Silicom Reports Q3 2020 Financial Results

KFAR SAVA, Israel, Oct. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ: SILC), a leading provider of high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions, today today reported its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2020. 

Financial Results

Third Quarter: Silicom’s revenues for the third quarter of 2020 totalled $28.4 million, a sequential increase of 23% compared with $23.0 million for the second quarter of 2020 and an 18% increase compared with Q3 2019.

On a GAAP basis, net income for the quarter totalled $2.1 million, or $0.29 per diluted share ($0.30 per basic share), up 60% compared sequentially with $1.3 million, or $0.18 per share (basic and diluted), for the second quarter of 2020, and up 10% compared with the third quarter of 2019.

On a non-GAAP basis (as described and reconciled below), net income for the quarter totalled $2.9 million, or $0.41 per share (basic and diluted), a 59% sequential increase compared with $1.8 million, or $0.26 per share (basic and diluted), for the second quarter of 2020, and up 15% compared with the third quarter of 2019.

First Nine Months: Silicom’s revenues for the first nine months of 2020 totalled $73.5 million compared with $79.7 million for the first nine months of 2019.

On a GAAP basis, net income for the period totalled $4.9 million, or $0.68 per share (basic and diluted), compared with $7.8 million, or $1.03 per share (basic and diluted), for the first nine months of 2019.

On a non-GAAP basis (as described and reconciled below), net income for the period totalled $7.0 million, or $0.98 per share (basic and diluted), compared with $9.5 million, or $1.24 per diluted share ($1.25 per basic share), for the first nine months of 2019.

Guidance for the Fourth Quarter

While remaining cautious due to the continued uncertainty of the market environment, improved visibility leads Management to project revenues of $30 to $31 million for the fourth quarter of 2020.

Comments of Management

Shaike Orbach, Silicom’s President and CEO, commented, “We are pleased to report strong results for the third quarter, with revenues above our original guidance and strong profits despite the Covid macro environment. This demonstrates the ongoing power of our business platform, including our significant SD-WAN design wins, partnerships with software vendors, collaboration with Intel and our extensive pipeline, to drive ongoing growth for our company.”

Mr. Orbach continued, “Our success in the SD-WAN market has been driven by the disaggregation concept, which is based on the decoupling of hardware and software in a variety of deployment scenarios.  Now that this concept has become a trend and extended to the Mobile world, it has created a strategic tangent market for us: disaggregation of the infrastructure of 4G and 5G mobile operators. As such, we are extremely excited by our first penetration into this new market – a Tier-1 mobile operator’s selection of our architecture for next-generation Distribution Units (DUs) to use in its field trials of a network with decoupled software and hardware components. These DUs will take advantage of the full range of our related expertise, including in x86, Time Synchronization, Offload Acceleration and FPGAs.

“This win demonstrates our unique ability to provide integrated solutions for this complex market, thereby opening the door to huge parallel opportunities. In fact, we have already been approached for discovery discussions with many of the world’s major telcos and independent software manufacturers, as well as server manufacturers exploring the potential of integrating our acceleration and time synchronization cards into their new disaggregated products.”

Mr. Orbach concluded, “While sales processes in this world are very long, given the current level of interest, trials, evaluation POs and other dynamics, we believe it is just a matter of time until this Mobile market becomes a highly significant new growth driver for Silicom. We are investing heavily and feel confident that substantial rewards will follow.”

Conference Call Details

Silicom’s Management will host an interactive conference today, October 29th, at 9am Eastern Time (6am Pacific Time, 3pm Israel Time) to review and discuss the results.

To participate, investors may either listen via a webcast link hosted on Silicom’s website or via the dial-in. The link is under the investor relations’ webcast section of Silicom’s website at https://www.silicom-usa.com/webcasts/ 

For those that wish to dial in via telephone, one of the following teleconferencing numbers may be used:

US: 1 866 860 9642

ISRAEL: 03 918 0610

INTERNATIONAL:  +972 3 918 0610

At: 9:00am Eastern Time, 6:00am Pacific Time, 3:00pm Israel Time

It is advised to connect to the conference call a few minutes before the start.

For those unable to listen to the live call, a replay of the call will be available for three months from the day after the call under the above-mentioned webcast section of Silicom’s website.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This release, including the financial tables below, presents other financial information that may be considered “non-GAAP financial measures” under Regulation G and related reporting requirements promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission as they apply to our company. These non-GAAP financial measures exclude compensation expenses in respect of options and RSUs granted to directors, officers and employees, as well as taxes on amortization of acquired intangible assets. Non-GAAP financial measures should be evaluated in conjunction with, and are not a substitute for, GAAP financial measures. The tables also present the GAAP financial measures, which are most comparable to the non-GAAP financial measures as well as reconciliation between the non-GAAP financial measures and the most comparable GAAP financial measures. The non-GAAP financial information presented herein should not be considered in isolation from or as a substitute for operating income, net income or per share data prepared in accordance with GAAP.

About Silicom

Silicom Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions. Designed primarily to improve performance and efficiency in Cloud and Data Center environments, Silicom’s solutions increase throughput, decrease latency and boost the performance of servers and networking appliances, the infrastructure backbone that enables advanced Cloud architectures and leading technologies like NFV, SD-WAN and Cyber Security. Our innovative solutions for high-density networking, high-speed fabric switching, offloading and acceleration, which utilize a range of cutting-edge silicon technologies as well as FPGA-based solutions, are ideal for scaling-up and scaling-out cloud infrastructures.

Silicom products are used by major Cloud players, service providers, telcos and OEMs as components of their infrastructure offerings, including both add-on adapters in the Data Center and stand-alone virtualized/universal CPE devices at the edge.

Silicom’s long-term, trusted relationships with more than 170 customers throughout the world, its more than 400 active Design Wins and more than 300 product SKUs have made Silicom a “go-to” connectivity/performance partner of choice for technology leaders around the globe.

For more information, please visit: www.silicom.co.il

Statements in this press release which are not historical data are forward-looking statements which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, or other factors not under the company’s control, which may cause actual results, performance, or achievements of the company to be materially different from the results, performance, or other expectations implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, Silicom’s increasing dependence for substantial revenue growth on a limited number of customers in the evolving cloud-based, SD-WAN, NFV and Edge markets, the speed and extent to which solutions are adopted by these markets, likelihood that Silicom will rely increasingly on customers which provide solutions in these evolving markets, resulting in an increasing dependence on a smaller number of larger customers, difficulty in commercializing and marketing of Silicom’s products and services, maintaining and protecting brand recognition, protection of intellectual property, competition, disruptions to our manufacturing and development along with general disruptions to the entire world economy relating to the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and other factors detailed in the company’s periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements can generally be identified as such because the context of the statement will include words, such as “expects,” “should,” “believes,” “anticipates” or words of similar import. Similarly, statements that describe future plans, objectives or goals are also forward-looking statements. In light of significant risks and uncertainties inherent in forward-looking statements, the inclusion of such statements should not be regarded as a representation by the company that it will achieve such forward-looking statements. The company disclaims any duty to update such statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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