Gregory R. Beecher
Analyst
Thanks, Mike, and good morning, everyone. I'd like to start by providing some additional perspective on 2013 at the midway point before I cover the second quarter highlights and third quarter guidance. First, 2013 is shaping up to be another solid year for us. While it's running under some of the earlier year, full year analyst forecast, we're solidly on track to exceed our 15% industry target profit rate for the fourth year in a row. Since the start of 2010, we've averaged a 23% operating profit rate and generated $981 million of cumulative free cash flow. Our combination of an optimized business model designed for the industry realities and highly selective new growth investments, where we can use technology to differentiate, continues to work very well for us. In the short term, we expect the normal seasonal patterns to occur as much of our demand is tied to annual consumer cycles. As a quick reminder, in the last 3 years, after strong first halves, our third quarter SOC test bookings have declined from the second quarter levels between about 20% to 60%. That's why we're modeling the SOC test market this year to be about $2.2 billion. We provided a slide that illustrates the seasonal pattern in the earnings call presentation available at the Investors section of our website. Stepping back, Mobility remains our largest driver, albeit with demand down from the torrid pace a year ago. In the second quarter, we registered very solid demand in microcontroller and digital wafer sort testing, bringing our first half J750 bookings to over $110 million, our highest first half demand since 2010. Wireless Test also had another solid quarter, bringing its first half bookings to just under $200 million. And memory test is showing greater demand after a very low 2012, with first half bookings over $70 million. On the other side of the ledger, hard disk drive demand remains essentially dormant and isn't expected to bounce back this year. Our focus in this business is getting our new tester for 3.5-inch cloud-based storage completed and accepted. Recall in SemiTest, most of our demand is tied to IC unit growth, which is forecast to increase at a compounded rate of about 8% per year over the next 3 years. New semiconductor device technology such as FinFETs, 3D NAND and EUV, by themselves, do not obsolete our installed base or drive increased engineering investments on our part. However, we do expect to see some benefit from these technologies as advanced processes are naturally less stable and test is critical to wean out new defects. Test seconds also tend to rise with these denser, more complex devices. Offsetting these factors, of course, are tester efficiencies such as parallel tests, which to date, has kept the annual SOC tester market at an average of about 2.5 billion over the last 3 years. Looking ahead, some analysts models have growing SOC test capital intensity, and hence, SOC test market size in the coming years after being flat for the last 3 years. So we're not sizing the company's fixed cost, assuming a larger market size, we're very well positioned to take advantage of this growth should it happen. Elsewhere in SemiTest, there are some technology driven buys in RF test due to new standards that require a more complex modulation and increased computer -- computing horsepower. In memory test, we're seeing similar technology buys due to increasing frequencies in both FLASH and mobile and graphics DRAM. These buys often open up market share opportunities and we're capitalizing on them. In microcontroller and imager test, we refreshed the industry standard, J750, with 4,400 sold to date. We've taken the system pin count up to over 2,000, doubled the operating frequency and added more features to shorten the time it takes customers to bring new chips to volume production. These new instruments and software features can be plugged into existing J750s so customers get the maximum leverage from their installed base. As Mike noted, the J750 had its best bookings quarter in 3 years and we have broad adoption of the new J750 in the market. While we have the majority share in the microcontroller market today, we expect to grow that further going forward. Now shifting to LitePoint. I know there continues to be keen interest after a spectacular 2012. So let me get to the key points. First, with our short lead times, it is very difficult to estimate full year results, even at the midway point of the year. That said, quite a very strong start, we expect LitePoint to come in at the low end of our full year range of $260 million to $360 million in sales. Keeping 2013 in perspective, recall that LitePoint sales were $130 million in 2011 and more than twice that level in 2012 at $286 million, driven by record connectivity buying. When LitePoint joined Teradyne in late 2011, we set targets of 160 million for 2012 and 190 million for 2013. So we remain well ahead of those plans. The lower end of the range for LitePoint's 2013 revenue is primarily the result of a smaller connectivity market than last year. It's not too surprising that we're seeing less demand in connectivity after the record year in 2012 as the market naturally digests those large capacity adds. Shifting to cellular test, our first half designing momentum provides a very important beachhead to grow upon. This market entry should help open up doors elsewhere as we're now a proven supplier in high-volume production test. We do recognize the designing cycle can be long and the -- often the initial break-in is as a second source. But we expect cellular test to be a multi-year growth story for us. Stepping back just a bit. Let me describe how we think about the Wireless Test market. In the market, we see very familiar forces at work: increasing product complexity, driving test times up, new standards obsoleting the installed base, and unit growth driving tester demand. Balancing those balloons, so to speak, are the increasing productivity of new testers and more efficient test operations at our customers acting as anchors to tester demand. In any given year, one set of forces can have more or less influence on the market size. In 