U blox : Half Year 1 2020 Results Presentation

H1 2020 Results u-blox Holding AG

August 21, 2020

Thomas Seiler, CEO

Roland Jud, CFO

Disclaimer

This presentation contains certain forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements reflect the current views of management and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Group to differ materially from those expressed or implied herein.

Should such risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in this presentation.

u-blox is providing the information in this presentation as of this date and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in it as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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Agenda

Financial results H1 2020

Highlights H1 2020

Business review

Strategy

Outlook

Q&A

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Half year 2020: Summary financial results

	H1 2020	H1 2019	Change 2020
	IFRS	adjusted1	adjusted1	to 2019
(CHF millions, except EPS and margins)	reported
Revenue	174.0m	174.0m	190.6m	-8.7%
(at constant exchange rates)	( -5.6% )
Gross Profit	79.0m	79.4m	86.1m	-7.8%
Gross margin (%)	45.4%	45.6%	45.2%
EBITDA	19.9m	24.1m	32.7m	-26.3%
EBITDA margin (%)	11.4%	13.9%	17.2%
Operating Profit (EBIT )	-65.8m	13.2m	19.7m	-32.7%
EBIT margin (%)	-37.8%	7.6%	10.3%
Net Profit	-60.0m	4.7m	13.6m	-65.7%
Cash Flow from operating activities	13.9m	13.9m	33.1m	-58.2%
Free Cash Flow	-21.9m	-21.9m	0.5m	n/a
EPS in CHF, fully diluted	(8.64)	0.67	1.96

1. Excl. Share-based payments, impacts based on IAS-19, amortization of intangible assets acquired, impairments and non-recurring expenses

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Business and product highlights

• Acquired IoT Communication-as-a-Service Provider Thingstream
• • Aligns with strategy to expand services portfolio and accelerates path to achieving silicon-to- cloud differentiation
  • Provides comprehensive, end-to-end solution for global IoT connectivity services using the industry standard MQTT protocol
• Launched important new products across platform
• • R5 chipset certified by AT&T for LTE-M
  • Mesh technology for Bluetooth deployed in modules
  • VERA-P3V2X module for traffic safety applications
  • Global LPWA cellular module SARA-R422 with increased security and positioning features.
• Continued investing in R&D - capacity maintained
• OPEX cost saving initiated resulting in CHF 15m annual savings

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Financial highlights

• Financial results reflect impact of COVID-19
• • Total revenues of CHF 174.0m, a decline of -8.7%(-5.6% at constant exchange rates)
  • APAC revenues declined by -2% to CHF 70.1m
  • EMEA revenues declined by -16% to CHF 51.7m as the automotive markets shrunk
  • AMEC revenues decreased by -14% to CHF 48.9m as consumer and fleet management applications softened
• Gross profit margins increased slightly driven by favorable product mix
• EBITDA (adjusted) was CHF 24.1m, compared to CHF 32.7m last year
• Cash flow from operating activities of CHF 13.9m in H1 2020, compared to CHF 33.1m last year
• Free cash flow of CHF -21.9m (before acquisitions CHF -8.4m, H1 2019: CHF 3.9m)
• Impairment charge of CHF 74.1m due to refocusing of R&D programs and market delays in automotive. Actual product offering unaffected.

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Revenue and EBITDA

Comments

• H1 2020 revenue below previous year (-8.7% compared to H1 2019)
• Negative currency impact on revenues at H1 2019 rates: -3.1%
• EBITDA (adjusted) margin of 13.9%

Revenue and EBITDA (adjusted)

(million CHF)
450		403.7	393.3	385.1
400
350
300
250
200					199.0	190.6
					174.0
150
100		97.8	81.2
		71.7
50					45.1	32.7
					24.1
0				2019	H1.18	H1.19	H1.20
2017	2018
			Revenue	EBITDA (adjusted)

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Revenues by geography

Comments

• APAC revenue slightly decreased by -2%
• • Strong continued business in China and Korea
  • Negative impact by COVID-19 on automotive and telematics applications
• EMEA revenue decreased by -16%
• • Increased demand for smart city, driver assistance and point-of-sale applications
  • Decline in automotive and micro mobility
• Americas revenue decreased by -14%
• • Growth with industrial automation and fitness
  • Reduced demand for fleet management and consumer applications

Revenue

( CH F m illio ns)

