Hong Shi Tung
大家好,早上好,晚上好。感谢各位参加日月光半导体(ASE)2013年第四季度财报电话会议。在开始演示之前,请翻到第1页。第1页是安全港声明。我想提醒本次电话会议的所有参与者,接下来的演示可能包含前瞻性陈述。这些前瞻性陈述面临高度风险,我们的实际结果可能与这些前瞻性陈述存在重大差异。
2013年期间,日月光开始看到我们的EMS(电子制造服务)和IC ATM(集成电路封装、测试及材料)业务之间的协同效应。这些以SiP(系统级封装)技术形式体现的协同效应在第四季度得到了充分展现。即使在相当中性的半导体业务环境下,我们仍能在SiP技术相关产品领域保持增长势头。我们相信,2013年将被视为一个关键转折点,它使我们区别于竞争对手,并为未来的持续增长奠定了基础。
鉴于我们的SiP技术相关产品服务于介于传统EMS和IC ATM市场之间的新兴服务市场,我们应该预期这类业务会带来更高的波动性,因为该技术目前具有较高的客户和产品集中度。此外,随着我们增加对SiP技术的投入,我们的财务报表可能与其他业务模式缺乏可比性。然而,我们相信SiP技术带来的增量业务对我们的每股收益(EPS)具有非常积极的贡献。
今天有很多内容要讨论。我们有一些与年终相关的额外幻灯片。
第2页,季度环比合并损益表。在完全合并基础上,公司本季度实现每股收益新台币0.73元,较第三季度增加新台币0.16元,增幅28%。第四季度,在合并基础上,我们的IC封装、测试和材料业务分别下降4%、1%和3%。与此同时,我们的EMS业务(包括SiP业务)较上一季度增长45%。即使在EMS产品组合占比大幅提高的情况下,我们的合并毛利率仅下降不到一个百分点至19.5%。毛利润增长8%至新台币125亿元。我们成功将营业利润率维持在10.7%不变。营业利润为新台币69亿元,高于第三季度的新台币61亿元。税前利润为新台币65亿元,较上一季度新台币54亿元增长20%。第四季度净利润为新台币58亿元,较上一季度新台币44亿元增长31%。净利率从7.8%微升至9.1%。
第3页。这里可以看到同比季度业绩。各位可以自行查看大部分数字。然而,值得强调的是,即使大部分销售增长与EMS业务相关,我们的毛利润、营业利润和税前利润率仍保持可比性,且整体净利率更高。
第4页,2013年全年与2012年对比。我认为这些数字本身已经说明了一切。全年,日月光实现创纪录的营收新台币2,200亿元,创纪录的毛利润新台币430亿元。全年每股收益为新台币2.11元,对比新台币1.71元,增长23%。
第5页,IC ATM损益表。让我们更仔细地看看IC ATM业务的业绩。您可能会注意到,本页报告的IC封装收入与合并集团层面报告的数字不同。在合并层面,我们的IC封装业务部门为EMS部门执行的SiP技术收入在合并过程中被抵消。这就是它们不同的原因。
我们的IC ATM收入在第四季度略高于持平水平,仅增加新台币9亿元至新台币379亿元。IC封装业务收入增长1%。测试和直接材料业务收入分别下降1%和3%。新台币升值对收入产生了0.9%的不利影响,对毛利率产生了0.5%的不利影响。
第四季度,我们的毛利润从新台币96亿元增至新台币104亿元,毛利率提高2个百分点。毛利率改善主要得益于原材料成本降低。原材料成本从新台币100亿元减少新台币8亿元至新台币92亿元。占收入比例方面,原材料成本从上一季度的26.5%下降至24.3%。原材料成本下降主要由于金线成本降低和有利的产品组合。
营业费用大致持平于新台币43亿元。占销售额比例方面,营业费用从上一季度的11.3%上升至11.5%。第四季度营业利润从上一季度新台币54亿元增至新台币61亿元。营业利润率从14.2%提高至16.1%。净利率从11.7%提高至15.3%。
第6页,同比第四季度业绩。我们的IC ATM业务较去年同期显著改善。IC ATM业务收入增长10%。毛利润从新台币80亿元增至新台币104亿元,同比增长31%。毛利率从23.2%改善4.3个百分点至27.5%。这主要得益于金线费用降低带来的原材料成本下降以及有利的产品组合。营业利润从新台币42亿元增至新台币61亿元,改善45%。营业利润率从12.2%攀升3.9个百分点至16.1%。
第7页。从全年角度看,我们度过了相当不错的一年。与2012年相比,2013财年在所有相关层面都有显著改善。与上一年相比,2013年收入增长10%。毛利润增长23%,净利润增长25%。
第8页,封装业务。第四季度封装收入环比增长1%至创纪录的新台币309亿元。我们的封装毛利率提高2.8个百分点至25.1%。占收入比例方面,原材料成本的改善(被折旧和摊销增加所部分抵消)是毛利率改善的主要原因。原材料成本减少新台币9亿元至新台币100亿元。占封装收入比例方面,原材料成本从35.4%下降3.2个百分点至32.2%,主要得益于有利的产品组合和金价下跌。折旧和摊销成本微增新台币2亿元至新台币39亿元。占收入比例方面,折旧摊销从上一季度的12.0%上升0.6个百分点至12.6%。
本季度,我们封装业务的资本支出为4,600万美元,其中1,600万美元用于晶圆凸块和倒装芯片封装设备;2,900万美元用于通用设备(包括SiP);不到100万美元用于线焊专用设备。
关于产能概况,本季度我们增加了6台线焊机,淘汰了79台。季度末,我们共有15,692台线焊机在运行。8英寸凸块产能保持不变,为每月95,000片晶圆;12英寸凸块产能每月增加2,000片至每月52,000片晶圆。
第9页,封装产品组合。在我们的封装业务中,先进封装业务正在从传统IC线焊、分立器件及其他业务中夺取份额。在本幻灯片中,我们的SiP技术相关业务包含在先进封装内。
第10页,测试业务。我们的测试业务收入环比下降1%至第四季度的新台币62亿元。测试业务的毛利率从37.1%温和下降0.6个百分点至36.5%。按绝对金额计算,销售成本保持在新台币39.5亿元不变。然而,由于收入下降,毛利率反映了下降。折旧和摊销占收入比例保持在销售额的24%不变。我们的测试利用率保持在80%左右。测试业务第四季度资本支出为1,700万美元。本季度我们增加了98台测试机,淘汰了128台测试机。第四季度末,我们的测试机总数达到3,117台。
第11页,材料业务。第四季度,材料业务收入从第三季度的新台币25亿元下降至新台币21亿元。其中新台币7.46亿元来自外部客户销售,下降3%。我们的内部自给率从33%下降至29%。毛利率在第四季度下降0.8个百分点至17.9%,低于上一季度的18.7%。互连材料业务毛利率下降主要由于本季度产能利用率较低。
第12页,EMS业务。我们的EMS业务是日月光SiP技术相关能力和业务的推动者。正如我们之前指出的,对于当前的SiP技术相关产品,与IC ATM业务的贡献相比,我们EMS业务的增值贡献相对较小。因此,与这些SiP技术产品相关的EMS业务部门的利润率将低于他们执行的大多数其他EMS产品。
尽管如此,我们的EMS业务实现了显著高于预期的销售额。EMS业务收入接近新台币284亿元,较新台币196亿元增长45.4%。由于SiP产品组合占比显著提高,我们整体EMS毛利率下降至7.7%,低于上一季度的9.7%。尽管毛利率较低,但毛利润水平从上一季度新台币19亿元增至新台币22亿元。最后,尽管毛利率较低,营业利润率保持相当稳定,仅下降0.1%。营业利润从新台币6.78亿元改善至新台币9.58亿元。
第13页。您可以看到我们的WiFi模块和SiP技术相关业务的影响,EMS通信相关产品增长至占整体EMS业务的61%。
第14页,本季度资产负债表。我们的现金及现金等价物和流动金融资产从上一季度新台币435亿元增至新台币502亿元。第四季度,我们的计息债务从上一季度新台币1,002亿元微增至新台币1,008亿元。我们仍有新台币1,112亿元的未使用信贷额度。
