Corning Incorporated Q3 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Corning Incorporated (GLW) Q3 2020 Earnings Summary

Overall Financial Performance

  • Sales: $3.0 billion, +16% sequentially (vs. Q2 2020); strong sequential growth driven by recovery across segments and innovation adoption.
  • EPS (core): $0.43, +72% sequentially (vs. Q2 2020).
  • Operating margin (core): 18.3%, +710 basis points sequentially (vs. Q2 2020) and +20 basis points year-over-year (vs. Q3 2019); expansion due to higher sales and manufacturing efficiency.
  • Free cash flow: $518 million in Q3; cumulative $484 million for first three quarters of 2020; ended quarter with $2.5 billion cash.
  • Net income (core): $380 million.
  • Balance sheet: Strong liquidity maintained; average debt maturity ~25 years (longest in S&P 500); only $70 million debt due in next 15 months.

Key Highlights & Strategic Updates

  • Strong performance despite pandemic, recession, and geopolitical challenges; cost actions and efficiencies delivering results with expectations for another solid Q4.
  • Innovation momentum: Ceramic Shield (new glass-ceramic material) featured on iPhone 12; specialty materials sales +23% YoY despite declining smartphone market; continued "more Corning" content strategy (e.g., gas particulate filters in autos).
  • 5G and optical fiber: New product for outdoor deployments announced; supporting Verizon indoor 5G; up to 100x more fiber needed vs. 4G.

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Operator: Welcome to the Corning Incorporated Quarter Three 2020 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] It is my pleasure to introduce you to Ann Nicholson, Vice President of Investor Relations. Ann Nicholson: Thank you, Catherine and good morning and welcome to our third quarter 2020 earnings call. With me today are Wendell Weeks, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Tony Tripeny, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Jeff Evenson, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer. I would 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. Those 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 will 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. Reconciliation of core results to the comparable GAAP value can be found in the Investor Relations section of our website at corning.com. You may also access core results on our website with downloadable financials in the Interactive Analyst Center. Supporting slides are being shown live on our webcast. We encourage you to follow along. They are also available on our we

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