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Exhibit 99.1

 

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CEVA, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2012 Financial Results

 

   

New strategic licensee for flagship CEVA-XC4000 DSP targeting LTE-Advanced products

 

   

Design wins for audio and gesture recognition platforms continue CEVA’s expansion into new markets

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – November 01, 2012 CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores for the mobile, portable and consumer electronic markets, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2012.

Total revenue for the third quarter of 2012 was $12 million, a decrease of 19% compared to $14.8 million reported for the third quarter of 2011. Third quarter 2012 licensing revenue was $4.2 million, representing a decrease of 19% when compared to $5.2 million reported for the same quarter a year ago. Royalty revenue for the third quarter 2012 was $7.0 million, a decrease of 20% compared to $8.8 million reported for the third quarter of 2011. Revenue from services for the third quarter of 2012 was $0.7 million, a decrease of 13% compared to $0.9 million reported for the third quarter of 2011.

Of the seven new license agreements concluded during the third quarter, five agreements were for CEVA DSP cores, platforms and software, including new licensees for the CEVA-XC4000 DSP targeting LTE-Advanced products and the CEVA-MM3101 platform targeting gesture recognition products. Additionally, one agreement was for CEVA SATA/SAS product lines and one agreement was for CEVA Bluetooth technology. Target applications for customer deployment are 3G and 4G baseband processors, digital cameras, next-generation vision products, connectivity and SATA interface chips for enterprise applications. Geographically, one of the agreements signed was in Europe and six were in Asia Pacific, including Japan.

Gideon Wertheizer, Chief Executive Officer of CEVA, stated, “While general macro-economic concerns adversely impacted our licensing revenue, we continue to see robust demand for our best-of-breed DSP technologies from customers targeting next-generation products. Despite some headwinds in our royalty growth, our wireless customer base made significant inroads into the 3G smartphone space during the quarter with a 7% sequential unit growth, key design wins and third quarter production ramp-ups from OEMs, including Huawei, Lenovo, Samsung and ZTE.”


U.S. GAAP net income for the third quarter of 2012 was $2.6 million, a 47% decrease from $4.9 million reported for the same period in 2011. U.S. GAAP diluted earnings per share for the third quarter of 2012 were $0.11, a decrease of 45% compared to $0.20 for the third quarter of 2011.

Non-GAAP net income and diluted earnings per share for the third quarter of 2012 were $3.8 million and $0.16, respectively, representing a 40% and 38% decrease, respectively, over the $6.3 million and $0.26 reported for the third quarter of 2011. Non-GAAP net income and diluted earnings per share for the third quarter of 2012 and 2011 excluded an aggregate equity-based compensation expense, net of taxes, of $1.2 million and $1.3 million, respectively.

Yaniv Arieli, Chief Financial Officer of CEVA, stated, “Notwithstanding the current challenging environment, we are encouraged by trends in our long term royalty growth as our key customers are rolling out new 3G and 4G products to the market. Our confidence in the company’s future prospects and strong fundamentals is demonstrated through our share buyback program, whereby we purchased approximately 170,000 shares of our common stock during the quarter for approximately $2.9 million. We currently have approximately 730,000 remaining shares available for repurchase under our existing buyback program. We are focused on maintaining a strong balance sheet that includes no debt and at the end of the quarter, our overall cash balance, marketable securities and bank deposits totaled approximately $156 million.”

CEVA Conference Call

On November 1, 2012, CEVA management will conduct a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the operating performance for the quarter.

The conference call will be available via the following dial in numbers:

 

   

U.S. Participants: Dial 1-800-860-2442 (Access Code: CEVA)

 

   

International Participants: Dial +1-412-858-4600 (Access Code: CEVA)

The conference call will also be available live via the Internet at the following link: http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=89778. Please go to the web site at least fifteen minutes prior to the call to register, download and install any necessary audio software.

For those who cannot access the live broadcast, a replay will be available by dialing +1-877-344-7529 or +1-412-317-0088 (access code: 10019207) from one hour after the end of the call until 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on November 9, 2012. The replay will also be available at CEVA’s web site www.ceva-dsp.com.


For More Information Contact:

 

Yaniv Arieli

CEVA, Inc.

CFO

+1.650.417.7941

yaniv.arieli@ceva-dsp.com

  

Richard Kingston

CEVA, Inc.

Director of Marketing & Investor Relations

+1.650.417.7976

richard.kingston@ceva-dsp.com

About CEVA, Inc.

CEVA is the world’s leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) DSP cores and platform solutions for the mobile, portable and consumer electronics markets. CEVA’s IP portfolio includes comprehensive technologies for cellular baseband (2G / 3G / 4G), multimedia (vision, Image Signal Processing (ISP) and HD audio), voice over packet (VoP), Bluetooth, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). In 2011, CEVA’s IP was shipped in over 1 billion devices and powers handsets from every top handset OEM, including Nokia, Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony, Huawei and ZTE. Today, more than 40% of handsets shipped worldwide are powered by a CEVA DSP core. For more information, visit www.ceva-dsp.com. Follow CEVA on twitter at www.twitter.com/cevadsp.

