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Earnings Call: Q4 2022

Aug 15, 2022

Operator

Good afternoon. Welcome to Fabrinet's financial results conference call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session, and instructions on how to participate will be provided at that time. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to your host, Garo Toomajanian, VP of Investor Relations.

Garo Toomajanian
VP of Investor Relations, Fabrinet

Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us on today's conference call to discuss Fabrinet's financial and operating results for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2022, which ended June 24, 2022. With me on the call today are Seamus Grady, Chief Executive Officer, and Csaba Sverha, Chief Financial Officer. This call is being webcast, and a replay will be available on the Investors section of our website located at investor.fabrinet.com. During this call, we will present both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. Please refer to the Investors section of our website for important information, including our earnings press release and investor presentation, which include our GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation. In addition, today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements about the future financial performance of the company.

Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from management's current expectations. These statements reflect our opinions only as of the date of this presentation, and we undertake no obligation to revise them in light of new information or future events, except as required by law. For a description of the risk factors that may affect our results, please refer to our recent SEC filings, in particular the section captioned Risk Factors in our Form 10-Q filed on May 3, 2022. We will begin the call with remarks from Seamus and Csaba, followed by time for questions. I would now like to turn the call over to Fabrinet's CEO, Seamus Grady. Seamus?

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

Thank you, Garo. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us on our call today. We delivered a strong fourth quarter performance with revenue that was at the upper end of our guidance range and non-GAAP earnings per share that was above our guidance. We produced these results in spite of ongoing supply chain headwinds. Strong demand across our key end markets helped drive revenue of $587.9 million, an increase of 15% from a year ago and 4% from Q3. Record non-GAAP earnings per share of $1.68 was a result of strong execution and exceptionally strong margins, with non-GAAP operating margin reaching a new quarterly high of 10.7%. Our results for the year as a whole represented several records for Fabrinet.

Fiscal 2022 revenue of $2.26 billion increased 20% from the prior year. With non-GAAP operating margin of 10.3% for the year, we generated $6.13 in non-GAAP earnings per share, an increase of 31% from a year ago, reflecting strong execution throughout the year. Looking at the quarter more closely, we delivered record optical communications revenue with both telecom and datacom revenue up sequentially and year-over-year. Automotive, which remains our largest non-optical communications category, also had a record quarter, while industrial laser was down sequentially but remains within the range of the last several quarters. Overall demand for our services continues to be very strong. As demand and revenue have increased over the course of the year, so has the corresponding impact of supply constraints that we've discussed for the last several quarters.

Parts and components that are in tighter supply are still largely commodity parts that impact all of our end markets. While we have started to see some improvements in supply availability for certain parts, the most significant constraint to our growth continues to be the supply environment, which we are managing as effectively as possible. To ensure that capacity does not become a limiting factor for our growth, we have been constructing our largest manufacturing building to date. We are pleased to announce that we recently opened our 1 million sq ft building nine at our Chonburi campus. This one building expands our global footprint by approximately 50% and provides us with ample capacity to continue growing our business over the next several years.

As we mentioned last quarter, we are in discussions with a number of customers looking to expand in our new building, and we're making good progress on that front. In fact, we have already begun installing equipment for our first customer at building nine and expect that if all goes well, we could start to see revenue from this facility by the end of the September quarter. In addition, we are in the process of installing equipment for two additional customers who are slated to start production by the end of the calendar year. Looking ahead to the first quarter and fiscal 2023, we're very optimistic about our long-term prospects for continued growth and strong profitability. In the last two years, we demonstrated our ability to improve margins while simultaneously delivering double-digit revenue growth, which illustrates that our long-term strategy is working.

As we look ahead, we're optimistic that we'll be able to continue to deliver on our goals of driving top line growth and expanding operating margins. As a result, we are confident that we can now target non-GAAP operating margins of above 10% compared to our prior targets in the upper 9% range. In summary, our strong fourth quarter was a high note on which to end an excellent year. Despite the supply challenges the industry is experiencing, we delivered strong top-line growth with record earnings, demonstrating the inherent leverage in our business model. We're optimistic that we can extend this track record of profitable growth as our business continues to scale in fiscal 2023 and in the years ahead. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Csaba for additional financial details on our fourth quarter and our guidance for the first quarter of fiscal 2023. Csaba?

