Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc.

Overview

Date Founded

1956

Headquarters

23A Serangoon North Avenue 5,No. 01-01,Singapore, Central Singapore 554369

Type of Company

Public

Employees (Worldwide)

2,544

Industries

Electrical Products
Appliances & Electronics
Semiconductors
Industrial Machinery & Manufacturing

Company Description

Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of tools used to assemble semiconductor devices. It operates through the Capital Equipment and APS segments. The Capital Equipment segment consists of ball bonders, wedge bonders, advanced packaging, and electronic assembly solutions. The APS segment offers a variety of expandable tools for a broad range of semiconductor packaging applications. The company was founded by Frederick W. Kulicke and Albert Soffa in 1951 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Website

http://www.kns.com

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In The News

PR Newswire

December 10, 2020

Kulicke & Soffa Raises Quarterly Dividend by 16.7%; Quarterly Dividend Increases to $0.14

Business Wire

November 20, 2020

Semiconductor Chip Packaging Market | Increasing Use of Semiconductors in the Automobile Sector will Drive Growth | Research Report by Technavio

SEC

November 20, 2020

Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. filed form 10-K

Nasdaq

November 20, 2020

Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc (KLIC) Q4 2020 Earnings Call Transcript

Nasdaq

November 19, 2020

Kulicke and Soffa (KLIC) in Focus: Stock Moves 6.4% Higher

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Executives & Employees

C. Scott Kulicke

Chief Executive Officer

Fusen E. Chen

President & Chief Executive Officer

Lester A. Wong

Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Stephen Drake

Vice President, Legal Affairs & General Counsel

Chan Pin Chong

Executive Vice President & General Manager, Products & Solutions

Nelson M. Wong

Senior Vice President, Global Sales

Cheam Tong Liang

Vice President, Corporate Strategy

Lisa Lim

Vice President, Global Human Resources

Shai Soloveizik

Vice President, Global Operations & Supply Chain

Mansour Moinpour

Crowner

Board of Directors

Tat Ming Kong

Former President, Global Components at Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Fusen E. Chen

President & Chief Executive Officer at Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc.

Gregory F. Milzcik

Former President & Chief Executive Officer at Barnes Aerospace Corp.

Jeff Richardson

Former Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise Platforms & Services Division at Intel Corp.

Chin Hu Lim

Managing Partner at Stream Global Venture Catalyst Pte Ltd.

Mui Sung Yeo

Managing Director at Omeyon Pte Ltd.

YEO Mui Sang

Member, Board of Directors at Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc.

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Owners & Shareholders

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Royce & Associates LP

Royce & Associates invests clients’ assets primarily in the equity securities of US and foreign companies at all capitalization levels using its disciplined valuation-based investment approach. A significant portion of clients’ assets are invested in the securities of micro-, small-, and mid-cap companies. The firm employs active, bottom-up, risk-conscious, and fundamental investment approach. Royce & Associates’ investment styles focuses on companies with specific attributes including, attractive valuations, premium quality companies, or companies with significant growth potential.

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ARGA Investment Management LP

ARGA focuses on global equities and invests in undervalued businesses using a disciplined investment approach based on fundamental research and present value. Their investment philosophy is based on the belief that investors overreact to short-term developments, leading to opportunities to generate gains from investing in good businesses at great prices. The firm’s value-oriented process uses a dividend discount model (DDM) to select stocks that trade at a discount to their perceived intrinsic value based upon their assessment of a company’s long-term earnings power and dividend-paying capability.

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Anatole Investment Management Ltd.

Anatole Investment Management Ltd. is a Hong Kong Chinese multi -national private company located in Hong Kong that provides investment advice. It was founded in 2016 by George Yang.

Recent Transactions

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Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc., Kulicke & Soffa Holdings BV purchase Assembléon Netherlands BV from H2 Equity Partners BV

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Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. purchases Smart Equipment Technology SAS from Replisaurus Technologies AB

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Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. issued USD Common Stock

Transaction Advisors

Accountant

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Advised onKulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. purchases Cerprobe Corp.

Investment Advisor

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker)

Advised onKulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. purchases Orthodyne Electronics Corp.

Legal Advisor

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Advised onKulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. purchases Cerprobe Corp.

Legal Advisor

Walter J. Mostek, Jr.

Advised onKulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. purchases Orthodyne Electronics Corp.

Legal Advisor

John E. Stoddard III

Advised onHeraeus Holding GmbH, W.C. Heraeus GmbH purchase Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. /Wire Business Unit from Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc.

Head, Competition & Antitrust & Trade Lead Partner, Corporate Governance

Kala Anandarajah

Advised onKulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. purchases Orthodyne Electronics Corp.

