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EZchip Announces Record Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2013 Results

YOKNEAM, Israel, Feb. 12, 2014 — (PRNewswire) —  EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ: EZCH), a leader in Ethernet network processors, today announced its results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013.  

Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2013 Highlights:

Fourth Quarter 2013 Results:

Total revenues in the fourth quarter of 2013 were $20.1 million, an increase of 32% compared to $15.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, and an increase of 7% compared to $18.8 million in the third quarter of 2013.

Net income, on a GAAP basis, for the fourth quarter of 2013 was $6.5 million, or $0.22 per share (diluted), compared to net income of $4.8 million, or $0.17 per share (diluted), in the fourth quarter of 2012, and net income of $6.5 million, or $0.22 per share (diluted), in the third quarter of 2013.

Net income, on a non-GAAP basis, for the fourth quarter of 2013 was $10.1 million, or $0.34 per share (diluted), compared to non-GAAP net income of $7.8 million, or $0.26 per share (diluted), in the fourth quarter of 2012, and non-GAAP net income of $10.1 million, or $0.33 per share (diluted), in the third quarter of 2013.

Cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and deposits as of December 31, 2013, totaled $202.9 million, compared to $190.6 million as of September 30, 2013. Cash generated from operations was $12.9 million, cash used in investing activities was $0.7 million and cash provided by financing activities (resulting from the exercise of options) was $0.1 million.

Full Year 2013 Results:

Total revenues for the year ended December 31, 2013 were $70.9 million, a year-over-year increase of 30% compared to $54.7 million in 2012.

Net income on a GAAP basis for 2013 was $21.7 million, or $0.74 per share (diluted), compared to net income of $15.7 million, or $0.54 per share (diluted), in 2012.

Net income on a non-GAAP basis for 2013 was $35.6 million or $1.18 per share (diluted), compared with non-GAAP net income of $27.1 million, or $0.92 per share (diluted), in 2012.

Cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and deposits as of December 31, 2013, totaled $202.9 million, compared to $168.0 million as of December 31, 2012. Cash generated from operations was $37.6 million, cash used in investing activities was $3.5 million, cash provided by financing activities (resulting from the exercise of options) was $1.4 million and a decrease of $0.6 million resulted from cash adjustment of marketable securities, net.

Eli Fruchter, CEO of EZchip, commented, "2013 has been a record year for EZchip in revenues, operating and net income. Revenues increased 30% year over year with an outstanding 50% net margin. We believe our 2013 growth likely exceeded the growth in the merchant NPU market and the growth in the edge routing market, and that such growth likely resulted in an increase to our market share in 2013.

"During the year, we completed the transition from NP-2 and NP-3 to NP-4 and we are pleased to confirm that all our NP-4 customers and all NP-4 platforms are now in production. NP-4 entered production at the end of 2011, exceeded the NP-3 run rate at the end of 2012, and generated more than 50% of our revenues in 2013, representing over 100% increase from 2012. We expect NP-4 revenues to continue to increase in 2014, assuming the router spending level the market experienced in 2013 continues and our key customers continue to gain market share.

"In 2013 we sampled the NP-5, our fifth generation NP, that is now being used by our customers to build their NP-5 based platforms.  We expect these platforms to enter production in the second half of 2014. We have provided our customers with a new product generation every three years and we are proud to report that we have been able to gain more customers and design wins as we move from each generation to the next. We believe that NP-5 is on track to be yet another successful product.  

"In 2013 we also laid the foundation for a transition to the NPS line of network processors, targeting many different market segments such as switches and routers, network monitoring, lawful interception, network appliances, load balancers, DPI, security, network virtualization, NFV and SDN, all with a single chip. We believe that we will be able to win in these market segments and significantly diversify our customer base as a result, thereby reducing our current customer concentration. Tier-1 customers in all these market segments have expressed a strong interest in NPS and we believe that the NPS will start gaining customer wins in the second half of 2014, which implies customer product prototypes in 2015 and the start of production in 2016."

Conference Call

The Company will be hosting a conference call later today, February 12, 2014, at 10:00am ET, 7:00am PT, 3:00pm UK time and 5:00pm Israel time. On the call, management will review and discuss the results, and will be available to answer investor questions.

To participate through the live webcast, please access the investor relations section of the Company's web site at:  http://www.ezchip.com/investor_relations.htm, at least 10 minutes before the conference call commences. If you would like to ask a question on the call, please contact the investor relations team for the telephone dial in numbers.

