Everspin Technologies Inc. (MRAM) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Good afternoon, and welcome to Everspin Technology's second quarter 2026 financial results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. At the conclusion of management's prepared remarks, instructions will be provided for the question and answer session. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Monica Gould, Investor Relations for Everspin.

Operator, and good afternoon, everyone. Everspend released results for the second quarter, 2026, ended June 30, 2026 this afternoon after market close. I'm Monica Gould, Investor Relations for Everspend, and with me on today's call are Sanjeev Agarwal, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Bill Cooper, Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin the call, I would like to remind you that today's discussion may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events including but not limited to the company's expectations for Everspins future business financial performance and goals customer and industry adoption of MRAM technology successfully bringing to market and manufacturing products in Everspins design pipeline and executing on its business plan these forward-looking statements are based on estimates judgments current trends and market conditions and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. We would encourage you to review the company's SEC filings, including the annual report on Form 10-K and other SEC filings made from time to time in which the company may discuss risk factors associated with investing in Everspin. All forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this call and, except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to update, or alter any forward-looking statements made on this call, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. The financial results discussed today reflect the company's preliminary estimates, are based on the information available as of the date hereof, and are subject to further review by Everspin and its external auditors. The company's actual results may differ materially from these estimates as a result of the completion of financial closing procedures, final adjustments, and other developments arising between now and the time that the financial results for the ... Additionally, the company's press release and statements made during this conference call will include discussions of certain measures and financial information in GAAP and non-GAAP terms. Included in the company's press release are definitions and reconciliations of GAAP net income to non-GAAP net income, which provide additional details. A copy of the press release is posted on the investor relations section of Everspens website at www.everspens.com. And now I would like to turn the call over to Everspens President and CEO, Sanjeev Agarwal. Sanjeev, please go ahead.

Thank you, Monica, and thanks everyone for joining us on the call today. We are pleased to report second quarter revenue of $18.7 million and non-GAAP EPS of $0.11. These results reflect the highest revenue quarter in Everspin's history, which exceeded our guidance range on both the top and bottom line, driven by strong product revenue growth and the $40 million agreement we announced with a U.S. prime contractor on our last earnings call. During the quarter, we began to recognize non-product revenue under the two-and-a-half-year agreement. As a reminder, Everspin is a subcontractor on an existing prime contract and is providing engineering services to develop and qualify toggle MRAM process technology capabilities for U.S. defense industrial-based customers. In addition to this new contract, we also recorded strong product revenue growth, which rose 38% year-over-year and was up 9% sequentially. This growth was driven by strength in industrial automation, energy management, and aerospace and defense applications. Growth in industrial and energy management was driven by a continued recovery in customer demand, particularly in Japan and Europe, respectively. In aerospace and defense, we saw continued, broad-based growth across our customer base, including several low-Earth orbit customers who are expanding the mission profiles where Everspin MRAM delivers long-term reliability for mission-critical applications. Recently, AstroDigital selected Everspins persist 64-megabit STT MRAM for use on an upcoming Raven Bus Geosynchronous Earth Orbit, or GEO, satellite mission. Our MRAM is deployed as the primary failsafe memory for the system boot memory, which stores the essential code needed in case of power loss and fast access to initialized spacecraft electronics during startup or recovery. As we noted last quarter, our 14.6 million contracts with the DoD contractor to develop a sustainment plan for our MRAM manufacturing facilities to provide continuous onshore MRAM capabilities to their aerospace and defense customers is beginning to wind down in the second quarter we recognize 0.5 million in other income related to this contract and 13.3 million to date we expect this business to continue to wind down over the coming quarters with estimated completion in the first half of 2027 turning to some of our product development efforts Our first Unisys family of MRAM products, the 256-megabit XPI, is on schedule to tape out later this year. As a reminder, this is a test chip designed on 16-nanometer FinFET CMOS at TSMC. Engineering samples are expected to be available in early 2027 with RAM 2 production later in the year. The Unisys family of products will serve the high-density standalone NorFlash market, which will expand our addressable market by approximately $3 billion. Our goal is to capture 5 to 10% of this market in the early years and then grow further. We are pleased to announce that our high-density 128-megabit and 256-megabit XPI high-reliability parts were made available to our customers ahead of schedule during the second quarter we released 128 megabit high reliability parts to production subsequent to the quarter end we released all skews of xpy 256 megabit density to production including high reliability parts customers now have these parts on hand to evaluate them in their design we kicked off our project with microchip in April to build MRAM capabilities in their Gresham, Oregon FAB. This project comprises two phases, with the first phase focused on toggle MRAM and the second phase on STT MRAM. We are finalizing the installation of unique MRAM equipment and completing process gap analysis, if any, for the non-MRAM equipment. This project is on schedule with a goal to deliver the first qualified silicon in 18 to 24 months from project kickoff we continue to see strong growth across our existing business while executing on our product pipeline and developing solutions that will further expand our spin's addressable market and drive long-term growth one of these future opportunities is focused on expanding our TAM in the data center market and we are planning to introduce some new products over the next three years based on the computer express link or cxl interface to provide a little background in the memory hierarchy there is a 100x to 1000x latency gap between storage with a latency of approximately 100 microseconds and main memory with a latency of approximately 100 nanoseconds csl attached random access memory can provide approximately approximately 100x lower latency when compared to SSD solutions available today. We continue to advance our development work on CXL interface-based MRAM solutions, which will address the demand for nanosecond-class persistent memory solutions, bringing storage closer to XPU, enhancing compute and power efficiency, resulting in significant overall cost savings. We are targeting to improve XPU utilization from 60% to 70% currently to as much as 90% to 95%, especially from small writes, for example, meta or log data. We are currently working on developing proof-of-concept demo vehicles to validate the expected gains. Subsequent to Quadrant, we signed a contract with a high-performance data interface and controller company to develop and provide CXL controller IP for MRAM. We are collaborating on an AMD Ultrascale plus FPGA-based platform using the CXL controller IP under development to connect to Everspin MRAM DIMM's dual inline memory modules. We plan to demonstrate this solution at the SNIA Developers Conference, or SDC, in September. We also recently announced that we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with MaxLinear to evaluate the use of Aerosmith CXL-attached MRAMs with MaxLinear storage accelerators for next-generation storage and acceleration architectures. Together, we will assess opportunities to apply persistent, byte-accessible, low-latency MRAM to storage functions such as metadata, log data, write buffers, and caches, with the goal of improving system performance, reliability, power efficiency, and data persistence in next generation storage architectures. By combining Eversmith's industry-leading MRAM with max linear storage accelerators, we believe we can enable new persistent memory solutions for hyperscale cloud, AI infrastructure, and enterprise tier one customers. I will now turn it over to our CFO, Bill Cooper, who will walk you through our second quarter financial and third quarter 2026 guidance. Bill?

