Corning Incorporated Q2 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Date: Q2 2025 Earnings Call | Participants: Wendell Weeks (CEO), Ed Schlesinger (CFO), Ann Nicholson (VP IR)

Key Financial Highlights (Q2 2025 vs. Q2 2024)

  • Sales: $4.0 billion, +12% YoY (record quarter)
  • Core EPS: $0.60, +28% YoY (grew more than double the rate of sales)
  • Operating Margin: 19%, +160 basis points YoY
  • ROIC: 13.1%, +210 basis points YoY
  • Free Cash Flow: $451 million, +28% YoY

Springboard Plan Progress (vs. Q4 2023 Launch)

  • Sales grew 24%, adding >$3 billion to annualized run rate
  • Operating margin expanded +270 basis points to 19% (target: 20% by end of 2026)
  • EPS grew +54% (more than 2x sales growth)
  • ROIC expanded +430 basis points
  • Strong free cash flow generation; upgraded internal/high-confidence plan by $1B in March 2025 (now $6B/$4B targets)
  • On track at halfway point; Q3 expected to add another $600M to annualized sales run rate

Segment Performance

  • Optical Communications: Sales +41% YoY to $1.6B (Enterprise +81% driven by Gen AI scale-out; Carrier +16%). Net income +73% to $247M. Gen AI DCI products doubled QoQ; long-haul rebuild opportunity emerging.

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Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Corning Incorporated Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions]. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. It is my pleasure to introduce to you, Ann Nicholson, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Ann H. S. Nicholson: Thank you, and good morning, everybody. Welcome to Corning's Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. With me today are Wendell Weeks, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and Ed Schlesinger, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial 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 primarily reflected noncash mark-to-market activity associated with the company's translated earnings contracts, foreign denominated debt and constant currency adjustments. As a reminder, mark-to-market accounting has no impact on our c

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