ISSI Announces Fourth Quarter And Fiscal 2014 Results
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ISSI Announces Fourth Quarter And Fiscal 2014 Results

MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 29, 2014 — (PRNewswire) —  Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISSI) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 2014.

Fourth Fiscal Quarter and Recent Highlights:

Fiscal Year 2014 Highlights:

"During the fourth quarter, revenue continued to grow in our automotive and IMM end markets, which represented approximately 70% of our revenue, while our communications and consumer markets declined due to greater than anticipated weakness in Asia combined with wafer shortages from one of our flash foundries," said Scott Howarth, ISSI's President and CEO. "Over the past year, IMM revenue grew 34% as key global customers transitioned volume to ISSI in recognition of our increasing role as a strategic long-term supplier.  We also continued to grow revenue in the automotive market as we expanded our automotive product offerings with high density DDR2 and DDR3, plus flash and analog solutions.

"Looking ahead to fiscal 2015, we believe we are well positioned for growth across our markets. Our expanded specialty memory portfolio has been a key contributor to increases in market share and customer penetration, particularly with automotive and industrial accounts. Although it is too early to predict a rebound in the communications market, we continue to see strong design activity that should prove beneficial to ISSI when the market returns to growth. We remain focused on continued growth, improved profitability and strong cash generation to support our dividend program and create increasing value for our stockholders."

Fourth Fiscal Quarter 2014 Results
Revenue in the fourth fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2014 was $84.2 million, compared to $84.8 million in the third quarter of 2014 and $78.4 million in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2013. Revenue in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2014 consisted of $76.2 million of SRAM and DRAM revenue, $5.9 million of NOR flash revenue, and $2.1 million of analog revenue. SRAM and DRAM revenue increased 9.0% over the September 2013 quarter.

GAAP gross margin in the fourth fiscal quarter was 35.3%, compared to 34.5% in the June 2014 quarter and 33.1% in the September 2013 quarter.

GAAP net income in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2014 was $2.8 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $6.2 million, or $0.19 per diluted share, in the June 2014 quarter and GAAP net income of $4.7 million, or $0.15 per share, in the September 2013 quarter.

Non-GAAP net income in the September 2014 quarter was $5.8 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, compared to $7.9 million, or $0.25 per diluted share, in the June 2014 quarter and $6.1 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, in the September 2013 quarter.

Our GAAP and non-GAAP net income per share in the September 2014 quarter were each reduced by $0.03 per share due to adjustments to the income tax rate as a result of a greater than expected portion of profit in higher tax jurisdictions.

Non-GAAP results exclude stock based compensation, amortization of intangibles related to acquisitions, gains on the sales of investments, and non-cash tax expense related to the utilization of previously recorded deferred tax assets. A reconciliation of GAAP results to non-GAAP results is provided in the financial statement tables following the text of this press release.

Fiscal 2014 Results:
Revenue for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2014 was $329.0 million, an increase of 7.0% from $307.6 million in fiscal 2013. DRAM and SRAM revenue in fiscal 2014 was $294.2 million, an increase of 9.2% from fiscal 2013. GAAP gross margin in fiscal 2014 was 34.1%, compared to 33.0% in fiscal 2013.

GAAP net income in fiscal 2014 was $23.3 million, or $0.74 per share, compared to GAAP net income in fiscal 2013 of $17.5 million, or $0.59 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income in fiscal 2014 was $26.4 million, or $0.83 per diluted share, compared to $24.2 million, or $0.81 per diluted share, in fiscal 2013.

Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaled $140.0 million at September 30, 2014, compared with $141.6 million at September 30, 2013. 

Dividend Payment
The ISSI Board of Directors has approved a dividend of $0.06 per share to be paid on November 21, 2014, to stockholders of record as of November 10, 2014.

December Quarter Outlook
The Company expects total revenue for the December quarter to range between $80.0 and $85.0 million, consisting of SRAM and DRAM revenue of between $73.0 million and $76.5 million, NOR flash revenue of between $5.5 million and $6.0 million, and analog revenue of between $1.5 million and $2.5 million. Gross margin for the December quarter is expected to range between 34.5% and 35.5%. Operating expenses are expected to range between $23.0 million and $24.0 million. GAAP net income is expected to be between $0.10 and $0.14 per diluted share and non-GAAP net income is expected to range between $0.18 and $0.22 per diluted share.

Conference Call Information
A conference call will be held today at 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time to discuss the Company's fourth quarter and fiscal 2014 financial results. To access ISSI's conference call via telephone, dial 800-768-6563 by 6:50 a.m. Pacific Time. The participant passcode is 5123006. The call will also be webcast from ISSI's website at http://www.issi.com.

