oversight is difficult.

Jay Srivatsa - Chardan Capital Markets LLC

Analyst

Okay. Last question, I might have missed this, but did you give the split between PCB and semiconductors for Q2?

Roy Porat

Management

You have 62% is semiconductors related and 38% is PCB.

Jay Srivatsa - Chardan Capital Markets LLC

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from Edwin Mok of Needham. Please go ahead, sir. Edwin Mok – Needham & Co. LLC: Hi, thanks for taking my question. So first question, just to be clear on your guidance, $19.1 million, how much do you expect the PCB versus semi?

Roy Porat

Management

We normally don’t break out this guidance in general, but quarter-over-quarter, I expect the semiconductor to grow more and the PCB to grow to maybe fall a little bit, okay. And so expect a slightly better quarter on our semiconductor side of our business and slightly a decrease in our PCB side of the business. So I think… Edwin Mok – Needham & Co. LLC: I see, okay. Okay, that’s helpful. And then, on the push-out you mentioned, is it due to the OSATs or back-end packaging device or do you think some of that will come on the IDMs too?

Roy Porat

Management

I think it’s fair to say at least the specific ones and we don’t want to get too specific here. It’s related to a leading IBM and some of his connected subcontractors. Edwin Mok – Needham & Co. LLC:

Roy Porat

Management

As I’ve said, we did recognize the Xact sales in the first half and we’ll recognize additional revenues in the second half. And most of these orders or all of these orders right now, are repeat orders from existing customers. So I don’t expect a huge jump in the business, but on the other hand, reassuring and these customers are tier one customers. So we are talking right now at least for this year, that two customers and both of them, I would say top five, one of the top five global guys. So it’s a good indication that we are on track at least in the area where we play and it’s going to be a reasonably good year. I think on the last call we talked about hitting around plus minus $10 million on a yearly basis from exact or Sela product. Edwin Mok – Needham & Co. LLC: Okay great and then, can you update us on in terms of the LED space have you seen activity and then, in terms of orders for equipment and any change in the competitive side?

Roy Porat

Management

Actually, a very slow business this year coming from LED, a few tools but not a whole lot. I think a few years ago or last two years were expected some significant growth coming and increasing capacity and that has not matured. I don’t think the competitive landscape has changed at all. I think in that class if it’s basically asking KLA which dominates that segment and it hasn’t changed a lot but there is very small activity this year and it’s for us and I think for KLA as well. Edwin Mok – Needham & Co. LLC: Okay great, so you have already kind of aggregate all the commentary, it sound like at least in the third quarter seeing some sequential, decline is all related to this back-end related push-out that you have to see, right. Beyond that all these pieces of business is all trending in line, then if anything is exactly is getting a little bit better. Is that correct way of thinking about that and I guess tied to kind of the earlier question on the fourth quarter, is it true that historically, your PCB business tend to be seasonally weaker in the fourth quarter. I’ll try and understand just (inaudible) beyond this quarter basically?

Moshe Eisenberg

Management

No. I think, PCB business is really I’d say aligned with global economy as much less I would say exposed to technology, and it’s really much more a capacity driven. If there is no such seasonality in the fourth quarter, the only seasonality that we do see some times is in the first quarter actually, and that normally depends on where in the quarter does the Chinese New Year fall in. So if it falls in towards the second half of the first quarter, you might get a bump or hiccup in the market. But there is no seasonality in the fourth quarter in PCB side of our business. Edwin Mok – Needham & Co. LLC: Okay, thanks, that was good color. Thanks a lot. That’s all I have. Thank you.

Roy Porat

Management

Okay, thanks Edwin.

Operator

Operator

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Hi. I would like to know if at the moment, you think that Q4 will be a bit or much better than Q3 or in the worst scenario it can be seen in also Q3?

Moshe Eisenberg

Management

Hi, (inaudible), as I’ve said earlier, I think Q4 is a bit far from us and we don’t give any, we are not able to give any estimations on the fourth quarter right now.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. But three months ago you said that you see pretty strong second half. So what happened in the last weeks and the last months that changed your earlier guidance?

Roy Porat

Management

As I said, I think we had a few push outs on the third quarter and that’s I would say the reason for, I would say slightly shorter numbers that we initially expected. And as I said, again, we do expect the general environment with all the risk involved and giving the forward-looking statement further than a single quarter is still positive.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. Thanks.

Roy Porat

Management

To draw our conclusions for that, is it going to be better than first quarter or flat or worse, I think it’s too difficult for us at this stage to give an indication.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. Thanks.

Moshe Eisenberg

Management

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from George Melas of MKH Management. Please go ahead. George Melas-Kyriazi – MKH Management Co. LLC: Good morning. Could you give us little bit more information the 3D inject segment. Can you say how much have you actually invest in [quarter] in that business, and are you actually working with – how many customers are you working with there?

Roy Porat

Management

Okay. It’s something we’ve talked about quite a lot in the past, but in general, this product is not released for sale yet. This is a new technology that we’re developing. The investment is about $2 million a year, something like that’s roughly the run rate that we spend on this. So it’s R&D investment with zero yield years in top line or any revenues. We did pass a very, I would say important internal milestone with this quarter development. And we expect the next milestone to be around the end of the year beginning of next year when we start beta testing of this product. In the beginning it’s going to be two initial customers. George Melas-Kyriazi – MKH Management Co. LLC: Okay, very good. Thank you very much.

Roy Porat

Management

Sure.

Operator

Operator

There are no further questions at this time. Before I ask Mr. Porat to go ahead with his closing statement, I would like to remind participants that a replay of this call will be available on Camtek’s website, www.camtek.co.il beginning tomorrow. Mr. Porat, would you like to make your concluding statement?

Roy Porat

Management

Thank you everyone for joining the call.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. This concludes the Camtek's second quarter 2013 results conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may go ahead and disconnect.