The DCF model reveals the intrinsic value of the corporation is higher than the market capitalization. The fair price range for the stock is estimated to be $119-127, representing 12-19% upside potential. The stock is currently trading around 105$
2. Company Overview
Key Statistics
One Year Stock Performance
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21%
18%
11%
• Founded in 1962
• Semiconductor Industry
• Include a portfolio of a wide range of
products
• Over 1,800 worldwide patents
• Went public in 1990 as NASDAQ:SWKS
• Competitors: Intel, Linear Technologies
• Woburn, MA
• North America, Japan, Asia, Europe
Value
EV/EBITDA 12.46
EV/Sales 5.16
Price/Book 5.01
Price/Earnings 18.95
ForwardPEG 1.1
CapitalStructure
Debt $0
Cash & CashEquivalents $1.1bil
QuickRatio 6.41
Investment Thesis &
Overview
Industry
Dynamics
Growth Opportunities
& Drivers Valuation Risks & Final Thoughts
Market Date
Current Price $105
Market Cap 19.5bil
Dividend Yield 1.14%
FCF per share 6.85
Revenue $3.5bil
52 Week Range 63.30-113
Beta .71
EPS 4.85
Source: Bloomberg
4. Investment Thesis
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Increased placement of
products across many
industries
Production components
are getting cheaper-
right in time for an
increase in production
The Internet of Things
offers/ Growing LTE Market,
especially in Asian and
North American economies
Investment Thesis &
Overview
Industry
Dynamics
Growth Opportunities
& Drivers Valuation Risks & Final Thoughts
1. Providing high quality and reliable
solutions for tech companies
including Apple and Amazon
translates to revenue and growth.
2. Their presence in “Internet of Things”
products, and innovative medical and
automotive products coupled with a
strong foothold with content per device
Recommendation
We recommend SWKS a BUY
with a 12-month price target of
$124 – representing a potential
upside of 13% from the current
share price of $107
5. |5Investment Thesis &
Overview
Industry
Dynamics
Growth Opportunities
& Drivers Valuation Risks & Final Thoughts
Wearables
Medical
Consumer
Electronic
Auto
Connected
home
Networking
Mobile
Aerospace
and defense
CATV
Products
Media
6. Industry Trends
Wireless Infrastructure IoT
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• Mature markets are focused on wireless
infrastructure, including 3G, 4G, LTE and even 5G
networks, to provide reliable power, and
enhance security/privacy needs for mature
products
• Physical devices and objects becoming “smart,”
with internet capabilities
• This links mobile devices, wearables, smart
appliances, connected cars, and other gadgets
to the cloud and each other
Investment Thesis &
Overview
Industry
Dynamics
Growth Opportunities
& Drivers Valuation Risks & Final Thoughts
Wearables
• Retailers are looking to reach customers
directly and spark incremental purchases
through wearable technology
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Source: Skyworks Solutions
7. Industry Trends Cont.
• From delivering turn-by-turn directions to
finding your favorite restaurant, the
connected car has become one of the
latest devices to offer consumers greater
connectivity and enhanced safety
Automotive Industry
Automotive IOT Revenue
Smartphone Market
• Apple is expected to build 120 million new
iPhones for their upcoming release
• The smartphone market is expected to grow
16% annually
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8. Competitor Profile
Competitor Overview
• Skyworks is in a competitive industry
that is expanding rapidly by increasing in
over 5% growth from year to year
• Larger companies have acquired smaller
semiconductors similar to Skyworks
Competition
Latest Trends
• Hiring highly skilled workforce for
research and development
• Access to investment funding to
finance new ideas and products
• Willingness to take on technical
research and development
Intel Corporation 16%
Samsung Electronics
10%
Qualcomm 4%
TexasInstruments 4%Other
66%
Investment Thesis &
Overview
Industry
Dynamics
Growth Opportunities
& Drivers Valuation Risks & Final Thoughts
Semiconductor Manufacturing
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10. LTE Market Poised to Expand Worldwide
• Over 80% of the Chinese population are on 2G or 3G
• Released world’s first solution optimized for LTE category M Applications
• Chinese consumer appears to still be on track to upgrade to 4G, 5G
• LTE dropping in price faster vs. 3G
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Overview
Industry
Dynamics
Growth Opportunities
& Drivers Valuation Risks & Final Thoughts
Source: CNBC
12. Macro Environment
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Investment Thesis &
Overview
Industry
Dynamics
Growth Opportunities
& Drivers Valuation Risks & Final Thoughts
Government
Integration
Cyclical
Sectors
Interest
Rates
Infrastructure
Spending
Pro business
stance
Markets at
all time
high
13. Analysis
EPS Projections Impressive Metrics
Company EV/EBITDA2017E EV/EBITDA2018E
SWKS
Peer GroupAverage
Company P/E 2017E P/E 2018E
