SkyWater Technology Reports Third Quarter 2022 Results

Record Quarterly Revenues Up 10% Sequentially and Nearly 50% Year-over-Year

SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT), the trusted technology realization partner, today announced financial results for the third quarter of 2022, ended October 2, 2022.

• Total revenue of $52.3 million, up 49% year over year.
• Net loss to shareholders of $6.9 million, or (13)% of revenue.
• Adjusted EBITDA of $3.8 million, or 7.3% of revenue.

“We are pleased to report record third-quarter revenues of over $52 million, demonstrating the momentum we are gaining as we grow our pipeline of ATS programs and partnerships,” said Thomas Sonderman, SkyWater president and chief executive officer. “Our significant growth in Q3 also reflects strong operational execution, as the team demonstrated increased factory efficiencies and significant improvements in gross margin. With flow-through to gross profit well over 50% of incremental revenues, we also achieved adjusted EBITDA of nearly $4 million for the quarter.

“As we look ahead, we anticipate continued growth in revenues for the fourth quarter, driven by momentum in several ATS programs, including the expansion of activities to ready our RH90 platform for productization. While the overall semiconductor industry is experiencing softening business conditions, as we enter 2023, we at SkyWater believe our business is relatively decoupled from the drivers of overall macro weakness. This is due to our unique business model, in which R&D programs and strategic long-term investments drive the majority of our revenues, as well as our focus on end markets and applications that continue to experience strong levels of investment. Furthermore, we believe we are particularly well-positioned to benefit from the increased level of investments in the domestic semiconductor ecosystem that are expected to strengthen through the remainder of the decade. With our improved execution and consistency of results demonstrated year-to-date, we look forward to continuing to demonstrate strong operational performance in our future results, and continued progress toward our long-term financial targets.”

Recent Business Updates:

• Received the highly-anticipated Phase 2 Rad-Hard award, valued at nearly $100 million, to advance our RH90 platform to productization and qualification
• Receipt of a landmark $36 million grant award in Florida to expand our capacity for advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration technologies
• Selection as the exclusive foundry service provider to manufacture semiconductor devices for the new partnership between Google and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Strong momentum towards building a stronger domestic semiconductor ecosystem through the CHIPS Act, which in Q3 included:
  • Joining Secretary of Commerce Raimondo, Secretary of State Blinken, Senator Young, and Indiana Governor Holcomb at Purdue University to discuss our role with universities like Purdue in obtaining CHIPS Act funding
  • Welcoming Senator Klobuchar and Congresswoman McCollum at our Minnesota headquarters to discuss how the CHIPS Act will strengthen domestic semiconductor production and boost American competitiveness and innovation
  • Welcoming Senator Rubio at our Florida facility to discuss the importance of secure semiconductor manufacturing in the United States
• Completion of Phase 1 of the IBAS interposer technology development program for critical emerging technologies; this program has now moved into the Phase 2 and Phase 3 stages of platform development
• Strong progress with multiple bio-health customers, as their biosensor solutions continue to progress towards production
• Weebit’s ReRAM test chips have been fully integrated with SkyWater’s S130 platform and are now entering the qualification phase
• Significant gross margin improvement and positive EBITDA performance driven by strong growth of ATS revenue, increased fab efficiency, and execution of our cost reduction plan
• The strong revenue growth year-to-date, combined with a positive outlook for continued growth in Q4, provides greater confidence that our 2022 revenues will meet or potentially exceed our long-term annual growth objective of 25%

Q3 2022 Summary:

Q3 2022 Results:

• Revenue: Revenue of $52.3 million increased 49% year-over-year as a result of growth in ATS programs and improved pricing terms for wafer services. Advanced Technology Services revenue of $35.2 million increased 57% year-over-year, reflecting the momentum we are gaining with several key customers. Advanced Technology Services revenue contained $0.2 million of tool revenue in the third quarter of 2022 and $0.3 million in the third quarter of 2021. Wafer Services revenue of $17.2 million increased 36% compared to the third quarter of 2021, driven primarily by the more favorable pricing and continued growth of the Wafer Services business as a result of adding more customers and programs.
• Gross Profit: GAAP gross profit was $8.3 million, or 15.8% of revenue, compared to GAAP gross profit of $(1.8) million, or (5.2)% of revenue, in the third quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP gross profit was $8.8 million, or 16.8% of revenue excluding tool sales, compared to non-GAAP gross profit of $(0.5) million, or (1.4)% of revenue excluding tool sales, in the third quarter of 2021. The improvement was primarily the result of strong growth of Advanced Technology Services revenue, increased fab efficiency and execution of our cost reduction plan. Non-GAAP gross profit for the third quarter of 2022 excludes $0.6 million of equity-based compensation and Florida start-up costs, compared to $1.3 million in the third quarter of 2021. Cost of revenue in the third quarter of 2022 also contained $3.2 million for the heterogeneous integration facility and $1.4 million in depreciation related to the radiation hardened program, compared to $2.3 million and $1.7 million, respectively, in the third quarter of 2021.
• Net Loss: GAAP net loss to shareholders was $6.9 million, or $(0.17) per share, compared to a net loss to shareholders of $13.9 million, or $(0.36) per share, in the third quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP net loss to shareholders was $5.1 million, or $(0.13) per share, compared to a net loss to shareholders of $11.5 million, or $(0.29) per share, in the third quarter of 2021.
• Adjusted EBITDA: Adjusted EBITDA was $3.8 million, or 7.3% of revenue, compared to $(2.7) million or (7.7)% of revenue in the third quarter of 2021.
• Balance Sheet: Cash and cash equivalents were $9.3 million at quarter end, compared to $12.9 million as of January 2, 2022.

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

Investor Webcast

SkyWater will host a conference call today, Monday, November 7, 2022, at 3:30 p.m. CT to discuss its third quarter 2022 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. investor-owned semiconductor manufacturer and a DMEA-accredited Category 1A Trusted Foundry. SkyWater’s Technology as a Service^SM model streamlines the path to production for customers with development services, volume production and heterogeneous integration 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, ROICs, rad-hard ICs, power management, 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.

SkyWater Technology 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 expectations regarding dependence on our largest customers; our ability to diversify our customer base and develop relationships in new markets; the performance and reliability of our third-party suppliers and manufacturers; our ability to procure tools, materials, and chemicals amid industry-wide supply chain shortages; 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 in a competitive labor market; 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; changes in local, regional, national and international economic or political conditions, including those resulting from rising inflation and interest rates, a recession, or intensified international hostilities; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, results of operations and financial condition and our customers, suppliers and workforce; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy; the level and timing of U.S. government program funding; 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 annual report on Form 10-K the Company filed with the SEC on March 10, 2022 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.

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. 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. As a result, the non-GAAP financial measures presented in this earnings press release may not be directly comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies.

We also provide adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin as supplemental non-GAAP measurements. We define adjusted EBITDA as net income (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 fair value changes in contingent considerations, management fees, inventory write-down, corporate conversion and IPO related costs, Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness, SkyWater Florida start-up costs, net income attributable to non-controlling interests, and management transition expense. 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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