Broadcom
AVGO
reported fourth-quarter fiscal 2021 non-GAAP earnings of $7.81 per share, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 0.77% and increased 23% year over year.
Net revenues of $7.41 billion, up 14.5% year over year, surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 0.7%. The year-over-year growth was driven by strong demand from hyper-cloud and service-provider customers.
Following impressive fourth-quarter results, AVGO shares jumped 6.4% in after-hour trading. Broadcom shares are up 33.3% year to date compared with 38% growth of the Zacks
Electronics Semiconductors
industry. The Zacks
Computer & Technology
sector rose 26.4% in the same time frame.
Segmental Revenues
Semiconductor solutions’ revenues (76.1% of total net revenues) totaled $5.63 billion, up 16.6% year over year. This upside can be attributed to higher demand for wireless solutions and continued momentum in networking and broadband solutions.
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The company witnessed strength in the networking end market with revenues up 13% year over year to $1.9 billion and accounting for 34% of Semiconductor Solution revenues. Networking revenues were driven by strong demand for campus switchingsolution.
In the broadband end-market, revenues were up 29% year over year to $872 million and contributed 16% of Semiconductor Solution revenues. Continued strong demand for next-generation PON with Wi-Fi 6 and 6C access gateways drove results.
Revenues from the wireless vertical increased 21% year over year to $1.8 billion and contributed 32% of Semiconductor Solution revenues.
In the server storage connectivity domain, revenues were up 21% year over year to $815 million. The end market contributed 15% of Semiconductor Solution revenues. Robust demand for storage controllers and host bus adapters drove top-line growth. Broadcom benefited from renewed spending by enterprises as they upgraded their compute and storage infrastructure.
Industrial revenues of $197 million contributed 3% of Semiconductor Solution revenues. Resales were up 36% year over year, driven by aggressive buying from OEMs in automotive, robotics, factory automation and renewable energy.
Infrastructure software revenues (23.9%) increased 8.3% year over year to $1.77 billion. Brocade grew 19% year on year, driven by the launch of new-generation Gen 7 Fibre Channel SAN products.
Operating Details
Non-GAAP gross margin expanded 100 basis points (bps) on a year-over-year basis to 74.6%. The improvement can be attributed to a higher revenue base.
Semiconductor solutions’ gross margin expanded 170 bps year over year to roughly 70%, driven by favorable product mix and content growth in next-generation products across the company’s product portfolio. Infrastructure software gross margin expanded 19 bps year over year to 90%.
Research & development as a percentage of net revenues declined 90 bps on a year-over-year basis to 12.4%. Selling, general and administrative expenses also declined 90 bps on a year-over-year basis to 3%.
Adjusted EBITDA increased 18.8% year over year to $4.55 billion. Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded 220 bps on a year-over-year basis to 61.4%.
Non-GAAP operating margin expanded 290 bps on a year-over-year basis to 59.2%, which can be attributed to expansion in gross margin.
Balance Sheet & Cash Flow
As of Oct 31, 2021, cash & cash equivalents were $12.163 billion compared with $11.105 billion reported as of Aug 1, 2021.
Total debt (including current portion of $290 million) was $39.730 billion as of Oct 31, 2021 compared with $40.457 billion as of Aug 1, 2021.
Broadcom generated cash flow from operations of $3.541 billion unchanged sequentially. Free cash flow during the quarter was $3.453 billion compared with $3.426 billion in the prior quarter.
During the reported quarter, Broadcom returned $1.486 billion in
dividends to shareholders
during the fiscal fourth quarter.
Broadcom raised the quarterly dividend by 14% to $4.10 per share for fiscal 2022 and announced a new $10 billion share repurchase program.
Guidance
For first-quarter fiscal 2022, Broadcom anticipates revenues of $7.6 billion. The Zacks Consensus Estimate is pegged at $7.18 billion, indicating growth of 7.8% from the figure reported in the year-ago quarter.
Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be approximately 61.5% of projected revenues in the fiscal first quarter.
Semiconductor Solutions revenues are expected to grow double-digits (28%) year over year and low single digits sequentially.
Broadcom expects networking revenue growth to be close to 30% year over year in the first quarter. Server storage connectivity revenues are expected to grow roughly 30% year over year.
Broadband revenues are expected to increase at double-digit percentage on a year-over-year basis.
Wireless revenues are expected to increase at a single-digit rate sequentially. On a year-over-year basis, revenues are expected to be flat to up low single-digit percentage.
Zacks Rank & Stocks to Consider
Broadcom currently has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Some better-ranked stocks in the Computer & Technology sector are
Arrow Electronics
ARW
,
Salesforce
CRM
and
Alphabet
GOOGL
.
Currently, Arrow Electronics sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). You can see
the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here
. The long-term earnings growth rate is pegged at 27.36%.
ARW shares have returned 29.1% year to date compared with the Zacks
Electronics-Parts Distribution
industry’s growth of 33.5% and the Computer & Technology sector’s return of 26.3%.
Salesforce, another Zacks Rank #1 stock, has a long-term earnings growth rate of 16.75%.
CRM is up 18.8% against the Zacks
Computer Software
industry’s growth of 39.5% and Computer & Technology sector’s return of 26.4% year to date.
The long-term earnings growth rate for Alphabet, another Zacks Rank #1 stock, is currently pegged at 25.82%.
Alphabet shares have surged 68.4% year to date compared with the
Internet-Services
industry’s growth of 43.1% and the Computer & Technology sector’s return of 26.4%.
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