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Welcome to the Texas Instruments Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. I'm Mike Beckman, Head of Investor Relations, and I'm joined by our Chief Executive Officer, Haviv Vilan and our Chief Financial Officer, Rafael Lazardi. For any of you who missed the release, you can find it on our website at ti.com/ir. This call is being broadcast live over the web and can be accessed through our website. In addition, today's call is being recorded and will be available via replay on our website.

This call will include forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause TI's results to differ materially from management's current expectations. We encourage you to review the notice regarding forward looking statements contained in the earnings release published today as well as TI's most recent SEC filings for a more complete description. Today, we'll provide the following updates. First, Habib will start with a quick overview of the quarter. Next, he will provide insight into second quarter revenue results with some details of what we are seeing with respect to our end markets.

Lastly, Rafael will cover financial results, give an update on capital management, as well as share the guidance for third quarter twenty twenty five. With that, let me turn it over to Haviv.

Thanks, Mike. Let me start with a quick overview of the second quarter. Revenue came in about as expected at $4,400,000,000 an increase of 9% sequentially and an increase of 16% year over year. Both Analog and Embedded grew year on year and sequentially. Analog revenue grew 18% year over year and Embedded Processing grew 10%.

Our Other segment grew 14% from the year ago quarter. Let me provide some comments on the current environment and what we saw in the second quarter. We continue to see two distinct dynamics at play. First, tariffs and geopolitics are disrupting and reshaping global supply chains. As we work closely with our customers, we are leveraging our global manufacturing capabilities to support their needs.

We have flexibility and are prepared to navigate as things evolve. Second, the semiconductor cycle is playing out. Cyclical recovery is continuing, while customer inventories remain at low levels. In times like this, it is important to have capacity and inventory, and we are well positioned. Now I'll share some additional insights into second quarter revenue by end market.

First, the industrial market increased upper teens year on year and mid teens sequentially, with recovery across all sectors. The automotive market increased mid single digits year on year and decreased low single digits sequentially. Personal electronics grew around 25% year on year and grew upper single digits sequentially. Enterprise systems grew about 40% year on year and grew about 10% sequentially. And lastly, communications equipment grew more than 50% year on year and was up about 10% sequentially.

With that, let me turn it over to Rafael to review profitability and capital management.

Thanks, Aviv, and good afternoon, everyone. As Aviv mentioned, second quarter revenue was $4,400,000,000 Gross profit in the quarter was $2,600,000,000 or 58% of revenue. Sequentially, gross profit margin increased 110 basis points. Operating expenses in the quarter were $1,000,000,000 up 5% from a year ago and about as expected. On a trailing twelve month basis, operating expenses were $3,900,000,000 or 23% of revenue.

Operating profit was 1,600,000,000 in the quarter or 35% of revenue and was up 25% from the year ago quarter. Net income in the quarter was $1,300,000,000 or $1.41 per share. Earnings per share included a $02 benefit not in our original guidance. Let me now comment on our capital management results starting with our cash generation. Cash flow from operations was $1,900,000,000 in the quarter and $6,400,000,000 on a trailing twelve month basis.

Capital expenditures were 1,300,000,000 in the quarter and $4,900,000,000 over the last twelve months. Free cash flow on a trailing twelve month basis was $1,800,000,000 In the quarter, we paid $1,200,000,000 in dividends and repurchased $3.00 $2,000,000 of our stock. In total, we returned $6,700,000,000 to our owners in the past twelve months. Our balance sheet remains strong with $5,400,000,000 of cash and short term investments at the end of the second quarter. In the quarter, we issued 1,200,000,000 of debt.

Total debt outstanding is $14,150,000,000 with a weighted average coupon of 4%. Inventory at the end of the quarter was $4,800,000,000 up $125,000,000 from the prior quarter and days were two thirty one, down nine days sequentially. Turning to our outlook for the third quarter, we expect TA's revenue in the range of 4,450,000,000.00 to $4,800,000,000 and earnings per share to be in the range of 1.36 to $1.6 Our earnings per share outlook does not include changes related to recently enacted U. S. Tax legislation and assumes an effective tax rate of about 12 to 13% in closing as we transition into the 2025 and going into 2026 we're prepared for a range of scenarios We are and will remain flexible to navigate, especially in the immediate term.

