Press Release

LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MTSI) ("MACOM"), a leading supplier of high-performance analog RF, microwave, millimeterwave and photonic semiconductor products, today announced its financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ended October 2, 2015.

Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2015 GAAP Results

• Revenue was $112.6 million, compared to $109.1 million in the prior fiscal quarter and $93.9 million in the previous year's fiscal fourth quarter;
• Gross margin was 50.6 percent, compared to 48.1 percent in the prior fiscal quarter and 52.0 percent in the previous year's fiscal fourth quarter;
• Operating income was $4.7 million, compared to $4.4 million in the prior fiscal quarter and $10.6 million in the previous year's fiscal fourth quarter; and
• Net income from continuing operations was $13.8 million, resulting in $0.08 income per diluted share, compared to net income from continuing operations of $1.8 million, or $0.03 income per diluted share, in the prior fiscal quarter and net income from continuing operations of $10.6 million, or $0.22 income per diluted share, in the previous year's fiscal fourth quarter; and
• Net income from discontinued operations during the quarter was $40.6 million related primarily to proceeds received from the sale of MACOM's Automotive business.

Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2015 Adjusted Non-GAAP Results

• Adjusted gross margin was 57.4 percent, compared to 58.0 percent in the prior fiscal quarter and 58.0 percent in the previous year's fiscal fourth quarter;
• Adjusted operating income was $26.2 million, or 23.2 percent of revenue, compared to $25.8 million, or 23.6 percent of revenue, in the prior fiscal quarter and $20.0 million, or 21.4 percent of revenue, in the previous year's fiscal fourth quarter;
• Adjusted net income was $18.8 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, compared to adjusted net income of $18.4 million, or $0.33 per diluted share, in the prior fiscal quarter and adjusted net income of $13.0 million, or $0.27 per diluted share, in the previous year's fiscal fourth quarter; and
• Adjusted EBITDA was $29.9 million, compared to $29.0 million for the prior fiscal quarter and $23.2 million for the previous year's fiscal fourth quarter.

Fiscal Year 2015 GAAP Results

• Revenue was $420.6 million, compared to $339.2 million in fiscal year 2014;
• Gross margin was 48.4 percent, compared to 41.6 percent in fiscal 2014;
• Operating income was $10.1 million, compared to an operating loss of $27.8 million in fiscal 2014; and
• Fully diluted loss per share from continuing operations was $0.11 per share compared to a loss per fully diluted share from continuing operations of $0.53 per share in fiscal 2014.

Fiscal Year 2015 Adjusted Non-GAAP Results

• Adjusted revenue was $420.6 million, compared to $338.1 million in fiscal 2014, growing 24.4 percent;
• Adjusted gross margin was 57.5 percent, compared to 54.3 percent in fiscal year 2014, expanding by 320 basis points;
• Adjusted operating income and operating margin were $96.9 million and 23.0 percent, compared to $63.1 million and 18.7 percent in fiscal 2014;
• Adjusted EBITDA was $111.0 million compared to $75.8 million in fiscal year 2014, growing 46.5 percent; and
• Adjusted EPS was $1.28 per share compared to $0.91 per share in fiscal year 2014, growing 40.7 percent.

Management Commentary

John Croteau, MACOM's President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "I am pleased to announce another quarter of solid execution. During the fiscal fourth quarter Networks grew seven percent sequentially on the back of strong demand for our optical products, mainly 100G for long haul and metro networks, and lasers in the access market.

Multi-market was flat quarter on quarter with POS and OEM demand for our catalog products effectively flat sequentially. In Aerospace and Defense, we realized growth from our airborne defense radar program, which was however more than offset by push outs in legacy ground-based radar and satellite communication programs.

Mr. Croteau concluded, "This afternoon we announced a definitive agreement to acquire FiBest. We believe that this tuck-in acquisition will complement and accelerate our success in Optical, an already proven area of growth and profitability. In addition, during the quarter we began to unveil the progress we've made in realizing the potential of our third major secular growth driver, Active Antenna Arrays. Moving forward, we believe that Active Antennas can deliver MACOM substantial short, medium and long term growth potential, consistent in magnitude with our other two secular growth drivers - Optical and GaN."

Business Outlook

MACOM will guide this quarter without the contribution of the FiBest acquisition, which the company expects to close during its fiscal first quarter of 2016.

For the fiscal first quarter ending January 1, 2016, MACOM expects revenue to be in the range of $110.0 million to $114.0 million. Adjusted gross margin is expected to be between 58 and 60 percent, and adjusted earnings per share between $0.37 and $0.40 on an anticipated 56.0 million diluted shares outstanding.

Conference Call

MACOM will host a conference call on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year 2015 financial results and business outlook. Investors and analysts may join the conference call by dialing 1-877-837-3908 and providing the confirmation code 65615010. International callers may join the teleconference by dialing +1-973-872-3000 and entering the same confirmation code at the prompt. A telephone replay of the call will be made available beginning two hours after the call and will remain available for 5 business days. The replay number is 1-855-859-2056 with a pass code of 65615010. International callers should dial +1-404-537-3406 and enter the same pass code at the prompt.

Additionally, this conference call will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed by all interested parties in the Investors section of MACOM's website at http://www.macom.com. To listen to the live call, please go to the Investors section of MACOM's website and click on the conference call link at least fifteen minutes prior to the start of the conference call. For those unable to participate during the live broadcast, a replay will be available shortly after the call and will remain available for approximately 30 days.

