SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVTI), a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2015 that ended on January 31, 2015.

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Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2015 were $292.3 million, as compared to $394.0 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2015, and $352.0 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2014. GAAP net income in the third quarter of fiscal 2015 was $14.0 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, as compared to net income of $28.0 million, or $0.47 per diluted share in the second quarter of fiscal 2015, and $30.6 million, or $0.54 per diluted share in the third quarter of fiscal 2014. For the third quarter of fiscal 2015, the Company recorded approximately $6.5 million of tax benefits, composed of $3.6 million from the one-year retroactive extension of the U.S. Federal research and development tax credit when the Tax Increase Prevention Act was signed into law on December 19, 2014, and $2.9 million from the conclusion of a foreign jurisdiction tax examination.

Non-GAAP net income in the third quarter of fiscal 2015 was $23.3 million, or $0.38 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income in the second quarter of fiscal 2015 was $36.9 million, or $0.60 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income in the third quarter of fiscal 2014 was $40.4 million, or $0.69 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income excludes stock-based compensation expenses and the related tax effects. Please refer to the attached schedule for a reconciliation of GAAP net income to non-GAAP net income for the three and nine months ended January 31, 2015 and 2014 and for the three months ended October 31, 2014.

GAAP gross margin for the third quarter of fiscal 2015 was 22.1%, as compared to 22.0% for the second quarter of fiscal 2015 and 19.6% for the third quarter of fiscal 2014. The sequential increase in third quarter gross margin reflected improvements in production costs, partially offset by selling price erosions and a decrease in revenues recorded on the sale of previously written-down inventory.

The Company ended the period with cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaling $512.8 million, a sequential decrease of $12.4 million that resulted primarily from the use of cash in operating activities in the third quarter of fiscal 2015.

"As we continue to expand in Asia and find new opportunities in emerging economies, our results may continue to be volatile, at least in the near-term," said Shaw Hong, chief executive officer of OmniVision Technologies, Inc. "However, it is important for us to participate in these markets as they are integral to our strategy. We remain confident about our long-term growth prospects."

Outlook

Based on current trends, the Company expects revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015 will be in the range of $265 million to $295 million and GAAP net income per share will be between $0.02 and $0.18 per diluted share. Excluding the estimated expense and related tax effects associated with stock-based compensation, the Company expects its non-GAAP net income per share will be between $0.15 and $0.31 per diluted share. Refer to the table below for a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP net income.

Conference Call

OmniVision Technologies, Inc. will host a conference call today at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time to discuss these results further. This conference call can be accessed via a webcast at www.ovt.com. The call can also be accessed by dialing 866-578-5771 (domestic) or 617-213-8055 (international) and entering passcode 75063105.

A replay of the call will remain available at www.ovt.com for approximately twelve months. A replay of the call will also be available for one week beginning approximately one hour after the conclusion of the call. To access the replay, dial 888-286-8010 (domestic) or 617-801-6888 (international) and enter passcode 16223598.

About OmniVision

OmniVision Technologies, Inc. is a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions. Its CameraChip(TM) and CameraCubeChip(TM) products are highly integrated, single-chip CMOS image sensors for consumer and commercial applications, including mobile phones, tablets and entertainment devices, notebooks and webcams, security and surveillance systems, digital still and video cameras, automotive and medical imaging systems. Additional information is available at www.ovt.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

