Earnings Call Transcript - SANM Q4 2020

Operator, Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Sanmina Corporation’s Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2020 Year-End Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. I would now like to hand the conference over to Paige Melching. Thank you. Please go ahead, ma'am.

Paige Melching, Investor Relations Officer

Thank you, Erica. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Sanmina’s fourth quarter and full-year fiscal 2020 earnings call. A copy of our press release and slides for today’s discussion are available on our website at sanmina.com in the Investor Relations section. Joining me on today's call is Jure Sola, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. And Kurt Adzema, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before we discuss the results for the quarter, let me remind everyone that today’s call is being webcast and recorded, and will be available on our website. You can follow along with our prepared remarks and the slides provided on our website. Please turn to slide 3 of the presentation or the press release, Safe Harbor statement. During this conference call, we may make projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of the Company. We caution you that such statements are just projections. The Company’s actual results could differ materially from those projections in these statements as a result of a number of factors set forth in the Company’s annual and quarterly reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company is under no obligation to and expressly disclaims any such obligation to update or alter any of the forward-looking statements made in this earnings release, the earnings presentation, the conference call or the Investor Relations section of our website, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless otherwise required by law. You will note in our press release and slides issued today that we have provided you with statements of operations for the quarter and fiscal year ended October 03, 2020, on a GAAP basis, as well as certain non-GAAP financial information. A reconciliation between the GAAP and non-GAAP financial information is also provided in the press release and slides posted on our website. In general, our non-GAAP information excludes restructuring costs, acquisition and integration costs, non-cash stock-based compensation expense, amortization expense and other unusual or infrequent items. Any comments we make on this call as it relates to the income statement measures will be directed at our non-GAAP financial results. Accordingly, unless otherwise stated in this conference call when we refer to gross profit, gross margin, operating income, operating margin, taxes, net income and earnings per share, we’re referring to our non-GAAP information. I would now like to turn the call over to Jure.

Jure Sola, Chairman and CEO

Thanks, Paige. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome again. Thank you all for being here with us today. First of all, this is our 40th year - we just finished the 40th year, right, Paige? So, this was a challenging year, but also, I think we accomplished a lot. The most important, I am very proud of our leadership team and our employees for all they have accomplished in fiscal year '20. Despite all these challenges, we delivered strong results for the fourth quarter. For agenda, Kurt will review the details of our financial results with you. I will follow up with additional comments about Sanmina's results and the future goals. Then, Kurt and I will open for questions and answers. And now, I'll turn this call over to Kurt.

