TORONTO, Nov. 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SMTC Corporation (Nasdaq:
SMTX), a global electronics manufacturing services provider and winners of the Frost & Sullivan’s 2019 Best Practices Award for Customer Value Leadership in the Electronics Manufacturing Services Industry, today announced its third quarter 2019 results.
Third Quarter Financial Highlights
| $s in millions | Q3 2019 |
Q3 2018
(as reported) | Change |
Q3 2018
Proforma 1 | Change |
| Revenue | $88.7 | $53.7 | 65.2% | $93.7 | (5.4%) |
| Gross Profit | $8.9 | $5.2 | 70.1% | $10.3 | (13.3%) |
| Gross Profit Percentage | 10.0% | 9.8% | 11.0% | ||
| Adjusted Gross Profit2 | $10.8 | $5.1 | 109.6% | $10.2 | 5.8% |
| Adjusted Gross Profit Percentage2 | 12.1% | 9.6% | 10.8% | ||
| Net Income (Loss) | ($5.7) | $0.9 | $1.2 | nm | |
| Adjusted Net Income2 | $2.1 | $0.9 | 139.3% | $1.2 | 177.3% |
| Adjusted EBITDA2 | $6.3 | $2.4 | 161.1% | $5.5 | 13.6% |
| Adjusted EBITDA Percentage2 | 7.1% | 4.5% | 5.9% | ||
| Net Debt | $84.4 | $11.8 | $3.0 | ||
1Proforma assumes MC Assembly Holdings, Inc. (“MC Assembly”), acquired on November 9, 2018 had been acquired by SMTC on July 1, 2018, the first day of the third quarter of 2018.
2Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Profit Percentage, Adjusted Net Income, EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and EBITDA Percentage, Proforma Adjusted Gross Profit, Proforma Adjusted Gross Profit Percentage, Proforma Adjusted Net Income, Proforma EBITDA, Proforma Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Percentage (each defined below) are non-GAAP measures. Please refer to the section below labeled “Non-GAAP Information” and the various reconciliations to the applicable most directly comparable GAAP measures shown below in this press release.
SMTC Corporation (“SMTC”) reported a 65.2% year-over-year increase in revenue, compared to the third quarter of 2018. On a proforma basis, revenue declined 5.4% compared to the third quarter of 2018. Factors contributing to the year-over-year revenue decline on a proforma basis included customer inventory rebalancing as lead-times in the supply-chain shortened, customer concerns about uncertainties relating to the prolonged impact of tariffs and macro-economic conditions in certain end-markets, including the semiconductor sector which was supply constrained in 2018.
Adjusted EBITDA increased from $2.4 million to $6.3 million or by 161.1% and from $5.5 million to $6.3 million on a proforma basis or 13.6%, compared to the third quarter of 2018 as noted in the table above. The improvement in Adjusted EBITDA was due to gains from operational efficiencies and synergies achieved and increased scale from the completed integration of MC Assembly following the November 2018 acquisition.
