NXP Semiconductors Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2013 Results

EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS -- (Marketwired) -- 02/05/14 -- NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI)

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and the full-year of 2013, ended December 31, 2013, and provided guidance for the first quarter 2014.

"Our results for the fourth quarter of 2013 again came in near the high-end of our guidance, as NXP delivered Product revenue of $1,251 million, approximately a 3 percent sequential increase, and nearly a 17 percent increase from the prior year period -- very good performance when considering the fourth quarter is usually a seasonality declining quarter for NXP. Total NXP revenue in the fourth quarter was $1,293 million, nearly a 4 percent sequential increase, and nearly a 16 percent increase from the prior year period," said Richard Clemmer, NXP Chief Executive Officer.

"On a full-year basis, NXP delivered Product revenue of $4,678 million, a 13 percent year-on-year growth, as demand associated with key HPMS design opportunities continued to accelerate. Specifically, full-year revenue in our core HPMS segment increased 19 percent year-on-year due to very strong and better than industry growth across all our HPMS end markets. In our Standard product segment full-year revenue declined 2 percent year-on-year, reflecting flat growth in our discrete components business, and a decline in our logic business. Taken together, total NXP revenue increased greater than 10 percent year-on-year to $4,815 million.

"Growth in our HPMS segment during the fourth quarter was strong, resulting in growth of 22 percent year-on-year growth and about 4 percent sequentially. We experienced record revenue levels in both our Automotive and Portable & Computing end markets -- both in excess of guidance. Our Automotive business delivered better than seasonal growth due to sales of entertainment and keyless-entry products. With sales up 21 percent year-on-year, our Automotive business is firmly established on a sales run-rate of greater than $1 billion per year. Within our Portable & Computing business, revenue was up 50 percent versus the prior year driven by strong demand for our MCU and high-speed interface products for strategic design wins in the high-end smartphone and tablet market. Performance in our Identification business was in-line with expectations and up 13 percent year on year. The results in our Industrial & Infrastructure were slightly below our expectations as a result of weaker than expected demand for PC notebook power supply and silicon tuner products, but still up nearly 20 percent year-on-year.

"From an earnings per share perspective, we exceeded the mid-point of guidance due to stronger overall product revenue. Additionally, as planned we continued to realize an improvement in gross margin within our Standard Products segment and demonstrated good overall operating expense control. Taken together, our above market growth and ongoing improving margin performance resulted in a 19 percent non-GAAP free cash flow margin during the quarter. In summary, 2013 was a very good year for NXP -- a year our strategy of providing differentiated product solutions was confirmed by strong support from our customers resulting in significant revenue and earnings growth. We would like to thank all of the NXP team for their efforts in helping to deliver our performance. We believe our strategy will continue to deliver robust results," said Clemmer.

Summary of Fourth Quarter and Full-year 2013 Results ($ millions, except EPS, unaudited)

1. Please see "Discussion of GAAP to non-GAAP Reconciliation" on page 3 of this release.

Supplemental Information ($ millions, unaudited)

Product Revenue is the combination of revenue from the High Performance Mixed Signal (HPMS) and Standard Products (STDP) segments. Percent of quarterly total amounts may not add to 100 percent due to rounding.

Additional and Subsequent Information for the Fourth Quarter of 2013:

• Effective February 6, 2014, NXP expanded its existing stock repurchase program. Under the expanded stock repurchase program, NXP may repurchase shares to cover in part employee stock options and equity rights under its long term incentive plans. The new repurchase program approved by the Board of Directors enables NXP to repurchase up to twenty-five (25) million shares of its common stock from time to time in both privately negotiated and open market transactions, subject to management's evaluation of market conditions, terms of private transactions, the best interests of NXP shareholders, applicable legal requirements and other factors. There is no guarantee as to the exact number of shares that will be repurchased under the stock repurchase program, and NXP may terminate the repurchase program at any time. Repurchased shares are held in treasury and are accounted for as a reduction of stockholders' equity.
• On December 11, 2013, NXP entered into a new $400 million aggregate principal amount senior secured term loan facility due January 11, 2020. Concurrently, NXP called the $496 million principal amount senior secured term loan facility due January 11, 2020. A $100 million draw-down under our existing revolving credit facility and approximately $6 million of cash on hand were used to settle the combined transactions, as well as pay the related call premium of $5 million and accrued interest of $5 million.
• On October 15, 2013, NXP used the net proceeds from the $500 million senior unsecured notes issued on September 24, 2013 to repay its outstanding $422 million 9.75% senior secured notes due August 2018. As a result of the extinguishment, capitalized issue costs related to the 9.75% senior secured notes in the amount of $9 million were written off in the fourth quarter of 2013.
• During the fourth quarter of 2013, NXP determined that, under U.S. GAAP a change to our reportable segments was warranted due to the significant decline in external revenue and cost reported under the Manufacturing Operations segment. On an ongoing basis the results of the Manufacturing Operations segment will be reflected within Corporate and Other.
• NXP repurchased approximately 4 million shares in the fourth quarter of 2013 for a total cost of approximately $163 million. For the full-year 2013, NXP repurchased approximately 11 million shares for a total cost of approximately $405 million.
• Net cash interest paid in the fourth quarter of 2013 was $44 million, and for the full-year 2013 was $174 million.
• SSMC, NXP's consolidated joint-venture wafer fab with TSMC, reported fourth quarter 2013 operating income of $46 million, EBITDA of $59 million and a closing cash balance of $353 million. For the full-year 2013 SSMC reported operating income of $169 million and EBITDA of $217 million.
• Utilization in NXP wafer fabs averaged 95 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to 85 percent in the prior year period and 90 percent in the prior quarter.
  