Certain statements in this press release, including statements regarding the volatility of our operating results, our long-term growth prospects, and statements regarding our expectations regarding revenues and earnings per share for the three months ending April 30, 2015 are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations, and certain factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include, without limitation, our ability to maintain or increase sales to current key and new customers and end-users of our products; competition in current and emerging markets for image sensor products, including pricing pressures that could result from competition; our ability to increase the average selling prices or lower the costs associated with the development and manufacture of our new, complex products and technologies; the potential for a slowdown in sales in the near term due to an inventory build by our customers in the earlier part of the year; fluctuations of wafer manufacturing costs, manufacturing yields, manufacturing capacity and other manufacturing processes and the impact on gross margins; the continued growth and development of current markets and the emergence of new markets in which we sell, or may sell, our products; fluctuations in sales mix and average selling prices; our ability to timely complete the product development cycle for new sensors; our ability to obtain design wins from various image sensor device manufacturers including manufacturers of mobile phones, tablets and entertainment devices, notebooks and webcams, security and surveillance systems, digital still and video cameras, automotive and medical imaging systems; our dependence on third party wafer foundries and their ability to manufacture our wafers in the required quantities, at acceptable quality, yields and costs, and in a timely manner; our ability to accurately forecast customer demand for our products; the impact of general economic conditions on orders from the end-user customers of our products; the market acceptance of products into which our products are designed; the development, production, introduction and marketing of new products and technology; the occurrence of litigation regarding intellectual property or indemnification claims from our suppliers or customers relating to our intellectual property; our strategic investments and relationships, and other risks detailed from time to time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. We expressly disclaim any obligation to update information contained in any forward-looking statement.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information

To supplement the reader's overall understanding of both its reported results presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") and its outlook, the Company also presents non-GAAP measures of net income and net income per share which are adjusted from results based on GAAP. In particular, the Company excludes stock-based compensation expenses and the related tax effects. The non-GAAP financial measures which the Company discloses also exclude the effects of stock-based compensation on the number of basic and diluted common shares used in calculating non-GAAP basic and diluted net income per share. The Company provides these non-GAAP financial measures to enhance an investor's overall understanding of its current financial performance and to assess its prospects for the future. These non-GAAP financial measures reflect an additional way of viewing aspects of the Company's operations that, when viewed with its GAAP results and the accompanying reconciliations to the corresponding GAAP financial measures, provide a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting the Company's business. The economic basis for the Company's decision to use non-GAAP financial measures is that the adjustments to net income did not reflect the on-going relative strength of the Company's performance. The Company's objective is to minimize any confusion in the financial markets by providing non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP net income per share measurements and disclosing the related components. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered as a supplement to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, the financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.

The Company uses non-GAAP financial measures for internal management purposes to conduct and evaluate its business, when publicly providing its business outlook and to facilitate period-to-period comparisons. The Company views non-GAAP net income per share as a primary indicator of the profitability of its underlying business. In addition, because stock-based compensation is a non-cash expense and is offset in full by a credit to additional paid-in capital, it has no effect on total stockholders' equity. As the calculation of non-GAAP financial measures differs between companies, the non-GAAP financial measures used by the Company may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies. Other than stock-based compensation and the related tax effects, these differences may cause the Company's non-GAAP measures to not be directly comparable to other companies' non-GAAP measures. Although these non-GAAP financial measures adjust cost, expenses and basic and diluted share items to exclude the accounting treatment of stock-based compensation, they should not be viewed as a non-GAAP presentation reflecting the elimination of the underlying stock-based compensation programs. Thus, the Company's non-GAAP presentations are not intended to present, and should not be used, as a basis for assessing what its operating results might be if it were to eliminate its stock-based compensation programs. The Company compensates for these limitations by providing full disclosure of the net income and net income per share on a basis prepared in accordance with GAAP to enable investors to consider net income and net income per share determined under GAAP as well as on an adjusted basis, and perform their own analysis, as appropriate. As a result of the foregoing limitations, the Company does not use, nor does the Company intend to use, the non-GAAP financial measures when assessing the Company's performance against that of other companies.

Estimating stock-based compensation expenses and the related tax effects for a future period is subject to inherent risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the price of the Company's stock, stock market volatility, expected option life, risk-free interest rates, and the number of option exercises and sales during the quarter.




