Thomas Caulfield
Analyst · Wolfe Research
Yes. Let me give a little context first and talk a little bit about the year and what we're seeing. So let's go back a year ago. 1Q 2024, we said would be the low point of GF revenue. And over 2024, we grew revenue sequentially all through the year. At our last earnings call in November, we stated that, one, Q1 of 2025 and which show year-on-year growth, and we're seeing approximately 2% growth. By the way, if we normalize this Q1 '24 to '25 eliminating or normalizing out the LTA revenue, our growth would be actually 7%. And then while we only guide one quarter at a time, as we said in our prepared remarks, we do see being a growth year over 2024. Now here's the thing. The range of that growth will be, in large part, determined by the secular industry growth in the diversified space that we play in, in the end markets that we serve. But if you compare our Q1 revenue year-over-year to other companies in this diversified space, we're showing growth as we said, whether it's roughly 2% or the normalization of 7 where many others, the vast majority were showing decreasing year-over-year mid-single digits. Some of them as high as 25%. So where is the upside for GF? Why are we seeing it different? Well, it's certainly auto, which, by the way, this will be a fifth year in a row of achieving revenue growth. Remember, we started in 2020 with somewhere under $100 million in revenue. And last year, as you see, we reported $1.2 billion, and we see there's no reason we shouldn't continue to grow in 2025. Why is auto strong for us, say, versus what you're hearing from others. It's not only just the content growth. It's the number of sockets we've won over the last number of years, and they are starting to ramp. So even in the face of sluggish auto sales out of the dealerships that you're seeing. Even with that, we're going to grow again this year. And then the other upside for us in 2025 is in our comms infrastructure and data center end market. That was a transitional market for us. We've been bumping along the bottom at about $0.5 billion of revenue on an annual basis. But given the strength in some of the key design wins in satellite communications and our Photonics platform in the data center, this is the year that CID is going to start growing for us. So as the industry comes back, we will come back. The theme for us is we should outperform because we positioned the company with these key design wins in these end markets for growth. Do you have a follow-up, Chris?