Kurt Adzema, CFO

Thanks, Jure. Given the continued challenges and uncertainty associated with COVID-19 and the macroeconomic environment, we remained focused on the optimization and continuous improvement of our business, the leveraging of existing manufacturing capacity, and cash generation. I'm very pleased to report the impact of these efforts were once again evident in our results. Please turn to slide 6. Q4 revenue of $1.875 billion was up 13.3% sequentially and exceeded our outlook of $1.73 to $1.83 billion, we provided in July. Q4 non-GAAP gross margin improved from 8.1% to 8.3%. This was primarily the result of management's focus on driving efficiencies and higher revenue levels with a favorable product mix. Q4 non-GAAP operating expenses of $61.4 million were higher relative to Q3, primarily as a result of the extra week in the quarter. Q4 non-GAAP operating margins also improved from 4.6% to 5.1%. Q4 non-GAAP other expenses were approximately $5.6 million, approximately 1.1 higher relative to Q3. This was primarily due to a gain of approximately $2.5 million related to deferred compensation assets, as a result of the appreciation of the stock market and other financial assets in Q4 compared to a gain of $3.6 million in Q3. Just as a reminder, gains or losses related to deferred compensation have no net impact on the EPS as they are equally offset with corresponding increases or decreases in manufacturing and operating expenses. Finally, I'm pleased to report that Q4 non-GAAP fully diluted EPS improved from $0.86 to $1.10, as a result of management's focus on driving efficiencies and higher revenue levels. This exceeded our prior outlook of $0.73 to $0.83 provided back in July. Now please turn to slide 7. Here, you can see the details related to Q4 and the associated comparisons, as well as a comparison of FY20, relative to FY19. FY20 revenues were $7 billion compared to $8.2 billion in FY19, primarily due to the impact of COVID and the macroeconomic environment. Non-GAAP gross margin in FY20 improved from 7.3% to 7.7%, primarily driven by management's actions to drive efficiencies. Non-GAAP operating margin in fiscal 2020 improved from 4.1% to 4.2%. Finally, non-GAAP earnings per share was $3.05 in FY20, compared to $3.40 in FY19. Again, this is primarily a result of lower revenue levels due to COVID, partially offset by management's actions to drive efficiencies. Now, if you could please turn to slide 8. IMS revenue grew approximately 14% and non-GAAP gross margins for IMS improved from 7% to 7.2%. Also components products and services revenues grew approximately 9% and non-GAAP gross margin improved from 12% to 12.4%. If you turn to slide 9, you can see the quarterly progression of our financial results. Again, we delivered improved non-GAAP gross margins and operating margins as well as improved EPS in the fourth quarter. If you turn to slide 10. This slide shows the annual progression of our financial results. Again, we delivered improved non-GAAP operating margins in FY20, despite the challenges associated with COVID and a macroeconomic environment. Please turn to slide 11. Again, here you'll see our balance sheet continues to remain strong. Cash and cash equivalents were approximately $481 million at the end of Q4. During the quarter, we paid off approximately the remaining $650 million on our $700 million revolver. Just as a reminder, we drew down the $650 million of our $700 million revolver back in March, given the uncertainty around COVID-19. Again, we subsequently never needed to use any of that cash, given our strong internal cash generation. The balance on our term loan at the end of Q4 was $348 million. This loan matures in November 2023. Please turn to slide 12. Here you can see we continue to maintain a low debt to cash ratio of 0.7. Between the cash and availability under our revolver, we have approximately $1.2 billion of liquidity available to us. If you turn to slide 13, you'll see inventory was down approximately $23 million; and inventory turns improved to 7.3 during the quarter. Cash and cash cycle days were 53.6. Non-GAAP pre-tax return on invested capital again improved from 24.3% to 28.3%. Please turn to slide 14. Again, our strong focus on cash generation continues to pay off. In Q4, we generated approximately $80 million of cash from operations and approximately $69 million of free cash flow. For the full fiscal year, we generated $301 million of cash from operations and approximately $236 million of free cash flow. Over the past five years, we continue to reinvest in the business, spending about 36% of our cash utilization on capital expenditures. In addition, over the past five years, we've used approximately 60% of our cash utilization on debt repayment and share repurchases. For FY20, in particular, we spent 23% of our cash utilization on capital expenditures and 77% on debt repayments and share repurchases. We will continue to manage the use of cash closely for the betterment of the business and for our shareholders. Now, please turn to slide 15. Sanmina takes a very disciplined approach to capital expenditures and focuses on leveraging our existing manufacturing capacity. During Q4, we spent $10.5 million on net capital expenditures. For the full fiscal year, we spent approximately $64 million. Please turn to slide 16. During Q4, we repurchased approximately 3 million shares for approximately $78 million at an average price of $26.13. For the full fiscal year, we repurchased approximately 6.4 million shares for approximately $166 million at an average price of approximately $25.94. Again, we'll continue to take an opportunistic approach to share repurchases as we optimize our capital structure. At the end of Q4, we had approximately $135 million of authorization remaining under our current program. Now, if you please turn to slide 17, we'll talk a little bit about the first quarter outlook. The impact of COVID-19 and the macroeconomic environment will continue to evolve. As a management team, we will remain focused on the optimization and continuous improvement of our business, the leveraging of existing manufacturing capacity, and cash generation. As we think about the outlook, it should be noted that Q1 will again have 13 weeks versus 14 weeks in the prior quarter. Our outlook for Q1 will be in the range of $1.7 billion to $1.8 billion for revenues. Overall customer demand is expected to be relatively stable in all of our end markets after adjusting for the one less week. We expect non-GAAP gross margins to be in the range of 7.4% to 8%, non-GAAP operating expenses to be approximately $59 million to $61 million. We expect non-GAAP operating margin to be in the range of 4% to 4.6%. We expect non-GAAP other expenses to be approximately $8 million. Our non-GAAP tax rate is expected to be around 19%. We expect non-GAAP fully diluted share count to be approximately 67.5 million shares. And when you take all this together, our outlook for non-GAAP diluted earnings per share for the quarter is in the range of $0.75 to $0.85. We expect capital expenditures to be around $15 million and depreciation and amortization to be around $29 million. I believe our team, working closely with our customers, has navigated well through the impact of COVID-19 and the macroeconomic environment to date, and we are positioning ourselves well with our customers in our key markets to benefit from the ultimate recovery. And for now, I'll turn it back to Jure for additional comments.