Csaba Sverha
CFO, Fabrinet

Thank you, Seamus, and good afternoon, everyone. With strong demand trends, we continue to be in a supply-constrained environment. Still, we managed to achieve revenue that was at the upper end of our guidance range at $587.9 million, representing 15% growth from a year ago and 4% growth from the third quarter. With improving margins, our bottom line grew faster than the top line, with non-GAAP earnings per share of $1.68, which was $0.09 above the top end of our guidance range, and 28% increase from a year ago, and 12% increase from Q3. I would like to point out that we were able to achieve these results without including expedite fees in our revenue. Rather, we pass on these expenses directly to customers, so there is no impact on our income statement.

This is important because it means we do not expect to be negatively impacted by the removal of these fees as supply constraints begin to ease. By end market, optical communications revenue was $464.7 million, up 20% from a year ago and 6% from Q3. Within optical, telecom revenue was a record $371.9 million, up 20% from a year ago and 4% sequentially. Datacom revenue of $92.8 million increased 20% from a year ago and 14% sequentially. By technology, silicon photonics revenue was $151.1 million, an increase of 37% from a year ago and 4% sequentially.

Revenue from products rated at speeds of 400G or more was $178.9 million, up 34% from a year ago, but down 5% from Q3, as the supply constraint impact increased on some of these products in the quarter. Meanwhile, revenue from 100G products increased 14% sequentially, largely due to revenue that was pushed from Q3 to Q4 as we qualified alternative parts for a certain program, as we discussed last quarter. Non-Optical Communications revenue was $123.2 million and represented 21% of total revenue. Within Non-Optical Communications, Automotive revenue reached a record $66 million, up 5% from last quarter, assisted by improvement in supply availability. Industrial laser revenue was $37.2 million, down 5% sequentially, but remaining stable with trends over the last two years.

Other non-optical communications revenue was $30 million. As I discuss the details of our P&L, expense and profitability metrics provided are on a non-GAAP basis, unless otherwise noted. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures is included in our earnings press release and investor presentation, which you can find in the investor relations section of our website. Strong execution produced very healthy margins in the quarter. Gross margin reached 13%, with a foreign exchange tailwind contributing about 20 basis points. We expect gross margin to moderate in the first quarter due primarily to annual merit increases. Operating expenses in the quarter were $13.5 million, or 2.3% of revenue, in line with expectations. This produced record operating income of $62.8 million, or 10.7% of revenue.

While we expect operating margin to dampen a small amount in the first quarter, we are optimistic that many of the operating efficiencies we have enjoyed in fiscal 2022 will endure as we look ahead. We are excited to be able to deliver on our commitment to increase margins over time. As such, we are now targeting trending operating margins to be above 10%, though we could see quarterly dips below that level from time to time. Effective tax rate was 3.3% for the fourth quarter. Non-GAAP net income was $62.6 million, or $1.68 per diluted share, which is a quarterly record and above our guidance range. On a GAAP basis, net income was $1.51 per diluted share.

For the full fiscal year 2022, revenue was a record $2.26 billion, an increase of 20% on fiscal 2021. With operating margins of 10.3% for the year, non-GAAP net income was also a record at $6.13 per share, for an increase of 31% from a year ago. Turning to the balance sheet and cash flow statements. At the end of the fourth quarter, cash, restricted cash and investments were $478.5 million, down $36.6 million from the end of the third quarter. Operating cash flow was $16.3 million. With CapEx of $14.3 million, free cash flow was $2.1 million in the quarter. For the year, free cash flow was $34.7 million.