Thank you, Sanjeev. During the second quarter, we delivered record revenue of $18.7 million, up 42% year on year, exceeding our guidance range of $15.5 million to $16.5 million, driven by both strong product and non-product revenue growth. MRAM product sales, which include both Toggle and STT MRAM revenue, were $15.3 million, an increase of 38% over the second quarter of the prior year and up 9% sequentially. Licensing, royalty, engineering services, and other revenue increased to $3.4 million from $2.1 million in Q2 of 2025, primarily due to initial revenue recognition on the $40 million subcontract agreement with the U.S. prime contractor we announced on our last earnings call. Our GAAP gross margin increased to 53.9% from 51.3% in the second quarter of 2025 due to a favorable mix from higher non-product revenues. GAAP operating expenses were $14.5 million up from $8.7 million in the second quarter of 2025 due primarily to litigation costs of $4 million and $1.1 million of non-recurring engineering costs. Other income of $0.5 million decreased from $0.8 million in the prior year quarter as our $14.6 million contract with the DOD contractor begins to wind down. we recorded second quarter non-GAAP net income of 2.9 million or 11 cents per diluted share based on 25.9 million weighted average diluted shares outstanding this exceeded our guidance range of non-GAAP net income of zero to three cents per share and compares to non-GAAP net income of 0.7 million or three cents per share in the second quarter of 2025. our reported non-GAAP results exclude the impact of stock-based compensation, litigation expenses, as well as non-recurring engineering expenses related to the buildout of the MRAM manufacturing line at Microchips Fab in Oregon. Our balance sheet remains strong and debt-free. We ended the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $43.9 million, up $3.4 million from $40.5 million at the end of the prior quarter. Cash flow generated from operations decreased to $0.2 million for the second quarter, down from $0.6 million in the first quarter, primarily due to litigation costs. We believe our cash and cash equivalents are sufficient to meet our anticipated capital requirements to continue to execute upon our Foundry Services Agreement with Microchip, our subcontract agreement with the U.S. prime contractor, and continued investment in product development to support our future roadmap and enable the company to drive growth. Turning to guidance, we expect Q3 total revenue to be in the range of $19.5 million to $20.5 million and GAAP results per fully diluted share to be between a net loss of $0.05 to $0.10 per share. On a non-GAAP basis, we anticipate earnings between $0.10 and $0.15 per fully diluted share. These non-GAAP figures exclude the impact of litigation costs. NRE related to the microchip, MRAM line, and stock-based compensation expense. In summary, we are pleased with our solid performance this quarter and remain committed to maintaining financial discipline while focusing on scaling our business and converting additional design links to revenue. And finally, I want to thank all of the Everspin employees for their continued contributions in supporting the company's growth. Operator, you may now open the line for questions.