Non-GAAP Financial Information
In addition to disclosing results determined in accordance with GAAP, ISSI discloses its non-GAAP operating income, provision for income taxes and net income for certain periods that exclude stock based compensation, the amortization of intangibles related to acquisitions, gains on sales of investments, and non-cash tax expense related to the utilization of previously recorded deferred tax assets. When presenting non-GAAP results, the Company includes a reconciliation of the non-GAAP results to the results under GAAP. Management believes that including the non-GAAP results assists investors in assessing the Company's operational performance and its performance relative to its competitors. The Company has presented its non-GAAP results as a complement to its results provided in accordance with GAAP, and these results should not be regarded as a substitute for GAAP. Management uses non-GAAP measures to plan and forecast future periods, to establish operational goals, to compare with its business plan and individual operating budgets, to assist the public in measuring the Company's performance, to allocate resources and, relative to the Company's historical financial performance, to enable comparability between periods. Management also considers such non-GAAP results to be an important supplemental measure of its performance. The economic substance behind management's decision to use such non-GAAP measures relates to the non-GAAP measures being a useful measure of the potential future performance of the Company's business. In line with common industry practice and to help enable comparability with other technology companies, the Company's non-GAAP presentation excludes the impact of the items described above. Other companies may calculate non-GAAP results differently than the Company, limiting its usefulness as a comparative measure. In addition, such non-GAAP measures may exclude financial information that some may consider important in evaluating the Company's performance. Management compensates for the foregoing limitations of non-GAAP measures by presenting certain information on both a GAAP and non-GAAP basis and providing reconciliations of the GAAP and non-GAAP measures.

About the Company
ISSI is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and markets high performance integrated circuits for the following key markets: (i) automotive, (ii) communications, (iii) industrial, medical, and military, and (iv) digital consumer. The Company's primary products are low, medium and high density DRAM and high speed and low power SRAM. The Company also designs and markets NOR flash products and high performance analog and mixed signal integrated circuits. ISSI is headquartered in Silicon Valley with worldwide offices in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, China, Europe, Hong Kong, India, and Korea. Visit our web site at http://www.issi.com/.

Forward Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements concerning our increasing role as a strategic supplier, being well positioned for growth in our markets, strong design activity that should prove beneficial to ISSI when the market returns to growth, remaining focused on continued growth, improved profitability and strong cash generation to support our dividend program and create increasing value for our stockholders and our outlook for the December 2014 quarter with respect to total revenue, SRAM and DRAM revenue, NOR flash revenue, analog revenue, gross margin, operating expenses and GAAP and Non-GAAP net income per share are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include supply and demand conditions in the market place (especially in the automotive market and the IMM market), unexpected reductions in average selling prices for our products, our ability to sell our products in our key markets (including automotive and IMM) and the pricing and gross margins achieved on such sales, our ability to continue to control or reduce operating expenses, our ability to obtain a sufficient supply of wafers, wafer pricing, our ability to maintain sufficient inventory of products to satisfy customer orders, our ability to realize the expected benefits of our acquisitions including maintaining relationships with key customers, vendors and employees, changes in manufacturing yields, order cancellations, order rescheduling, product warranty claims, competition, the level and value of inventory held by OEM customers, the outcome of any existing or future litigation involving intellectual property or other matters or other risks listed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2013 and Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2014. In addition, the financial information in this press release is unaudited and subject to any adjustments that may be made in connection with the year-end audit. The Company assumes no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements in this release because of new information, future events, or otherwise.

 



Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc.  



Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income



(Unaudited)



(In thousands, except per share data)













Three Months Ended


Fiscal Year Ended












September 30,


June 30,


September 30,


September 30,


September 30,


2014


2014


2013


2014


2013





















Net sales

$          84,152


$          84,834


$          78,392


$        328,977


$        307,570

Cost of sales

54,471


55,538


52,458


216,721


206,109

Gross profit

29,681


29,296


25,934


112,256


101,461











Operating expenses:










  Research and development

12,880


10,978


9,925


45,243


40,839

  Selling, general and administrative

11,450


11,942


11,316


46,295


43,964

  Impairment of goodwill

-


-


-


-


-

    Total operating expenses

24,330


22,920


21,241


91,538


84,803











Operating income

5,351


6,376


4,693


20,718


16,658

Interest and other income (expense), net

204


99


(183)


1,109


1,146

Gain on sale of investments

-


2,140


2,878


11,300


12,217











Income before income taxes

5,555


8,615


7,388


33,127


30,021

Provision for income taxes

2,697


2,388


2,658


9,638


12,277











Consolidated net income

2,858


6,227


4,730


23,489


17,744











Net income attributable to










     noncontrolling interests

(26)


(41)