Jure Sola, Chairman and CEO

Thanks, Kurt. Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you more about the business environment for the fourth quarter, the outlook for the first quarter and fiscal year 2021. Also, we will talk to you about what we are doing to maximize shareholder value at Sanmina. Managing around the global health crisis has been challenging. But, we're adapting well to a new business environment as we're learning how to work with COVID-19. I can tell you that our manufacturing facilities in 21 countries on six continents are operating and supporting our customer requirements daily. Sanmina's number one priority is the safety of our employees and doing the right thing for our customer. Again, I can report to you that we are doing well. Some key highlights for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2020. As you heard from Kurt, Sanmina delivered strong financial results for the fourth quarter. By exiting the fourth quarter with an operating margin up to 5.1%, it's a good goal for the future. Also, as we mentioned, we delivered non-GAAP EPS of $1.10. Fiscal year 2020 was a good year despite challenges from COVID-19. We are learning a lot. We're keeping it simple, which I call internally, back to basics. Our primary focus for management is on the four key things that drive our success. Number one, safety of our employees. Number two, customer satisfaction. Number three, operating margin improvement. And number four, continue to generate free cash flow. Sanmina has a strong foundation in place and it can operate in any economic environment. Please turn to slide 19. Let me now give you some more highlights of revenue for our fourth quarter and end markets. We had a good domain cross majority of our end markets and a good mix of business. Industrial, medical, defense, automotive and communication networks had strong growth. Cloud solutions saw some push outs from a couple of customers, but basically, just timing. Overall, we delivered strong growth of 13.3% for the quarter, and our top-10 customers represented 57.1% of our revenue. The book to bill for the fourth quarter was positive. And the book to bill for fiscal year '20 was also positive. In the quarter, we continued to diversify revenue and expand the customer base in this environment. During COVID-19, we have earned better partnerships with our customers by delivering strong performance for them. Please turn to slide 20. Now, I'd like to talk to you about revenue outlook by market segments for the first quarter 2021. For the first quarter, today, we can tell you we are seeing good stable demand. For industrial, medical, defense and communication networks, we are well positioned in these markets. So, for industrial, we expect to continue to do well, and we see stable demand. The same goes for medical with stable demand. For defense, what we’ve seen today is very strong demand. Automotive continues to recover with forecasts of stable demand. Again, for communication networks, which includes networking products, IP routing, optical products are also doing well, and we are forecasting stable demand. For mobile and 5G networks, we're starting to see nice improvements. Again, for cloud solutions, which for us includes high-end computing and storage, stable demand. Sanmina has continued to expand and grow a stronger presence with its industry leaders in a mission-critical, high-complexity and heavily regulated market. This is a market that we're well-positioned in, and most importantly, we have a great customer base. I'm going to make a few more comments about the business environment for fiscal year '21. With COVID-19, the global economy is very hard to predict at this time. However, our customer base is still positive about calendar year 2021. We have a pipeline of existing and new opportunities that looks good for the calendar year '21 as we continue to expand our customer base in this environment. Based on our visibility and the forecast, we feel optimistic that fiscal year 2021 will be a good year for Sanmina. We expect to come out of this year a stronger company for the future. As I said earlier, management will be focused on the quality of the growth and margin improvements. Back to basics. There's a lot of work left, but we’re also having fun doing it. Please turn to slide 21 now. We have been reviewing all Sanmina businesses and capabilities. The goal is to unlock the value of Sanmina and provide greater visibility of each business group. So, please turn to slide 22. On this slide, you see Sanmina's current segments. On the left, you see integrated manufacturing solutions. Revenue in the fourth quarter was $1.54 billion with a gross margin of 7.2%. Components, products, and services on the right side had a revenue of $365 million and a gross margin of 12.4%. We expect to grow all our businesses in these segments. But we're planning to put more focus to grow components, products, and services. Let me show you how we're going to do it. So, please turn to slide 23. To align with Sanmina's vision of maximizing shareholder value, we're planning to organize Sanmina's business into three key focus groups. To deliver the best value to our customers, drive growth and profitability for each group. The integrated manufacturing solution group will have Product System Build, Global Services, Optical Modules, and Viking Enterprise. For us, that's basically a product for data centers. Under component technology, we have Interconnect Circuit Boards, which is advanced circuit boards for us, advanced backplanes, and optical connector systems. Precision Machining Systems, which also includes precision plastics. And then a third group, SCI Defense Products. SCI has been in the products since the early 60s, mainly focusing on military. We will focus on SCI's products, military and space technology for products and system builds. Now, please turn to slide 24. What we are planning to do is to realign our management. So that I'll have three presidents running our operations and sales, one for each group. Two of these individuals are already inside the Company, and one of them will take our integrated manufacturing solution, and the other one will take over SCI defense products. For components technology, we are in the midst of bringing in an individual in the near future for that job. So, what's the advantage to this new structure? Number one, focused leadership and the ability to compete better in each of these business groups. Number two, maximizing operating leverage in each business group. Number three, growth and margin expansion. Number four, more flexibility, speed to market, and better execution. We believe this structure will be a lot more efficient and cost-effective. This management structure gives us a solid foundation and flexibility to drive long-term sustainable growth. Please turn to slide 25. So, here are the management priorities. Sustainable and profitable revenue growth that we’ve been talking about already. But here, we're going to focus on our customers in mission-critical, high-complexity end markets; continue to take care of the customers we have and also continue to add customers in this market. Grow with the market leaders in these key markets and drive profitable growth for each business group. Sanmina today provides leading technology to our customers. We have a lean and flexible global structure in place. The key advantage is how we provide end to end services, technology, components, and products. This competitive advantage will support attractive margins, regardless of the business environment. Our continued ability to generate strong cash flow will give us flexibility to invest in the right business and optimize our capital structure. And of course, our goal is to maximize shareholder value. To do that, we have to unlock the total value of Sanmina's capabilities, as we’ve just been talking to you about. Also, I can tell you that there's a lot of leverage in Sanmina's business model. Please turn to slide 26. In summary, we remain positive on our long-term outlook for our key markets. As you see in our fourth quarter, we had pretty strong results, and even though it was a challenging year for fiscal year '20, we're still able to improve our operating margin and deliver a strong free cash flow of $236 million. So, where do we go from here? As I said, we just finished 40 years of our existence. This is a new year for us. We believe that 2021 should be a good year, based on what we've seen from our customers today. However, we'll take one quarter at a time. As Kurt mentioned, our revenue outlook is solid, ranging from $1.7 to $1.8 billion. Our non-GAAP diluted EPS outlook is in the range of $0.75 to $0.85. We still have uncertainties around the pandemic as global conditions change daily. I have a lot of confidence in Sanmina's management, and we will focus on the fundamentals of our business. We will work very hard to maximize total shareholder value. As I said earlier, I'm going to say it again, Sanmina is adapting to market changes as well, and our goal is to come out of this a stronger company. So, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to again say thank you for all your time and support. Operator, we're now ready to open the lines for questions and answers. Thank you again.