With construction of building nine now complete, we expect free cash flow to increase significantly in fiscal 2023. During the quarter, our buyback activity increased through both our 10b5-1 plan and open market purchases. We repurchased approximately 353,000 shares at an average price of $88.67 per share for a total cash outlay of $31.3 million. For the year, we repurchased approximately 630,000 shares for a total cash outlay of nearly $60 million, reflecting our commitment to return value to shareholders. As a result, $21.3 million remained in our share repurchase authorization at the end of the quarter. Since then, our Board has authorized an additional $78.7 million for repurchases, increasing the total authorization to $100 million.

Now I will turn to our guidance for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023. Demand for our services remains very strong across our business. Though supply chain constraints persist and have gotten worse in some areas, we are encouraged to see some pockets of improvement, and we anticipate the supply chain headwinds will be slightly lower than in Q4 at approximately $25 million-$30 million. Keep in mind that Q1 is a 14-week quarter, which is 1 week longer than a typical quarter, and this should be considered when making comparisons to other periods. We estimate the impact of this extra week to be $20 million of additional revenue in Q1, which we will not see in Q2. With these factors in mind, we anticipate revenue of $620 million-$640 million in Q1.

Due to our annual merit increases, which I mentioned, we expect gross margin and operating margin to moderate from the fourth quarter. As such, we anticipate non-GAAP net income to be in the range of $1.72-$1.79 per diluted share. In summary, we are very pleased with our strong execution in the fourth quarter and all of fiscal 2022. We are optimistic that positive demand trends can continue, and when coupled with a potential easing of supply constraints, gives us confidence that we can continue to deliver strong top-line growth and increasing margins over the long term. Operator, we are now ready to open the call for questions.

Operator

Thank you. To ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question comes from the line of Alex Henderson of Needham & Company. Alex Henderson, your line is open.

Alex Henderson
Senior Research Analyst, Needham and Company

Great. Thank you very much. First off, congratulations. A great quarter. Obviously, executing superbly, which is what we would expect from you. Clearly, the exchange rates are helping your numbers considerably as a result of the fact that you sell in dollars and a lot of your costs are in local currencies. Can you talk a little bit about you know the structure of your hedges as we go into FY 2023? I assume that you're fully hedged near-term and then less and less over time, but how does the current exchange rates impact your structure? Relative to you know the offset against that, obviously the economy in Thailand is doing quite well.

There's obviously inflation to deal with, so I assume you're seeing wage inflation as an offset. Can you talk a little bit about those two in context of each other? Thanks.

Csaba Sverha
CFO, Fabrinet

All right. Hi, Alex. This is Csaba. Thanks. Let me address first the exchange rate question. We haven't really changed our hedging profile recently. We maintain our hedging program, which is a layered hedge. We are hedged out 100% for the next quarter, 50% for the quarter after, and 25% in the third quarter. Obviously, in the last two quarters, it has already resulted 20 basis points gross margin tailwind in our numbers. Obviously, in the last quarter, the Thai baht has continued to depreciate, so we continue to expect that this is going to represent a tailwind as we wind down our hedges and continue buying the currencies as we execute the program. That's one part.

It's been 20 basis points in last quarter and 20 basis points in Q3, we expect this to continue in the future. Now, when it comes to inflation and headwinds, we typically have our annual merit increases in our fiscal first quarter. Given the higher inflation rates, that's also reflected in our annual merit increases. That's certainly going to represent a bit of headwind in Q1, which we anticipate we can make it up in the next couple of quarters by efficiency improvements. Again, while we have continuous tailwind from exchange rate in the first quarter, we do anticipate a little bit of deterioration on gross margins from the inflation and from the merit increases.

Overall, in Q4, our bottom line has benefited about $0.06 from exchange rates. It's been a nice pickup over the last 6 months.

Alex Henderson
Senior Research Analyst, Needham and Company

If I look out into the FY2023 period since we're year-end 2022, on this print, you've posted a very nice 20% growth rate, 15% in the most recent quarter. You've got a significant backlog on the supply chain. Your customers have significant backlogs, and their customers have significant backlogs. As you think through the mechanics of all of that, I mean, looking at Ciena, it's got over 100% of a full year product sales and backlog, and it never has seen cancellations. How do you mechanically think through the growth rate? Should we be thinking 15%-20% for 2023 is an attainable level? Or do you have other macro concerns that we are weighing against that?