第15页,资本支出。第四季度,我们的资本支出为8,300万美元,较第三季度显著下降。在总计8,300万美元的资本支出中,4,600万美元用于封装,1,700万美元用于测试,1,200万美元用于EMS,800万美元用于互连材料。全年资本支出总计6.68亿美元,较2012年的11亿美元显著下降。
第四季度EBITDA为4.63亿美元。全年EBITDA从14亿美元增至16亿美元,增长15%。对于2014年,我们预计线焊专用资本支出仍将相当有限。我们的支出应更侧重于先进封装和SiP相关设备,总目标支出约为7亿美元,与2013年相似。
第16页显示我们的IC ATM市场份额。对此我确实没有太多评论。
第一季度展望:由于当前SiP技术相关业务的产品集中度,我们将看到与产品、客户产品发布及其相应库存建设相关的更广泛的收入和毛利率季节性波动。与过去几年可能从盈利转为亏损的情况不同,未来的季节性应使我们经历利润较低和较高的时期。
除了SiP之外,环境有些疲软,因为新的电子产品越来越像它们所替代的产品。展望未来,行业正在寻找下一个杀手级产品。有一些产品和趋势确实令人兴奋。然而,如果没有新的杀手级产品,我们以及整个行业应继续受到各种类型和尺寸智能设备的推动。
我们认为第一季度对IC ATM业务来说是季节性疲软期。我们预计收入下降约12%至15%。在此估计中,我们已包含了K7晶圆凸块部分停产带来的4%至5%的影响。我们的EMS业务应会出现类似的季节性下降,收入下降约30%或接近第三季度水平。我们完全相信,对于所涉及的产品类型,这种下降是正常且典型的季节性现象。我们预计集团毛利率将在17%至18%之间。
至此,我结束我的演示,并开放提问环节。
Hong Shi Tung
Hi. Good morning. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for attending ASE's Q4 2013 Earnings Release Conference Call. Before we start the presentation, please turn to Page 1. Here, on Page 1, is the Safe Harbor notice. I would like to remind everyone on this call that the presentation that follows may contain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to high degree of risks, and our actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. So during 2013, ASE has started to see synergies between our EMS and IC ATM businesses. These synergies in the form of SiP technology were well expressed during the fourth quarter. Even in a fairly neutral semiconductor business environment, we were able to continue growth and momentum within our SiP technology-related products. We believe that 2013 will be remembered as a critical juncture for differentiating ourselves from our competition and towards positioning ourselves for continued growth in the future. Given that our SiP technology-related products serve a new market for services appearing between classic EMS and IC ATM markets, we should expect to see higher volatility related to such businesses because the technology currently has high customer and product concentrations. Also, as we increase our SiP technology exposure, our financial statements may lack comparability to other business models. However, we believe that the incremental business that our SiP technology brings to us is very accretive to our EPS. We have a lot to go over today. We have a few extra slides related to the year end. So Page 2, quarter-over-quarter consolidated P&L. On a fully consolidated basis, the company delivered EPS for the quarter of TWD 0.73, TWD 0.16 greater than the third quarter and an increase of 28%. During Q4, on a consolidated basis, we saw our IC packaging, test and materials business decline 4%, 1% and 3%, respectively. Meanwhile, our EMS business, including our SiP business, grew 45% compared to the previous quarter. Even given a much higher EMS product mix, our consolidated gross margins declined by less than a percentage point to 19.5%. Gross profit grew 8% to TWD 12.5 billion. We were able to keep our operating margins flat at 10.7%. Operating profit was TWD 6.9 billion, up from TWD 6.1 billion in Q3. Pretax profit was TWD 6.5 billion, up 20% from TWD 5.4 billion in the previous quarter. Net income for the fourth quarter was TWD 5.8 billion, up 31% from TWD 4.4 billion the previous quarter. Net margin edged up 9 -- to 9.1% from 7.8%. Page 3. You can see the