SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ambarella, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMBA), an AI vision silicon company, today announced financial results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2021 ended July 31, 2020.

• Revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2021 was $50.1 million, down 11.2% from $56.4 million in the same period in fiscal 2020. For the six months ended July 31, 2020, revenue was $104.8 million, up 1.1% from $103.6 million for the six months ended July 31, 2019.
• Gross margin under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the second quarter of fiscal 2021 was 61.8%, compared with 57.5% for the same period in fiscal 2020. For the six months ended July 31, 2020, GAAP gross margin was 60.1%, compared with 58.2% for the six months ended July 31, 2019.
• GAAP net loss for the second quarter of fiscal 2021 was $14.8 million, or loss per diluted ordinary share of $0.43, compared with GAAP net loss of $10.2 million, or loss per diluted ordinary share of $0.31, for the same period in fiscal 2020. GAAP net loss for the six months ended July 31, 2020 was $30.2 million, or loss per diluted ordinary share of $0.88. This compares with GAAP net loss of $27.5 million, or loss per diluted ordinary share of $0.84, for the six months ended July 31, 2019.

 Financial results on a non-GAAP basis for the second quarter of fiscal 2021 are as follows:

• Gross margin on a non-GAAP basis for the second quarter of fiscal 2021 was 62.4%, compared with 58.1% for the same period in fiscal 2020. For the six months ended July 31, 2020, non-GAAP gross margin was 60.7%, compared with 58.8% for the six months ended July 31, 2019.
• Non-GAAP net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2021 was $2.1 million, or earnings per diluted ordinary share of $0.06. This compares with adjusted non-GAAP net income of $7.6 million, or earnings per diluted ordinary share of $0.22, for the same period in fiscal 2020. Non-GAAP net income for the six months ended July 31, 2020 was $3.4 million, or earnings per diluted ordinary share of $0.10. This compares with adjusted non-GAAP net income of $7.5 million, or earnings per diluted ordinary share of $0.22, for the six months ended July 31, 2019.

Based on information available as of today, Ambarella is offering the following guidance for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, ending October 31, 2020:

• Revenue is expected to be between $52.0 million and $56.0 million.
• Gross margin on a non-GAAP basis is expected to be between 60.0% and 62.0%.
• Operating expenses on a non-GAAP basis are expected to be between $31.0 million and $33.0 million.

Ambarella reports gross margin, net income (loss) and earnings (losses) per share in accordance with GAAP and, additionally, on a non-GAAP basis. Non-GAAP financial information excludes the impact of stock-based compensation adjusted for the associated tax impact, which includes the effect of any benefits or shortfalls recognized. The non-GAAP net income for fiscal year 2021 includes a change in non-GAAP tax rate calculation to exclude losses from jurisdictions where there is no tax benefit associated to improve alignment of the non-GAAP income tax to the non-GAAP income (loss) before tax. Accordingly, non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP earnings per share for the second quarter and year-to-date of fiscal year 2020 ended July 31, 2019 have been adjusted for the change in non-GAAP income tax effect and presented consistent with fiscal year 2021 presentation. A reconciliation of the GAAP to non-GAAP gross margin, net income (loss) and earnings (losses) per share for the periods presented, as well as a description of the items excluded from the non-GAAP calculations, is included in the financial statements portion of this press release.

Total cash, cash equivalents and marketable debt securities on hand at the end of the second quarter of fiscal 2021 was $410.7 million, compared with $411.3 million in the prior quarter and $375.8 million at the end of the same quarter a year ago. 

“We are encouraged by the growing acceptance of our visual AI products, despite the economic consequences of the pandemic and the continuation of the geopolitical risks,” said Fermi Wang, President and CEO.  “We remain confident 10% of our total revenue will be earned from CV products in fiscal year 2021.  Moreover, our automotive sales funnel is beginning to build, with more than three dozen unique automotive customers assessing and/or developing CV-based products during Q2.  Our automotive wins, year-to-date, represent lifetime revenue of approximately $200 million.”

Stock Repurchase 

In the second quarter of fiscal year 2021, the company did not repurchase shares.  During the second quarter of fiscal year 2021, Ambarella’s Board of Directors approved an extension of the prior $50.0 million repurchase program for an additional twelve months ending June 30, 2021. As of today, there are approximately $49.0 million available for repurchases under the program. The repurchase program does not obligate the company to acquire any particular amount of ordinary shares, and it may be suspended at any time at the company’s discretion.