Forward Looking Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that if they materialize or prove incorrect, could cause the results of CEVA to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. Forward-looking statements include Mr. Wertheizer’s statements about CEVA’s prospects associated with the 3G smartphone space and its best-of-breed DSP technologies targeting next-generation products, and Mr. Arieli’s statements about CEVA’s long term royalty growth and the stock buyback reflecting the company’s future prospects and strong fundamentals. The risks, uncertainties and assumptions include: the ability of the CEVA DSP cores and other technologies to continue to be strong growth drivers for us; our success in penetrating new markets and maintaining our market position in existing markets; the ability of products incorporating our technologies to achieve market acceptance, the effect of intense industry competition and consolidation, global chip market trends, the possibility that markets for our technologies may not develop as expected or that products incorporating our technologies do not achieve market acceptance; our ability to timely and successfully develop and introduce new technologies; and general market conditions and other risks relating to our business, including, but not limited to, those that are described from time to time in our SEC filings. CEVA assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or information, which speak as of their respective dates. 


CEVA, INC. AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS – U.S. GAAP

U.S. dollars in thousands, except per share data

 

     Quarter ended      Nine months ended  
     September 30,      September 30,  
     2012      2011      2012      2011  
     Unaudited      Unaudited      Unaudited      Unaudited  

Revenues:

           

Licensing

   $ 4,213       $ 5,225       $ 14,693       $ 15,528   

Royalties

     7,046         8,766         23,747         26,244   

Other revenues

     747         856         2,270         2,515   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total revenues

     12,006         14,847         40,710         44,287   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Cost of revenues

     1,046         811         2,927         2,635   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Gross profit

     10,960         14,036         37,783         41,652   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Operating expenses:

           

Research and development, net

     4,637         5,158         15,548         15,813   

Sales and marketing

     2,235         2,099         6,628         6,650   

General and administrative

     1,940         2,057         5,658         5,543   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     8,812         9,314         27,834         28,006   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Operating income

     2,148         4,722         9,949         13,646   

Financial income, net

     731         784         2,653         2,036   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Income before taxes on income

     2,879         5,506         12,602         15,682   

Income taxes

     285         571         1,672         1,973   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net income

     2,594         4,935         10,930         13,709   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Basic net income per share

   $ 0.12       $ 0.21       $ 0.48       $ 0.59   

Diluted net income per share

   $ 0.11       $ 0.20       $ 0.46       $ 0.57   

Weighted-average number of Common Stock used in computation of net income per share (in thousands):

           

Basic

     22,526         23,390         22,965         23,065   

Diluted

     23,019         24,253         23,565         24,105   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 


Unaudited Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures

(U.S. Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)

 

     Quarter ended     Nine months ended  
     September 30,     September 30,  
     2012     2011     2012     2011  
     Unaudited     Unaudited     Unaudited     Unaudited  

GAAP net income

     2,594        4,935        10,930        13,709   

Equity-based compensation expense included in cost of revenue

     73        61        177        171   

Equity-based compensation expense included in research and development expenses

     468        510        1,327        1,372   

Equity-based compensation expense included in sales and marketing expenses

     284        291        723        747   

Equity-based compensation expense included in general and administrative expenses

     541        553        1,461        1,250   

Income tax benefit

     (206     (99     (550     (98
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Non-GAAP net income

     3,754        6,251        14,068        17,151   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

GAAP weighted-average number of Common Stock used in computation of diluted net income per share (in thousands)

     23,019        24,253        23,565        24,105   

Weighted-average number of shares related to outstanding options

     3        11        5        19   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Non-GAAP weighted-average number of Common Stock used in computation of diluted net income per share (in thousands)

     23,022        24,264        23,570        24,124   

GAAP diluted net income per share

   $ 0.11      $ 0.20      $ 0.46      $ 0.57   

Equity-based compensation expense

   $ 0.06      $ 0.06      $ 0.16      $ 0.14   

Income tax benefit

     (0.01     —          (0.02     —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Non-GAAP diluted net income per share

   $ 0.16      $ 0.26      $ 0.60      $ 0.71   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 


CEVA, INC. AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

U.S. Dollars in Thousands

 

     September 30,     December 31,  
     2012     2011(*)  
     Unaudited  

ASSETS

    

Current assets:

    

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 21,680      $ 14,954   

Marketable securities and short term bank deposits

     119,969        124,458   

Trade receivables, net

     6,015        5,116   

Deferred tax assets

     1,993        2,248   

Prepaid expenses and other accounts receivables

     2,373        2,320   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current assets

     152,030        149,096   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Long-term investments:

    

Long term bank deposits

     14,153        25,106   

Severance pay fund

     5,791        5,473   

Deferred tax assets

     1,106        832   

Property and equipment, net

     1,192        1,235   

Goodwill

     36,498        36,498   

Investment in other companies

     2,433        900   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 213,203      $ 219,140   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

    

Current liabilities:

    

Trade payables

   $ 1,009      $ 580   

Deferred revenues

     867        1,074   

Accrued expenses and other payables

     8,261        10,124   

Taxes payable

     1,710        545   

Deferred tax liabilities

     197        290   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     12,044        12,613   

Accrued severance pay

     5,856        5,607   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     17,900        18,220   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Stockholders’ equity:

    

Common Stock

     22        24   

Additional paid in-capital

     197,138        191,945   

Treasury stock

     (22,415     —     

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

     280        (901

Retained earnings

     20,278        9,852   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ equity

     195,303        200,920   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 213,203      $ 219,140   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
(*) Derived from audited financial statements