For those unable to listen to the live webcast, a replay of the webcast will be available the day after the call under the 'Investor Relations' section of the website.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information

In addition to disclosing financial results calculated in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), this release of operating results also contains non-GAAP financial measures, which EZchip believes are the principal indicators of the operating and financial performance of its business. The non-GAAP financial measures exclude the effects of stock-based compensation expenses recorded in accordance with FASB ASC 718 and amortization of intangible assets. Management believes the non-GAAP financial measures provided are useful to investors' understanding and assessment of the Company's on-going core operations and prospects for the future, as the charges eliminated are not part of the day-to-day business or reflective of the core operational activities of the Company.  Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures as a basis for strategic decisions, forecasting future results and evaluating the Company's current performance.  However, such measures should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for results prepared in accordance with GAAP.  Reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measures are provided in the schedules attached to this release.

About EZchip

EZchip is a fabless semiconductor company that provides Ethernet network processors for networking equipment. EZchip provides solutions that scale from a few to hundreds of Gigabits-per-second. EZchip's network processors provide great flexibility and high performance coupled with superior integration and power efficiency for a wide range of applications in carrier, cloud and data center network equipment.  For more information on our company, visit the web site at http://www.ezchip.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.  Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and may include financial projections and estimates and their underlying assumptions, statements regarding plans, objectives and expectations with respect to future operations, products and services, and statements regarding future performance.  These statements are only predictions based on EZchip's current expectations and projections about future events based on its current knowledge.  There are important factors that could cause EZchip's actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from the results, level of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.  Those factors include, but are not limited to, the impact of general economic conditions, competitive products (including in-house customer developed products), product demand and market acceptance risks, customer order cancellations, reliance on key strategic alliances, fluctuations in operating results, delays in development of highly-complex products and other factors indicated in EZchip's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  For more details, refer to EZchip's SEC filings and the amendments thereto, including its Annual Report on Form 20-F filed on March 21, 2013 and its Current Reports on Form 6-K. EZchip undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or to changes in our expectations, except as may be required by law.

 


EZchip Semiconductor Ltd.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

(U.S. Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)

(Unaudited)




Three Months Ended


Twelve Months Ended



Dec. 31,


Sept. 30,


Dec. 31,


Dec. 31,


Dec. 31,



2013


2013


2012


2013


2012












Revenues


$       20,097


$       18,804


$       15,207


$     70,850


$     54,707

Cost of revenues


3,680


2,926


2,555


12,022


9,118

Gross profit


16,417


15,878


12,652


58,828


45,589












Operating expenses:











Research and development, net


6,923


6,527


5,180


25,815


19,736

Selling, general and administrative


3,527


3,310


3,220


13,363


12,634

Total operating expenses


10,450


9,837


8,400


39,178


32,370












Operating income


5,967

 


6,041

 


4,252

 


19,650

 


13,219

 

Financial income, net


546


487


587


2,048


2,432

Net income


$        6,513


$        6,528


$        4,839


$      21,698


$      15,651












Net income per share:











Basic


$          0.23


$          0.23


$          0.17


$        0.76


$        0.56

Diluted


$          0.22


$          0.22


$          0.17


$        0.74


$        0.54

Weighted average shares used in
per share calculation:











Basic


28,825,291


28,717,575


28,233,299


28,628,798


27,981,243












Diluted


29,171,552


29,151,003


28,869,499


29,188,736


28,842,408























 

EZchip Semiconductor Ltd.

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Measures

(U.S. Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)

(Unaudited)








Three Months Ended


Twelve Months Ended



Dec. 31,


Sept. 30,


Dec. 31,


Dec. 31,


Dec. 31,



2013


2013


2012


2013


2012












GAAP gross profit


$ 16,417


$ 15,878


$ 12,652


$ 58,828


$ 45,589

Stock-based compensation


73


73


74


292


298

Non-GAAP gross profit


 

$ 16,490


 

$ 15,951


 

$ 12,726


 

$ 59,120


 

$ 45,887












GAAP gross profit as percentage of revenues


81.7%


84.4%


83.2%


83.0%


83.3%

Non-GAAP gross profit as percentage of revenues


 

82.1%


 

84.8%


 

83.7%


 

83.4%


 

83.9%























GAAP operating expenses


$ 10,450


$ 9,837


$ 8,400


$ 39,178


$ 32,370

Stock-based compensation:











     Research and development


(2,045)


(2,044)


(1,563)


(7,963)


(6,026)

     Selling, general and administrative


(1,515)


(1,425)


(1,265)


(5,665)


(4,874)

Amortization of intangible assets:











     Selling, general and administrative


--


--


(51)


