Corning Incorporated Q2 FY2022 Earnings Call

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Corning Incorporated Q2 2022 Earnings Summary

Overview

Corning reported strong Q2 2022 results despite challenging conditions in display, automotive, and mobile consumer electronics markets, including panel maker utilization at lowest levels since Q1 2009, auto production significantly below normal, and smartphone sales down 11% YoY (primarily due to China COVID lockdowns). The company delivered in line with expectations, highlighting resilience from its focused portfolio, pricing actions, and secular growth in optical communications and solar. Strategy execution emphasized content opportunities, price stability in display, and innovation-driven outperformance.

Key Financial Highlights (vs. Q2 2021 unless noted)

  • Sales: $3.8 billion, +7% YoY (first half +10% YoY to over $700M added).
  • EPS (core): $0.57, +8% YoY (first half +14% YoY from $0.97 to $1.11).
  • Net Income (core): $489 million, +7% YoY.
  • Free Cash Flow: $440 million in Q2; $611 million for first half.
  • Gross Margin: +90 basis points sequentially from Q1 2022 (driven by pricing actions to offset inflation).
  • Operating Margin: +120 basis points sequentially from Q1 2022.
  • CapEx: $353 million.

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Operator: Welcome to the Corning Incorporated Quarter Two 2022 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] It is my pleasure to introduce to you, Ann Nicholson, Vice President of Investor Relations. Ann Nicholson: Thank you and good morning, everybody. Welcome to Corning’s Q2 2022 earnings call. With me today are Wendell Weeks, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Ed Schlesinger, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Jeff Evenson, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer. I'd like to remind you that today's remarks contain forward-looking statements that fall within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. These factors are detailed in the company's financial reports. You should also note that we'll be discussing our consolidated results using core performance measures, unless we specifically indicate our comments relate to GAAP data. Our core performance measures are non-GAAP measures used by management to analyze the business. For the second quarter, the largest difference between GAAP and core results stems from noncash mark-to-market gains associated with the company's currency hedging contracts. This increased GAAP earnings in Q2 by $203 million. To be clear, this mark-to-market accounting has no impact on our cash flow. A reconciliation of core results to the comparable GAAP value can be found in the

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