Advisors & Consultants

Advisor

Jonathan Chou

Chief Financial Officer at Sarment Intelligent Services

Bruno Guilmart

Chief Executive Officer at PT Unisem

Advisor

T. C. Mak

Former Vice President, Global Sales at Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc.

Clients

Tesla, Inc.

Tesla, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of fully electric vehicles, energy generation and storage systems. It also provides vehicle service centers, supercharger station, and self-driving capability. The company operates through the following segments: Automotive and Energy Generation and Storage. The Automotive segment includes the design, development, manufacture and sale of electric vehicles. The Energy Generation and Storage segment includes the design, manufacture, installation, sale, and lease of stationary energy storage products and solar energy systems, and sale of electricity generated by its solar energy systems to customers. It develops energy storage products for use in homes, commercial facilities and utility sites. The company was founded by Jeffrey B. Straubel, Elon Reeve Musk, Martin Eberhard, and Marc Tarpenning on July 1, 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Texas Instruments Incorporated

Texas Instruments Incorporated engages in the design and manufacture semiconductor solutions for analog and digital embedded and application processing. It operates through the following segments: Analog, and Embedded Processing. The Analog segment semiconductors change real-world signals, such as sound, temperature, pressure or images, by conditioning them, amplifying them and often converting them to a stream of digital data that can be processed by other semiconductors, such as embedded processors. The Embedded Processing segment designed to handle specific tasks and can be optimized for various combinations of performance, power and cost, depending on the application. The company was founded by Cecil H. Green, Patrick Eugene Haggerty, John Erik Jonsson and Eugene McDermott in 1930and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Amkor Technology, Inc.

Amkor is one of the world’s largest providers of contract semiconductor assembly and test services. Founded in 1968, Amkor pioneered the outsourcing of IC assembly and test and is now a strategic manufacturing partner for more than 200 of the world’s leading semiconductor companies and electronics OEMs. Amkor’s operational base encompasses more than 5 million square feet of floor space with production facilities, product development centers and sales & support offices located in key electronics manufacturing regions in Asia, Europe and the United States.

Key Stats and Financials As of 2020

Market Capitalization

$2.15B

Total Enterprise Value

$881M

Earnings Per Share

$0.83

Revenue

$623M

Total Equity

$758M

Total Debt

$24.2M

Net Profit

$52.3M

Three Year Compounded Annual Growth Rate Of Revenue

-8.33%

Enterprise Value / Sales

1.41x

TEVNet Income

16.85x

Debt TEV

0.03x

Enterprise Value EBITDAOperating

11.49x

EBITDAMargin

11.96%

EBITDA

$74.5M

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Smart Global Holdings, Inc. Semiconductors | Newark, CA

SMART Global Holdings, Inc. designs and manufactures electronic products focused in memory and computing technology areas. The company specializes in application specific product development and support for customers in enterprise, government and original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, markets. It operates through the following segments: Specialty Memory Products, Brazil Products and Specialty Compute and Storage Solutions (SCSS). The Specialty Memory Products segment focuses on design and manufacture of application-specific products, technical support and value-added testing services that differ from the core focus of standard memory module providers. The Brazil Products segment manufactures DRAM modules for desktops, notebooks and servers. The SCSS segment offers specialty compute and storage system solutions to customers in a broad set of verticals including financial services, energy, government, social media and education end markets. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Competitors

ASM Pacific Technology Ltd. Semiconductors - Hong Kong

ASM Pacific Technology Ltd. is an investment holding company, which engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of machines, tools and materials used in semiconductor industries. It operates through the following segments: Back-End Equipment, Surface Mount Technology Solutions, and Materials. The Back-End Equipment segment manufactures and markets semiconductor machines and tools. The Surface Mount Technology Solutions segment deals with the manufacture and sale of surface mount technology placement machines. The Material segment involves in production and sale of semiconductor materials. The company was founded by Arthur del Prado and See Pong Lam in 1975 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

BE Semiconductor Industries NV Industrial Machinery & Manufacturing - Duiven, Nld

Besi is a leading supplier of semiconductor assembly equipment for the global semiconductor and electronics industries. Besi develops leading edge assembly processes and equipment for leadframe, substrate and wafer level packaging applications in a wide range of end-user markets including electronics, computer, automotive, industrial, RFID, LED and solar energy. Customers are primarily leading semiconductor manufacturers, assembly subcontractors and electronics and industrial companies. Besi’s ordinary shares are listed on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam (symbol: BESI) and OTCQX International (symbol: BESIY) and its headquarters are located in Duiven, the Netherlands.

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