Benchmark Electronics : Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2024 Earnings Call (Presentation)

BHE

Benchmark Electronics

Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2024 Results

January 29, 2025

Today's Speakers

Jeff Benck,

Bryan Schumaker,

President and CEO

EVP and CFO

Forward-Looking 2025 Statements

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Non-GAAP Financial Information

Management discloses certain non‐GAAP information to provide investors with additional information to analyze the Company's performance and underlying trends. These non-GAAP financial measures exclude restructuring charges, stock-based compensation expense, amortization of intangible assets acquired in business combinations, certain legal and other settlement losses (gains), customer insolvency losses (recoveries), asset impairments, other significant non-recurring costs and the related tax impacts of all of the above. A detailed reconciliation between GAAP results and results excluding certain items ("non-GAAP") is included in the following tables attached to this document. In situations where a non-GAAP reconciliation has not been provided, the Company was unable to provide such a reconciliation without unreasonable effort due to the uncertainty and inherent difficulty predicting the occurrence, the financial impact‐ and the periods in which the non- GAAP adjustments may be recognized. Management uses non GAAP measures that exclude certain items in order to better assess operating performance and help investors compare results with our previous guidance. This document also references "free cash flow", a non-GAAP measure, which the Company defines as cash flow from operations‐ less additions to property, plant and equipment and purchased‐ software. The Company's non GAAP information‐ is not necessarily comparable to the non GAAP information used by other companies. Non GAAP information should not be viewed as a substitute for, or superior to, net income or other data prepared in accordance with GAAP as a measure of the Company's profitability or liquidity. Readers should consider the types of events and transactions for which adjustments have been made.

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Fourth Quarter 2024 Results *

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Fiscal Year 2024 Results *

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Fourth Quarter 2024 Revenue by Market Sector

18% 13%

Revenue by Mix and Market Sector

18% Q4-24

21%

30%

(Dollars in Millions)

Q4-23

Q3-24

Q4-24

Sector

Revenue Mix %

Revenue Mix %

Revenue Mix %

Q/Q

Y/Y

Semi-Cap

$168

24%

$188

28%

$198

30%

6%

18%

Complex Industrials

$132

19%

$151

23%

$140

21%

(7%)

5%

Medical

$126

18%

$107

16%

$117

18%

9%

(7%)

A&D

$102

15%

$102

16%

$117

18%

15%

15%

AC&C

$163

24%

$110

17%

$85

13%

(23%)

(48%)

Semi-Cap

Complex Industrials

Medical

A&D

AC&C

Total Revenue

$691 100%

$658 100%

$657 100%

0%

(5%)

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Fourth Quarter 2024 Financial Summary *

(Dollars in Millions, except EPS)

Q4-23

Q3-24

Q4-24

Q/Q

Y/Y

Net Sales

$691

$658

$657

0%

(5%)

GAAP Gross Margin

10.3%

10.1%

10.3%

20 bps

0 bps

GAAP SG&A

$35.6

$36.6

$37.5

2%

5%

GAAP Operating Margin

4.6%

4.3%

4.3%

0 bps

(30) bps

GAAP Diluted EPS

$0.49

$0.42

$0.50

19%

2%

GAAP ROIC

7.3%

7.7%

7.7%

0 bps

40 bps

Non-GAAP Gross Margin

10.3%

10.2%

10.4%

20 bps

10 bps

Non-GAAP SG&A

$33.1

$32.3

$35.1

9%

6%

Non-GAAP Operating Margin

5.5%

5.3%

5.1%

(20) bps

(40) bps

Non-GAAP Diluted EPS

$0.65

$0.57

$0.61

7%

(6%)

Non-GAAP ROIC

9.3%

9.9%

9.9%

0 bps

60 bps

* See APPENDIX 1 for a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP Financial Results

GAAP ROIC = (GAAP TTM income from operations - GAAP Tax Impact) / (Average Invested Capital for last 5 quarters)

Non-GAAP ROIC = (non-GAAP TTM income from operations + Stock-based compensation - non-GAAP Tax Impact) ÷ [Average Invested Capital for last 5 quarters]

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Fiscal Year 2024 Revenue by Market Sector

18%

16%

17% FY-24 27%

22%

Semi-Cap

Complex Industrials

Medical

A&D

AC&C

Revenue by Mix and Market Sector

(Dollars in Millions)

FY 2023

FY 2024

Sector

Revenue

Mix %

Revenue

Mix %

Y/Y

Semi-Cap

$646

23%

$723

27%

12%

Complex Industrials

$596

21%

$573

22%

(4%)

Medical

$557

20%

$451

17%

(19%)

A&D

$362

13%

$434

16%

20%

AC&C

$678

23%

$475

18%

(30%)

Total Revenue

$2,839

100%

$2,656

100%

(6%)

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Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Summary *

(Dollars in Millions, except EPS)

FY 2023

FY 2024

Y/Y (%)

Net Sales

$2,839

$2,656

(6%)

GAAP Gross Margin

9.5%

10.2%

70 bps

GAAP SG&A

$147.0

$149.5

2%

GAAP Operating Margin

3.9%

4.1%

20 bps

GAAP Diluted EPS

$1.79

$1.72

(4%)

GAAP ROIC

7.3%

7.7%

40 bps

Non-GAAP Gross Margin

9.6%

10.2%

60 bps

Non-GAAP SG&A

$133.4

$136.0

2%

Non-GAAP Operating Margin

4.9%

5.1%

20 bps

Non-GAAP Diluted EPS

$2.38

$2.29

(4%)

Non-GAAP ROIC

9.3%

9.9%

60 bps

* See APPENDIX 1 for a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP Financial Results

GAAP ROIC = (GAAP TTM income from operations - GAAP Tax Impact) / (Average Invested Capital for last 5 quarters)

Non-GAAP ROIC = (non-GAAP TTM income from operations + Stock-Based Compensation - non-GAAP Tax Impact) ÷ [Average Invested Capital for last 5 quarters]

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Trended Non-GAAP Results*

(Dollars in Millions, except EPS)

Sales

Operating Income and Margin

5.5%

5.3%

5.1%

5.1%

4.9%

$691

Q4-23

$676

Q1-24

$666

Q2-24

$658

Q3-24

$657

Q4-24

$38

$33

$34

$35

$33

Q4-23

Q1-24

Q2-24

Q3-24

Q4-24

Non-GAAP operating income

Non-GAAP operating margin

Gross Profit and Margin

10.3%

10.2%

10.2%

10.4%

10.0%

$71

$68

$68

$67

$68

Q4-23

Q1-24

Q2-24

Q3-24

Q4-24

Non-GAAP gross profit

Non-GAAP gross margin

* See APPENDIX 1 for a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP Financial Results

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Net Income and Diluted EPS

$0.65

$0.61

$0.57

$0.57

$0.55

$23

$20

$21

$21

$22

Q4-23

Q1-24

Q2-24

Q3-24

Q4-24

Non-GAAP net income

Non-GAAP diluted EPS

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