At this time, we will conduct the question and answer session. As a reminder, to ask a question, you will need to press star 1-1 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star 1-1 again. Please stand by. We will compile the Q&A roster.

Our first question comes from the line of Neil Young of Needham & Company.

Your line is now open.

Hey, everyone. Thanks for letting me ask a question. um the first question i wanted to ask was sort of on market strength so i know you guys cited the industrial automation energy management and and d as sort of the uh growth drivers and you talked a lot about in the aerospace and defense being driven by leo but if i recall from some of your comments uh at conferences inter-quarter i thought you guys talked a little bit about drones and maybe some strength you're seeing there so uh maybe if you could just expand on anything you know, that you're seeing outside of the Leo satellites within defense. And yeah, thanks.

Yeah, thanks, Neil. What I would say is certainly, right, we continue to engage in that sector. We haven't announced any particular specific deals on that area. And, you know, certainly we still see very healthy demand across all segments of the business.

Okay, thanks.

And then the second one I wanted to ask was about the $40 million contract. So, last quarter, you know, you only had about, if I remember correctly, two months of that was recognized in the quarter. So, should we expect maybe another step up now in 3Q that it's a full quarter, or, you know, is it not going to scale sort of in an evenly manner?

Yes, that's correct. It won't necessarily scale in a, you know, very linear manner. So I would expect to see a non-product in the similar area from Q2 to Q3.

Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Richard Shannon of Craig Hollum. Your line is now open.

Great. Thanks, Sanjeev and Bill, for taking my questions as well. Well, maybe I'll ask a way of thinking about the last question more directly here in terms of the guidance for the quarter here and think about it holistically here. I'd love to get a sense of the degree to which products versus licensing will be growing And I guess I'd also love to get a sense of the quantified the amount of contribution in the second quarter from the $40 million contract so we can convey that over the third quarter as well. Let's start with that one. Thanks.

Yeah. Hey, Richard. A couple of things. I would say, yes, definitely the significant majority of the non-product revenue did come from the new $40 million subcontract and some of the revenue that was recognized for that. But, you know, as Neil rightly pointed out, it was only for a partial quarter. And then, you know, in terms of, again, as we go forward, you know, it won't necessarily be linear. And so we'll see, you know, possibly some sort of more, something more like a bell curve in that as well. Okay.

Okay, fair enough then. And as I oftentimes ask here, I noticed in the second quarter, your product gross margins were a bit lower than the first quarter and kind of similar to the range that you had most of 2025. I want to get a sense of kind of the forward outlook there. Is this kind of the baseline to think, or can we get back towards that 50% level, just to kind of high level here? How do you think about that?

Yes, good question.

So, what I would say is definitely saw some headwinds in product costs, you know, both in terms of in Q2. And so, what we've always guided is, hey, we expect product gross margins to kind of be in that mid-upper 40s range. And then in total, we expect the company to be, you know, north of 50% for total gross margin.

So, Richard, just to add a little bit to that, right, we did see some headwinds, like Bill was saying, from price increases that we saw on the back end.

And I think that is impacting or directly showing up in the gross margins for our product revenue.

So even though we might have made improvements from Q1 to Q2, some of them are lost in the price increases that we see with the back end. And by back end, I mean packaging and test at the OSATs.

Right. Okay. That sounds like a sustainable dynamic here as well that you don't expect to improve anytime soon. Is that fair, Sanjeev?

Yeah, I mean, the price of gold, for example, right? It just keeps going up.

Fair enough. Maybe one quick question for Bill, and then maybe one or two for Sanjeev here. So the difference here between the Performa and the GAAP EPS here, I'm assuming this is mostly from legal expenses. I know you quantified this to roughly $4 million in the second quarter. I didn't have time to do the math here, but is that a similar number that's baked into the third quarter as well, or how do you think about that?

Yes, yes, that's correct. We baked in a similar number.

Okay, perfect. Sanjeev, I noticed that NXP has sold the – or has an agreement to sell the Chandler Fab. And obviously, noting that you've already – have an agreement with Microchip to expand capacity here. How do you think about this in the context of your needs here? can you, you know, when the Chandler fab conveys over completely, do you expect to be out of there or not? And to what degree does microchip alone, or do you expect them to be able to cover your needs for the products that are affected, possibly affected by the Chandler fab sale?

