Corning Incorporated Q4 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Corning Inc. Q4 2020 Earnings Summary

Key Financial Highlights (Q4 2020 vs. Q4 2019 YoY and Q3 2020 sequentially):

  • Sales: $3.3 billion (+17% YoY, +11% sequentially). Full-year sales impacted by COVID-19 but rebounded strongly in H2.
  • Operating Margin: 19.4% (+500 basis points YoY).
  • Operating Income: +58% YoY, +18% sequentially.
  • EPS (core): $0.52 (+13% YoY, +21% sequentially).
  • Free Cash Flow: $464 million in Q4; $948 million for full year 2020.
  • Cash Balance: $2.7 billion at year-end.

Segment Performance (Q4 2020 YoY comparisons):

  • Display Technologies: Sales $841M (+6% YoY); Net income $217M (+21% YoY). Full-year sales $3.2B; net income $717M. Glass market and volume up mid-single digits; price declines mid-single digits. Strong retail demand for TV/IT products.
  • Optical Communications: Sales $976M (+8% YoY); Core net income $141M (+127% YoY). Returned to growth; expects continued growth in 2021 driven by bandwidth demand and 5G investments.
  • Environmental Technologies: Sales $445M (+19% YoY); Net income $93M (+45% YoY). Full-year sales $1.4B; net income $197M. Outperformed market; strong GPF adoption in Europe/China.

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Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. And welcome to the Corning, Inc. Fourth Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the conference to your speaker today, Ann Nicholson, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead ma’am Ann Nicholson: Thank you, and good morning and welcome to Corning’s quarter four 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’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 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. For the fourth quarter, the largest difference between our GAAP and core results stem from restructuring charges, which are primarily nonca

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