(32)


(224)


(196)











Net income attributable to ISSI

$            2,832


$            6,186


$            4,698


$          23,265


$          17,548











Basic net income per share

$              0.09


$              0.20


$              0.16


$              0.77


$              0.62

Shares used in basic per share calculation

30,699


30,312


28,928


30,037


28,223











Diluted net income per share

$              0.09


$              0.19


$              0.15


$              0.74


$              0.59

Shares used in diluted per share calculation

32,383


31,963


30,372


31,623


29,694

 

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures


Three Months Ended


Fiscal Year Ended


(In thousands, except per share data)












September 30,


June 30,


September 30,


September 30,


September 30,


2014


2014


2013


2014


2013











Operating income:










    GAAP operating income

$            5,351


$            6,376


$            4,693


$          20,718


$          16,658

Adjustments:










    Chingis intangible asset amortization

347


347


347


1,388


1,352

    Chingis acquisition related inventory write up

-


-


-


-


492

    Stock-based compensation expense

1,507


1,539


1,568


6,092


5,941

       Total adjustments

1,854


1,886


1,915


7,480


7,785

    Non-GAAP operating income

$            7,205


$            8,262


$            6,608


$          28,198


$          24,443











Provision for income taxes:










    On a GAAP basis

$            2,697


$            2,388


$            2,658


$            9,638


$          12,277

Adjustments:










    Non-cash tax expense

1,138


1,204


1,335


2,954


6,691

    Tax impact of gains on sale of investments

-


749


1,052


3,955


4,357

       Total adjustments

1,138


1,953


2,387


6,909


11,048

    Non-GAAP provision for income taxes

$            1,559


$               435


$               271


$            2,729


$            1,229











Net income attributable to ISSI:










    On a GAAP basis

$            2,832


$            6,186


$            4,698


$          23,265


$          17,548

Adjustments:










    Chingis intangible asset amortization

347


347


347


1,388


1,352

    Chingis acquisition related inventory write up

-


-


-


-


492

    Stock-based compensation expense

1,507


1,539


1,568


6,092


5,941

    Gain on sales of investment

-


(2,140)


(2,878)


(11,300)


(12,217)

    Non-cash tax expense

1,138


1,204


1,335


2,954


6,691

    Tax impact of gains on sale of investments

-


749


1,052


3,955


4,357

       Total adjustments

2,992


1,699


1,424


3,089


6,616

    Non-GAAP net income

$            5,824


$            7,885


$            6,122


$          26,354


$          24,164











Shares used in Non-GAAP net income per share:










    Basic

30,699


30,312


28,928


30,037


28,223

    Diluted

32,383


31,963


30,372


31,623


29,694











Non-GAAP net income per share:










    Basic

$              0.19


$              0.26


$              0.21


$              0.88


$              0.86

    Diluted

$              0.18


$              0.25


$              0.20


$              0.83


$              0.81

 

Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(In thousands)










September 30,


September 30,




2014


2013




(unaudited)


(1)

ASSETS

Current assets:






  Cash and cash equivalents



$  137,534


$  119,997

  Restricted cash



1,000


-

  Short-term investments



1,477


21,558

  Accounts receivable, net



50,458


46,088

  Inventories



85,093


68,469

  Other current assets



18,901


16,928







Total current assets



294,463


273,040

Property and equipment, net



58,847


46,504

Purchased intangible assets, net



5,093


6,626

Goodwill



9,178


9,178

Other assets



32,761


26,521

Total assets



$  400,342


$  361,869







LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

Current liabilities:






  Accounts payable



$    54,554


$    50,229

  Accrued compensation and benefits



9,875


8,072

  Accrued expenses



11,365


7,357

  Current portion of long-term debt



195


195







Total current liabilities 



75,989


65,853







Long-term debt



4,339


4,534

Other long-term liabilities



5,456


8,712







Total liabilities



85,784


79,099







Commitments and contingencies












Stockholders' equity:






  Common stock



3


3

  Additional paid-in capital



364,587


343,947

  Accumulated deficit



(51,076)


(72,498)

  Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)


(1,044)


9,121







Total ISSI stockholders' equity



312,470


280,573







  Noncontrolling interest



2,088


2,197







Total stockholders' equity



314,558


282,770

Total liabilities and stockholders' equity



$  400,342


$  361,869













(1) Derived from audited financial statements.

 

SOURCE Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc.

Contact:
Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc.
John M. Cobb, Chief Financial Officer, Investor Relations, (408) 969-6600
Email Contact Shelton Group, Leanne Sievers, EVP, P: 949-224-3874, E: Email Contact Matt Kreps, Managing Director, P: 214-272-0073, E: Email Contact
Web: http://www.issi.com