Entegris Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Key Takeaways

  • Positive Sentiment: Strong Q2 performance: Revenue rose 11% year over year to $883 million, while adjusted net income increased 42% to $143 million; all key metrics exceeded guidance. APS grew 17%, supported by record liquid-filtration sales, strong FOUP demand, and broad-based semiconductor capital-spending strength.
  • Positive Sentiment: Growth outlook accelerated: Entegris raised its 2026 semiconductor market growth assumption to 7%-8% and expects Q3 revenue to grow about 14% year over year at the midpoint, with Q4 revenue projected to rise approximately 4% sequentially. Management is tracking more than 20 major leading-edge capacity expansions and expects fab-construction spending to become a larger contributor in 2027.
  • Positive Sentiment: Profitability and balance sheet improved: Adjusted gross margin reached 47.6%, its highest level since early 2022, and is expected to expand to 47.5%-48.5% in Q3. Free cash flow was $120 million, enabling $200 million of debt repayment during the quarter and an expected year-end net leverage ratio below 3x.
  • Neutral Sentiment: Portfolio focus is tightening: The company is exiting its U.S. Life Sciences Fluid Management business and plans to close its Logan, Utah facility, actions intended to concentrate resources on semiconductor opportunities but involving business wind-downs and facility rationalization. Mainstream logic remains mixed and below trend growth, despite modest improvement.
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Earnings Conference Call
Entegris Q2 2026
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Operator

Welcome to the Entegris second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. The floor will be open for your questions following the presentation. If you would like to ask a question at that time, please press star one on your telephone keypad. If at any point your question has been answered, you may remove yourself from the queue by pressing star two. Others can hear your questions clearly, we do ask that you please pick up your handset for best sound quality. Lastly, if you should require operator assistance, please press star zero. I would now like to turn the call over to Jeffrey Schnell, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Jeffrey Schnell
Jeffrey Schnell
VP of Investor Relations at Entegris

Good morning, everyone. Earlier today, we announced the financial results for the second quarter of 2026. Before we begin, I would like to remind listeners that our comments today will include some forward-looking statements. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Additional information regarding these risks and uncertainties is contained in our most recent annual report and subsequent quarterly reports that we have filed with the SEC. Please refer to the information on the disclaimer slide in the presentation. On this call, we will also refer to non-GAAP financial measures as defined by the SEC in Regulation G. You can find reconciliation tables in today's news release, as well as on the IR page of our website at entegris.com. Joining me on the call today are Dave Reeder, our CEO, and Sukhi Nagesh, our CFO.

Jeffrey Schnell
Jeffrey Schnell
VP of Investor Relations at Entegris

With that, I'll hand the call over to Dave.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Thanks, Jeff. Good morning. The second quarter was another strong quarter for Entegris as we continued to capitalize on accelerating AI-driven demand and the significant and growing investment across the semiconductor ecosystem. We exceeded our guidance ranges on all metrics. Revenue growth of 11% year-over-year was above our guidance range, driven by double-digit growth in both our unit and CapEx-driven businesses. Gross margin improved sequentially as our operational initiatives gained momentum. Strong free cash flow generation further enhanced our balance sheet and financial flexibility. Our performance reflects both improving market conditions and our focused efforts to strengthen and invest in our core semiconductor businesses. With these investments and our continued execution, Entegris is well-positioned to accelerate growth, expand profitability, and drive long-term shareholder value. Unit-driven revenues grew 10% in the second quarter.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Technology transitions continued to increase the material content required to manufacture at the leading edge. This increased intensity is visible in the strong growth in liquid filtration, CMP, in particular pads, advanced deposition materials, and selective etch chemistries. Notably, liquid filtration delivered its fourth consecutive record quarter. CapEx-related revenue increased 15% year-over-year in the second quarter, driven by significant growth in FOUPs and broad-based strength in gas filtration and purification solutions. We continue to see customers accelerate investments to support AI infrastructure with increasing activity across advanced logic, HBM memory, and advanced packaging ecosystems. Bookings across our CapEx-oriented businesses strengthened throughout the quarter, driving backlog levels higher and providing greater visibility into customer spending plans. We believe these trends reflect the early stages of a broader semiconductor investment cycle, one that should benefit Entegris through both the construction phase and the subsequent ramp to high-volume manufacturing.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

With increasing visibility into accelerating customer demand, we are proactively scaling ahead of the market, unlocking capacity, expanding capabilities, and strengthening supply chain readiness. As demand continues to build across areas such as filtration, specialty coatings, FOUPs, and CMP, the visibility we have enables us to identify emerging constraints early and take targeted actions to increase throughput and unlock additional capacity before they become limiting. Leveraging our existing global footprint and prior capacity investments, we are well-positioned to meet customer needs, support technology roadmaps, and capitalize on the opportunities ahead. Turning to profitability, adjusted gross margin was another highlight of the quarter, exceeding our guidance range and reaching its highest level since early 2022. The improvement reflects stronger operational execution and the benefits of actions we have taken over the past several quarters to simplify and optimize the business.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