--


(204)












Non-GAAP operating expenses


$ 6,890


$ 6,368


$ 5,521


$ 25,550


$ 21,266























GAAP operating income


$ 5,967


$ 6,041


$ 4,252


$ 19,650


$ 13,219












Non-GAAP operating income


$ 9,600


$ 9,583


$ 7,205


$ 33,570


$ 24,621












GAAP net income


$ 6,513


$ 6,528


$ 4,839


$ 21,698


$ 15,651

Stock-based compensation


3,633


3,542


2,902


13,920


11,198

Amortization of purchased intangible assets


--


--


51


--


204












Non-GAAP net income


$ 10,146


$ 10,070


$ 7,792


$ 35,618


$ 27,053












Non-GAAP net income per share - Diluted


$ 0.34


$ 0.33


$ 0.26


$ 1.18


 

$ 0.92

Non-GAAP weighted average shares - Diluted*


 

30,213,501


 

30,164,874


 

29,634,765


 

30,074,563


 

29,473,851












 * In calculating diluted non-GAAP net income per share, the diluted weighted average number of shares outstanding excludes the
      effects of stock-based compensation expenses in accordance with FASB ASC 718.

 


EZchip Semiconductor Ltd.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet

(U.S. Dollars in thousands)








December 31,


December 31,



2013


2012



(Unaudited)


(Audited)

ASSETS





CURRENT ASSETS:





Cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and deposits


$      202,865


$      167,968

Trade receivables, net


7,416


4,813

Other receivables


3,153


4,305

Inventories


5,969


4,523

Total current assets


219,403


181,609






NON CURRENT ASSETS:





Severance pay fund


7,416


6,066

Long term investment and others


364


358

Total non current assets


7,780


6,424






PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET


2,114


1,285






INTANGIBLE ASSETS, NET


4,127


1,000






GOODWILL


96,276


96,276






TOTAL ASSETS


$      329,700


$     286,594





LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY





CURRENT LIABILITIES:





Trade payables


$          3,951


$           571

Other payables and accrued expenses


7,309


5,401

Total current liabilities


11,260


5,972











ACCRUED SEVERANCE PAY


8,164


6,977






SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY:





Share capital


164


161

Additional paid-in capital


328,003


312,723

Accumulated other comprehensive income


437


787

Accumulated deficit


(18,328)


(40,026)

Total shareholders' equity


310,276


273,645






TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY


$        329,700


$       286,594

















 


EZchip Semiconductor Ltd.

Selected Condensed Consolidated Cash Flow Data on a Non-GAAP Basis

(U.S. Dollars in thousands)

(Unaudited)








Three Months Ended


Twelve Months Ended



Dec. 31,


Sept. 30,


Dec. 31,


Dec. 31,


Dec. 31,



2013


2013


2012


2013


2012

Cash flows from operating activities:











Net income


$     6,513


$     6,528


$       4,839


$     21,698


$     15,651

Adjustments to reconcile net income to
net cash provided by operating activities:











Depreciation and amortization


161


158


183


603


661

Decrease (increase) in trade and other receivables, net


 

1,026


 

(2,083)


 

(1,852)


 

(1,198)


 

2,331

Decrease (increase) in inventory


(678)


584


948


(1,446)


1,265

Increase (decrease) in trade payables and other accrued liabilities, net


 

2,199


 

1,605


 

138


 

3,990


 

(1,400)

Stock-based compensation

 


3,633


3,542


2,902


13,920


11,198

Net cash provided by operating activities


12,854


10,334


7,158


37,567


29,706












Cash flows from investing activities:











Purchase of property and equipment


(151)


(846)


(239)


(1,597)


(1,008)

Purchase of technology


(533)


(1,163)


--


(1,827)


(500)

Net cash used in investing activities


(684)


(2,009)


(239)


(3,424)


(1,508)












Cash flows from financing activities:











Proceeds from exercise of options


79


450


1,027


1,363


12,890

Net cash provided by financing activities


79


450


1,027


1,363


12,890












Cash adjustment of marketable securities, net*


(14)


(20)


(59)


(609)


110












Increase in cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and deposits


12,235


8,755


7,887


34,897


41,198

Cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and deposits at the beginning of the period


190,630


181,875


160,081


167,968


126,770

Cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and deposits at the end of the period


$ 202,865


$ 190,630


$ 167,968


$ 202,865


$ 167,968












* Including unrealized gain (loss) on marketable securities, accumulated interest accretion and amortization of discount and premium on marketable securities.

 

 

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