Operator, Operator

Operator instructions and your first question is from Ruplu Bhattacharya with Bank of America.

Ruplu Bhattacharya, Analyst

Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. And congrats on the strong quarter, and also on the strong guide. Jure, I wanted to see if you could delve a little bit deeper into the communications network segment. You had guided for revenues to be sequentially up. But obviously, you had quite a good quarter. So, maybe, can you just talk about what you saw in the optical side as well as networking and wireless, and how you're thinking about the December quarter in that segment?

Jure Sola, Chairman and CEO

Yes. As I mentioned, Ruplu, in my prepared statement, we have a diversified customer base in that segment. We are involved in all new systems and products. So, if I look at that optical side, it looks pretty good. The part of the network inside, IP routing, also looks good. I also mentioned that 5G networks are starting to improve. So overall, what we see today is stable. We'll see how the mix goes during the quarter. But demand, what we see today, is pretty stable based on our forecast.

Ruplu Bhattacharya, Analyst

Okay. Thanks for that. Maybe for my second question, I want to ask you on the defense business, the SCI business. You're trying to unlock value and you've created this new structure where you're going to have a separate president for that business. In the long term, what's your thought or what's your view on that business? Is this something you want to grow organically, or is this something you would want to monetize maybe as a separate company or as a separate business? So, just your thoughts on how you see that business trending over time and your thoughts on the portfolio with respect to that business?