We will stay focused in the areas that add value in the long term. We continue to invest in our competitive advantages, which are manufacturing and technology, a broad product portfolio, reach of our channels and diverse and long lived positions. We will continue to strengthen these advantages through disciplined capital allocation and by focusing on the best opportunities, which we believe will enable us to continue to deliver free cash flow per share growth over the long term. With that, let me turn it back to Mike.

Thanks, Rafael. Operator, you can now open the line for questions. In order to provide as many of you as possible an opportunity to ask your questions, please limit yourself to a single question. After our response, we'll provide you an opportunity for an additional follow-up. Operator?

Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. Our Our first question comes from the line of Stacy Rasgon with Bernstein Research. Please proceed with your question.

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. First, if I think how your tone sounded last quarter and frankly even how you sounded kind of mid quarter, you seemed really confident that the cyclical recovery was here and we were kind of off to the races. And now I'm hearing you kind of saying you're staying flexible, like, to to go after a range of scenarios. And, like, even in the quarter, like, was down sequentially.

I guess, like, what's going on? Like, how is your, I guess, outlook and feeling about where things are? How's that changed, like, over the last three months? Because it you sound, I guess just based on tone and everything else, it doesn't sound maybe quite exuberant as maybe you sounded a few months ago, like what's going on?

Hey Stacy, I'll take this one. So first, as we as I said in my prepared remarks, we are seeing two dynamics at play and one of them is the cyclical recovery. I think we talked through it in the second quarter call back in April. And the discussion was all about industrial is joining the pack. We are now one more quarter in and this is the third quarter that we see a signal of industrial recovering.

It's actually accelerated. So I can say we support five markets. We now have it started with PE, then enterprise and comp joined and industrial is already in. So we have four out of five markets recovering in a nice pace. And this is part of the reason we've added commentary on year over year performance to just show the dynamics over there.

In terms of automotive to your question, look, automotive, let's just remember that it's kind of a year delayed versus industrial, right? Industrial peaked for us at least in the third quarter of twenty twenty two. Automotive picked one year later in the third quarter of twenty twenty three. So one could expect automotive to be joining last. The automotive recovery has been shallow, meaning we are running single digits versus the peak.

We are running year over year. We are actually having some growth in second quarter from a year over year perspective, but at a very low level. So I will say that automotive has not recovered yet. But because of content growth, think the cycle here is going to be less pronounced and more shallow. The second point related to getting ready, look, we had some taste of it in the beginning of the second quarter and we talked through it a lot during the call.

But I think all the situation of tariffs and geopolitics disrupting supply chains, I think that's not over, right? It's true that there is pause right now on the semiconductor tariffs, both in The U. S. And in China. But we have to be prepared for what the future may hold.

So we want to make sure and this is also the message to our customers that will remain flexible and we'll know how to support our customers whatever the environment is moving forward.

do. Thanks. Maybe just a follow-up. Actually, think I want to ask about gross margins. We'll go there.

If I just back into the guidance for next quarter, it seems like you're guiding gross margins probably down sequentially implicitly on revenue growth. I guess, is that the case? And like, what is that? Is that just depreciation? I know depreciation went up in the quarter.

Is it just depreciation going up further? Or is something else going on on the gross margin line or what?

Yes, Stacy, I'll take that. So to help you and everyone with their models, where you be landing given our guidance is GPM percent about flat, despite the higher depreciation that we're going to have going into third quarter, OpEx about flat, and then what you're probably missing is the net of other income and expense and interest expense, that's going to be unfavorable about $20,000,000 as we have lower cash levels, interest is lower, while debt interest expense has continued to increase. That's the part that's probably missing to round out your model.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Harlan Sur with JPMorgan. Please proceed with your question.

Hey, good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question. You know, one of the signs of cyclical recovery is improvement in your turns business. Did the team see turns business grow sequentially in Q2 both in dollars and percent of revenues? And was it broad based across both your industrial and auto businesses?

Yes. Let me start and maybe Mike you can comment right after. So I think, yes, from a turns perspective, we see a continuation of that dynamic. We saw again acceleration in the second quarter. We continue to invest in our inventory, our lead times are at the lowest level, customer inventories are very low.

So we've seen that continuing and Mike, maybe you want to provide some more color here?

Yeah, I think as we've talked about in previous quarters, that's something that late last year and in the first quarter began to build. We continue to see that into the second quarter as well.

