Corning Incorporated Q2 FY2023 Earnings Call

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Corning Incorporated Q2 2023 Earnings Summary

Context: Corning reported results demonstrating progress on profitability and cash flow improvements amid weak end-market demand following pandemic after-effects (supply chain normalization, inventory drawdowns, inflation, and consumer spending shifts). Sales and EPS showed sequential gains, with margins expanding significantly vs. Q4 2022 and Q1 2023. No strong market recovery assumed in guidance.

Key Consolidated Financial Metrics

  • Sales: $3.5 billion (up 3% sequentially from Q1 2023; down vs. prior year due to demand softness)
  • EPS (core): $0.45 (up $0.04 from Q1 2023)
  • Gross Margin: 36.2% (up 100 bps sequentially from Q1; up 260 bps from Q4 2022 end)
  • Operating Margin: 17.5% (up 200 bps sequentially from Q1 2023; up ~300 bps from Q4 2022)
  • Free Cash Flow: $310 million (significant sequential improvement)

Segment Performance Highlights

  • Optical Communications: Sales $1.66B (down 5% seq from Q1, down 19% YoY); Net income $140M (down 12% seq, down 23% YoY). Weakness in passive optical network products due to carrier/enterprise project delays into 2024 from inflation/rates. Pricing actions implemented; long-term drivers (broadband, 5G, cloud, AI) intact.

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Operator: Welcome to the Corning Incorporated Quarter 2 2023 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 second quarter 2023 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 difference between GAAP and core EPS stemmed primarily from restructuring charges and from non-cash mark-to-market adjustments associated with the company's currency hedging contracts and Japanese-yen-denominated debt. In total, these increased core earnings in the second quarter by $19 million. As a reminder, the mark-to-market accounting has

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