SkyWater Technology Reports Second Quarter 2021 Results

SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT) today announced financial results for the second quarter of 2021, ended July 4, 2021.

• Net sales grew 34% year-over-year to $41.2 million
• Net loss to shareholders of $7.0 million, or (17)% of net sales
• Adjusted EBITDA of $(0.8) million, or (2.0)% of net sales

“Both our Wafer Services and Advanced Technology Services businesses grew significantly over the prior year,” said SkyWater president and CEO Thomas Sonderman. “During the quarter, our Wafer Services business expanded aggressively in support of the IoT and automotive sectors. We also continued to win new Advanced Technology Services business at a healthy rate bolstering future growth, with several new customer wins in the bio-medical space. Two of our existing customers selected SkyWater for additional technology services at our Florida facility, demonstrating the strategic value that U.S.-based advanced packaging solutions can bring to our customers.”

SkyWater’s Board approved a strategic capital investment of $56 million. The majority of this is targeted to expand capacity at the company’s Minnesota fab which is expected to increase overall output capacity by at least 40% and to enable accelerated revenue growth. The remainder is focused on expediting SkyWater’s entry into the gallium nitride (GaN) market, a promising technology for electric vehicles, 5G, and consumer electronics, among others. Its properties enable higher charging efficiencies, smaller chip size and lighter weight for many applications.

Sonderman continued, “We believe SkyWater can fill the need for a U.S.-based 200 mm foundry that offers both technology development and scaled manufacturing for GaN-based solutions allowing us to rapidly expand the serviceable market with our unique Technology as a Service^SM model, driving higher revenue and gross margins for the company over the long term.”

Sonderman concluded, “We are pleased with our year-over-year top line performance and remain confident in our long-term revenue growth target of approximately 25% for 2021 and beyond.”

Q2 2021 Results:

• Net Sales: Net sales of $41.2 million increased 34% year-over-year. Advanced Technology Services sales of $26.9 million increased 35% year-over-year. Tool sales of $2.3 million are included in Advanced Technology Services sales in the second quarter of 2021 compared to none in the prior year. Wafer Services sales of $14.3 million increased 31% compared to the second quarter of 2020.
• Gross Profit: GAAP gross profit was $1.8 million, or 4.4% of sales, compared to $5.5 million, or 17.8% of sales, in the second quarter of 2020. Non-GAAP gross profit was $3.0 million, or 7.2% of sales, compared to $5.6 million, or 18.1% of sales, in the second quarter of 2020.
• Other Income: Recorded a $6.5 million benefit for the Payroll Protection Program loan forgiveness in June 2020.
• Net Loss: GAAP net loss to shareholders of $7.0 million, or $(0.20) per share, compared to a net loss to shareholders of $5.3 million, or $(0.29), in the second quarter of 2020. Non-GAAP net loss to shareholders of $5.1 million, or $(0.15) per share, compared to a net loss to shareholders of $4.1 million, or $(0.23), in the second quarter of 2020.
• Adjusted EBITDA: Adjusted EBITDA was $(0.8) million, or (2.0)% of sales, compared to $2.5 million or 8.0% of sales in the second quarter of 2020.
• Balance Sheet: Cash and cash equivalents of $64.6 million compared to $7.4 million from January 3, 2021.

A reconciliation between historical GAAP and non-GAAP information is contained in the tables below in the section titled, “Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”

Recent Business Updates:

• Initiated the transition of multiple customers from Advanced Technology Services to Wafer Services validating the differentiating aspect of the company’s Technology as a Service business model.
• Finalized the necessary customer qualifications to enable the volume ramp of the company’s Power MOSFET platform in the second half of the year.
• Won several new designs in the bio-medical market, leveraging the company’s MEMS technology platform.
• Significantly expanded the company’s Advanced Technology Services and Wafer Services sales pipelines.
• Successfully started up the company’s Florida-based fab and entered into new advanced packaging engagements with two existing customers, including Rockley Photonics.
• Continued to successfully execute the technology qualification of the company’s radiation hardened (RH90) platform which will enable future rad-hard testing.
• Completed a broad agreement with CAES to leverage its extensive experience in space-based electronics as SkyWater establishes its RH90 design enablement ecosystem, allowing faster time to market for end customers requiring rad-hard solutions.
• Launched a collaboration with Efabless on its chipIgnite program to support commercial chip designs that require non-open sourced IP.
• Funding from existing U.S. Government programs is still anticipated, but the timing is difficult to forecast.
• Delayed recognition for the majority of the revenue for wafers produced and put in inventory for a temperature monitoring wearable application for early COVID-19 detection as announced in May 2020. Due to the rapid introduction of the COVID-19 vaccines, these wafers are now being repurposed for an alternative health-related wearable application for the original customer or other customers.
• Postponed an Advanced Technology Services program that generated significant revenue in 2020 and was forecasted to generate 2021 revenue. The program is now being restructured with the customer and is expected to resume in 2022.
• Achieved inclusion of SkyWater Technology shares (Nasdaq: SKYT) in the Russell^® 3000 Index on June 28, 2021.
• Gained approval from SkyWater’s Board of Directors for $56 million of strategic capital investment to both expand the capacity of SkyWater Minnesota and fast-track the company’s entry into the high growth gallium nitride market.