Yeah, so what we understand, what has been communicated to us, Richard, by NXP is, or actually by Nokia's announcement was that they would complete the acquisition of the Chandler facilities by Q1 of 2029. So, NXP retains the ownership through the end of 2028, and one of the fabs, which is basically for gallium nitride, would be converted to indium phosphide through a lease that Nokia would get starting Q1 or Q2 of 2027. So we don't see any interruption to our operations, at least through the end of 2028, and we are in conversations or we have some planned conversations with Nokia to understand what are their plans for Everspin. We have heard positive things, but we haven't directly spoken to them yet. So in an ideal case scenario, we would have both facilities, and if the business requires us to keep both facilities, that would be great. And if not, then we obviously brought on microchips so that we can actually scale production if Nokia had other plans for the FAP.

Okay, good to hear that you have some continuity here. So that's good to hear. Last question for me, Sanjeev, I didn't get a chance to ask you about this after the announcement with Astro, I forget their full name, with the win for geosatellites. This is for geosatellites. I think this is your first win in the GEO area after having talked about LEO satellites a lot. Let me get a sense of the importance of that win. And ultimately, do you see the opportunity here being bigger for GEO, LEO, MEO, or just kind of characterize the opportunity holistically in satellites, please?

Yeah, that's a good question, Richard. You're right. This is our first design win for a geo-satellite mission using our commercially developed MRAP. I mean, obviously, it's qualified for extended temperatures, but we have not done any radiation hardening for these parts that AstroDigital has designed in their satellite mission. So it's really good news. So I think they have figured out a way of how to take advantage of our reliability. They're using it for exactly what we've been talking about for so long. You know, the boot speed, reliability, recording the telemetry for the satellite. And they must have somehow figured out how to use this non-radiation-hardened or radiation-tolerant MRAM in this geo-application. So there must be some redundancy or I don't really know what they're doing. But, yes, it's huge for us if they have figured it out, and they have several customers, which means that it can actually perpetuate in the GEO, MEO, and LEO missions over there. So, overall, we're very excited with this partnership.

Okay. That sounds very interesting. Thanks for that detail. I will jump out of line.

Thank you, Richard. Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, you'll need to press star 1-1. Our next question comes from the line of Josh Sullivan of Jones Trading.

Your line is now open.

Just looking at the $40 million defense contract win, what does the pipeline look like in defense at this point?

Josh, thank you for joining the call and asking the question. Do you mean what is the pipeline for future contracts or how the revenue would be recognized from this $40 million contract?

Your bid pipeline within similar applications.

Yeah, so, you know, as you know, we've had a few contracts now over the last five years of the U.S. government. So we work very closely with them, keeping them informed of the technology development that we're doing at Everspin. And whenever there's an overlap between the goals of the U.S. government and Everspens Roadmap, it typically leads to first a small contract and then a bigger contract to actually do the development. So we do have a few irons in the fire, but there's nothing concrete yet. So I do think that we will continue to work with the U.S. government on various STTM RAM, SOTM RAM projects as well. But obviously, all our contracts actually come. So we are a subcontractor in all our contracts to a prime contractor. So we're always a sub and not the prime.

And then I guess, you know, as far as the European market, you know, growing drones and space exposure, you know, what is your footprint as far as those markets?

Yeah. So basically, you know, the European Space Agency and the DoD, I think those are two of our primary customers in the aerospace and defense industry. And we work very closely with both of them. And I would say that we have a pretty good footprint for the LEO satellites as well as any, you know, the helicopters, the helicopter taxis that we have, the EVTOLs is the phrase that we have in our investor deck. I think those are the applications that we're designed in and have activity ongoing for the last couple of years, and we expect them to grow.

And I guess just lastly, as far as the CXL interface and, you know, three-year product roadmap you mentioned, can you just provide some color on what that rollout might look like and kind of the external guide points we might see?

I would say, first of all, that it is a huge market, and I think it's very, very well suited for using MRAM technology. Having said that, I would also say that we are in the early stages of just building proof of concepts and prototypes, and that's what I mentioned in my prepared remarks. So we'll have our first proof of concept here at the end of September that will actually hopefully successfully demonstrate the use of the CXL protocol using the MRAM technology. And with that solution, then we'll actually be able to work with MaxLinear, for example, in their storage accelerator systems to improve the efficiency of the accelerators that they're using. And we believe that we could actually impact the efficiency by almost 15% to 25%. So I think it's a huge market, but it's a little bit early for me to say how the revenue will build up over the next three years or so. So I think once we have the prototypes working and we have a design identified, I think then we can talk about projections of revenue and percent of market capture.

Great. Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

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