Quarterly Conference Call

Ambarella plans to hold a conference call at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time / 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time today with Fermi Wang, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Casey Eichler, Chief Financial Officer, to discuss the second quarter of fiscal year 2021 results. The call can be accessed by dialing 877-304-8963 in the USA; international callers should dial 760-666-4834.  Please dial in ten minutes prior to the scheduled conference call time. A live and archived webcast of the call will be available on Ambarella’s website at http://www.ambarella.com/ for up to 30 days after the call.

About Ambarella

Ambarella’s products are used in a wide variety of human and computer vision applications, including video security, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), electronic mirror, drive recorder, driver/cabin monitoring, autonomous driving, and robotic applications. Ambarella’s low-power System- on-Chips (SoCs) offer high-resolution video compression, advanced image processing, and powerful deep neural network processing to enable intelligent cameras to extract valuable data from high-resolution video streams. For more information, please visit www.ambarella.com

"Safe harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are not historical facts and often can be identified by terms such as “outlook,” “projected,” “intends,” “will,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “believes,” “could,” or similar expressions, including the guidance for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021 ending October 31, 2020, and the comments of our CEO relating to consequences of the ongoing pandemic and geopolitical conditions, potential opportunities in the visual artificial intelligence, or AI, and computer vision, or CV, markets, market acceptance of the company’s visual AI and CV-based products and the company’s ability to generate design wins and potential revenue with such products, including in the automotive market, and the commercial success of our customers’ products in the automotive market and our ability to generate revenue from such customers.  The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements involves risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Our actual results could differ materially from those predicted or implied and reported results should not be considered as an indication of our future performance.

The risks and uncertainties referred to above include, but are not limited to, risks associated with global health conditions and associated risk mitigation measures, global economic and political conditions, including possible trade tariffs and restrictions; revenue being generated from new customers or design wins, neither of which is assured; the commercial success of our customers’ products; our growth strategy; our ability to anticipate future market demands and future needs of our customers; our ability to introduce new and enhanced solutions; our ability to develop, and to generate revenue from, new advanced technologies, such as visual AI and computer vision functionality; our ability to retain and expand customer relationships and to achieve design wins; the expansion of our current markets and our ability to successfully enter new markets, such as the OEM automotive and robotics markets; anticipated trends and challenges, including competition, in the markets in which we operate; our ability to effectively manage growth; our ability to retain key employees; and the potential for intellectual property disputes or other litigation.

Further information on these and other factors that could affect our financial results is included in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for our 2020 fiscal year, which is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Additional information will also be set forth in the company’s quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, annual reports on Form 10-K and other filings the company makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, copies of which may be obtained by visiting the Investor Relations portion of our web site at www.ambarella.com or the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov.  Undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements in this release, which are based on information available to us on the date hereof.  The results we report in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the second fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2020 could differ from the preliminary results announced in this press release.

Ambarella assumes no obligation and does not intend to update the forward-looking statements made in this press release, except as required by law.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The company has provided in this release non-GAAP financial information including non-GAAP gross margin, net income (loss), and earnings (losses) per share, as a supplement to the condensed consolidated financial statements, which are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"). Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures internally in analyzing the company’s financial results to assess operational performance and liquidity. The company believes that both management and investors benefit from referring to these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing its performance and when planning, forecasting and analyzing future periods. Further, the company believes these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors because they allow for greater transparency with respect to key financial metrics that the company uses in making operating decisions and because the company believes that investors and analysts use them to help assess the health of its business and for comparison to other companies. Non-GAAP results are presented for supplemental informational purposes only for understanding the company’s operating results. The non-GAAP information should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with GAAP, and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.

With respect to its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021, the company has provided below reconciliations of its non-GAAP financial measures to its most directly comparable GAAP financial measures.  With respect to the company’s expectations for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, a reconciliation of non-GAAP gross margin and non-GAAP operating expenses guidance to the closest corresponding GAAP measure is not available without unreasonable efforts on a forward-looking basis due to the high variability and low visibility with respect to the charges excluded from these non-GAAP measures.  We expect the variability of the above charges to have a significant, and potentially unpredictable, impact on our future GAAP financial results.

