Results Demonstrate Increasing Revenue Momentum and Gross Margin Improvement

SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT), the trusted technology realization partner, today announced financial results for the first quarter of 2022, ended April 3, 2022.

• Total revenue of $48.1 million, up 25% sequentially and flat year-over-year.

• Net loss to shareholders of $16.6 million, or (35)% of revenue.

• Adjusted EBITDA of $(4.8) million, or (10.0)% of revenue.

“The first quarter of 2022 was an important period of progress toward our long-term objectives for above-industry revenue growth, as well as margin expansion and profitability,” said Thomas Sonderman, SkyWater president and chief executive officer. “We executed a revised contract with our largest historical customer that improves our revenue visibility and momentum towards increased profitability, and which recognizes the value SkyWater brings to the semiconductor industry. We achieved sequential revenue growth across multiple programs, including in our strategic growth initiatives in bio-health, high-performance power, extreme-environment microelectronics, and heterogeneous integration applications in the growing market for advanced semiconductor packaging technologies. While labor and supply chain challenges persist, we believe our strategic growth markets are relatively insulated from short-term signs of softness in PCs and smartphones, providing increased confidence in our revenue growth and profitability objectives. In 2022, our first-quarter results provide improved visibility toward our long-term annual growth target of 25%, which continues to be supported by our sales pipeline growth, new and expected program wins, and the progress of multiple platforms towards productization and anticipated revenue ramps into year-end 2022 and 2023.”

Recent Business Updates:

• Sequential revenue growth achieved in multiple bio-health, DOD, and high-performance power management customer programs
• Executed more favorable terms with our largest historical customer, including increased pricing and improved visibility, with revenue now recognized over time as wafers are fabricated
• Continued progress toward pilot production and anticipated second half 2022 revenue ramp with key customer Rockley Photonics, as they are engaged with multiple wearable and medical device customers to expand their biomarker sensing platform
• Radiation-hardened progress toward the upcoming completion of the development phase and launch of qualification and productization phases, in preparation for anticipated revenue ramp by year-end 2022
• In heterogeneous integration, initiated process for Deca’s M-Series™ test vehicle builds, which will leverage Deca’s disruptive Adaptive Patterning® technology for fan-out wafer-level packaging applications
• Continued progress toward securing long-term agreements across all market verticals, as we create an increasingly robust sales pipeline
• As a result of improved pricing and increased revenue volume, ongoing gross margin momentum improved
• Continued momentum in U.S. government activities, in partnership with SkyWater, to bolster the domestic semiconductor supply chain and strengthen the defense industrial base
• Increased confidence in 2022 revenue expectations approaching long-term annual growth objective of 25%.

Q1 2022 Summary:

Q1 2022 Results:

• Revenue: Revenue of $48.1 million was flat year-over-year. Advanced Technology Services revenue of $26.6 million decreased 30% year-over-year due to less non-recurring tool revenue. Advanced Technology Services revenue contains $1.0 million of tool revenue in first quarter 2022 and $15.4 million in first quarter 2021. Wafer Services revenue of $21.5 million increased 115% compared to the first quarter of 2021 driven by the GAAP accounting treatment of the recently revised large customer contract, which resulted in immediate revenue recognition of $8.2 million of work-in-process wafer inventory within the quarter.
• Gross Profit (Loss): GAAP gross loss was $0.9 million, or (2.0)% of revenue, compared to gross profit of $9.2 million, or 19.1% of revenue, in the first quarter of 2021. GAAP gross loss for the first quarter of 2022 includes $1.5 million of equity-based compensation and Florida start-up costs. Cost of revenues in first quarter of 2022 also contained $2.8 million for heterogeneous integration and $1.5 million in depreciation for the radiation hardened facility. Non-GAAP gross profit was $0.5 million, or 1.1% of revenue excluding tool sales, compared to gross profit of $3.8 million, or 11.5% of revenue excluding tool sales, in the first quarter of 2021.
• Net Loss: GAAP net loss to shareholders was $16.6 million, or $(0.42) per share, compared to a net loss to shareholders of $2.8 million, or $(1.04) per share, in the first quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP net loss to shareholders was $13.0 million, or $(0.33) per share, compared to a net loss to shareholders of $2.2 million, or $(0.85) per share, in the first quarter of 2021.
• Adjusted EBITDA: Adjusted EBITDA was $(4.8) million, or (10.0)% of revenue, compared to $5.6 million or 11.7% of revenue in the first quarter of 2021.
• Balance Sheet: Cash and cash equivalents were $6.4 million at quarter end, compared to $12.9 million as of January 2, 2022.

A reconciliation between historical GAAP and non-GAAP information is contained in the tables below in the section titled, “Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”

Investor Webcast

SkyWater will host a conference call today, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at 3:30 p.m. CT to discuss its first quarter 2022 financial results. A live webcast of the call will be available online at IR.SkyWaterTechnology.com.