190.6

174.0

71.5
37%	70.1
	40%
62.5
33%	55.0
	32%

56.6			48.9
30%
		28%
H 1 . 1 9				H 1 . 2 0
		Americas		EMEA		APAC

Note: based on reporting area

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Market trends

Comments

In absolute terms:

• Industrial markets stable
• • Infrastructure
  • Automation
• Automotive market declined
• • In-carnavigation
  • In-carconnectivity
• Consumer markets declined
• • Most applications with exception of fitness

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Revenue split per market

H1 2020

	5.5%		H1 2019
23.8%			4.8%
			30.0%
		63.4%	57.5%
7.3%
			7.7%

Industrial		Consumer		Automotive		Not assigned

Note: Estimate

Shipments and ASP development

CommentsModules

GNSS chips

Revenue

• Module business slight increase with decline in ASP due to product mix
• Major volume of chipset sales with u-blox 8/M8
• Decline in overall chipset volume due to decline in consumer and automotive markets, and lower ASP

(million units)

40

30

20

1.9%

10

0

2017	2018	2019	H1.18 H1.19 H1.20
		Shipments modules				ASP

(CHF)(million units)																	(CHF)	(million CHF)
10.	80																								2.50	450		403.7	393.3
70																									400		385.1
	60																								2.00	350
9.00																											25%	24%	24%
50																								1.50	300
																									250
8.00	40																									200						199.0	190.6
															-16.4%								174.0
	30																1.00							24%	25%
																								150						20%
																										72%	74%	74%
7.00	20																								0.50	100						73%	75%	79%
	10																									50
6.00	0																								0.00	0
																								2017	2018	2019		H1.18 H1.19 H1.20
	2017	2018	2019	H1.18 H1.19 H1.20
										u-blox 5					u-blox 6				Modules		Chips		Other
										u-blox 7					u-blox 8/M8
										u-blox 9					ASP

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Gross profit

Comments

• Gross profit (adjusted) of CHF 79.4m
• Gross profit margin (adjusted) slightly higher than H1 2019
• • H1 2020 margin reflects positive impacts from product mix

Gross profit (adjusted)

Gross profit margin (adjusted)

(million CHF)					(in % of revenue)
200		45.8%	45.2%	45.5%	47.2%	45.2%	45.6%		50%
180
160									40%
140
120									30%
100		184.8
		177.9	175.1
80							20%
60
40					94.0	86.1	79.4		10%
20
0			2018	2019	H1.18	H1.19	H1.20		0%
2017
			Gross Profit (adjusted)		% of revenue

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Distribution & Marketing / Research & Development

Comments

D&M expenses (adjusted)

R&D expenses (adjusted)

• D&M expenses (adjusted) profit from cost savings in H1_2020
• R&D expenses (adjusted) remain stable and R&D pipeline fully maintained
• Reduced cash-out for R&D compared to H1 2019

(million CHF)													(in % of revenue)
40					8.8%	9.1%	8.9%	9.3%	9.1%		10.0%
35		8.4%
30																					7.5%
25
20		34.0	34.8	35.2											5.0%
15
10											17.7	17.8	15.8		2.5%
5
0																					0.0%
	2017	2018	2019	H1.18	H1.19	H1.20

(million CHF)														(in % of revenue)
90																	22.7%		25%
80								20.5%				20.9%					20%
70					17.2%				16.6%
60		14.5%																	15%
50
40								78.9											10%
					67.8
30		58.3
20											33.1	39.8	39.5		5%
10
0																						0%
	2017	2018	2019	H1.18	H1.19	H1.20

D&M (adjusted)				% of revenues		R&D expense (adjusted)				R&D expense % of revenues

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Income statement

Adjusted and IFRS numbers

Comments

• Adjustments are share-based payments of CHF 3.3m, pension impact of IAS-19 of CHF 1.0m, amortization of intangible assets acquired of CHF 0.6m and impairments of CHF 74.1m3
• Financial costs consists primarily of foreign exchange losses, the interest for the two bonds, and the result of Sapcorda GmbH
• For group adjustments corporate tax rate of 18.1% applied (H1 2019: 16.3%)

1. Impairment was caused by current market conditions mainly in automotive, changes in business plan expectations and refocusing of various programs. The company's existing lines of product offerings remain unaffected.

