Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to Hua Hong Semiconductor's second quarter 2022 earnings conference call. Today's call is hosted by Mr. Junjun Tang, President and Executive Director, and Mr. Daniel Wang, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Please be advised that your lines are in listen-only mode. However, at the conclusion of the management presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session , at which time you'll receive instructions on how to participate. The earnings press release and second quarter 2022 summary slides are available to download at our company's website, huahonggrace.com. Without further ado, I would like to introduce you to Mr. Daniel Wang, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Thank you.
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you all for joining our second quarter 2022 earnings conference. Today, we'll first have Mr. Junjun Tang, our Executive Director and President, make some remarks on our second quarter performance. President Tang will address in Chinese, and Kathy Chien, our Deputy Director of Investor Relations, will be the translator. After that, I will discuss our financial results and provide guidance for the next quarter. This will be followed by our question-and-answer session . The call will be conducted in English, so please ask your questions in English. I'll now turn the call over to Mr. Tang.
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining our earnings call. We are pleased with Hua Hong Semiconductor's performance in the second quarter of 2022. Facing the unexpected pandemic situation , we implemented the emergency reaction plan immediately. 2,600 employees stayed in our fabs and offices to ensure that the impact on the supply chain was under control, and our production lines operated stably . In May, our three 8-inch production lines hit record highs for both wafer start and wafer out. Benefiting from persistent demand for all our specialty technology platforms, Hua Hong Semiconductor continued to operate our 12-inch fab and three 8-inch fabs at full capacity utilization. The company's revenue in Q2 reached a record $620.8 million, an increase of 79.4% year-on-year, and an increase of 4.4% quarter-on-quarter.
Gross profit margin was 33.6%, 8.8 percentage points above a year ago, and 6.7 percentage points over the previous quarter. In order to continue solidifying the company's position as a specialty technology provider and seize opportunities in emerging markets such as automotive, electronics, and new energy, we will persist in high quality development of our specialty technologies and keep focusing on furthering technology development work in non-volatile memory, power discrete, analog and power management IC, logic and RF, and other specialty technology platforms, providing superior product solutions to our global customers. Although the current economic environment has been enduring massive uncertainties, opportunities will benefit those who are prepared. Now, I would like to hand the call over to our CFO, Mr. Daniel Wang, for his comments.
Thank you, Mr. Tang, for your comments. Now let me begin with the summary of our financial performance for the second quarter, followed by our outlook on revenue and margin for the third quarter 2022. We will move on to the question-and-answer session . First, let me summarize our financial performance as of the second quarter. Revenue reached an all-time high of $620.8 million, up 79.4% year-over-year, and 4.4% above the prior quarter. Cost of sales was $412 million, 58.2% over Q2 2021, largely due to increased wafer shipments and depreciation costs, and 5.2% below Q1 2022, mainly due to decreased bonus and wafer shipments.
Gross margin was 33.6%, 8.8 percentage points above Q2 2021, and 6.7 percentage points over Q1 2022, primarily due to improved average selling price. Operating expenses were $70.7 million, 54% over Q2 2021, mainly due to increased labor expenses and increased government grants for research and development, and 6.1% under Q1 2022, mainly due to decreased bonus. Net loss was $56.7 million, primarily due to foreign exchange losses in Q2 2022 versus foreign exchange gains in Q2 2021 and Q1 2022. Income tax expense was $28.3 million, 95.2% over Q2 2021, primarily due to increased taxable income.
Profit for the period was $53.2 million, 43.2% above Q2 2021, and 47.8% below Q1 2022, largely due to foreign exchange losses in Q2 2022. Net profit attributable to shareholders of the parent company was $83.9 million, 90.4% above Q2 2021, and 18.5% below Q1 2022. Basic earnings per share was $0.064, 88.2% over Q2 2021, and 19% below Q1 2022. Annualized ROE was 11.5%, 4.7 percentage points over Q2 2021, and 2.6 percentage points below Q1 2022. Now I will discuss the operating results for both the Hua Hong 8-inch wafer fabs and the Hua Hong Wuxi 12-inch fab. First, let's have a look at the Hua Hong 8-inch wafer fabs.