Jure Sola, Chairman and CEO

Yes. If you just look at the Sanmina businesses today, especially now as we go into these three focus groups and three strong managers to really grow this business for us, our goal is to be successful on this model. I think we're getting a lot of volume. Yes, we need the economy to cooperate, but there's also a lot of work that we are working on today. We're positioning the company, so when things turn around and we see this global health crisis go away, we’re going to focus on building things—there's a lot of excitement here. But back to SCI. SCI basically builds everything for military; that's mainly defense. As much as I think, 90-plus percent of their business is defense and space, mainly satellites. We have our own products there. We also get heavily involved as a partner of general contractors there. So, we're well positioned. We have a well-known name in that industry. We can take on any government contracts. If you really look at that business, it's pretty profitable. I think we can be even more profitable in the future. Today, we're not getting the right valuation. I don't think that our investors see everything. So, we're trying to create more visibility in the future, and most importantly, better results. We'll see how things go. We definitely will grow that business, both organically, and we're going to look at some strategic acquisitions that can help us grow it. But, we are focused on SCI. SCI has a lot of upsides. We have a beautiful campus down in Huntsville. I'm personally excited, especially in the environment today, where things are different and we put in a really strong team there, and with a few more players, I think the future will be bright for us.

Ruplu Bhattacharya, Analyst

Okay. Thanks for the details there on SCI, Jure. Maybe I also wanted to ask you about the industrial medical defense automotive side. I mean, again, you had guided for sequential improvement. But, I mean, that segment grew, I think, 19% sequentially. So, you saw pretty strong growth. Was there anything that surprised you in that segment? I mean, I know there are a lot of end markets there. But, was any one end market the driver for that outsized growth, or how did things play out, as you had expected?

Jure Sola, Chairman and CEO

Well, first of all, with COVID-19, every day is a different day for our customers and for us. I think we adopted and we created enough flexibility that we're able to help our customers fill the orders as they needed. Our management really did a terrific job last quarter helping our customers do that. When it comes to defense and medical, we're well positioned in both of those markets, in really critical products, including products for COVID on the medical side, and were able to fill extra orders there to meet the demand from our customers. So, yes, maybe we—if you want to call it a surprise, I will say that demand can be stronger than what we anticipated at the beginning of the quarter. But I can also say that our team executed really well and worked very closely with our customers to deliver the numbers that we achieved.

Operator, Operator

Your next question is from Jim Suva with Citigroup.

Jim Suva, Analyst

Thank you very much for the details. I have two questions and I'll ask them at the same time, just so you can determine how you want to answer them or in which order. The first is on the results. It looks like the cloud was down year-over-year, and I think you expect it to be kind of stable. Kind of what's going on there with the deferments of orders or deferments of deliveries, or change in architectural systems or anything you can think about? Because your cloud has been quite strong in the past. And this time, it looked like a little bit of slowdown, and maybe it's COVID related. I'm not sure. Then my second question is, Jure, with the CEO change, you made some comments that hey, it's time to make some changes for the Company. But, it looks like these results and outlooks are quite respectable and stellar. So, I'm wondering, have you already implemented those changes, or are the changes still yet to come? How should we think about your desire for change yet the results and outlook look very strong?

Jure Sola, Chairman and CEO

Jim, two good questions. So, first, let me answer the one around cloud computing, which for us includes our enterprise computing. As I said in my prepared statement, Jim, I think we were down about 8%, 7.9%, or something, approximately $20 million from last quarter. We have some push out with a couple of customers, which in this case was mainly about the timing, and to deliver certain products in certain countries. So, there was some delay there; eventually, that product will ship. I would say, for us, on the whole enterprise, if I look at the last year, there were some bigger opportunities that got delayed. I don’t know if they got delayed because of COVID. But I would say it’s probably 50-50. Some of it is COVID and some of it was just market dynamics that changed for a couple of our customers. But going forward, we believe that that business for us will do well. We continue to invest in our enterprise storage products internally, and we got some good opportunities that we're working on. We'll see how those things shake up. I also forgot to mention, going forward, we're going to report communication networks and cloud solutions, which is basically the computing business, and we're going to combine them together. It’s very hard for us to figure out what is an optical network system, and sometimes it goes into a big data center, and what is the storage product. So, based on our internal insights, we felt it’s best to combine them into communication and cloud networks. Hopefully, it'll be easier for me to explain to you in the future. But yes, we’re still committed. We think, if you look at that business, for us, it’s a couple of billion dollar business a year. We should be able to grow it. Back to the CEO changes and that; yes, we're doing good today. I think that we’re tuning things up, Jim. We're not—the changes that I’m making are really getting the—putting better focus on these businesses, bringing one more outside player to help us. We have three individuals that are currently in positions; two of these three are already here, they've been involved. We’ve just kind of given them more freedom, more flexibility. My background keeps me around customers, and I'm getting back involved in customer relations. I would just say, we want to do things better. This Company has a lot of upside, a lot of leverage. Let's see what we can do in the next few years. Personally, we are very excited about what's in front of us. I just hope this COVID goes away, so that we can go and travel and see our customers. Regardless, we have to focus on what's in front of us today, which is improving the Company and continue to improve in these segments where we have a competitive advantage. I can tell you that our relationship today with our customers, especially during COVID in the last two quarters, what we were able to accomplish for them is our best efforts. We were able to do this in circumstances that I didn’t think we could manage ourselves. So, we’re doing well. Thanks for asking.