	Jan-Jun 2020		Jan-Jun 2020			Jan-Jun 2019
			Adjustments2)
(in CHF 000s)	(IFRS) % revenue		(adjusted) % revenue		(adjusted)	% revenue
Revenue	173'957	100.0%		173'957		100.0%	190'554	100.0%
Cost of sales	-94'927	-54.6%	362	-94'565		-54.4%	-104'466	-54.8%
Gross Profit	79'030	45.4%	362	79'392		45.6%	86'088	45.2%
Distribution and marketing expenses	-16'907	-9.7%	1'102	-15'805		-9.1%	-17'758	-9.3%
Research and development expenses	-115'483	-66.4%	76'001	-39'482		-22.7%	-39'777	-20.9%
General and administrative expenses	-12'935	-7.4%	1'562	-11'373		-6.5%	-10'255	-5.4%
Other income	505	0.3%		505		0.3%	1'368	0.7%
Operating Profit (EBIT)	-65'790	-37.8%	79'027	13'237		7.6%	19'666	10.3%
Finance income	87	0.1%		87		0.1%	1'762	0.9%
Finance costs	-3'533	-2.0%		-3'533		-2.0%	-3'157	-1.7%
Share of profit of equity-accounted investees,
net of taxes	-1'907	-1.1%		-1'907		-1.1%	-1'989	-1.0%
Profit before income tax (EBT)	-71'143	-40.9%	79'027	7'884		4.5%	16'282	8.5%
Income tax expense	11'121	6.4%	-14'328	-3'207		-1.8%	-2'645	-1.4%
Net Profit	-60'022	-34.5%	64'699	4'677		2.7%	13'637	7.2%
Minority interests	-69	0.0%		-69		0.0%
Net Profit, attributable to equity holders of the
parent	-59'953	-34.5%		4'746		2.7%		13'637	7.2%
Earnings per share in CHF	(8.64)			0.67			1.96
Diluted earnings per share in CHF	(8.64)			0.67			1.96
Operating Profit (EBIT)	-65'790	-37.8%	79'027	13'237		7.6%	19'666	10.3%
Depreciation and amortization	85'651	49.2%	-74'746	10'905		6.3%	13'072	6.9%
EBITDA 1)	19'861	11.4%	4'281	24'142		13.9%	32'738	17.2%

1. Management calculates EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) by adding back depreciation and amortization to operating profit (EBIT), in each case determined in accordance with IFRS.
2. Adjustments are impacts of share based payments, Pension calculation according to IAS-19,Non-recurring expenses, impairments and amortization of intangible assets acquired

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Statement of financial position

Comments

• Strong financial position with a liquidity (incl. marketable securities) of CHF 100.6m (Dec. 2019: CHF 128.3m)
• Inventory CHF 60.5m (Dec. 2019: CHF 51.6m) affected by sudden low demand due to COVID-19 situation
• Trade receivables CHF 39.1m (Dec. 2019: CHF 48.5m)
• Capitalized R&D now CHF 140.2m (2019: CHF 199.9m).
  Amortization and Impairment of capitalized R&D: CHF 78.4m
• Current liabilities contain trade payables of CHF 26.2m (Dec. 2019: CHF 25.4m) and bond repayable April 2021 of CHF_59.9m
• Non-currentliabilities contain bond of CHF 60.7m, deferred tax liabilities CHF 9.0 m, employee benefits (IAS-19) CHF_25.1m, provisions CHF 10.7m

(million CHF)

(million CHF)

700

600

500

400

300

200

100

0

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

Fixed Assets

Inventory

Accounts Receivable

Other current assets

Cash (incl. marketable securities)

2016 2017 2018 2019 H1.2020

Short Term Debt

Long Term Debt

Shareholders' Equity

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Global customer base

Comments

• Wide spread across different applications and geographical regions
• Strong and growing customer base, serving 7'600 customers worldwide in 2020 (2019: 7'200 customers)
• Low customer dependency
• • 97 customers total 80% of revenue
  • Largest customer accounts for 8.7% of total revenue in H1 2020
• 10 biggest customers account for 27.8% of total revenue in H1 2020

Number of customers totaling 80% of revenue

(# Customers)

120

100

80

60

104	108	104	97
		94

1. 84

0

2017

2018

2019

H1.18 H1.19 H1.20

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Employment

Employee breakdown

(end of June 2020, FTE based)