About SkyWater Technology

SkyWater (NASDAQ: SKYT) is a U.S. investor-owned semiconductor manufacturer and a DOD-accredited Trusted supplier. SkyWater’s Technology as a Service^SM model streamlines the path to production for customers with development services, volume production and heterogeneous integration solutions in its world-class U.S. facilities. This pioneering model enables innovators to co-create the next wave of technology with diverse categories including mixed-signal CMOS, ROICs, rad-hard ICs, power discretes, MEMS, superconducting ICs, photonics, carbon nanotubes and interposers. SkyWater serves growing markets including aerospace & defense, automotive, biomedical, cloud & computing, consumer, industrial and IoT. For more information, visit: www.skywatertechnology.com.

SkyWater Technology Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements that are based on the Company’s current expectations or forecasts of future events, rather than past, events and outcomes, and such statements are not guarantees of future performance. Forward-looking statements include all statements other than statements of historical fact contained in this presentation, including information or predictions concerning the Company’s future business, results of operations, financial performance, plans and objectives, competitive position, market trends, and potential growth and market opportunities. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by words such as “intends,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continues,” “anticipates,” “plans,” “expects,” “believes,” “should,” “could,” “may,” “will,” “targets,” “projects,” “seeks” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology.

Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, which may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Key factors that could cause the Company’s actual results to be different than expected or anticipated include, but are not limited to: our goals and strategies; our future business development, financial condition and results of operations; our ability to continue operating our sole semiconductor foundry at full capacity; our ability to appropriately respond to changing technologies on a timely and cost-effective basis; our customer relationships and our ability to retain and expand our customer relationships; our ability to accurately predict our future revenues for the purpose of appropriately budgeting and adjusting our expenses; our expectations regarding dependence on our largest customers; our ability to diversify our customer base and develop relationships in new markets; the performance and reliability of our third-party suppliers and manufacturers; our ability to procure tools, materials, and chemicals amid industry-wide supply chain shortages; our ability to control costs, including our operating and capital expenses; the size and growth potential of the markets for our solutions, and our ability to serve and expand our presence in those markets; the level of demand in our customers’ end markets; our ability to attract, train and retain key qualified personnel in a competitive labor market; adverse litigation judgments, settlements or other litigation-related costs; changes in trade policies, including the imposition of tariffs; our ability to raise additional capital or financing; our ability to accurately forecast demand; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, results of operations and financial condition and our customers, suppliers and workforce; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy; the level and timing of U.S. government program funding; our ability to maintain compliance with certain U.S. government contracting requirements; regulatory developments in the United States and foreign countries; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; and other factors discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of the annual report on Form 10-K the Company filed with the SEC on March 10, 2022 and in other documents that the Company files with the SEC, which are available at http://www.sec.gov. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release.

Supplemental Revenue and Cost of Revenue Information by Quarter

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

We provide supplemental non-GAAP financial information that our management utilizes to evaluate our ongoing financial performance and provide additional insight to investors as supplemental information to our U.S. GAAP results. We provide non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP net loss to shareholders, and non-GAAP net loss per share. We provide these non-GAAP financial measures because we believe this non-GAAP presentation provides a baseline for analyzing trends in our business and to exclude certain items that may not be indicative of our core operating results. The non-GAAP financial measures disclosed in this earnings press release should not be viewed as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, the reported results prepared in accordance with GAAP. In addition, because our non-GAAP measures are not determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, these measures are susceptible to differing calculations, and not all comparable or peer companies may calculate their non-GAAP measures in the same manner. As a result, the non-GAAP financial measures presented in this earnings press release may not be directly comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies.

We also provide adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin as supplemental non-GAAP measurements. We define adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) before interest expense, income tax provision (benefit), depreciation and amortization, equity-based compensation and certain other items that we do not view as indicative of our ongoing performance, including fair value changes in contingent considerations, management fees, inventory write-down, corporate conversion and IPO related costs, Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness, SkyWater Florida start-up costs, net income attributable to non-controlling interests, and management transition expense. We believe adjusted EBITDA is a useful performance measure because it allows for an effective evaluation of our operating performance when compared to our peers, without regard to our financing methods or capital structure. We exclude the items listed above from net income or loss in arriving at adjusted EBITDA because these amounts can vary substantially within our industry depending upon accounting methods and book values of assets, capital structures and the method by which the assets were acquired. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Certain items excluded from adjusted EBITDA are significant components in understanding and assessing a company’s financial performance, such as a company’s cost of capital and tax structure, as well as the historic costs of depreciable assets, none of which are reflected in adjusted EBITDA. Our presentation of adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an indication that our results will be unaffected by the items excluded from adjusted EBITDA. In future fiscal periods, we may exclude such items and may incur income and expenses similar to these excluded items. Accordingly, the exclusion of these items and other similar items in our non-GAAP presentation should not be interpreted as implying that these items are non-recurring, infrequent or unusual, unless otherwise expressly indicated.

The following tables present a reconciliation of the most directly comparable financial measures, calculated and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP, to our non-GAAP financial measures.

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