quarterly results on a year-over-year basis here. You can go through most of the numbers yourselves. However, it is worth highlighting that even with much of the sales growth tied to the EMS business, we saw comparable gross operating pretax margins and higher net margins overall. Page 4, full year 2013 compared with 2012. I believe that the numbers pretty much speak for themselves here. For the year, ASE delivered record revenues of TWD 220 billion on record gross profits of TWD 43 billion. EPS for the year was TWD 2.11 versus TWD 1.71, up 23%. Page 5, IC ATM P&L. Let's take a closer look at the results of our IC ATM business. You may notice that the IC packaging revenues reported on this page are different than the numbers reported on the consolidated group level. At the consolidated level, the SiP technology revenue performed by our IC packaging business unit on behalf of our EMS unit is eliminated during consolidations. So they're -- that's why they're different. Our IC ATM revenue was slightly better than flat during the fourth quarter, increasing just TWD 90 million to TWD 37.9 billion. Revenues from the IC packaging business grew 1%. Revenues from our test and direct materials business declined 1% and 3%, respectively. NT dollar appreciation had a 0.9% unfavorable impact on revenue and a 0.5% unfavorable impact to gross margins. For Q4, our gross profit increased to TWD 10.4 billion from TWD 9.6 billion while our gross margin increased 2 percentage points. Gross margin improvement was primarily the result of lower raw material costs. Raw material costs declined by TWD 0.8 billion from TWD 10.0 billion to TWD 9.2 billion. As a percentage of revenues, raw material costs dropped by 24.3% -- dropped to 24.3% from 26.5% in the previous quarter. The raw material cost decline came principally as a result of lower gold wire costs and favorable product mix. Operating expenses stayed roughly flat at TWD 4.3 billion. As a percentage of sales, operating expenses increased to 11.5% from 11.3% a quarter ago. Operating profit in Q4 rose to TWD 6.1 billion from TWD 5.4 billion in the previous quarter. Operating margins increased to 16.1% from 14.2%. Net margins increased to 15.3% from 11.7%. Page 6, Q4 on a year-over-year basis. Our IC ATM business improved significantly from a year-ago quarter. Our IC ATM business had 10% revenue growth. Gross profit increased from TWD 8 billion to TWD 10.4 billion, representing a 31% increase from a year ago. Gross margins improved 4.3 percentage points to 27.5% from 23.2%. This was principally as a result of lower raw material costs from lower gold wire expenses and favorable product mix. Operating profit increased from TWD 4.2 billion to TWD 6.1 billion, a 45% improvement. Operating margins climbed 3.9 percentage points from 12.2% to 16.1%. Page 7. From a full year perspective, we had quite the year. Fiscal year 2013 saw significant improvements at all relevant levels when compared with 2012. As compared to the previous year, 2013 revenues grew by 10%. Gross profits grew by 23%, and net income grew by 25%. Page 8, packaging operations. Packaging revenue increased 1% quarter-over-quarter in Q4 to a record TWD 30.9 billion. Our packaging gross margin increased 2.8 percentage points to 25.1%. As a percentage of