 

AMBARELLA, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except share and per share data)
(unaudited)
		Three Months Ended July 31,								Six Months Ended July 31,
			2020				2019				2020				2019
Revenue		$	50,113			$	56,410			$	104,758			$	103,598
Cost of revenue			19,155				23,973				41,780				43,308
Gross profit			30,958				32,437				62,978				60,290
Operating expenses:
Research and development			32,802				30,420				67,002				63,437
Selling, general and administrative			13,445				12,425				26,880				25,502
Total operating expenses			46,247				42,845				93,882				88,939
Loss from operations			(15,289	)			(10,408	)			(30,904	)			(28,649	)
Other income, net			1,280				2,195				2,558				4,391
Loss before income taxes			(14,009	)			(8,213	)			(28,346	)			(24,258	)
Provision for income taxes			747				1,978				1,873				3,244
Net loss		$	(14,756	)		$	(10,191	)		$	(30,219	)		$	(27,502	)
Net loss per share attributable to ordinary shareholders:
Basic		$	(0.43	)		$	(0.31	)		$	(0.88	)		$	(0.84	)
Diluted		$	(0.43	)		$	(0.31	)		$	(0.88	)		$	(0.84	)
Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share
attributable to ordinary shareholders:
Basic			34,480,307				32,860,974				34,280,318				32,676,509
Diluted			34,480,307				32,860,974				34,280,318				32,676,509

The following table presents details of stock-based compensation expense included in each functional line item in the condensed consolidated statements of operations above:

	Three Months Ended July 31,						Six Months Ended July 31,
		2020			2019			2020			2019
	(unaudited, in thousands)
Stock-based compensation:
Cost of revenue	$	316		$	320		$	613		$	587
Research and development		10,010			10,501			19,906			20,705
Selling, general and administrative		6,068			5,379			11,911			11,368
Total stock-based compensation	$	16,394		$	16,200		$	32,430		$	32,660

The difference between GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin was 0.6% and 0.6%, or $316,000 and $320,000, for the three months ended July 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The difference between GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin was 0.6% and 0.6%, or $613,000 and $587,000, for the six months ended July 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The differences were due to the effect of stock-based compensation.
 

AMBARELLA, INC.
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP DILUTED EARNINGS (LOSSES) PER SHARE
(in thousands, except share and per share data)
	Three Months Ended July 31,								Six Months Ended July 31,
		2020				2019				2020				2019
	(unaudited)
GAAP net loss	$	(14,756	)		$	(10,191	)		$	(30,219	)		$	(27,502	)
Non-GAAP adjustments:
Stock-based compensation expense		16,394				16,200				32,430				32,660
Income tax effect		450				1,589				1,198				2,371
Non-GAAP net income	$	2,088			$	7,598			$	3,409			$	7,529
GAAP - diluted weighted average shares		34,480,307				32,860,974				34,280,318				32,676,509
Non-GAAP - diluted weighted average shares		35,432,400				33,905,612				35,303,387				33,684,324
GAAP - diluted net loss per share	$	(0.43	)		$	(0.31	)		$	(0.88	)		$	(0.84	)
Non-GAAP adjustments:
Stock-based compensation expense		0.48				0.49				0.95				1.00
Income tax effect		0.01				0.05				0.03				0.07
Effect of Non-GAAP - diluted weighted average shares		—				(0.01	)			—				(0.01	)
Non-GAAP - diluted net income per share	$	0.06			$	0.22			$	0.10			$	0.22

 

 

AMBARELLA, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(unaudited, in thousands)
	July 31,			January 31,
		2020			2020
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	220,647		$	231,403
Marketable debt securities		190,056			173,345
Accounts receivable, net		23,275			18,487
Inventories		23,907			22,971
Restricted cash		10			9
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		3,503			4,975
Total current assets		461,398			451,190
Property and equipment, net		5,027			5,614
Deferred tax assets, non-current		10,212			10,400
Intangible assets, net		16,088			17,826
Operating lease right-of-use assets, net		8,691			9,935
Goodwill		26,601			26,601
Other non-current assets		5,381			5,710
Total assets	$	533,398		$	527,276
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable		13,693			14,910
Accrued and other current liabilities		33,156			34,970
Operating lease liabilities, current		2,402			2,181
Income taxes payable		511			691
Deferred revenue, current		1,400			701
Total current liabilities		51,162			53,453
Operating lease liabilities, non-current		6,911			7,975
Other long-term liabilities		16,678			17,776
Total liabilities		74,751			79,204
Shareholders' equity:
Preference shares		—			—
Ordinary shares		15			15
Additional paid-in capital		301,195			261,220
Accumulated other comprehensive income		1,587			768
Retained earnings		155,850			186,069
Total shareholders’ equity		458,647			448,072
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity	$	533,398		$	527,276

 

Contact:

Louis Gerhardy
408.636.2310
lgerhardy@ambarella.com