Silicom Reports All-Time Record Revenues for Q4 & Full-Year 2018

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KFAR SAVA, Israel, Jan. 31, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ: SILC), a leading provider of high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions, today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2018.

Financial Results

Full Year: For the full year 2018, Silicom's revenues totalled $133.8 million, up 6% compared with $125.7 million in 2017. These are the Company's highest-ever revenues for a full-year period. 

On a GAAP basis, net income for the year totalled $14.6 million, or $1.91 per diluted share ($1.94 per basic share), compared with $21.7 million, or $2.86 per diluted share ($2.91 per basic share), in 2017.

On a non-GAAP basis (as described and reconciled below), net income for the year totalled $21.3 million, or $2.79 per diluted share ($2.83 per basic share), compared with $21.7 million, or $2.85 per diluted share ($2.91 per basic share), for 2017.

Fourth Quarter: Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2018 totalled $45.5 million, the Company's highest-ever revenues for a quarterly period. The quarter's revenues represented a 20% increase compared with $37.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, and a 46% increase compared sequentially with Q3 2018.

On a GAAP basis, net income for the quarter totalled $9.9 million, or $1.29 per diluted share ($1.31 per basic share), compared with $10.3 million, or $1.34 per diluted share ($1.37 per basic share), for the fourth quarter of 2017.

On a non-GAAP basis (as described and reconciled below), net income for the quarter totalled $8.9 million, or $1.17 per diluted share ($1.18 per basic share), up 30% compared with $6.9 million, or $0.89 per diluted share ($0.91 per basic share), for the fourth quarter of 2017.

Guidance for the First Quarter of 2019

Management projects that revenues for the first quarter of 2019 will total $30 to $31 million.    

Comments of Management

Shaike Orbach, Silicom's President and CEO, commented, "We are excited to report all-time high revenues, both for a quarterly period and for a full year. This accomplishment is even more dramatic after neutralizing the impact of the cancellation of our biggest-ever project by our top-10 Cloud player customer in March 2018, all aspects of which are now completely included in our reports. Since our revenues from the cancelled project were about $10 million lower in 2018 than they were in 2017, excluding its revenues from both years gives us over 15% year-over-year revenue growth for 2018. This confirms – as we asserted immediately after the cancelation of the project - that our sales engines remain powerful and that our long-term prospects remain intact.

"This double-digit growth is being driven primarily by our uCPE/EDGE product lines, which are benefitting from some of the market's hottest trends, such as the transition to SD-WAN and NFV and the powerful need that it is creating for our uniquely reliable and innovative products. During the quarter, we announced that one of the world's largest service providers selected our modular uCPE units for its worldwide NFV implementation, with SD-WAN integrated as one of its network functions. Earlier, we announced a win with a major telco and other SD-WAN related wins, all of which - while still in the early stages of deployment with many unknowns – have begun contributing nicely to our revenues. While uncertainty about our customers' product launch and ramp-up plans may affect the timing of our Edge product revenues, we are increasingly confident about their strong, long-term growth potential."

Mr. Orbach concluded, "These wins, including our recent FPGA-related Design Win announcement and the numerous opportunities that are moving forward in our pipeline, confirm our favorable positioning and our overall growth potential. To serve these customers, we continue to build out all aspects of our capabilities and to expand our value-added support."

Conference Call Details

Silicom's Management will host an interactive conference today, January 31^st, at 9am Eastern Time (6am Pacific Time, 4pm Israel Time) to review and discuss the results.

To participate, please call one of the following teleconferencing numbers. Please begin placing your calls at least 10 minutes before the conference call commences. If you are unable to connect using the toll-free numbers, try the international dial-in number.

US: 1 888 668 9141

UK: 0 800-917-5108

ISRAEL: 03 918 0609

INTERNATIONAL:  +972 3 918 0609

At: 9:00am Eastern Time, 6:00am Pacific Time, 4:00pm Israel Time

For those unable to listen to the live call, a replay of the call will be available for three months from the day after the call under the investor relations section of Silicom's website.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This release, including the financial tables below, presents other financial information that may be considered "non-GAAP financial measures" under Regulation G and related reporting requirements promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission as they apply to our company. These non-GAAP financial measures exclude compensation expenses in respect of options and RSUs granted to directors, officers and employees, amortization of acquired intangible assets, changes in the fair value of contingent consideration from a business combination, taxes on amortization of acquired intangible assets, as well as discontinued project-related write-offs. Non-GAAP financial measures should be evaluated in conjunction with, and are not a substitute for, GAAP financial measures. The tables also present the GAAP financial measures, which are most comparable to the non-GAAP financial measures as well as reconciliation between the non-GAAP financial measures and the most comparable GAAP financial measures. The non-GAAP financial information presented herein should not be considered in isolation from or as a substitute for operating income, net income or per share data prepared in accordance with GAAP.

About Silicom

Silicom Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions. Designed primarily to improve performance and efficiency in Cloud and Data Center environments, Silicom's solutions increase throughput, decrease latency and boost the performance of servers and networking appliances, the infrastructure backbone that enables advanced Cloud architectures and leading technologies like NFV, SD-WAN and Cyber Security. Our innovative solutions for high-density networking, high-speed fabric switching, offloading and acceleration, which utilize a range of cutting-edge silicon technologies as well as FPGA-based solutions, are ideal for scaling-up and scaling-out cloud infrastructures.

Silicom products are used by major Cloud players, service providers, telcos and OEMs as components of their infrastructure offerings, including both add-on adapters in the Data Center and stand-alone virtualized/universal CPE devices at the edge.

Silicom's long-term, trusted relationships with more than 150 customers throughout the world, its more than 400 active Design Wins and more than 300 product SKUs have made Silicom a "go-to" connectivity/performance partner of choice for technology leaders around the globe.

For more information, please visit: www.silicom.co.il

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