revenue, improvements in raw materials, offset by an increase in depreciation and amortization, accounted for the gross margin improvement. Raw material costs decreased by TWD 0.9 billion to TWD 10.0 billion. As a percentage of packaging revenue, raw materials declined by 3.2 percentage points from 35.4% to 32.2%, primarily as a result of favorable product mix and lower gold prices. Depreciation and amortization costs edged up TWD 0.2 billion to TWD 3.9 billion. As a percentage of revenue, D&A increased 0.6 percentage point to 12.6% from 12.0% last quarter. During the quarter, capital expenditures for our packaging operations amounted to USD 46 million during the quarter, of which USD 16 million was used for wafer bumping and flip chip packaging equipment; USD 29 million for common equipment, including SiP; and less than USD 1 million for wirebond-specific purposes. For our capacity overview, during the quarter, we added 6 wirebonders and retired 79. We exited the quarter with a total of 15,692 wirebonders in operation. 8-inch bumping capacity remained unchanged at 95,000 wafers per month, and 12-inch bumping capacity increased 2,000 wafers per month to 52,000 wafers per month. Page 9, packaging product mix. Within our packaging business, our advanced packaging businesses are taking share from our traditional IC wirebonding and discrete and other businesses. For the sake of this slide, our SiP technology-related businesses are contained within advanced packaging. Page 10, test operations. Our test operations revenues decreased by 1% sequentially down to TWD 6.2 billion in Q4. Gross margins for our test business moderated 0.6 percentage points from 37.1% to 36.5%. And in absolute dollars, cost of sales remained flat at TWD 3.95 billion. However, given the revenue decline, gross margins reflected a decline. Depreciation and amortization as a percentage of revenues stayed flat at 24% of sales. Our testing utilization rate remained around 80%. CapEx for the test business was USD 17 million in Q4. We added 98 testers and retired 128 testers during the quarter. At the end of Q4, our total tester count stood at 3,117. Page 11, our materials business. In Q4, revenue from our materials business declined to TWD 2.1 billion from TWD 2.5 billion in Q3. TWD 746 million was from sales to external customers, representing a 3% decrease. Our internal self-sufficiency rate decreased from 33% to 29%. Gross margins declined 0.8 percentage points to 17.9% during the fourth quarter, down from 18.7%. Gross margins within our interconnects business decreased primarily as a result of lower loading during the quarter. Page 12, our EMS business here. Our EMS business is the enabler of ASE's SiP technology-related capabilities and businesses. As we have indicated before, for the current SiP technology-related business -- related products, the value add contribution of our EMS business is relatively small as compared to the contribution from our IC ATM business. As such, margins for the EMS business unit related to those SiP technology products will be lower than most other EMS products they performed. With that said, our EMS business delivered significantly higher sales than anticipated. Revenues from our EMS business neared TWD 28.4 billion, up 45.4% from TWD 19.6 billion. As