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

I think, Alex, this is Seamus. You know, we're just gonna guide one quarter at a time. We're not gonna get too far, you know, ahead of ourselves. We do continue to see very strong demand. That's the encouraging part. You know, we are limited by component supply, I think like everybody right now, but demand continues to be very strong, and we're not seeing really any letup in demand. We're seeing a slight improvement in supply, so that's a little bit encouraging. Much too early to declare victory, but it is encouraging to see supply beginning to alleviate somewhat. You know, we're not going to guide really beyond Q1 at this point. But you know, we do remain, like I say, we do remain quite optimistic about the overall demand environment that we see.

Alex Henderson
Senior Research Analyst, Needham and Company

Well, you can't blame a guy for trying. One more question, then I'll cede the floor. Relative to the supply chain issues, obviously parts availability is a big piece of it, but the other piece of it is, you know, those expedite fees that you're passing through and not recognizing in your costs. Are those. What about the spot market and pricing of parts in general? Are any news flow on those particular issues?

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

Yeah. The expedite fees, you're correct. We pass those through to our customers. We don't mark them up or anything like that, and we don't count it as revenue. You know, the nice thing about that is as the expedite fees go away, hopefully over the coming quarters, there's zero impact to us in terms of our revenue. On the expedite fees and the brokers and whatnot, no particular change. Maybe prices coming down a little bit in the broker market. That's a bit anecdotal, but we are seeing, you know, some reduction in the big premiums we were seeing a year ago. It has begun to ease a little bit in the broker market. It's a bit anecdotal at this stage, a bit early to draw any big conclusions, but maybe improving a little bit.

Alex Henderson
Senior Research Analyst, Needham and Company

Great. I'll cede the floor. Thanks.

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

Thanks, Alex.

Alex Henderson
Senior Research Analyst, Needham and Company

Thanks, Alex.

Operator

Thank you. Once again, to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone. Again, that's star one one on your telephone to ask a question. Our next question comes from the line of Tim Savageaux of Northland Capital Markets. Tim Savageaux, your line is open.

Tim Savageaux
Senior Research Analyst, Northland Capital Markets

Okay, thanks. Sorry, good afternoon and congrats on the great results.

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

Thank you.

Tim Savageaux
Senior Research Analyst, Northland Capital Markets

Looking at your kind of, you know, segment commentary, it does seem like you saw some strength or pickup on the ROADM side in the quarter, or at least on your kind of non-speed graded products. I wanna confirm if that's the case and, you know, whether that is indicative of improving supply given that, you know, that's been a real pain point there, and then whether you expect that to continue. You know, if you look at your apples to apples guide, you know, $587-$610 I guess would be comparable. Midrange, do you expect telecom to continue to drive that or any other particular segments moving around there in the guide? Thanks.

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

I think on the ROADM strength, Tim. It's hard for us to comment on that without you know, maybe inadvertently giving guidance for one or two of our customers. You know, we'll maybe leave our results to speak for themselves. You know, we have more than ROADMs in non-speed graded. There's several other components and products in there. But yeah, we won't really comment on ROADMs specifically, but yeah, you're right on our non-speed graded business is quite strong. The midpoint of our guidance when you adjust for the additional $20 million we're getting for the fourteenth week, you're exactly right.

The midpoint of the guidance would be $610 million, when you back out the $20 million that we're picking up with the 14th week. I think that we believe nice growth quarter-over-quarter, nice growth year-over-year. We're just really limited by component supply. We're doing our very best, and I think our team has done a fantastic job to get our share of the components and maybe in some cases our unfair share of the components. I would like to thank our team for the great job they've been doing there to help us get through the supply situation.

610 is the midpoint of the guidance and the overall very strong demand and just purely limited by supply, Tim.

