11/4/2025

speaker
Ina
Conference Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Benchmark Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Call and Webcast. I'll give you some online certain lesson only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question and answer session. If at any time during this call you require immediate assistance, please press star zero for the operator. This call is being recorded on November 4th, 2025. And I would like to turn the conference over to Paul Manske. Thank you. Please go ahead.

speaker
Paul Manske
Vice President, Investor Relations

Thank you, Ina, and thanks, everyone, for joining us today for Benchmark's third quarter 2025 earnings call. With us today are Jeff Bank, our CEO, David Moesides, our President and Chief Commercial Officer, and Brian Shoemaker, our CFO. After the market closed, we issued an earnings release pertaining to our financial performance for the third quarter ending September 2025, and we have prepared a presentation which we will reference on this call. Both the press release and presentation are available under the investor relations section of our website at bench.com. This call is being webcast live and a replay of which will be available on our website approximately one hour after we conclude. The company has provided a reconciliation of our GAAP to non-GAAP measures in the earnings release as well as the appendix to the presentation. Please take a moment to review the forward-looking statements disclosure on slide two of the presentation. During our call, we will discuss forward-looking information As a reminder, any of today's remarks, which are not statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements, which include risks and uncertainties as described in our press releases and SEC filings. Actual results may differ materially from these statements. Benchmark undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. For today's call, Jeff will start with an overview, followed by Brian's detail of our Q3 results and forward guidance. We will then turn the call over to David to discuss demand trends by sector and some additional color on recent wins. Jeff will conclude with some final remarks before opening the call for Q&A. If you'll please turn to slide four, I'll turn the call over to our CEO, Jeff Bank.

speaker
Jeff Bank
Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Paul. Good afternoon, and thanks to everyone for joining today's call. Before I get started, I would like to remind everyone of a press release we issued in early September detailing our succession planning at Benchmark. in which we announced that David Moesides has been promoted to president and will be the next benchmark CEO, effective March 31st, 2026, upon my retirement. I'm confident in the board's decision and believe he's the right successor as we embark on the next phase of the company's growth. Congratulations again, David. Now, onto our third quarter 2025 results, which again demonstrated our consistent execution. Revenue of 681 million showed a return to year-over-year growth. With non-GAAP EPS of 62 cents, both revenue and earnings were at the high end of our prior guidance. Q3 represented the eighth consecutive quarter of 10 percent or greater gross margin. As we'll discuss momentarily, I was particularly encouraged by the broadening of sectors that contributed to our revenue growth. We expect this trend to continue in the fourth quarter, where we anticipate improving year-over-year growth. Turning to slide five for highlights in the quarter, mapped to our strategic objectives. During the quarter, we saw double-digit year-over-year growth in both medical and A&D, and sequential growth in four of our five sectors. Semicap was the exception, where we saw some softening in demand from our OEMs due to increased China restrictions and the evolving tariff environment. Meanwhile, we continue to book new program wins in the sector, which David will speak to later in the call. Our re-acceleration of revenue has been supported by solid momentum through the year and new bookings. The third quarter was a continuation of the same, including strategic customer wins in both engineering and manufacturing. Turning to financial discipline, the entire team remains focused on working capital management and approving our inventory terms, the result of which was a multi-year record cash cycle quarter. Coupled with our net income performance, we generated $25 million in free cash flow, which adds up to greater than $74 million generated over the last 12 months. We're doing this while continuing to invest in the business, including the construction of our new fourth PT building in Penang, Malaysia. I might add that while we're investing abroad, our America's manufacturing footprint is still approximately 50 percent of our total capacity, which is a key differentiator as more customers look to build domestically or at least increase their exposure to U.S. manufacturing production. I'll now turn the call over to Brian to discuss our third quarter results in more detail and provide our fourth quarter outlook. Brian, over to you.

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