Perfect. And then for my follow-up question, good to see the continued sequential and year over year recovery in the industrial segment. It's quite diverse, right? 10 sub segments, but the largest sub segment industrial automation, which is tied to manufacturing activity is pretty sensitive to trade and tariffs. So just wondering if this segment is relatively weaker due to tariff concerns or are you seeing shipment and order recovery here as well, especially among your China based industrial customers?

Yeah, maybe I'll take that one. And what we actually saw in industrial was recovery was broad and it was across all sectors. So I'd say that's continuation of the recovery we saw in first quarter, that's where we are. Bamil, I'll move on to the next caller. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ross Seymore with Deutsche Bank. Please proceed with your question.

Hi, Thanks for letting me ask question. Habib, kinda going back to the first question, just on kind of the the tone and seems like a little bit of a tone change on our side, maybe not so much to you, but maybe I'll try to ask it a different way. You highlighted the uncertainties about the tariff side of things, but then endorse the cycle was coming. Last quarter, you guided significantly above normal seasonality. You seem to lean in on the cycle side and didn't really say that tariffs were doing much.

So did something change on either the strength of the cycle or the uncertainty around the tariff to lead you to guide to more of a typical seasonal quarter for 3Q?

Yes, let me put some more color into it, Rod. I think it's a great question. So remember, when we met here in April, we dealt with reciprocal tariffs on both sides. U. S.

Was exempting semis, but China had a 125% tariff rate on semis during the call, right? So just a different situation versus where we are now. Now tariffs are put on hold, so a little bit of a different environment. I will say that we and I think I mentioned it also during the last call, when there is a change of dynamics like tariffs are being added and I go back to April, customers are sitting on very low inventories. I think it's a good assumption to make that customers will want to have a little bit more inventory.

And we did see that phenomenon. We did see that in the early part of the quarter, there was an acceleration of demand. And as expected, when customers are sitting on no inventories and there is a lot of noise around tariffs. That has normalized through the quarter and we are kind of back to right now what drives our day to day is just a cyclical recovery. Now as we forecast into Q3 and given the fact that we have a lot of real time turns business that we have to kind of assess for the future, I think it's prudent to have a little bit of or to remember that what we saw in Q2 is probably a combination of customers wanting to have a little bit more inventory because of tariffs and also the cyclical recovery.

When customers make orders, they don't tell us why they want more parts. And I would assume that some of it was for building a little bit of inventory on those shelves to protect themselves from tariffs, if you will. So that is my assumption. Again, I don't know how the third quarter will play out, but that's part of the way we are forecasting Q3.

I do. Switching over to Rafael, just kind of on the CapEx side of things, how should we think or is there any update on the CapEx and depreciation framework that you've given us for the annual numbers for this year and next year, especially given where you are in Phase two, maybe going to Phase three on the CapEx side. Just wanted to see if there's any incremental color there.

Yes, no, happy to do that. The bottom line is there's no change, but let me go through those, so that everybody has those. On CapEx for this year 2025, we continue to expect to spend $5,000,000,000 and for 2026 is going to be between $2,000,000,000 and $5,000,000,000 depending on revenue and growth expectations at that time. And we will update you on those narrowing that CapEx window most likely later this year. Okay.

On depreciation, switching to depreciation for 2025, we continue to expect 1,800,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 and for 2026, we continue to expect $2,300,000,000 to $2,700,000,000 and likely to be at the lower side of that range.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Vivek Arya with Bank of America. Please proceed with your question.

Thanks for taking my question. Habib, sorry to go back to the stone change, change because it's not just from the last earnings call. It's at the end of a conference at the May, I think you had suggested that every remaining '25 will accelerate from the first half up 13%, but your Q3 sales guide is up only 11%. So my question is that versus that reference point, which end market has softened? Is it that the industrial normalization is done?

Is it that auto right was a little weaker or is that just extra conservatism on TI as part because the tone changes, as I mentioned, not just from earnings, but from the May.

Yeah, and again, I don't control probably tone level, but that's you guys hearing that.

So you quantified it, Hari. You quantified

Sorry, it, but wasn't that directly to your question, Vivek, I would say that on the in the second quarter, we have seen industrial, in my opinion, running very hot, right? What were the numbers sequentially, Mike? Was up mid teens, I think.

And it grew significantly year over year in the second quarter close to 20%, right? So in that sense, I do believe it ran a little hot. This is where I want to be a little bit more cautious into Q3. We also saw and I let my comment about geographies. We also saw a little bit of higher pull from China in the second quarter.

