SanDisk: Fiscal 2Q09 Financial Results

SanDisk Corporation announced results for the second quarter ended June 28, 2009. Total second quarter revenue of $731 million declined 10% on a year-over-year basis and increased 11% on a sequential basis. Net income, in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), was $53 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net loss of ($74) million or ($0.33) per share in the second quarter of 2008 and GAAP net loss of ($208) million, or ($0.92) per share in the first quarter of 2009.

On a non-GAAP basis, which excludes the impact of acquisition-related charges, share-based compensation expense, and economic non-cash interest expense associated with the cash-settled convertible note, the second-quarter net income was $83 million, or $0.36 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of ($22) million or ($0.10) per share in the second quarter of 2008 and net loss of ($108) million or ($0.48) per share in the first quarter of 2009. For reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP results, see accompanying financial tables and footnotes.

“We are very pleased with our return to profitability in the second quarter, driven by increased pricing, higher royalty revenue, and strong execution. Our decisive and timely restructuring actions are delivering the intended results,” said Eli Harari, Chairman and CEO, SanDisk. “In the second quarter we renewed our patent cross license agreement with Samsung Electronics, providing market certainty. We remain cautiously optimistic about the second half of 2009.”

Second Quarter Metrics and Highlights

• Total cash and equivalents, short and long-term investments at the end of the second quarter was $2.34 billion compared to $2.54 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2008 and $2.38 billion at the end of the first quarter of 2009.
• Product revenue was $610 million, down 11% year-over-year and up 4% sequentially.
• License and royalty revenue of $120 million, was down 7% year-over-year and up 68% sequentially.
• Gigabytes sold increased 118% year-over-year and decreased 7% sequentially.
• Average price per gigabyte sold declined 59% year-over-year and increased 12% sequentially.
• Average retail card capacity was 4.27 gigabytes, an increase of 81% on a year-over-year basis and a decrease of 2% sequentially.
• GAAP product gross profit was $129 million compared to GAAP product gross profit of $22 million in the second quarter of 2008 and GAAP product gross loss of ($73) million in the first quarter of 2009.
• Non-GAAP product gross profit was $134 million, compared to non-GAAP product gross profit of $39 million in the second quarter of 2008 and non-GAAP product loss of ($67) million in the first quarter of 2009. Second quarter product gross profit included an $87 million benefit primarily from the sale of previously reserved inventory.
• GAAP operating profit was $68 million compared to GAAP operating loss of ($101) million in the second quarter of 2008 and GAAP operating loss of ($165) million in the first quarter of 2009.
• Non-GAAP operating profit was $94 million compared to non-GAAP operating loss of ($57) million in the second quarter of 2008 and non-GAAP operating loss of ($146) million in the first quarter of 2009.

Other Recent Key Announcements

• SanDisk and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. renewed the cross license agreement of their semiconductor patent portfolios for another seven years. In addition, the companies signed a flash memory supply agreement under which Samsung will continue to make available to SanDisk a guaranteed portion of its flash memory production output.
• SanDisk introduced the world’s fastest 32-gigabyte SanDisk Extreme SDHC card, with read and write speeds at up to 30 megabytes per second, for photography and video enthusiasts.
• SanDisk began shipping its next-generation flash memory-based modular solid state drives (SSD), SanDisk pSSD P2 and S2, featuring nCache, a new technology designed to improve netbook performance, at a competitive price.