SWKS
Peer GroupAverage
Company EPS 2017E EPS 2018E
SWKS
Peer GroupAverage
SOX Index Outperforms S&P 500
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
12/31/2015 3/31/2016 6/30/2016 9/30/2016 12/31/2016 3/31/2017
SPX Index - S&P 500 Index SOX Index - Philadelphia Semiconductor Index
Analysis Takeaway
SWKS continues to enjoy increasing
earnings per share from reinvestment of
cash, yet stock price does not reflect
high profitability
SOX Index has outperformed theS&P 500
since June 30, 2016
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Overview
Industry
Dynamics
Growth Opportunities
& Drivers Valuation Risks & Final Thoughts
0.75 1.2 1.12 1.47
2.4
4.15
4.93 5.32
6.33
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EPS Expon. (EPS)
15. Risks – Skyworks Specific
• Increased competition could lead to a failure to secure deals from
major customers
• SWKS’s heavy reliance on Apple
• Mitigation: expanding its operations in IoT will decrease its
reliance on Apple
• Slowing growth of mature products
• Mitigation: Emerging markets, such as India/asia, are
experiencing more aggressive growth in products and therefore,
SWKSwill be able to tap into that arena
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Overview
Industry
Dynamics
Growth Opportunities
& Drivers Valuation Risks & Final Thoughts
16. Management
David Aldrich (Executive Chairman) Liam Griffin (CEO)
Peter Gammel (CTO)
• 60, is chairman of the board and executive chairman of Skyworks
Solutions, Inc., Mr. Aldrich had served as chief executive officer
since the company was formed in 2002 via a merger between
Alpha Industries and Conexant Systems' wireless business.
• Mr. Aldrich received a bachelor's of arts in political science from
Providence College in 1979 and a master's in business
administration from the University of Rhode Island in 1981. In
2004, he was named Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of
the Year in the Semiconductor category.
• 51, is president and chief executive officer and a director
of Skyworks Solutions
• Before joining Skyworks, he was the vice president of
worldwide sales at Dover Corporation and held product
management and process engineering positions at AT&T‘
• Mr. Griffin received a bachelor's of science in mechanical
engineering from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, and a master's of business administration from
Boston University
• 57, is chief technology officer for Skyworks
Solutions, Inc. He joined the company in June
2011 as part of Skyworks' acquisition of SiGe
Semiconductor.
• Dr. Gammel received a bachelor's of science in
physics and mathematics from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physics
from Cornell University.
Investment Thesis &
Overview
Industry
Dynamics
Growth Opportunities
& Drivers Valuation Risks & Final Thoughts |16
Source: Skyworks Solutions
15 years ago, chipmaker Alpha Industries merged with Conexant Systems. Both companies produced RF chips, power amplifiers, and other communication chips for a wide range of industries. The new company was named Skyworks, which promoted itself as a "pure play" wireless integrated circuit company.
-Headquarters are in Woburn Mass, however production facilities are located in Mexico, California, and Japan
-Skyworks is the 9th largest in the industry with the largest competitor being Intel
is best known as a supplier of chips used in Apples iPhone but has been quickly expanding into other markets, such as home automation and driverless vehicles, and its products are becoming increasingly critical as technology companies look for innovative ways to connect their devices.
Their P/E, EV/EBITDA (enterprise value) , and EV/EBIT multiples are significantly lower than the industry average indicating that it is undervalued and a “cheap” stock.
Drivers:
4G penetration at 27% in 2015, to 75% by 2020
semiconductor specialist that supplies chips to a wide variety of markets, including: mobile, automotive, broadband, wireless infrastructure, home automation, industrial and military. Its chips are used in wireless devices to support in sending and receiving data.
Its products include: power amplifiers and front-end modules used by mobile device companies as well as RF chips used in a variety of industries.
These chips are essential for many machine-to-machine communications that form the foundation of the Internet of Things, technologically innovative products, and wireless infrastructure .
Skyworks NOW aims to diversify by expanding to other vendors in the premium and mid-tier smartphone markets.
It's making modest inroads beyond smartphones, as it has delivered healthy growth in its broad-markets segment. Expansion of wireless connectivity into the Internet of Things and automobile and wearables are drivers, which should contribute over the longer-term
Experts predict that there will be 34 billion connected devices by 2020, IoT accounting for 24 billion. An estimated $6 trillion will be spent on IoT over next five years.
Skyworks’ highly innovative systems are scalable on virtually any platform
SWKS best positioned to innovate and capture this growing market
Connected home, connected car, major customers include: Hive, NEST, Honeywell, Bose, GM, land rover, jaguar
Skyworks technology continues to push wearables to new heights in functionality in these areas
Skyworks’ automotive solutions are enabling new convenience and safety features in everything from remote keyless entry, to collision avoidance, toll transponders, garage door openers, lighting, infotainment, video displays and vehicle tracking
Skyworks' competitive advantages lie in its unique ability to bundle an increasing number of complex connectivity functions into a single, space-saving chip.
As an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors enabling connectivity across a broad range of end markets, their devices support Cellular / Smartphones. Leveraging their systems expertise and broad product portfolio, partnered w/ their customers to develop solutions that solve increasingly complex analog design challenges.
Acquisitions of smaller players among the largest direct competitors are increasing, Skyworks is also the chipmaker that nearly bought PMC-Sierra for $2 billion in late 2015, but was eventually outbid by Microsemi
Skyworks credited its strong return to the success of several new product launches, including components used by Huawei, Samsung Electronic’s Galaxy S8 platform, Cisco Systems and Nintendo Co.’s Switch gaming consoles
The company also secured several design and networking contracts (lockheed martin) that should boost revenue in the upcoming quarter. The company won contracts with three leading auto manufacturers to provide advanced LTE modules and antenna switches, supporting high-reliability connectivity, GPS and data transport capability. In addition, it extended WiFi mesh networking contracts with Google and Plume.
Skyworks should make progress on its longer-term 53% gross-margin target, helped by improved revenue growth, coupled with the mix shift from power amplifiers to higher-margin integrated mobile systems. Strong expense discipline has bolstered Skyworks' operating leverage and should help it achieve 40% operating margin. The longer-term shift toward 5G wireless and growth in Internet of Things could further enhance Skyworks' margin should Broad Market sales play a larger role.
expansion to 4G LTE will explode in next few years in emerging markets
Growth of LTE will require innovations in data capacity, Skyworks is leader in this technology
LTE-M is the abbreviation for LTE Cat-M1 or Long Term Evolution (4G), category M1. This technology is for Internet of Things devices to connect directly to a 4G network, without a network and on batteries.
It's cheaper. Devices can connect to 4G networks with chips that are less expensive to make, because they have a narrower bandwidth.
Long Battery Life. Devices can enter a "deep sleep" mode called Power Savings Mode (PSM) or wake up only periodically while connected.
Service Costs Less. Because the maximum data rate of LTE-M devices is only about 100 kilobytes or Data rate unite in turn they do not tax the 4G network as much. Carriers can offer service plans that priced closer to old 2G M2M pricing than 4G pricing.
notably, the 5G upgrade cycle is also a major tailwind for the company. Moreover, the company also enriched its product portfolio by launching high efficiency power amplifiers for advanced LTE applications. The demand for this highly integrated architecture is increasing with the transition from 4G to 5G technology.
One risk that emanates from Skyworks' dependence on Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), with as much as 44% of its revenues coming from the latter in FY 2015. Apple's contribution to the company's top line has reduced, coming in at less than 40% in the latest quarter.
the iPhone 6s requires two Skyworks components versus the latest model, the iPhone 7, which requires four components and 5-6 in there next generation of their flagship phone. As the technology in phones continue to improve, Skyworks components will comprise a larger content share and push sales higher, even if phone sales are flat.
Skyworks is also working to diversify its revenue sources, and curb its dependence on Apple. However, there's no doubt that this risk still persists, for now at least.
Cyclical sectors like the information technology have historically shown the strongest correlations to interest rates
This makes sense given that inflationary pressures and higher interest rates often come on the heels of strong economic growth. Therefore, the Fed’s indication that it plans on an interest rate hike bodes well for IT stocks.
Moreover, the markets reached all time high after Trump was elected. (All political views aside) One explanation is Trump’s pro-business stance, which brings expectations that he’ll roll back regulation and cut corporate taxes; another is that investors are bullish about the increased infrastructure spending that Trump promises.
Being that governments and businesses are beginning to implement technology into their everyday system and the growth of IoT indicates areas of potential growth for SWKS.
Looking to Skyworks, the company manufactures over 2,500 chips, including analog semiconductors, switches, and amplifiers, to a roster of over 2,000 customers. At a high level, Skyworks' competitive advantages lie in its unique ability to bundle an increasing number of complex connectivity functions into a single, space-saving chip. This unique ability made Skyworks an invaluable supplier to smartphone and tablet makers, and the company has been handsomely rewarded as mobile devices have proliferated in the past decade.