Logistics,

admin

16%

(2019: 168)

		169
Sales,		Total = 1'080 FTE		Research &
marketing,	174		development
(2019: 1'088 FTE)
support		737	68%
16%				(2019: 743)
(2019: 177)

Note: 75% of employees based outside Switzerland (spread across 18 countries)

Average number of employees (FTE based)

(Average FTE)

1200

1000

800

600			1'043	1'077
993
400	893
	786

200

0

2016

2017

2018

2019

H1.20

Note: FTE = full time equivalent

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Statement of financial position

Comments

• Strong equity base maintained
• Equity ratio of 54.2% (2019: 60.0%)
• Treasury shares for option program CHF 32.0m (Dec. 2019: CHF 32.0m)
• Equity ratio without treasury shares: 56.8% (2019: 62.1%)
• Equity ratio without IFRS 16:
  56.4% (2019: 62.3%)
• Minority interests of CHF 0.2m (2019: CHF 0.1m)

Total equity and equity ratio

(million CHF)				(% of total assets)
400						100%
350						90%
300	67.0%					80%
		63.1%			70%
		60.7%	60.0%
250					54.2%	60%
200						50%
		319	349	351		40%
150	285			289
				30%
100
					20%
50						10%
0						0%
	2016	2017	2018	2019	H1.20
		Equity		Equity ratio

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Segment information

IFRS numbers

	Positioning and	Wireless services	Total segments	Non-allocated/	Group
	wireless products					eliminations
	January - June	January - June	January - June	January - June	January - June
(in CHF 000s)	2020	2019	2020	2019	2020	2019	2020	2019	2020		2019
Revenue third parties	173'795	190'433	162	121	173'957	190'554			173'957		190'554
Revenue intragroup			16'519	15'871	16'519	15'871	-16'519	-15'871	0		0
Total revenue	173'795	190'433	16'681	15'992	190'476	206'425	-16'519	-15'871	173'957		190'554
EBITDA*)	18'336	25'933	1'525	3'137	19'861	29'070			19'861		29'070
Depreciation	-4'636	-4'945	-1'385	-1'570	-6'021	-6'515			-6'021		-6'515
Amortization	-5'144	-7'638	-382	-11	-5'526	-7'649			-5'526		-7'649
Impairment	-74'104	0			-74'104	0			-74'104		0
Operating profit (EBIT)	-65'548	13'350	-242	1'556	-65'790	14'906	0	0	-65'790		14'906
Finance income							87	1'762	87		1'762
Finance costs							-3'533	-3'157	-3'533		-3'157
Share of profit of equity-accounted investees, net of taxes				-1'907	-1'989	-1'907		-1'989
EBT							-3'446	-1'395	-71'143		11'522

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Consolidated statement of cash flows

Comments

• Cash flow from operating activities negatively impacted by net working capital of CHF -5.8m (H1 2019: CHF 7.9m)
• Maintained investment activities
• Free Cash Flow (before acquisitions & participations in capital increase) CHF -8.4m (H1 2019: CHF 3.9m)
• Acquisition of Thingstream of
  CHF_9.3m and further investment into JV Sapcorda and Tashang of CHF_4.2m (H1 2019: CHF 3.4m)

	For the period ended	For the period ended
(in CHF 000s)	June 30, 2020	June 30, 2019
Net Profit	-60'022	9'650
Depreciation & Amortization	85'651	14'164
Other non-cash transactions	3'312	2'547
Financial income & financial expense	5'353	3'384
Income tax expense	-11'121	1'872
Change in net working capital and provision	-5'825	7'900
Income tax paid	-3'493	-6'406
Net cash generated from operating activities	13'855	33'111
Net investment into property, plant and equipment	-2'855	-3'409
Net investment into intangibles	-19'855	-26'408
Net investments into financial assets	467	612
Acquisition of subsidiairies, net of cash acquired & participations	-13'518	-3'386
Net cash used in investing activities	-35'761	-32'591
Free Cash Flow (before Acquisition & participations
in capital increase)	-8'388	3'906
Free Cash Flow	-21'906	520
Proceeeds from issuance of ordinary shares	0	91
Dividends paid to owners of the parent	0	-11'077
Net proceeds from borrowings	1'076	0
Payment of lease liabilities	-2'313	-2'192
Purchase of treasury shares	0	0
Non-controlling interests	125	0
Interest paid	-2'566	-2'182
Net cash used in financing activities	-3'678	-15'360
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents	-25'584	-14'840
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year	127'424	136'296
Exchange gains/(losses) on cash and cash equivalents	-1'735	-481
Cash and cash equivalents at end of the period	100'105	120'975