                                                                          OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC



                                                        RECONCILIATION OF GUIDANCE FOR GAAP NET INCOME PER DILUTED SHARE

                                                               TO PROJECTED NON-GAAP NET INCOME PER DILUTED SHARE

                                                                                   (unaudited)


                                        Three Months Ending April 30, 2015
                                        ----------------------------------

                                           GAAP                                                      Non-GAAP

                                    Range of Estimates                                          Range of Estimates
                                    ------------------                                          ------------------

                                           From                        To                           Adjustment               From       To
                                           ----                        ---                          ----------               ----       ---

    Net income
     per share                                      $0.02                       $0.18                               $0.13(1)      $0.15     $0.31
                                                    =====                       =====                                =======      =====     =====


    (1) Reflects estimated adjustment for expenses and related tax effects associated with stock-based compensation.



                                                     OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.



                                                 CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

                                               (in thousands, except per share amounts)

                                                              (unaudited)


                                                                         January 31,             April 30,

                                                                                            2015                 2014
                                                                                            ----                 ----

                                              ASSETS

    Current assets:

          Cash and cash equivalents                                                     $308,161             $297,952

          Short-term investments                                                         204,626              152,993

          Accounts receivable, net                                                       141,706              172,472

          Inventories                                                                    366,379              270,935

          Deferred income taxes                                                            4,553                4,973

          Prepaid expenses and other current
           assets                                                                          6,473                6,576

          Recoverable insurance proceeds                                                  12,500                    -
                                                                                          ------                  ---

                Total current assets                                                   1,044,398              905,901

    Property, plant and equipment, net                                                   148,516              153,792

    Long-term investments                                                                145,310              154,409

    Goodwill                                                                              10,227               10,227

    Intangibles, net                                                                      55,760               66,217

    Other long-term assets                                                                25,194               32,529
                                                                                          ------               ------

                      Total assets                                                    $1,429,405           $1,323,075
                                                                                      ==========           ==========


                               LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

    Current liabilities:

          Accounts payable                                                              $146,905             $142,012

          Accrued expenses and other current
           liabilities                                                                    28,583               31,959

          Litigation settlement accrual                                                   12,500                    -

          Income taxes payable                                                             6,081                2,316

          Deferred revenues, less cost of
           revenues                                                                       19,709               25,783

          Current portion of long-term debt                                                7,071                3,802
                                                                                           -----                -----

                Total current liabilities                                                220,849              205,872
                                                                                         -------              -------

    Long-term liabilities:

          Long-term income taxes payable                                                  51,127               86,498

          Non-current portion of long-term
           debt                                                                           25,128               32,030

          Other long-term liabilities                                                     21,853               11,818
                                                                                          ------               ------

                Total long-term liabilities                                               98,108              130,346
                                                                                          ------              -------

                Total liabilities                                                        318,957              336,218
                                                                                         -------              -------


    Stockholders' equity:

                Common stock, $0.001 par value;
                 100,000 shares authorized; 78,655
                 shares issued and 58,056
                 outstanding at January 31, 2015
                 and 76,681 shares issued and
                 56,082 outstanding at April 30,
                 2014, respectively                                                           79                   77

                Additional paid-in capital                                               700,668              664,602

                Accumulated other comprehensive
                 income                                                                    2,507                2,378

                Treasury stock, 20,599 at January
                 31, 2015 and April 30, 2014,
                 respectively                                                          (278,683)           (278,683)

                Retained earnings                                                        685,877              598,483
                                                                                         -------              -------

                      Total stockholders' equity                                       1,110,448              986,857
                                                                                       ---------              -------

                      Total liabilities and stockholders'
                       equity                                                         $1,429,405           $1,323,075
                                                                                      ==========           ==========



                                 OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.