SkyWater has not provided quarterly or full year outlook for net sales or earnings because these estimates are difficult to predict on a forward-looking basis due to certain factors that are materially significant to SkyWater’s ability to accurately forecast certain items that are out of its control and/or cannot be reasonably projected.

Investor Webcast

SkyWater will host a conference call on Wednesday, August 4, 2021, at 9:00 a.m. CT to discuss its second quarter financial results. A live webcast of the call will be available online at IR.SkyWaterTechnology.com.

About SkyWater Technology

SkyWater (NASDAQ: SKYT) is a U.S.-owned semiconductor manufacturer and a DOD-accredited Trusted supplier. SkyWater’s Technology as a Service^SM model streamlines the path to production for customers with development services, volume production and advanced packaging solutions in its world-class U.S. facilities. This pioneering model enables innovators to co-create the next wave of technology with diverse categories including mixed-signal CMOS, read-out ICs, rad-hard, power discretes, MEMS, superconducting ICs, photonics, carbon nanotubes and interposers. SkyWater serves growing markets including aerospace & defense, automotive, biomedical, cloud & computing, consumer, industrial and IoT. For more information, visit: www.SkyWaterTechnology.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements that are based on the Company’s current expectations or forecasts of future events, rather than past, events and outcomes, and such statements are not guarantees of future performance. Forward-looking statements include all statements other than statements of historical fact contained in this presentation, including information or predictions concerning the Company’s future business, results of operations, financial performance, plans and objectives, competitive position, market trends, and potential growth and market opportunities. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by words such as “intends,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continues,” “anticipates,” “plans,” “expects,” “believes,” “should,” “could,” “may,” “will”, “targets,” “projects,” “seeks” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology.

Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, which may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Key factors that could cause the Company’s actual results to be different than expected or anticipated include, but are not limited to: our goals and strategies; our future business development, financial condition and results of operations; our ability to continue operating our sole semiconductor foundry at full capacity; our ability to appropriately respond to changing technologies on a timely and cost-effective basis; our customer relationships and our ability to retain and expand our customer relationships; our ability to accurately predict our future revenues for the purpose of appropriately budgeting and adjusting our expenses; our ability to diversify our customer base and develop relationships in new markets; our expectations regarding dependence on our largest customer; the performance and reliability of our third-party suppliers and manufacturers; our ability to control costs, including our operating and capital expenses; the size and growth potential of the markets for our solutions, and our ability to serve and expand our presence in those markets; the level of demand in our customers’ end markets; our ability to attract, train and retain key qualified personnel; adverse litigation judgments, settlements or other litigation-related costs; changes in trade policies, including the imposition of tariffs; our ability to raise additional capital or financing; our ability to accurately forecast demand; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, results of operations and financial condition; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy; our ability to maintain compliance with certain U.S. Government contracting requirements; regulatory developments in the United States and foreign countries; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; and other factors discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of the prospectus the Company filed with the SEC on April 22, 2021 and in other documents that the Company files with the SEC, which are available at http://www.sec.gov. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release.

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures

We provide supplemental non-GAAP financial information that our management utilizes to evaluate our ongoing financial performance and provide additional insight to investors as supplemental information to our U.S. GAAP results. We provide non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP net loss to shareholders, and non-GAAP net loss per share. We provide these non-GAAP financial measures because we believe this non-GAAP presentation provides a baseline for analyzing trends in our business and to exclude certain items that may not be indicative of our core operating results and for the other reasons described in the footnotes to the tables below. The non-GAAP financial measures disclosed in this earnings press release should not be viewed as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, the reported results prepared in accordance with GAAP. In addition, because our non-GAAP measures are not determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, these measures are susceptible to differing calculations, and not all comparable or peer companies may calculate their non-GAAP measures in the same manner.

We also provide adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin as supplemental non-GAAP measurements. We define adjusted EBITDA as net income or loss before interest expense, income tax provision (benefit), depreciation and amortization, equity-based compensation and certain other items that we do not view as indicative of our ongoing performance, including Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness, corporate conversion and initial public offering costs, SkyWater Florida start-up costs, management transition expense, fair value changes in contingent consideration, fair value changes in warrants and management fees. We believe adjusted EBITDA is a useful performance measure because it allows for an effective evaluation of our operating performance when compared to our peers, without regard to our financing methods or capital structure. We exclude the items listed above from net income or loss in arriving at adjusted EBITDA because these amounts can vary substantially within our industry depending upon accounting methods and book values of assets, capital structures and the method by which the assets were acquired. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Certain items excluded from adjusted EBITDA are significant components in understanding and assessing a company’s financial performance, such as a company’s cost of capital and tax structure, as well as the historic costs of depreciable assets, none of which are reflected in adjusted EBITDA. Our presentation of adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an indication that our results will be unaffected by the items excluded from adjusted EBITDA. In future fiscal periods, we may exclude such items and may incur income and expenses similar to these excluded items. Accordingly, the exclusion of these items and other similar items in our non-GAAP presentation should not be interpreted as implying that these items are non-recurring, infrequent or unusual, unless otherwise expressly indicated.

The following tables present a reconciliation of the most directly comparable financial measures, calculated and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP, to our non-GAAP financial measures.

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