Tim Savageaux
Senior Research Analyst, Northland Capital Markets

Okay. Maybe I'll try one more time. Yeah, if you look at that 6%-10%, I guess, you know, in terms of the sequential growth or you can take it year-over-year, however you want.

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

Yeah.

Tim Savageaux
Senior Research Analyst, Northland Capital Markets

Do you look for, you know, broad-based strengths across the various elements of your business or, you know, you saw, well, I've seen a nice pickup in the Datacom last quarter as well. So anything like that to call out in terms of particular drivers across the segment?

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

Telecom is quite strong. Datacom was strong, but some of that growth in Datacom came from, you may recall, we had $50 million because of a qualification issue the prior quarter that got pushed into Q4. But still, even with that, Datacom remains quite strong. We feel good about all the markets we serve. Laser continues to be a little bit soft, but Datacom is, we feel, being strong. Telecom is strong. Automotive is very strong for us and, particularly LIDAR. We have some really good growth in LIDAR. We're also starting to see some good growth in 400ZR. Some very good growth in 400ZR.

A little bit early to start calling it out separately as its own category, but it's probably getting there over the next few quarters. Good solid growth drivers across all the segments we serve, maybe with the exception of laser, which is a little bit flat for us.

Tim Savageaux
Senior Research Analyst, Northland Capital Markets

Great. Thanks.

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

Okay.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is a follow-up from Alex Henderson of Needham & Company. Alex Henderson, your line is open.

Alex Henderson
Senior Research Analyst, Needham and Company

Super. Thanks. I was hoping we could talk a little bit about the systems business, whether you're seeing any progress in terms of bringing additional customers on, and, you know, how you see the systems portion of your business, you know, participating in the quarter that you reported and in the outlook going forward.

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

We continue to pursue, as you rightly pointed out, Alex, new systems business at both existing customers and new customers. Really, in situations where we're already making a lot of the content. System builds, box build on its own isn't really a good fit for us. When we're already producing a lot of the content, it can be a really good fit for us. The timing of new wins, it's very hard to predict, as they're usually driven by maybe external catalysts to do with program changes and other suppliers and whatnot. There's usually a number of external catalysts that we don't particularly control. It's hard to predict the timing of those.

You know, like I say, while we're optimistic there will be more system business for us to announce in the future, we can't really predict when that might be. Again, the current supply environment is not helping things because, of course, with any big system transfer, the first thing you have to do is build a buffer of inventory. It's, as you'd appreciate, hard to build a buffer when you know most companies are struggling to get enough parts to build just the minimum that's required to satisfy the immediate demand.

It's still very much in our focus, and I think we've shown, you know, with the significant wins we've had over the last few years, we're able to bring on that business in a way that actually helps our margin, because we can do it without any really incremental operating expenses. Our operating expenses have remained quite flat over the last several years as we've grown the revenue nicely. Nothing specific to note at this point, Alex, but still very much in focus for us.

Alex Henderson
Senior Research Analyst, Needham and Company

Yeah. I was hoping we could just dig into that a little bit. Can you talk about whether it's growing faster or slower than the corporate average? Can you talk about whether the net impact on margins is positive, negative, neutral, relative to that business?

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

It's very hard to say, you know, it really does vary by program. You know, some programs are a little bit higher than the average, some programs are lower. Overall in terms of growth, it's probably a net contributor to growth because we've been, you know, bringing on those big programs and then growing those programs, both with the same, with the programs we originally transferred, let's say, but also new wins since we've transferred those programs. So we've grown both, you know, the volume with the programs we transferred. We've also won additional programs with those customers. So overall, I think it's been a net contributor to growth. Margin, it's probably at or about the corporate average.

Like I say, we're able to do it without any incremental OpEx, so it does help the overall situation.

Alex Henderson
Senior Research Analyst, Needham and Company

Understand. You've now grandfathered the original handoffs, that's fully apples to apples, plus.

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

Yes.

