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May 31, 2020

Aehr Q4 2020 Earnings Report

Aehr reported a net loss for Q4 2020, impacted by inventory adjustments and restructuring charges, while closing new orders with major customers.

Key Takeaways

Aehr Test Systems reported Q4 net sales of $3.8 million, a GAAP net loss of $2.9 million, and a non-GAAP net loss of $720,000. The company closed new orders with major customers in silicon photonics and with the world's largest OSAT.

Net sales were $3.8 million, compared to $7.2 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019.

GAAP net loss was $2.9 million, or $0.13 per diluted share.

Non-GAAP net loss was $720,000, or $0.03 per diluted share.

Closed new orders with major customers in silicon photonics and with the world's largest OSAT.

Total Revenue
$3.77M
Previous year: $7.24M
-47.9%
EPS
-$0.03
Previous year: $0.02
-250.0%
Effective backlog
$2.5M
Previous year: $7.5M
-66.7%
Gross Profit
-$93K
Previous year: $3.38M
-102.8%
Cash and Equivalents
$5.43M
Previous year: $5.43M
+0.1%
Free Cash Flow
-$1.4M
Previous year: -$893K
+56.3%
Total Assets
$20.6M
Previous year: $21.3M
-3.4%

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Forward Guidance

For the fiscal year ending May 31, 2021, the Company expects full year total revenue to be between $25 million and $28 million, which would represent growth between 12% and 26% year over year, and to be profitable for the fiscal year.

Positive Outlook

  • Expect full year total revenue to be between $25 million and $28 million.
  • Revenue would represent growth between 12% and 26% year over year.
  • Expect to be profitable for the fiscal year.
  • Optimistic about growth in systems and consumables within our installed base of customers
  • Expanding the number of customers with our family of FOX-P solutions

Challenges Ahead

  • COVID-19 has created challenges such as international travel
  • Some small impacts on our supply chain
  • Caution and/or delays with some customer production ramps
  • Company experienced push outs of customer forecasted orders in its second fiscal half of FY20 for its FOX-P Systems and consumables in data center and some 5G end use applications for Silicon Photonics transceivers.
  • These customers have indicated the push outs are temporary