2012, the head of the investments for dual-band WiFi drove the market higher. This year, digestion of last year's spending and improving efficiencies have reduced the market size. When we look ahead to next year and beyond, we expect the market to grow, as 802.11ac, MIMO, LTE and future standards are more widely deployed and wireless unit growth continues. So overall, we feel very confident that LitePoint, with its production-optimized test solutions, will be a long-term winner in the growing Wireless Test market. LitePoint has been the long-standing innovator, focusing on production test solutions rather than shoehorning a general-purpose tester into focused wireless production test applications. LitePoint was the first to offer a one-box conductivity tester, the first with non-signaling and the first with 4-device testing. LitePoint's DNA is to lead by working very closely with the leading chipset companies and brands, offering a solution set level approach for high-volume production tests. We'll continue driving that innovation very hard going forward. Now before I get into the financial details of the quarter, I'd like to note that we will not be commenting on the various reports from Asia and elsewhere about specific strategic competitions in SemiTest. As you know, we can't speak about any particular customer or what any order may signal. We can, however, simply say that we are well positioned in mobility with our high-end smartphones, low-end smartphones, tablets or the Internet of things. Now moving to the key highlights of the second quarter. We had total company bookings of $474 million. SemiTest bookings were up over $100 million to $362 million. SOC test orders were $319 million and memory test orders were $43 million in the second quarter. SemiTest service orders were $76 million. Wireless Test orders were $87 million. SemiTest orders -- Systems Test orders, excuse me, decreased to $25 million with $8 million of service orders. In the second quarter, Semiconductor Test sales were 68% of the total, Wireless Test 23% and Systems Test 9%. Our book-to-bill ratio for the second quarter was 1.1 for the overall company, 1.2 for Semiconductor Test, 0.9 for Wireless Test and 0.7 for Systems Test. At the end of the quarter, our backlog stood at $519 million, of which about 80% is scheduled to ship and be recognized as revenue within the next 6 months. The top line of $429 million was up over 50% sequentially from the first quarter. SemiTest was $293 million, up $81 million or 38%. Wireless Test was $99 million, up $66 million or almost threefold and Systems Test was $37 million. We had one customer that was more than 10% of company revenues in the quarter and our top 5 customers accounted for 43% of our second quarter sales. SemiTest product shipments increased 50% from a quarter ago. Within the $429 million, service revenue was $66 million or flat compared to Q1. SemiTest service revenue was $50 million. Total company products turns business was 38% versus 59% a quarter ago. SemiTest product turns business was 48% versus 60% a quarter ago. Memory revenue was $27 million. Now moving down to P&L. Non-GAAP gross margins increased to 56% from 55% in the first quarter due to higher volume. Non-GAAP operating expenses were $138 million compared to $131 million in the first quarter as our variable compensation flexes up on higher sales and we had increased R&D spending as planned. At the operating line, we posted a 24% profit. Our non-GAAP net interest and other expense was $2 million. Cash tax expense for the quarter was $12 million and our full year cash tax rate is expected to be 12%. Cash from operations generated $77 million after capital additions. We ended the quarter with gross cash balance just over $1 billion. DSO was 48 days, down from 53 days in the first quarter. We expect cash and marketable securities to increase by about $100 million in the third quarter. As a reminder, we have about $330 million offshore and subject to U.S. tax if repatriated. This will likely grow to about $400 million by year end. We also have convertible debt with a face value of $190 million, which matures in March 2014. Hence, our available U.S. cash is closer to $500 million. We will continue to evaluate nonorganic opportunities that offer entry into a closely related business, which has a growing market and sustainable product differentiation. This is why we keep more dry powder than needed to run our existing businesses. And as you might imagine, cash is by far the preferred currency in any M&A transaction. Having said this, we also recognize that we might not find a new business that meets our strict criteria, so we'll continue to evaluate all of our capital allocation alternatives with a bias to benefiting long-term shareholders. As noted in the press release, sales for the third quarter are expected to be between $425 million and $465 million and the non-GAAP EPS range is $0.39 to $0.49 on 213 million diluted shares. I should quickly add that the non-GAAP EPS accounts for the dilution from the convertible debt net of the call overlay. Q3 guidance excludes the amortization of acquired intangibles, the non-cash imputed interest on the convertible debt and includes tax on a cash basis. Our GAAP EPS range is $0.23 to $0.31. The operating profit rate at the midpoint of our third quarter guidance is about 24%. Now moving to the P&L percentages in the third quarter. We expect gross margins to be 56% to 57%. R&D should be 16% to 17%, and SG&A should be 16% to 17% as well. Non-GAAP net interest expense is expected to be about $2 million. So 2013 looks to be another year of above-model profitability, despite more modest demands in some of our key segments. As you know, we started the year with a major design win in cellular test, which should help pave the way for a multiyear expansion plan. In SOC test, we've refreshed the highly successful J750 product and have multiple installations already. And in memory test, our products are gaining greater traction. So we remain keenly focused on implementing selective growth through technology differentiation while maintaining financial discipline. Now I'll turn the call back to Andy.