Alex Henderson
Senior Research Analyst, Needham and Company

Incremental program growth. I assume that that's an ongoing kind of trajectory. Is it your sense that, you know, that the existing customers have a fair amount additional business that they could hand off to you? Or do you think that they're relatively sated in terms of the transfers?

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

I think it depends on really what, you know, which company we're talking about or which companies we're talking about. Obviously, some companies are bigger than others and, you know, would have a lot of business that they outsource still with our competitors. You know, we like to make sure we maximize our market share. We don't need to produce everything for our customers, but we do like to be, you know, an important and significant supplier for our customers. I think there's certainly plenty of headroom left to grow with the system business that we've already won. We've already got some very nice growth, but I think there's still a lot of runway left to continue to grow that business.

Alex Henderson
Senior Research Analyst, Needham and Company

One more question around technology. Co-packaged optics has been kind of just off the edge of the headlights for a while. Has there been any change in that sector? You know, is it something that's starting to percolate through your opportunity set, or is it still pretty far out, and past the headlights?

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

I think it's a little bit of both. We are working on co-packaged optics. Let's say products that have co-packaged optics with our customers to develop the processes that would be required to produce those co-packaged optics products in the future when they become more mainstream. We're working on that. There's another school of thought that says, of course, pluggable optics will continue for a very long time. We're working with, let's say, a separate number of customers who are very focused on making sure the pluggables continue for a long time. We're quite, if you like, agnostic to the technology. Whichever one wins, we don't mind. We're happy to work with all our customers. In terms of co-packaged optics becoming mainstream, yeah, I think you're right.

It's a bit beyond the headlights right now. It's probably, if I had to put a date on it'd be hard to see it happening anytime sooner than probably 3 years out, 2.5, 3 years out, something like that. We're working, you know, like I say, with customers on co-packaged optics. We're also working with other customers on all kinds of, you know, exotic pluggable solutions that would, you know, mean the pluggables will continue for a very long time.

Alex Henderson
Senior Research Analyst, Needham and Company

Yeah, just a kind of last question then I'll cede the floor again. In the 400 gig plus arena, obviously very nice growth, but I assume that you're also seeing additional new products coming into the pipeline that have yet to ramp. Can you talk a little just about, you know, what that pipeline looks like relative to, you know, the 400 gig plus segment? Is there a continuation of additional products that are gonna drive that growth at strong rates for an extended period of time?

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

Yeah. There's a couple of categories, I would say. There's 400ZR in the telecom space that's really just starting to get going. Like I say, we're seeing some nice revenue from it. It's growing very nicely. We have three customers in particular that have. Well, four customers, I should say. Three are shipping. One is maybe struggling a little bit with the design and the power envelope. But three of our customers are shipping volume in varying degrees of volume, but three of our customers are shipping 400ZR product right now. Then, of course, we have 800G, you know, what we see is the adoption of 800G inside the data center about to take place as well.

There's a nice, I would say, a nice pipeline of, you know, again, for us, it falls into the category of 400G and above. We don't like to give too much detail beyond that because, again, we're always, Alex, concerned that we don't want to inadvertently announce a product on behalf of one of our customers. Suffice to say, we have a nice pipeline of both 400ZR and 800G products that we're working on.

Alex Henderson
Senior Research Analyst, Needham and Company

Perfect. Thank you very much.

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

Thank you very much, Alex.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Ethan Widell of B. Riley. Ethan Widell , your line is open.

Ethan Widell
Research Analyst, B. Riley Securities

Hi, thank you for taking my question. I was wondering, if your component shortage are concentrated in any of your reporting segments or verticals or if they're more broadly distributed? Thanks.

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

They're very broadly distributed, actually. It's not any particularly exotic component that's in question. Typically, it's not any particularly exotic component that's in question. It's usually, let's say, standard commodity type electronic components. But no, it's not unique to one. All of our industry segments that we support are equally, I would say, equally affected by the component shortages.