                          CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME

                            (in thousands, except per share amounts)

                                          (unaudited)


                                                         Three Months Ended        Nine Months Ended

                                                             January 31,              January 31,
                                                             -----------              -----------

                                                              2015            2014         2015            2014
                                                              ----            ----         ----            ----

    Revenues                                              $292,341        $352,023   $1,092,922      $1,122,960

    Cost of revenues                                       227,759         282,891      853,423         913,801
                                                           -------         -------      -------         -------

          Gross profit                                      64,582          69,132      239,499         209,159
                                                            ------          ------      -------         -------


    Operating expenses:

          Research, development
           and related                                      33,190          30,936      102,108          87,761

          Selling, general and
           administrative                                   19,465          18,028       58,904          54,684

          Amortization of acquired
           patent portfolio                                  2,321           2,321        6,964           6,964
                                                             -----           -----        -----           -----

                Total operating expenses                    54,976          51,285      167,976         149,409
                                                            ------          ------      -------         -------


    Income from operations                                   9,606          17,847       71,523          59,750

    Equity in earnings of
     investee                                                1,279             837        3,248           3,264

    Interest expense, net                                    (404)          (466)     (1,256)        (1,542)

    Other income, net                                          324          24,038        1,588          25,206
                                                               ---          ------        -----          ------

    Income before income
     taxes                                                  10,805          42,256       75,103          86,678


    Provision for (benefit
     from) income taxes                                    (3,218)         11,696     (12,291)          6,754
                                                            ------          ------      -------           -----

    Net income                                             $14,023         $30,560      $87,394         $79,924
                                                           =======         =======      =======         =======


    Net income per share:

          Basic                                              $0.24           $0.55        $1.52           $1.44
                                                             =====           =====        =====           =====

          Diluted                                            $0.23           $0.54        $1.48           $1.42
                                                             =====           =====        =====           =====


    Shares used in computing net income per share:

          Basic                                             57,948          55,913       57,383          55,369
                                                            ======          ======       ======          ======

          Diluted                                           60,134          56,186       59,238          56,472
                                                            ======          ======       ======          ======



                                       OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

                         RECONCILIATION OF GAAP NET INCOME TO NON-GAAP NET INCOME

                                 (in thousands, except per share amounts)

                                                (unaudited)


                                                            Three Months Ended       Nine Months Ended        Three Months Ended

                                                              January 31,          January 31,              October 31,
                                                              -----------          -----------

                                                               2015           2014       2015           2014                  2014
                                                               ----           ----       ----           ----                  ----

    GAAP net income                                         $14,023        $30,560    $87,394        $79,924               $28,044

    Add:

          Stock-based
           compensation in cost
           of revenues                                        1,136            999      3,287          2,956                 1,166

          Stock-based
           compensation in
           research, development
           and related expenses                               4,180          4,276     12,649         12,006                 4,209

          Stock-based
           compensation in
           selling, general and
           administrative
           expenses                                           3,396          3,668      9,880         10,950                 3,280

    Decrease in provision
     for (benefit from)
     income taxes without
     the effect of stock-
     based compensation                                         571            922      1,405          1,251                   232
                                                                ---            ---      -----          -----                   ---

    Non-GAAP net income                                     $23,306        $40,425   $114,615       $107,087               $36,931
                                                            =======        =======   ========       ========               =======


    GAAP provision for
     (benefit from) income
     taxes                                                 $(3,218)       $11,696  $(12,291)        $6,754                $2,572

    Decrease in provision
     for (benefit from)
     income taxes without
     the effect of stock-
     based compensation                                         571            922      1,405          1,251                   232
                                                                ---            ---      -----          -----                   ---

    Non-GAAP provision
     for (benefit from)
     income taxes                                          $(3,789)       $10,774  $(13,696)        $5,503                $2,340
                                                            =======        =======   ========         ======                ======


    Non-GAAP net income per share:

                Basic                                         $0.40          $0.72      $2.00          $1.93                 $0.64
                                                              =====          =====      =====          =====                 =====

                Diluted                                       $0.38          $0.69      $1.87          $1.83                 $0.60
                                                              =====          =====      =====          =====                 =====


    Shares used in computing non-GAAP net income per
     share:

                Basic                                        57,948         55,913     57,383         55,369                57,617
                                                             ======         ======     ======         ======                ======

                Diluted                                      62,062         58,936     61,291         58,373                61,730
                                                             ======         ======     ======         ======                ======

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