Entegris Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Apr 29, 2010
Entegris Inc. (ENTG, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-04-03.

Entegris Inc. has a market cap of $801.4 million; its shares were traded at around $6.13 with and P/S ratio of 2. ENTG is in the portfolios of Arnold Schneider of Schneider Capital Management, PRIMECAP Management, Chuck Royce of Royce& Associates, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC.

Highlight of Business Operations:

For the three months ended April 3, 2010, net sales increased by $101.5 million, or 172%, to $160.5 million compared to $59.0 million for the three months ended March 28, 2009. On a sequential basis, revenues rose 10% from $146.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2009. Net sales for the period were the highest achieved by the Company since the fourth quarter of 2007.

The Companys business downturn reached a trough during the first quarter of 2009. Starting in the second quarter of 2009, the Company began to experience a modest upturn in bookings and sales of certain of its unit-driven, consumable products, while recovery of the Companys capital-driven product lines began in the third quarter. From a low point of $59.0 million in the first quarter of 2009, sales of the Companys products and services rose steadily to $82.6 million, $110.7 million and $146.3 million in the second, third and fourth quarters of 2009, respectively.

During the first quarter of 2010, the Companys operating activities provided cash flow of $28.0 million, $20.4 million of which was used to reduce outstanding debt. Cash and cash equivalents were $73.3 million at April 3, 2010 compared with $68.7 million at December 31, 2009. Total short-term and long-term debt stood at $51.2 million at April 3, 2010 compared with $71.8 million at December 31, 2009.

Gross profit The Company reported considerably higher gross profits and an improved gross margin. Gross profit in the three months ended April 3, 2010 increased by $68.1 million to $73.2 million, up from $5.0 million for the three months ended March 28, 2009. The gross margin rate for the first quarter of 2010 was 45.6% versus 8.5% for the first quarter of 2009.

Selling, general and administrative expenses. Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses increased $6.1 million, or 20%, to $35.8 million in the three months ended April 3, 2010, up from $29.7 million in the comparable three-month period a year earlier. Reflecting the increase in net sales, SG&A expenses as a percent of net sales declined to 22.3% from 50.3% a year earlier. The increase in SG&A expense was due to higher employee costs ($5.4 million), mainly reflecting the reversal of salary reductions, the absence of employee furloughs in place in 2009, higher sales commissions expense and the accrual of incentive compensation in 2010. In addition, the year-over-year increase in SG&A costs includes a foreign currency translation effect of $1.1 million. The Company expects SG&A expenses to be higher throughout 2010 as the Company has reversed temporary cost cuts that were put in place in 2009.

Net income (loss) attributable to Entegris, Inc. The Company recorded net income of $16.6 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, in the three-month period ended April 3, 2010 compared to a net loss of $37.7 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, in the three-month period ended March 28, 2009. The significant improvement mainly reflects the Companys higher net sales and corresponding increase in gross profit.

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