Ethan Widell
Research Analyst, B. Riley Securities

Okay, thanks. That's helpful. One follow-up. You mentioned having a buffer of inventory, and I was wondering if you could provide any color as to kind of how you expect to see that change as conditions normalize.

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

We have our inventory has grown over the last while, you know, as we've tried to position inventory to support our customers' demand. Sometimes you have, you know, if you need 100 components, you have 99 of them. If you don't have that last one, you can't ship. We end up carrying maybe a little bit more inventory on the balance sheet than we'd like to in an ideal world. The good news is it's good inventory. It's inventory that's tied to specific customer demand and customer orders. There's no particular risk. If anything, it presents an opportunity for us as we clear, let's say, the components that were short that caused the inventory to increase in the first place.

As we clear those component issues, and begin to get matched sets, we should begin to see that those inventory levels alleviate as we convert inventory to cash and ship product for our customers. It does give us, hopefully, a little bit of an advantage in the coming quarters as we start to see those component shortages clear so we can satisfy the customers' need.

Ethan Widell
Research Analyst, B. Riley Securities

Certainly. Thank you.

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

You're welcome.

Operator

Thank you. We have a follow-up question from, Tim Savageaux of Northland Capital Markets. Tim Savageaux, your line is open.

Tim Savageaux
Senior Research Analyst, Northland Capital Markets

Thanks. I wanted to follow up on the 400G front, and you called out, you know, ZR as getting, you know, increasingly driving growth there. I wonder if you can maybe quantify that a little bit. I know you're probably off a small base, but, any sense for, you know, where that contribution is right now or where you expect it to be? You know, despite that, what I assume would be a very strong sequential increase in ZR, you did see an overall decline in 400G revenues. I wonder if you could talk about the drivers there.

Csaba Sverha
CFO, Fabrinet

Hi, Tim, this is Csaba Sverha. Let me take that. Overall 400ZR has been ramping over the last four quarters. On an annual basis, again, it represents high single digits portion of our revenue. We said we would start calling out when it reaches 10%. It's not quite there, but the growth in this segment has been quite significant over the last couple of quarters. Now, sequentially, it grew in Q4 to Q3, but overall on a yearly basis is now representing about high single digit of our revenues.

Now, in terms of the other part of the 400G portfolio, I mentioned in my prepared remarks that we did have a little bit of surprise in that segment from material constraints, so that took us back a little bit. Otherwise, if we had those components, we could have been higher and sequentially up in that segment too. The temporary decline is supply related, but overall the trend is there from ZR, and it's a high single digit.

Tim Savageaux
Senior Research Analyst, Northland Capital Markets

Great. Really appreciate that color. Don't see a filing out yet, but I'm wondering if you can comment for us on, you know, 10% customers, maybe number and what they were in the aggregate or to the extent you can disclose something prior to the filing.

Csaba Sverha
CFO, Fabrinet

Yeah, sure. 10-K is coming out tomorrow, so we will have that disclosed in our 10-K. We had three customers over 10%, in a descending order. Cisco was a 25, slightly higher than 25% customer. Infinera was above 12%, and Lumentum was about 10%. These three customers have represented overall, I think about 48% of total revenue.

Tim Savageaux
Senior Research Analyst, Northland Capital Markets

Awesome. Thanks again.

Csaba Sverha
CFO, Fabrinet

You're welcome.

Tim Savageaux
Senior Research Analyst, Northland Capital Markets

Thank you.

Csaba Sverha
CFO, Fabrinet

You're welcome.

Operator

Thank you. At this time, I'd like to turn the call back over to Seamus Grady for closing remarks. Sir.

Seamus Grady
CEO, Fabrinet

Thank you for joining our call today. We're excited to deliver a strong performance in Q4 and all of fiscal 2022, despite supply chain issues impacting many industries. We're optimistic that with continued strong demand and significant new capacity, we will be able to deliver more strong performances in the quarters and years ahead. We look forward to speaking with you again and seeing those of you who will be attending the Jefferies conference at the end of the month. Thank you and goodbye.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude today's program. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.

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