We will have it in the Q when it comes out. But Mike, maybe you can give a little bit of China by region maybe, not only China behavior in 2Q.

Sure. Yeah. So China, it was up about 19% sequentially, grew about 32% year over year. And all end markets grew there with the exception of automotive. And auto was pretty consistent with our overall results there.

And industrial did lead the growth there in China. And just as reminder, our China headquarter customers represent about 20% of our overall revenue.

And Vivek, that information gives you a little bit of why I want to be cautious for Q3, right? We have seen China running again a little bit hot in Q2. It was not across all markets, meaning on the automotive side, it behaved very similarly to the rest of the world, but it was not across the board. So we give you the data that it's how to decipher exactly or to decouple what was related to pull ins or what was related to cyclical recovery. I think both are happening and that's what that's the data we have right now and that's what guides our third quarter as we plan for Q3.

Yes. Thank you, Mike. For my follow-up, given everything they have heard, Aviv, I know you typically don't guide the quarter out, but how would you advise us to start thinking about Q4 that should we assume a similar conservative tone and assume something that is usually your seasonality is I think down sequentially or flat sequentially, if you could remind us of that in Q4 and given everything we have heard, how should we just conceptually think about the move into Q4? Thank you.

Vivek, as you know, we are a one quarter over the time company on specifically on guidance. So I will just say, let's let the third quarter play out. Mike, do you want to comment about seasonality?

Yeah, so historically, and third are typically stronger quarters, fourth and first are typically seasonally lower, but we'll have to let third quarter play out before we're gonna be ready to talk about fourth. Anyway, we'll go on to move on to our next caller. Thanks, Vivek.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of CJ Muse with Cantor. Please proceed with your question.

Yeah. Good afternoon. Thank you for taking the question. I was hoping to revisit gross margins. You indicated flat roughly sequentially.

And I guess within that, could you speak to your plans for utilization? Are there any sort of changes in mix? And if we were to normalize to kind of your typical, more typical 80% kind of fall through, that would be an incremental maybe $2,527,000,000. So is the kind of the pause in gross margin uplift, 100% due to that increase in depreciation or are there other factors that we should be thinking about?

Yeah, no, just to give you a few more information there, as I said earlier and you restated, we expect third quarter gross margin to be about flat to the second quarter. That is with higher revenue, but also higher depreciation. In terms of loadings and inventory, we expect to run loadings about the same in third quarter as we did in second quarter as we are well positioned with inventory to support a wide range of cyclical recovery scenarios. Inventory expect to grow, but at a slower rate than the growth we just had in second quarter. Hopefully that gives you and then on the fall through, we guide 75% to 85% that's over the long term, that's over a year on year and not any one quarter, but we should be close to that fall through.

We'll speak more about that when we have actuals and we'll have a better, you know, information to provide, but you should continue to think of 75% to 85% as a good number to use over the long term.

I do. Thank you. With the ITC going from 25% to 35%, curious if you can comment on your thoughts on impact to your net CapEx into 2627. And is there any sort of movement or thought process that we should have around the impact of depreciation? Thanks so much.

Okay, no, thanks for that question. So let's talk about that legislation that just passed. First, we're very pleased with the changes resulting from the passage of the recently enacted U. S. Federal tax law.

It includes expensing of U. S. R and D and eligible capital expenditures, an increase to the ITC from 25% to 35% and changes to other tax provisions such as making FDII permanent. The effects of the new reflected in the statement that we just released in the financials that we just released in the passage of that law happened in July. We are currently evaluating the changes on the legislation are going to have on future financial statements.

That's why in the guide that we gave, we did not incorporate it. We need additional time to do a full evaluation. However, I would tell you that based on our initial assessment, what we expect, what would likely happen is our GAAP tax rate will increase in third quarter and 2025. However, it will decrease in 2026 and beyond. More importantly, the cash from a cash flow standpoint, we expect significantly lower cash tax rates for the next several years.

So again, we're very pleased with that legislation. Let me speak real quickly. You mentioned you asked about CapEx plans specifically. Our CapEx plans remain consistent with what we shared in February and will depend on revenue.

All right. We'll move on to our next caller.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jim Schneider with Goldman Sachs. Please proceed with your question.

Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question. Maybe following up on some of the other questions that were asked. Could you maybe comment on some of the end markets, whether it be personal electronics or enterprise systems or otherwise, that you think may have gotten a little bit ahead of themselves or maybe run a little bit hotter into Q2? And which ones do you think are sort of at risk of reverting a little bit in Q3 and Q4? Thank you.

Yes, let take that. Remember that when we talk about the PE market and also enterprise and CE, they're all kind of running at different phases on their cyclical recovery. It started with really PE, then followed by enterprise and comms, and then industrial joined later. As I mentioned before, the automotive market, we again, very shallow cycle, but we haven't seen enough signs of true broad recovery over there. Now regarding the if you go back to second quarter, where we saw a little bit, I would say, market that went higher than expected was on the industrial.

We did expect the cyclical recovery in industrial, but it did grow 15% sequentially, which is a little bit unnatural. When you add on top of it the geography footprint, this is where I have a little bit of more cautiousness. I wouldn't mark anything else that behaved differently in second quarter, Mike. Would agree? That's the right assessment.

Yes, that's market where we saw a little bit of I think I wouldn't say anxiety, but customers just preferring to just have more parts. And we did see normalization through the quarter. So think about the front end of the quarter was running faster than the second half of the quarter. We think we left the quarter at a normal rate, but it's very hard to assess right now. So we keep watching it and that's the market where I want to be more cautious when I think about Q3.

Thanks. Yes, do. Thank you. Relative to capital allocation, you mentioned about the cash tax benefits that you expect that will positively impact free cash flow next year and beyond. You reiterated the CapEx guidance, but can you maybe kind of speak to the capital return portion of this?

Obviously, your free cash flow is better than what might you do differently or more on buybacks or dividends?

Yes. No, it's a good question. It's going to depend and it's going to depend on a number of factors. For instance, right now we're still in the middle of a high CapEx environment and we'll see how long that lasts. As we said, next year we do have a range of two to five.

So that's still even at the low end, it's still a meaningful amount of CapEx and we need to be ready for that. And there are other factors, cash on the balance sheet, the price of the stock price, the stock that also plays into our decision. So we'll take that into all into account, but at the end of the day, our objective remains the same when it comes to returning capital to owners and that is to return all free cash flow through dividends and buybacks.

All right. Thanks, Jim. Let's move on to our next caller.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Chris Caso with Wolfe Research. Please proceed with your question.

Yes, thank you. Good afternoon. The question is about fab loading and what your intentions are as we go through the back end of the year into next year. Or I guess in light of some of the caution that you expressed, any changes you're making to fab loading and basically where you want your internal inventories to sit as you exit the year?

Yes, I tell you on an ideal in an ideal world, what we would want to do and of course, the world is not ideal, and we'll have to navigate through that. But in an ideal world, what we would do is hold manage the operation so that the loadings are relatively stable, relatively flat over time. And what happens during a cyclical upturn, we actually drain some inventory. And then during a cyclical downturn, we actually build some inventory. And that's how you get the factories to run effectively constant over that time.

Of course, you know, it's not an ideal environment, you never quite know when you're at peak when you're at trough. So we'll have to add some guardrails to that to make sure that we maximize the opportunity and maintain flexibility. At a high level, that's how we would like to run the company.

I do. Thanks. And my follow-up is I could dig into auto a little bit more deeply. And it sounds like what you're saying there is auto hasn't really changed, but hasn't recovered yet. That's a market where you've got a few customers that you speak to there.

What's their tone right now, given all the macro uncertainty? What are they doing with inventory levels and preparing now? Is it just sort of in a holding pattern right now with regard to auto?

Yes, I think that's a good description. In a way, the and again, I look at my graph here in front of me. So automotive again, for us in the third quarter of twenty twenty three. And in the last, I would say sixth quarter, a little bit up, little bit down, but hovering around a certain level of high single digit down versus that number. And think about the automotive customers, those who ship into The US, they have tariffs to deal with, so I don't think they want to I think they're being cautious right now, and I think the orders we get is only when they really need it.

I don't think there is any inventory replenishment there, not only at the OEMs, but also at the Tier one level. So everything is almost real time. And we'll just we have our lead times are so low and most of our automotive customers are on consignment. So we just get it real time. So to your point, we haven't seen yet the recovery.

But remember, peaked in the 2022 and we saw the recovery starting in Q4 of twenty twenty four. So you can argue that automotive could be maybe a year later if you just keep the same duration. So, it going to be sometime in the second half of the year? We'll just have to see real time.

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