About MACOM

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. (www.macom.com) is a leading supplier of high-performance analog RF, microwave, millimeterwave and photonic semiconductor products that enable next-generation internet and modern battlefield applications. Recognized for its broad catalog portfolio of technologies and products, MACOM serves diverse markets, including high speed optical, satellite, radar, wired and wireless networks, industrial, medical, and mobile devices. A pillar of the semiconductor industry, we thrive on more than 60 years of solving our customers' most complex problems, serving as a true partner for applications ranging from RF to Light.

Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard. MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

MACOM, M/A-COM, M/A-COM Technology Solutions, M/A-COM Tech, Partners in RF & Microwave, The First Name in Microwave and related logos are trademarks of MACOM. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements based on MACOM management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. Forward-looking statements include, among others, information concerning our stated business outlook and future results of operations, our statements regarding our expectations for our announced tuck-in acquisition, statements about the growth potential of MACOM's growth drivers, including our Active Antennas offerings and any other statements regarding future trends, business strategies, competitive position, industry conditions, acquisitions and market opportunities. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and generally may be identified by terms such as "anticipates," "believes," "could," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "may," "plans," "potential," "predicts," "projects," "seeks," "should," "will," "would" or similar expressions and the negatives of those terms.

Forward-looking statements contained in this press release reflect MACOM's current views about future events and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and changes in circumstances that may cause those events or our actual activities or results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement. Although MACOM believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot and does not guarantee future events, results, actions, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements, including greater than expected dilutive effect on earnings of our equity issuances, outstanding indebtedness and related interest expense and other costs, the potential that the expected rollout of fiber-to-the-home network technology or other new network technology deployments in China, Japan and other geographies fails to occur, occurs more slowly than we expect or does not result in the amount or type of new business we anticipate, lower than expected demand in any or all of our primary end markets or from any of our large OEM customers based on seasonal effects, macro-economic weakness or otherwise, our failure to realize the expected economies of scale, lowered production cost and other anticipated benefits of our previously announced GaN intellectual property licensing program or InP laser production capacity expansion program, the potential for defense spending cuts, program delays, cancellations or sequestration, failures or delays by any customer in winning business or to make purchases from us in support of such business, lack of adoption or delayed adoption by customers and industries we serve of Active Antennas, GaN, InP lasers or other solutions offered by us, failures or delays in porting and qualifying GaN or InP process technology to our Lowell, MA fabrication facility or third party facilities, lower than expected utilization and absorption in our manufacturing facilities, lack of success or slower than expected success in our new product development efforts, failure of any announced transaction to close in accordance with its terms, failure to successfully integrate acquired products or realize synergies associated with acquisitions, the potential that we will experience difficulties in managing the personnel and operations associated with our proposed tuck-in acquisition in Japan, loss of business due to competitive factors, product or technology obsolescence, customer program shifts or otherwise, lower than anticipated or slower than expected customer acceptance of our new product introductions, the potential for a shift in the mix of products sold in any period toward lower-margin products or a shift in the geographical mix of our revenues, the potential for increased pricing pressure based on competitive factors, technology shifts or otherwise, the impact of any executed or abandoned acquisition, divestiture, joint venture, financing or restructuring activity, the impact of supply shortages or other disruptions in our internal or outsourced supply chain, the impact of changes in export, environmental or other laws applicable to us, the relative success of our cost-savings initiatives, the potential for inventory obsolescence and related write-offs, the expense, business disruption or other impact of any current or future investigations, administrative actions, litigation or enforcement proceedings we may be involved in, the potential loss of access to any in-licensed intellectual property or inability to license technology we may require on reasonable terms, and the impact of any claims of intellectual property infringement or misappropriation, which could require us to pay substantial damages for infringement, expend significant resources in prosecuting or defending such matters or developing non-infringing technology, incur material liability for royalty or license payments, or prevent us from selling certain of our products, as well as those factors described in "Risk Factors" in MACOM's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended July 3, 2015 as filed with the SEC on August 12, 2015. MACOM undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to GAAP reporting, MACOM provides investors with non-GAAP adjusted financial information. Adjusted items include revenue, gross profit, gross margin, operating margin, operating income, net income, earnings per share, Adjusted EBITDA and other data calculated on a non-GAAP basis. This non-GAAP information excludes the operations of Nitronex prior to the date of acquisition, discontinued operations, the impact of fair value accounting in merger and acquisitions (M&A) of businesses, M&A costs, including acquisition and related integration costs, certain cost savings from synergies expected from M&A activities, income and expenses from transition services related to M&A activities, expected amortization of acquisition-related intangibles, share-based and other non-cash compensation expense, certain cash compensation, restructuring charges, litigation settlement and costs, changes in the carrying values of assets and liabilities measured at fair value, contingent consideration, amortization of debt discounts and issuance costs, other non-cash expenses, earn-out costs, restructuring costs and certain income tax items. Management does not believe that the adjusted items are reflective of MACOM's underlying performance. The adjustment of these and other similar items from MACOM's non-GAAP presentation should not be interpreted as implying that these items are non-recurring, infrequent or unusual. These and other similar items are also excluded from Adjusted EBITDA, which is non-GAAP earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization. MACOM believes this non-GAAP financial information provides additional insight into these items and MACOM's performance and has, therefore, chosen to provide this information to investors for a consistent basis of comparison and to help them evaluate the results of MACOM's operations and enable more meaningful period to period comparisons. These non-GAAP measures may be different than similar measures used by other companies and should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, or superior to, measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP financial data used in this earnings release is included in the supplemental financial data attached to this press release.

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Company Contact:
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
Robert J. McMullan, 978-656-2753
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
bob.mcmullan@macom.com
or
Investor Relations Contact:
Shelton Group
Leanne K. Sievers, 949-224-3874
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