  

Guidance for the First Quarter 2014: ($ millions, except share count and EPS) (1)

Note (1): NXP has based the guidance included in this release on judgments and estimates that management believes are reasonable given its assessment of historical trends and other information reasonably available as of the date of this release. The guidance included in this release consists of predictions only, and is subject to a wide range of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond NXP's control. The guidance included in this release should not be regarded as representations by NXP that the estimated results will be achieved. Actual results may vary materially from the guidance we provide today. In relation to the use of non-GAAP financial information see the note regarding "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information" elsewhere in this release. For the factors, risks and uncertainties to which judgments, estimates and forward-looking statements generally are subject see the note regarding "Forward-looking Statements." We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, including the guidance set forth herein, to reflect future events or circumstances. Considering the uncertain magnitude and variability of the foreign exchange consequences upon "PPA effects", "restructuring costs", "other incidental items" and any interest expense or taxes in future periods, management believes that GAAP financial measures are not available for NXP without unreasonable efforts on a forward looking basis.

Discussion of GAAP to non-GAAP Reconciliations
In addition to providing financial information on a basis consistent with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), NXP also provides the following selected financial measures on a non-GAAP basis: (i) "non-GAAP gross profit," (ii) "non-GAAP gross margin," (iii) "non-GAAP Research and development," (iv) "non-GAAP Selling, general and administrative," (v) non-GAAP Other income," (vi) "non-GAAP operating income (loss)," (vii) "non-GAAP operating margin," (viii) "non-GAAP net income/ (loss)," (ix) "PPA effects," (x) "Restructuring costs," (xi) "Stock based compensation," (xii) "Other incidental items," (xiii) "non-GAAP Financial Income (expense)," (xiv) "non-GAAP Results relating to equity-accounted investees," (xv) "non-GAAP Cash tax (expense)," (xvi) "diluted non-GAAP EPS," (xvii) "EBITDA," "adjusted EBITDA" and "trailing 12 month adjusted EBITDA," (xviii) "net debt" and (xix) "non-GAAP free cash flow."

In this release, references to:

• "non-GAAP gross profit," "non-GAAP research and development," "non-GAAP Selling, general and administrative," "non-GAAP Other income," "non-GAAP operating income (loss)," and "non-GAAP net income/ (loss)" are to NXP's gross profit, research and development, selling general and administrative, operating income and net income/ (loss) calculated on a basis consistent with GAAP, net of the effects of purchase price accounting ("PPA"), restructuring costs, stock-based compensation, other incidental items and certain other adjustments. "PPA effects" reflect the fair value adjustments impacting acquisition accounting and other acquisition adjustments charged to the income statement applied to the formation of NXP on September 29, 2006 and all subsequent acquisitions. "Restructuring costs" consist of costs related to restructuring programs and gains and losses resulting from divestment activities and impairment charges. "Stock based compensation" consists of incentive expense granted to eligible employees in the form of equity based instruments. "Other incidental items" consist of process and product transfer costs (which refer to the costs incurred in transferring a production process and products from one manufacturing site to another) and certain charges related to acquisitions and divestitures. "Other adjustments" include or exclude certain items that management believes provides insight into our core operating results, our ability to generate cash and underlying business trends affecting our performance.
  
  
• "non-GAAP gross margin" and "non-GAAP operating margin" are to our non-GAAP gross profit or our non-GAAP operating income as a percentage of our sales, respectively;
  
  
• "non-GAAP Financial Income (expense)" is the interest income or expense net of impacts due to foreign exchange changes on our Euro-denominated debt, gains or losses due to the extinguishment of long-term debt and less other financial expenses deemed to be one-time in nature;
  
  
• "non-GAAP Cash tax (expense)" is the difference between our GAAP tax provision and the cash taxes paid during the period;
  
  
• "diluted non-GAAP EPS" attributable to stockholders are to non-GAAP net income or loss attributable to NXP's stockholders, divided by the diluted weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period, adjusted for treasury shares held;
  
  
• "EBITDA" are to NXP's earnings before financial income (expense), taxes, depreciation and amortization. "EBITDA" excludes certain tax payments that may represent a reduction in cash available to us, does not reflect any cash capital expenditure requirements for the assets being depreciated and amortized that may have to be replaced in the future, does not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs and does not reflect the significant financial expense, or the cash requirements necessary to service interest payments, on our debts;
  
  
• "adjusted EBITDA" is to EBITDA after adjustments for "restructuring costs," "stock-based compensation," "other incidental items," "other adjustments" and results related to equity accounted investees;
  
  
• "trailing 12 month adjusted EBITDA" are to adjusted EBITDA for the last 12 months;
  
  
• "net debt" is to the sum total of long and short term debt less total cash and cash equivalents, as reflected on the balance sheet; and
  
  
• "non-GAAP free cash flow" is the sum of our Net cash provided by (used for) operating activities and our net Capital expenditure on property, plant and equipment, as reflected on the cash flow statement.
  