Revenue was $354 million, 35.1% over Q2 2021, and 6.4% above Q1 2022. Gross margin was 44.2%, 12.6 percentage points above Q2 2021, and 5.6 percentage points over Q1 2022, largely due to improved average selling price. Operating expenses were $35.2 million, 68.7% over Q2 2021, largely due to increased labor expenses, and 13.4% under Q1 2022, primarily due to decreased bonus. Profit before tax was $141.9 million, 115.8% over Q2 2021, and 50% above Q1 2022. Now let's have a look at the performance of the Hua Hong Wuxi wafer fab.
Revenue was $266.8 million, 217.1% over Q2 2021, and 1.8% above Q1 2022. Gross margin was 19.6%, 16.3 percentage points above Q2 2021, and 7.6 percentage points over Q1 2022, largely due to improved average selling price. Operating expenses were $35.5 million, 41.7% above Q2 2021, primarily due to decreased government grants for research and development and increased labor expenses, and 2.4% over Q1 2022, primarily due to decreased government grants for research and development, partially offset by decreased bonus. EBITDA was $28.6 million, 4.2% below Q2 2021, and 67.6% under Q1 2022, largely due to foreign exchange losses in Q2 2022.
Now I'll provide more detail on revenue from Q2 2022. From geographic perspective, revenue from China was $450.4 million, contributing 72.6% of total revenue, and an increase of 76.5% over Q2 2021, mainly due to increased demand for all technology platforms. Revenue from the United States was $73.2 million, an increase of 147.9% over Q2 2021, mainly due to increased demand for other power management IC and MCU products. Revenue from Asia was $57.9 million, an increase of 50.4% over Q2 2021, mainly due to increased demand for logic, general MOSFET, and MCU products.
Revenue from Europe was $28.6 million, an increase of 75.4% over Q2 2021, mainly due to increased demand for general MOSFET, Smart Card ICs, and IGBT products. Revenue from Japan was $10.6 million, an increase of 62.4% over Q2 2021, primarily due to increased demand for MCU and Super Junction products. With respect to technology platforms, revenue from embedded non-volatile memory was $175.2 million, an increase of 69.2% over Q2 2021, mainly due to increased demand for MCU and Smart Card ICs. Revenue from standalone non-volatile memory was $69.6 million, an increase of 279.8% over Q2 2021, primarily due to increased demand for NOR flash products.
Revenue from discrete was $188.9 million, an increase of 57.8% over Q2 2021, mainly due to increased demand for IGBT, general MOSFET, and Super Junction products. Revenue from logic and radio frequency was $77 million, an increase of 35.1% over Q2 2021, mainly due to increased demand for logic and CIS products. Revenue from analog and power management IC was $109.4 million, an increase of 133% over Q2 2021, mainly due to increased demand for other power management IC products. Now, let's take a look at the cash flow statement. Net cash flows generated from operating activities was $212.3 million, 114.1% over Q2 2021, primarily due to increased revenue, partially offset by increased payments for payrolls and materials.
Capital expenditures were $112.4 million in Q2 2022, including $95.2 million for the Wuxi fab and $17.2 million for the Hua Hong eight-inch fabs. Other cash flow generated from investing activities was $2.3 million in Q2 2022, including $1.8 million of interest income and $0.5 million of receipts of government grants for the equipment. Net cash flow used in financing activities was $30.1 million, including $54.5 million of repayment of bank borrowings, $12.5 million of interest expense for bank borrowings, and $0.5 million of lease payments , partially offset by $37 million proceeds from bank borrowings and $0.4 million proceeds from share option exercise. Now, let's move to the balance sheet.