Operator, Operator

Your next question is from Christian Schwab with Craig-Hallum.

Christian Schwab, Analyst

Hey. Jure, congrats on another good quarter. As we— you talked about earlier a strong pipeline of new opportunities. Can you give us some color about where you guys are seeing new opportunities? Is that expansion with existing customers, or is that new customers that are helping you?

Jure Sola, Chairman and CEO

With medical, I will say both. We got some really good customers that we opened up in the last three to four years. Medical sometimes takes a little longer. I see some— with existing programs, some solid demand. We have also few customers that have weak demand, and what happened with COVID. But again, we have a few customers that are involved in COVID, lab test equipment, etc. That continues to be very strong, and then we're adding a few more. The defense business for us has been strong, especially in our circuit board business, high technology printed circuit boards, and of course SCI products and services. That continues to grow, and we've got some really good programs that we won in the last six months. We expect that to give us some stability during the year.

Christian Schwab, Analyst

Great. And then, the strength that you guys called out in the 5G networks, is that predominantly from your historically large customers there, or is that expanding out? Just can you give us any color about the type of applications and products and the number of customers that you're dealing with in that area?

Jure Sola, Chairman and CEO

Well, we are just building out our 5G network here—we have multiple customers that are involved and come to the few 5G radios and products that our existing customers are working on, along with some new customers in that market. Overall, we expect that business will continue to grow.

Christian Schwab, Analyst

Okay, great. And then, my last question, again, two quarters in a row of extremely strong gross margins in a lack of visibility and a challenging environment. I’m sure there were lots of changes into the quarter with your customer base. Can you just remind us exactly how you've been able to achieve that, and why that wouldn't be more sustainable in a better visibility environment?

Jure Sola, Chairman and CEO

First of all, it's going to continue to be challenging. As I mentioned in my prepared statements, there's still a lot of uncertainties, particularly around COVID, and things are changing. Again, I give a lot of credit to our people on the floor for being able to really put the systems in place where we had to monitor these situations. The most important factor in this scenario, with the virus around, is ensuring that our people are safe and able to work. We’ve thus far succeeded in this area. We expect that trend to continue. And of course, all depends on our customers’ demand. So far, in certain products, demand has been stable. We expect it to be stable, at least for one quarter at a time. We'll let you know 90 days from now. There's a lot of work involved. I'll turn that over to Kurt. He can provide more detail from the financial side. A significant amount of effort has gone into this. So, Kurt?

Kurt Adzema, CFO

Yes. Thanks, Jure. Yes. As I said in the prepared remarks, we're spending a lot of time optimizing and continuously improving our manufacturing operations. Our ops team has done a great job in a challenging environment. I think we've made a lot of investment in the business over the last couple of years. We're also trying to leverage our existing manufacturing infrastructure. We've been doing a good job overall, with CapEx being at a relatively low level, allowing us to achieve returns on invested capital. This last quarter, we saw some benefits from the higher revenue, a favorable mix and candidly, some leverage as a result of the additional week in the quarter. So, I think all those factors combined have contributed positively. But, we're taking it one quarter at a time and will continue to focus on margin improvement.

Christian Schwab, Analyst

Great. Thank you. No other questions.

Jure Sola, Chairman and CEO

Okay. Thanks, Christian. Yes. Just to add a few more things. As Kurt mentioned, there’s a lot of work, and we'll continue to work as we said within our margin improvements and the growth. But before I let you go, I just want to let you know that we'll continue to do what works for us. As I say, we'll continue to focus on the safety of our people and taking care of our customers. We have many opportunities still ahead of us. We will continue to develop and expand into more profitable business. That's the focus. So whatever we are doing this year or in the next six to nine months is really all about how we improve the mix of our business, so that we can continue to deliver sustainable and predictable results. So, you have our commitment that we’re going to work hard and have some fun. So, with that, I want to thank you very much. If you have any more questions, please give us a call. Thank you very much.

Kurt Adzema, CFO

Thank you.

Jure Sola, Chairman and CEO

Bye-bye.

Operator, Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.