  

Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to the most comparable measures calculated in accordance with GAAP are provided in the financial statements portion of this release in a schedule entitled "Financial Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP Results (unaudited)."

NXP provides non-GAAP measures because management believes that they are helpful to understand the underlying operating and profit structure of NXP's operations, to provide additional insight as to how management assesses the performance and allocation of resources among its various segments and because the financial community uses them in its analysis of NXP's operating and/or financial performance, historical results and projections of NXP's future operating results. NXP presents "non-GAAP gross profit," "non-GAAP research and development," "non-GAAP Selling, general and administrative," "non-GAAP Other income," "non-GAAP operating income," "non-GAAP net income/ (loss)," "non-GAAP gross margin," "non-GAAP operating margin" and "non-GAAP EPS" because these financials measures are net of "PPA effects," "restructuring costs," "stock based compensation," "other incidental items," and "other adjustments" which have affected the comparability of NXP's results over the years. NXP presents "EBITDA," "adjusted EBITDA" and "trailing 12 month adjusted EBITDA" because these financials measures enhance an investor's understanding of NXP's financial performance.

Non-GAAP measures should not be considered a substitute for any information derived or calculated in accordance with GAAP, are not intended to be measures of financial performance or condition, liquidity, profitability or operating cash flows in accordance with GAAP, and should not be considered as alternatives to net income (loss), operating income or any other performance measures determined in accordance with GAAP. These non-GAAP measures can vary from other participants in the semiconductor industry. They have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation for analysis of NXP's financial results as reported under GAAP.

Conference Call and Webcast Information

NXP will host a conference call on February 6, 2014 at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (2:00 p.m. Central European Time) to discuss its fourth quarter 2013 financial results and provide an outlook for the first quarter of 2014.

Interested parties may join the conference call by dialing 1 - 877 - 703 - 6108 (within the U.S.) or 1 - 857 - 244 - 7307 (outside the U.S.). The participant pass-code is 40268473. To listen to a webcast of the event, please visit the Investor Relations section of the NXP website at www.nxp.com/investor. The webcast will be recorded and available for replay shortly after the call concludes.

About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) creates solutions that enable secure connections for a smarter world. Building on its expertise in High Performance Mixed Signal electronics, NXP is driving innovation in the automotive, identification and mobile industries, and in application areas including wireless infrastructure, lighting, healthcare, industrial, consumer tech and computing. NXP has operations in more than 25 countries, and posted revenue of $4.82 billion in 2013. Find out more at www.nxp.com.

Forward-looking Statements
This document includes forward-looking statements which include statements regarding NXP's business strategy, financial condition, results of operations, and market data, as well as any other statements which are not historical facts. By their nature, forward-looking statements are subject to numerous factors, risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially different from those projected. These factors, risks and uncertainties include the following: market demand and semiconductor industry conditions; the ability to successfully introduce new technologies and products; the end-market demand for the goods into which NXP's products are incorporated; the ability to generate sufficient cash, raise sufficient capital or refinance corporate debt at or before maturity; the ability to meet the combination of corporate debt service, research and development and capital investment requirements; the ability to accurately estimate demand and match manufacturing production capacity accordingly or obtain supplies from third-party producers; the access to production capacity from third-party outsourcing partners; any events that might affect third-party business partners or NXP's relationship with them; the ability to secure adequate and timely supply of equipment and materials from suppliers; the ability to avoid operational problems and product defects and, if such issues were to arise, to correct them quickly; the ability to form strategic partnerships and joint ventures and to successfully cooperate with alliance partners; the ability to win competitive bid selection processes to develop products for use in customers' equipment and products; the ability to successfully establish a brand identity; the ability to successfully hire and retain key management and senior product architects; and, the ability to maintain good relationships with our suppliers. In addition, this document contains information concerning the semiconductor industry and NXP's business segments generally, which is forward-looking in nature and is based on a variety of assumptions regarding the ways in which the semiconductor industry, NXP's market segments and product areas may develop. NXP has based these assumptions on information currently available, if any one or more of these assumptions turn out to be incorrect, actual market results may differ from those predicted. While NXP does not know what impact any such differences may have on its business, if there are such differences, its future results of operations and its financial condition could be materially adversely affected. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak to results only as of the date the statements were made. Except for any ongoing obligation to disclose material information as required by the United States federal securities laws, NXP does not have any intention or obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements after we distribute this document, whether to reflect any future events or circumstances or otherwise. For a discussion of potential risks and uncertainties, please refer to the risk factors listed in our SEC filings. Copies of our SEC filings are available on our Investor Relations website, www.nxp.com/investor or from the SEC website, www.sec.gov.