Record Revenues for both Q4 and Fiscal Year

SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT), the trusted technology realization partner, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2022, ended January 1, 2023.

Highlights for Q4 2022:

• Revenue increased 69% year-over-year to a record $65.1 million.
• Gross margin increased to 25.4% on a GAAP basis, compared to (43.1)% in Q4 2021, and increased to 26.2% on a non-GAAP basis, compared to (6.1)% in Q4 2021.
• Net loss to shareholders of $3.0 million, or $(0.07) per share on a GAAP basis, and net loss to shareholders of $1.5 million, or $(0.03) per share on a non-GAAP basis.
• Adjusted EBITDA of $10.3 million, or 15.9% of revenue.

Highlights for Fiscal 2022:

• Revenue increased 31% year-over-year to a record $212.9 million.
• Gross margin increased to 12.2% on a GAAP basis, compared to (4.6)% in 2021, and increased to 13.7% on a non-GAAP basis, compared to 2.0% in 2021.
• Net loss to shareholders of $39.6 million, or $(0.97) per share on a GAAP basis, and net loss to shareholders of $30.3 million, or $(0.74) per share on a non-GAAP basis.
• Adjusted EBITDA of $7.7 million, or 3.6% of revenue.

“We are pleased to enter 2023 with growing momentum,” said Thomas Sonderman, SkyWater president and chief executive officer. “2022 was a year in which we achieved a number of our key strategic objectives, including strong revenue growth exceeding our long-term target of 25%, the significant expansion and improved visibility of our pipeline of ATS programs and partnerships and improved operational execution. As these materialized in 2022, we were able to demonstrate the significant operating leverage of our model, generating strong gross margin flow-through and positive adjusted EBITDA.”

Sonderman continued, “As we look ahead, we have a new expected baseline for quarterly revenues of approximately $60 million from which to grow. This is a significant achievement compared to this time last year, a testament to the team’s improved execution driving increased factory efficiency and productivity, along with better pricing in our Wafer Services business. This new baseline, as we enter a challenging macroeconomic environment in 2023, provides the foundation for yet another strong growth year in which we believe we can again achieve revenue growth approaching our long-term target of 25% annually. We believe the growth we expect to achieve in 2023 is largely de-coupled from areas of macroeconomic weakness, as we expect to expand our revenue base above the $60 million level with established, funded and relatively secure ATS programs.”

2022 Business Highlights:

• Significant progress on the RH90 program, including completion of the base prototype phase, receipt of the $99 million Phase 2 award for productization and qualification, and the securing of additional options and partnerships that firmly establish SkyWater’s role in the important RadHard ecosystem.
• Landmark partnership announced with the State of Indiana and Purdue University to build advanced $1.8 billion semiconductor fab.
• Receipt of a $36 million grant awarded to Osceola County by the U.S. Economic Development Administration to complete facilitization of our Florida facility, with SkyWater the only semiconductor company beneficiary of this Build Back Better award.
• Strong momentum toward building a stronger domestic semiconductor ecosystem through the CHIPS Act, which successfully passed in August, and for which SkyWater expects to be a key beneficiary for years to come.
• The execution of more favorable terms with our largest historical customer, including increased pricing, improved predictability and visibility and a larger, more profitable base of business from which to grow.
• Important new customer partnerships and progress announced with Google, NanoDX, Weebit Nano, Trusted Semiconductor, Quicklogic, and others as well as in heterogeneous integration programs such as IBAS and our partnerships with DECA and Adeia.
• Conclusion of a fixed revenue government program in Q4, ahead of the original schedule, resulted in a one-time non-cash revenue recognition event of $4.7 million, driving upside in ATS revenue and, given no associated cost of revenue, flowed through directly to gross profit and EBITDA for Q4.
• Record results for both ATS and Wafer Services, driving revenues to $213 million for the year, with a significantly expanded gross margin profile and positive adjusted EBITDA generation.
• Expansion of our access to capital through $250 million shelf registration (with $19 million in net equity proceeds raised to date) and new $100 million senior secured revolving credit facility that expands our available borrowing capacity.

Q4 2022 Summary:

2022 Summary:

Q4 2022 Results:

• Revenue: Revenue of $65.1 million increased 69% year-over-year. Advanced Technology Services revenue of $47.9 million increased 97% year-over-year reflecting the momentum we are gaining with several key customers, as well as a non-recurring, non-cash revenue recognition of $4.7 million for the early completion of a fixed-fee program. Advanced Technology Services revenue contained $0.03 million of tool revenue in fourth quarter 2022 and $1.1 million in fourth quarter 2021. Wafer Services revenue of $17.2 million increased 21% compared to the fourth quarter of 2021 driven by more favorable pricing and increased volumes.
• Gross Profit (Loss): GAAP gross profit was $16.6 million, or 25.4% of revenue, compared to gross loss of $16.6 million, or (43.1)% of revenue, in the fourth quarter of 2021. GAAP gross loss for the fourth quarter of 2021 included a $13.4 million inventory write-down charge for temperature differential sensing wafers. Cost of revenues in the fourth quarter of 2022 contained $2.7 million for heterogeneous integration and $1.4 million in depreciation for the radiation hardened facility. Non-GAAP gross profit was $17.0 million, or 26.2% of revenue, compared to gross loss of $2.3 million, or (6.1)% of revenue, in the fourth quarter of 2021.
• Net Loss: GAAP net loss to shareholders of $3.0 million, or $(0.07) per share, compared to a net loss to shareholders of $27.0 million, or $(0.69) per share, in the fourth quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP net loss to shareholders of $1.5 million, or $(0.03) per share, compared to a net loss to shareholders of $11.2 million, or $(0.28) per share, in the fourth quarter of 2021.
• Adjusted EBITDA: Adjusted EBITDA was $10.3 million, or 15.9% of revenue, compared to $(4.7) million or (12.3)% of revenue in the fourth quarter of 2021.
• Balance Sheet: Cash and cash equivalents of $30.0 million compared to $12.9 million from 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 on Monday, February 13, 2023, at 3:30 p.m. CT to discuss its fourth quarter and full year 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 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.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Preliminary Results

The Company’s results for the fiscal quarter and year ended January 1, 2023 are preliminary, unaudited and subject to the finalization of the Company’s fourth quarter review and full-year audit and should not be viewed as a substitute for full financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. The Company cautions you that actual results may differ materially from those described in this press release.

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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; 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; our ability to meet our long-term growth targets; 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.

Supplemental Revenue Information by Quarter

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, fair value changes in warrants and 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.