a result of significantly higher SiP product mix, our overall EMS gross profit margins decreased to 7.7%, down from 9.7% a quarter ago. Despite the lower gross margins, gross profit levels increased to TWD 2.2 billion, up from TWD 1.9 billion a quarter ago. Finally, despite lower gross margins, operating margins have held fairly steady, declining just 0.1%. Operating profit improved to TWD 958 million from TWD 678 million. Page 13. You can see the impact of our WiFi module and SiP technology-related businesses, with growth of our EMS communications-related products, increasing to 61% of overall EMS operations here. Page 14. For our balance sheet this quarter, our cash and cash equivalents and current financial assets grew to TWD 50.2 billion from TWD 43.5 billion the previous quarter. In Q4, our interest-bearing debt inched up marginally to TWD 100.8 billion from TWD 100.2 billion in the previous quarter. We still have TWD 111.2 billion in unused credit line. Page 15, CapEx. In Q4, our CapEx was USD 83 million, down significantly from the third quarter. Of the capital expenditures total of USD 83 million, USD 46 million was used for packaging, USD 17 million for testing, USD 12 million for EMS and USD 8 million for interconnect materials. For the full year, our capital expenditures totaled USD 668 million, down significantly from the USD 1.1 billion in 2012. EBITDA for the fourth quarter amounted to USD 463 million. For the year, EBITDA increased 15% from USD 1.4 billion to USD 1.6 billion. For 2014, we continue to see fairly minimal wirebond-specific capital expenditures. Our spending should be more focused on advanced packaging and SiP-related equipment, with total targeting -- target spending at around USD 700 million, similar to 2013. Page 16 shows our IC ATM market share here. I really don't have much to comment about this. First quarter guidance, with current product concentrations from our SiP technology-related business, we will see more extensive revenue and gross margin seasonality tied to product, customer product launches and their corresponding inventory builds. As opposed to years passed when we would swing from profit loss, seasonality should bring us to periods of lower and higher profits going forward. Outside of SiP, the environment is somewhat tepid as new electronic products increasingly appear to resemble the ones they are replacing. Looking forward, the industry is looking for the next killer product. There are some products and trends that generate some excitement. However, without a new killer product, we, along with the industry, should continue to be driven by the various flavors and sizes of smart devices available. We see the first quarter to be seasonally soft for IC ATM business. We see a revenue decline of about 12% to 15%. Within this estimate, we have included a 4% to 5% impact related to the K7 wafer bumping partial shutdown. Our EMS business should see a similar seasonal drop off, with revenues declining about 30% or returning close to Q3 levels. We fully believe that such declines are normal and typically seasonal for the type of products involved. We estimate that gross margins for the group will be between 17% to 18%. With this, I conclude my presentation and would like to open the floor for questions.