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Business update

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Product launches H1 2020

Meeting our customers' needs for secure and simple cloud connectivity

Cellular	Short range radio	Positioning	Services
communication	communication

UBX-R5	VERA-P3	M9
UBX-R5LTE-M/NB-IoT	Brings easy access to V2X, an	M9 platform expanded with
chipset offers	essential enabler of increased	additional features. The
unprecedented wireless	safety, convenience, and	ultra-robust M9 technology
technology integration with	efficiency on the road.	platform will serve
built-inend-to-end security,		demanding automotive and
making it ideal for		high-end telematics
mission-critical or long life-		applications.
cycle IoT applications.
	JODY-W3
	Designed for the increasing
	number of wireless high
	speed connections that will
	be required in vehicles.

Thingstream acquisition

Enables u-blox to expand ist services portfolio with the addition of a complete and comprehensive IoT connectivity solution for customers and accelerates path toward achieving unique silicon- to-cloud differentiation.

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Customer relationships: greenTEG

Leverages u-blox connectivity to protect health and safety amid COVID-19 pandemic

• CORE is a wearable for continuous and accurate core body temperature monitoring.
• CORE communicates wirelessly using the u-bloxNINA-B306stand-alone Bluetooth 5 low energy module
• Can be used to track users' wellness status as they return to the workplace from their homes, and alerts them when their core body temperature rises unexpectedly.

• u-bloxBluetooth products dovetail to create pioneering monitoring capabilities

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Customer relationships: WaterLink

Enable wireless mesh networking technology to cut water metering costs

• u-blox'sNINA-B3stand-alone Bluetooth low energy modules and SARA-R410M- 02B LTE-M /NB-IoT and EGPRS cellular module for LPWA (low power wide area) applications are being used in a data logger for a smart water metering solution.
• "The combination of scalable mesh IoT network software and robust hardware from u-blox enable us to simplify the installation of water meters and therefore cut the total cost of ownership

for customers."

George P Prencipe, Director of WaterSynergy

• The robustness of the u-bloxNINA-B3 module design and software support makes integration simpler.

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Strategy

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Expanding content in automotive market

Improved functionality require more u-blox technology

• Driver assistance system for a more comfortable drive
• • Hands-offsingle-lane driving capabilities
  • Assist the driver with passing, lane diversions and lane exiting on multi-lane highways
  • Enables hands-off driving while cruising in a given lane

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IoT Communication-as-a-Service

We solve the problems of complexity, cost and availability.

The complexity of IoT Connectivity solved by a	Simplifying cost of ownership by offering a
comprehensive end-to-end solution based on	product "as-a-Service" at predictable cost with
the industry standard MQTT.	on-demand scalability.

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u-blox strategic goal (with Thingstream)

Make wireless & location easy

Sensor

Data

Services	IoT Communication-as-a-Service
• Security
	• Connectivity
	• Location

Customer

Enterprise

Thingstream acquisition accelerates u-blox's path to sustainable silicon-to-cloud

differentiation

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u-blox joined the GSMA IoT Ecosystem security

• To enable a secure market, companies must take responsibility to embed security from the beginning and at every stage of the IoT value chain.
• u-bloxjoined the GSMA IoT Ecosystem in February 2020
• u-bloxwill help strengthen the security in IoT ecosystems using the company's LTE-M and NB-IoT chipsets with the implementation of a set of security features endorsed by the GSMA.
• GSMA IoT ecoystem enables IoT device manufacturers and service providers to use a SIM as a robust and scalable hardware RoT to protect IoT data communications.

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Outlook

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Outlook 2020

Vast uncertainties - 2020 and mid-term guidance retracted

• Continued COVID-19 impact in all regions
• Business prediction difficult with respect to how quickly and strongly economies will recover
• Strong underlying growth drivers remain
• • Content extension in automotive
  • Expansion of industrial IoT
  • Healthy ramp-up with new products

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Upcoming events

•	Analyst day	25 November, 2020
• 2020 full year results	12 March, 2021
•	Annual general meeting	22 April, 2021

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Thank you

for your attention

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