Cash and cash equivalents were $1,707.7 million on June 30, 2022, compared to $1,694.9 million on March 31, 2022. Other current assets increased from $182.2 million on March 31, 2022, to $198.4 million on June 30, 2022, mainly due to increased deductible value-added tax and receivables from related parties. Property, plant and equipment was $2,955.5 million on June 30, 2022, compared to $3,053.1 million on March 31, 2022. Total assets was $6,240.7 million on June 30, 2022, compared to $6,316.1 million on March 31, 2022.
our total bank borrowings were $1,578.3 million on June 30, 2022 , compared to $1,594.8 million on March 31, 2022 . Total liabilities increased to $2,608.9 million on June 30, 2022 , from $2,531.6 million on March 31, 2022 , primarily due to increased trade payables and payables for capital expenditures. That ratio increased to 41.8% on June 30, 2022 , from 40.1% on March 31, 2022 . Now, finally, let me give you a high level outlook for the third quarter 2022. We expect revenue to be approximately $625 million, and our gross margin to be in the range of 33%-34%. This concludes my financial remarks.
Now we would like to start the question-and-answer session . Operator, please assist. Thank you.
Thank you, management. As a reminder, to ask a question, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question is from Randy Abrams from Credit Suisse. Please proceed with your question.
Yes, thank you. A good result and also a good gross margin as well. First question I wanted to ask, just to go into some more details on the guidance for the sales, which is up almost 1%. For that outlook, how much is it from limitation on capacity where you've been running at the high utilization? And then is there any factor on the demand side or inventory side limiting shipment as you go into second half?
Randy, it is virtually, I mean, it's all limited by capacity. Because, you know, we both the 8-inch fabs and the 12-inch fabs currently are running at, you know, 110%. There's very little room to maneuver, okay? You know, we're, you know, I mean, normally, we have always been conservative on these things. This extra percent or two, hopefully we can do better, okay. It's, you know, we continue to run at extremely tight capacity, with, you know, the very diverse technology platforms. Virtually all of them are running very tight.
For the pricing, I know you've had a big move in second quarter, which I think some is mix, but also like for like pricing. Do you still see the upward pricing environment just factoring the capacity is full, but could you get some further lift in half on pricing?
Yeah. I mean, for us, you know, demand continues to be very, very strong at this point. I don't think there's any change at this point with the bookings. The orders are, you know, fully booked for the, you know, for the rest of the year, okay? I mean, with this kind of demand, you know, we have never really stopped improving price throughout the year, you know, since last year. I would expect, you know, we'll continue with this effort as long as, you know, I mean, we're doing this sort of ongoing basis. You know, we'll continue to look at opportunities to, you know, improve price.
As I said, you know, we're not gonna be just, you know, drastically up like, you know, 10% and then flat next, you know, just flat next quarter. It's not how we operate it. I mean, we want to do this steadily on a, you know, sort of growing fashion gradually. If I said we could do this, you know, on quarterly basis, 6% a quarter, I mean, I think this will be very, very significant for a year.
Right. Okay. Yeah, more steady versus that type of huge magnitude again. Okay. No, I understand. For the new capacity, the 30K, if you can give an update, the timing for that coming on, and then how you see the shipments ramping up into that capacity. Just, there's a lot of fear in the market over concerns. I know you're still seeing the strength, but do you still see like how are you seeing the shipment ramp up with your application mix into that new capacity as it comes on?
You know, we're supposed to have all the additional 30,000 wafers to be installed, tested, ready for production by end of this year. You know, we're currently doing that. You know, a lot of tools have arrived at the fab currently. We will continue to, you know, do the installation. You know, I would expect in Q3, Q4, you're gonna see slight up on capacity in the twelve-inch fab. We want to have the entire 30,000 wafers capacity ready by end of this year, so we can use it for next year.
You know, we want to have entire 95,000 wafers ready, including the 30,000 wafers, the new capacity, so that starting from January first next year, we're gonna have, you know, 95K. We still, you know, expect that would be very quickly filled and ramp up very, very quickly.
