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Cypress Reports Financial Results and Update on Acquisition by Infineon

February 03, 2020 by Paul Shepard

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 results with fiscal year revenue of $2.21 billion, down 6.1% year-over-year after adjusting for the divestiture of our NAND business, which was completed on April 1, 2019, but with record Automotive revenue of $829.4 million representing 38% of total fiscal year 2019 revenue.

Fourth quarter revenue was $559.6 million and GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins were 38.0% and 47.1%, respectively; Fourth quarter GAAP and non-GAAP operating margins were 5.9% and 21.1%, respectively; and Fourth quarter GAAP and non-GAAP diluted EPS were $0.05 and $0.28, respectively

"We continue to see strong adoption of our connect and compute products across the automotive and IoT end-markets, which drove record MCD revenue in fiscal year 2019 in a challenging environment," said Hassane El-Khoury, Cypress’ president and chief executive officer. "We ended the year strongly in the fourth quarter with our automotive revenue achieving a quarterly record and our IoT business up 18% compared to the fourth quarter of 2018. Our focus on maximizing profitability and cashflow continues to pay off as evidenced by our record cash from operations of $479 million in 2019."

Acquisition Update

As announced on June 3, 2019, Infineon Technologies AG and Cypress entered into an agreement and plan of merger providing for Infineon to acquire Cypress for $23.85 per share in cash, corresponding to an enterprise value of approximately $10 billion.

The proposed transaction has received antitrust clearances from authorities in the United States, the European Union, The Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. The parties require approval for the proposed transaction from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and from China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR).