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| Our aim is to return to double-digit revenue growth and recovery in 2025, underpinned by a strong and continually growing list of design wins, many of which are with some of the world's leading players in telco and networking space |
| As SASE grows and given our both customers' dominant position within the SASE market, we expect strong future growth in sales to those customers |
| We are optimistic about 2025 |
| We believe that by 2025 we will convert some large projects in our pipeline into new design wins and the ramp up of existing ones will generate more meaningful revenues |
| I want to stress though that Silicom is well positioned as a key player in our industry and giving the growing potential within our design win roster, our long and deep pipeline, and our continually growing total addressable market, I'm optimistic on our long-term future, especially from 2025 [indiscernible] |
| Our strong cash position remains a key strategic asset and enables us to continue investing in the long-term and overcome challenging periods ahead of us |
| As we have shown, we are very happy to share the rewards of our continuous profitability and cash generation with our shareholders |
| We believe that the actions we are taking now are well proven long-term experience in managing our expenses and our strong cash position, which currently stands at $67 million, will allow us to maintain a very strong balance sheet through the challenging period ahead of us |
| Our balance sheet remains very strong and has been the outcome of a very well planned and executed strategy over many years |
| And this ordering, a good portion for inventory, drove above average demand and a high backlog for our products in both 2021 and 2022 |
| So overall, we feel that we are getting into this bad situation in a reasonably good position |
| Despite the current challenges over the immediate term, our mid to long-term outlook remains positive |
| As mentioned by Liron, based on our strong balance sheet and improved cash position, we intend to continue repurchasing our shares at full pace |
| It should be able to make good money in the future |
| Naturally, the safety of our employees remains our highest priority |
| Silicom, like many other companies, leveraged strong balance sheets to put in the increase and maintain high inventory levels of components |
| However, we strongly believe that we will return to double-digit growth in 2025 |
| This was to ensure that we could continue to build the products that our customers need in a timely way, maintain strong business continuity, and most importantly, keep our clients happy with continued top quality service provision |
| Based on our strong cash position, we intend to continue to repurchase our shares under the 15 million share repurchase plan that we announced six months ago |
| I would like to share with you a few examples of the additional revenue potential inherent in our impressive growth driver Design Wins and in our potential Design Wins pipeline that underlies our expectations for 2025 recovery |
| We believe that our drivers for long-term demand remain in fact, as we navigate the current situation, we remain highly focused on our first priority target of maintaining our market leadership, developing new products that will act as growth drivers and lead to design wins over many years, delivering on technology roadmaps and ultimately ensuring customer satisfaction |
| In parallel, we intend to increase our focus on the sectors that have allowed us to grow so well in the recent times, and those that we believe will remain primary growth drivers for us into 2025 and beyond |
| Can we start at the upper end of that discussion with respect to the ability to sustain profitability? I think you guys have had a track record over an extremely long time of maintaining profitability even in the toughest of events |
| This opportunity by itself has an additional sales potential of about $10 million in 2025 and furthermore we are expecting to transition from the proof-of-concept stage to the mass production sales stage for two design wins we have already won with two leading capacity companies with the sales potential of approximately $10 million in 2025 |
| And from here we believe that we have the right pipeline, we have the right team and we're entering with a position that will allow us to go back to grow in 2025 |
| based provider of enterprise telecommunication services with which we have already won a few active design wins and we expect to win more in the coming years |
| Those design wins with leading networking security and service providers are for our advanced server adapters and Edge system products, our strategic focus area |
| Those actions should allow us to reduce the negative impact on our non-GAAP earnings per share without compromising our long-term objectives |
| So in that context, obviously the yen’s fallen out a bit and OpEx should benefit from the yen |
| It's made good money in the past |
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| Looking further to next year, giving our very limited visibility and the factors I just discussed, we expect 2024 to be a challenging year |
| The higher portion of Edge Systems sold in the quarter, combined with recent higher price pressures from customers, mainly a result of the macroeconomic slowdown, pushed this quarter's gross margin below our expected range of between 32% and 36% |
| Another impact is related to industry and economic headwinds facing our customers that began to affect our revenue in the last quarter |
| To provide you with just two examples, due to supply chain and component shortage issues, many companies in our industry face manufacturing difficulties in recent years |
| Given the volatile environment over the past few years, with everything that has happened since COVID, as well as global economic downturn, we are also seeing some changes in our industry, which also possess new challenges as well as new opportunities in what is already a very low visibility environment |
| Your business is down quite substantially from recent levels |
| This is leading to holding off and longer decision-making processes on new projects as well as delays in slowing in the investment and implementation of existing infrastructure projects |
| Liron Eizenman The problem is the very low visibility that we have and the economic headwinds that we're seeing all around the world, this is impacted and it's not allowing us to see a very clear picture for all of 2024, not even for the first quarter of '24 |
| But yet what you're seeing is you're seeing difficulty in getting those wins to convert to revenues |
| Again, such changes may present an opportunity, as well as a challenge to Silicom, once such customer will exhaust the excess inventory |
| With the stock trading in the mid-16s right now, you've got an enterprise or market cap of about $112 million, which basically indicates that the market is saying that your business has a negative value, ex the inventory and cash |
| Consistent with the rest of our industry, we expect a macroeconomics uncertainty to persist into 2024, which impacts our customers investment ability |
| Revenues for the third quarter of 2023 were $30.1 million, a 23% decrease compared with revenues of $39.2 million as reported in the third quarter of last year |
| And yes, it's very limiting us from coming and saying something very definitive on 2024, apart from the fact that yes, we think it would be a challenging year due to all the reason that I provided before |
| To summarize, Silicom is navigating a much more challenging short-term environment across many fronts |
| While this may present an opportunity for us with companies, which currently do not use our server adapters, it may present a challenge with existing customers that we will face once such customer will exhaust the excess inventory it currently has |
| It's down quite a bit partly because of the conditions, macro conditions partly because of interest rates, partly because of the war |
| So, it does sound like you think that there is a risk that you could go to a lost position to on a quarterly basis over that time frame |
| We also feel price pressure from customers due to the economic situation and the situation that has changed now that components are readily available, but it's very easy |
| However, for now, it further reduces our already very low visibility |
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