Okay, great. I'll just ask one last question. The new filing, you mentioned it had mentioned the Wuxi fab early 2025 for start or I think construction 40K by second quarter 2026. Could you clarify, is there a capacity in between? Like, before that Wuxi fab, is there the interim or another project after you do this 30K, because it looks like a little bit longer gap to get the fab financed by the IPO up.
Well, you know, I mean, let's see how it goes, okay? I mean, I think, you know, we're gonna have the, you know, next year definitely we're gonna have the additional 30,000 wafer capacity. That's gonna start next year. That's the transition period. I think, you know, hopefully we can start building the fab, you know, as soon as we can, so hopefully next year. You know, I don't expect cash will be a problem for us. There are always different ways of, you know, getting money. Investors are pretty hot with a new investment, so hopefully it take a year or two build the fab and then, you know, a year later we can start to ramp up work. I mean, that also depending on how fast we could get the tools.
Yeah. Okay. In the filing it was just a bit conservative, just factoring tool constraints, time to do it. Like, but it could pull in from that 2026 timeline.
Sorry?
Yeah.
Sorry, I didn't get.
Yeah, no, I'm just saying it.
I didn't hear too well.
Like, you know, it sounds like if the fab is coming up, that filing had 2026, but it sounds like you'll try to accelerate that timeline.
No, it shouldn't be that long. I expect, you know, to build the fab it is only probably take a year.
Okay.
We can hopefully, you know, start production sometime in 2024, you know. I mean, yeah, that, you know, certainly there are things we have to do, you know, get through the government approving process, all of that.
Okay, great. No, thanks for clarifying. No, thanks, and good job on the results. Thank you, Daniel.
Thank you.
Give the question. Our next question comes from the line of Zhihong Ng from China Renaissance. Please proceed with your question.
Hello, Daniel. I have two questions. The first one regarding Q2. You guys spoke a pretty big FX loss. Could you elaborate what is behind that loss?
There are two parts. You're talking about FX loss, right?
Right. Right.
Yeah. You know, it's a combination. It's a net loss. It's a FX net loss. For Hua Hong Grace, the three eight-inch fabs, we actually, you know, our dollar-based assets were actually greater than our dollar-based debt for the three H fabs. Okay?
Mm-hmm.
In Q2, you know, there's a USD appreciation, dollar appreciation by, you know, 5.7% roughly. Literally we have a gain on that. Okay?
Right.
About $14.4 million. Now, for the twelve-inch fab, it's opposite. Okay? We have actually a pretty big dollar base of debt. The loan was about $1.3 billion. If you take that times by 5.7%, you know, dollar appreciation, it is actually create a loss of about $70.1 million. So the net was about $56 million. So that was the loss. That was a one-time thing. It's largely because it's a result of the FX-
Appreciation.
Dollar appreciation.
I see. Got you. Yeah. Basically a non-recurring. Yeah. Second question. I'm not sure if you could-
No, I mean, without that it was gonna be a fantastic quarter, huh?
Oh, yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Even with that loss, I think the numbers looks great. Yeah. Second one on the A-share listing. Any update you can share with us on the call?
Everything is moving, you know, according to the plan, smoothly, successfully. I have nothing to say too much. We have submitted. Our application has been accepted by the local stock exchange. You know, we just have to go through the process. Other than that, you know, we would let the bankers to handle that. I think they're doing great job at this point. I would expect a very smooth, you know, sailing. Okay?
Yeah.
You know, we are now, as management, focusing on our operations.
All right. True. Is it fair to assume that everything will be completed by end of this year?
Well, you know, let's see how it goes. You know, normally depending on the reviewing process, it goes from anywhere from, you know, 5-9 months. Let's see how that goes. It's, it is a big deal, you know, even for the.
Mm.
For the reviewing committee. I mean, I think, you know, I'm sure they're going to look at it very, very carefully.
All right.
It's a great company.
It's 5-9 months starting from you guys got the approval from the local exchange, right?
Well, I don't know. I mean, it's, you know, that is the normal process. It varies from company to company. Yeah.
I see. Yeah. Fair enough. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thanks a lot. Great quarter.
Well, you know, I, you know what, do you have a different opinion on that?
No, I'm just tapping your brain. Yeah, because I haven't heard from you for a while regarding the Asian listing. I'm not sure.
Yeah.
If there's incremental information you can share with us?
Great.
Okay.
Great.
Okay. Thanks, Daniel.
The questions. Our next question comes from the line of Leping Huang from Huatai Securities. Please proceed with your question.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you for taking my question. The first question is that we heard a lot of negative news on the weakness of the smartphone, other consumer electronics end demand. From your results, consumer electronics still account for 65% of your total sales, but you still deliver a very, very strong second quarter result. Can you share some color how you achieve this? And do you see whether the end demand, especially on consumer electronics, are weakening or how this will affect your performance? Thank you.
Hua Hong is keeping focusing on our specialty technology platforms. We have five major specialty technology platforms and very well accepted by customers in the market. From our business structure, you can see we have 1/3 eFlash, one is a power discrete, and another 1/3 for logic and RF and analog. Under such a business structure, we can still keep around or above 100% capacity utilization. We are still very confident on our specialty technology platforms. Thank you.
The second question is about your EBIT margin between your Wuxi fab and your Shanghai fab. We see a roughly 10% jump in your 8-inch fab in Shanghai. On the other hand, we see 100% decline in the EBIT margin in Wuxi fab. What's the reason behind? Is it due to product mix or any other special reason? Or how we should model your EBIT margin for these two fabs going forward? Thank you.
Randy, I mean, Leping. You're talking about EBITDA margin. A big increase in EBITDA margin.
Yes.
8-inch fab. You know, very simple. I mean, you know, for the. It is actually happening to both. Okay. I mean, you see a big jump on our gross margin from, you know, the prior quarter was at 38.6%, now it's out at 44.2%. That's the gross margin. It's the increase in margin, whether it's gross margin or EBITDA, it's largely because of the increase in average selling price. I mean, in the average selling price. I'm sorry. Increasing average selling price. So this is something we have been, you know, focusing on throughout last, you know, two or three quarters. So that is paying off.
I mean, the Wuxi fab is also, I mean, the price has also gone up quite a bit, the selling price. Okay. Just between prior quarter to this quarter overall, the ASP has gone up quite a bit, okay, quite a bit. I think, you know, this is largely, you know, as a result of a strong demand for all the technology platforms, we're able to basically raise prices. You know, all platforms. Therefore, we have pretty good results.
Yeah, your EBIT margin, we see that decline by 20%. Any special reason?
Oh, you're talking about EBITDA?
EBITDA margin decline from
Okay. That's because, you know, again, that's because there was a FX loss included in Q2.
Oh, okay. Oh, okay.
I'm sorry. You know, the FX loss, $70.9 million FX loss, which is, you know, it's a big thing.
Included in the Wuxi Fab. Okay. Oh, no wonder.
Yeah. That is largely because that was from the Wuxi Fab. We have a big, you know, loan there, $1.3 billion. If you take, you know, the FX impact, 5.7%, that is close to about $71 million.
Oh, okay. If we take out this one, you know, EBITDA margin going up for both the Wuxi Fab and the Shanghai.
Yeah.
Wuxi and the Shanghai Fab.
Yeah.
Okay. Not
Yeah. Otherwise, this thing will be at a, you know, close to. I think it would be at $100 million on EBITDA. Just for the quarter.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for the questions. As a reminder, to ask question, please press star one one on your telephone. At this time, there are no further questions from the line. I would like to hand the call back to the management for closing remarks.
Again, we want to thank you all for joining us today and asking all the questions. We hope you'll join us again next quarter. Please continue to stay safe and healthy. Wish we could meet in person very, very soon. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect your lines.