We also continue to sharpen our strategic focus and footprint during the quarter. Given the significant and increasing semiconductor demand, we decided to exit our Life Sciences Fluid Management business in the U.S., concentrating resources on our core semiconductor businesses. Additionally, we announced plans to close our Logan, Utah, facility, our third diluted facility rationalization since late 2025, further streamlining our manufacturing footprint without impacting availability for our core semiconductor market. These combined actions underscore our disciplined approach to portfolio management and our commitment to concentrating resources in area where we have the greatest opportunities for long-term growth, differentiation, and value creation. Free cash flow was another highlight of the quarter, reaching $120 million or 14% of sales. This performance was driven by higher earnings and disciplined working capital management, resulting in a greater than 10% year-over-year improvement in our cash conversion cycle.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

The strength of our cash generation enabled us to repay an additional $200 million of debt and reduce net leverage to 3.4x. Given our improved earnings trajectory and cash flow outlook, we now expect to end the year with net leverage in the high 2x range while continuing to invest for growth. Turning to the outlook for our end markets. Based on current demand trends, we now expect 7%-8% MSI growth in 2026 versus the mid-single-digit assumption we started out with at the beginning of the year. While our expectations for advanced logic and memory remain largely unchanged, we expect a mixed but modestly improving environment for mainstream logic, contributing to a more constructive outlook for the industry. The most notable change since last quarter has been the continued acceleration in semiconductor capital spending.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Momentum in both wafer fab equipment and fab construction is strengthening, as evidenced by increasing project awards and backlog growth. To put this in perspective, we are currently tracking over 20 major leading-edge capacity expansions globally, including approximately 8-10 advanced logic facilities, seven to eight advanced memory facilities, and six to eight advanced packaging projects. We expect these investments to become a more meaningful contributor to our growth in the second half of 2026 and into 2027. The breadth of these investments is also a leading indicator of future MSI growth and reinforces our confidence in the durability of the industry's growth and the expanding opportunities for Entegris. Breaking down the specific components of our end market mix.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Advanced logic, which represents approximately 40% of our revenue, remains a significant growth opportunity as demand for leading-edge compute accelerates technology migrations and increases semiconductor complexity, playing directly into Entegris' strengths. We are already seeing this translate into strong results, including double-digit growth in Taiwan, driven by both advanced node capacity expansions and higher production volumes. We also increased photofiltration wins tied to EUV lithography and continued to see strong demand for FOUPs, reflecting our expanding content opportunity at the industry's most advanced nodes. With positions of record at the industry's most advanced nodes and a strong innovation pipeline, we are well-positioned to accelerate growth as customers continue to scale next generation AI infrastructure. Memory, which represents approximately 30% of our revenue, remains a compelling growth opportunity driven by AI-related demand and favorable technology roadmaps.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Similar to advanced logic, increasing memory complexity, tighter process tolerances, and growing performance requirements are driving greater need for the high purity materials and solutions where Entegris is differentiated. In DRAM, increasing investment activity is providing greater visibility into future capacity expansions and production roadmaps. In NAND, technology transitions and layer scaling continue to support higher output and improving demand trends, which we expect to lead to additional capacity investments. These dynamics reinforce our confidence in the long-term growth outlook for memory and the expanding role Entegris plays as a critical enabler of advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Recent HBM4 and TSV CMP wins, along with approximately two times year-over-year growth in molybdenum precursor demand, are further evidence that increasing memory complexity is translating into greater content opportunities for Entegris across next generation AI memory architectures.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Lastly, mainstream logic remains mixed, and while modestly improved compared to last quarter, it continues to lag leading-edge markets. To summarize, the next phase of semiconductor investment cycle is underway, supported by healthy unit demand and accelerating capital investment activity, creating multiple growth vectors for Entegris through the second half of 2026 and into 2027. Second, our technology leadership positions across key product lines, including CMP and selective etch processes, filtration and purity solutions, and FOUPs, combined with our growing presence at the industry's most advanced technology nodes, continue to strengthen our competitive advantage, increase our strategic importance to customers, and provide additional content opportunity. Finally, execution remains a key differentiator. We are expanding capacity and margins, strengthening cash generation, simplifying the portfolio, and enhancing financial flexibility while proactively investing in next-generation products to meet increasingly stringent customer demands and capture future growth opportunities.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

These trends reinforce our confidence in Entegris' long-term growth algorithm of above-market growth and margin expansion. Our technology leadership, expanding advanced node exposure, and disciplined execution are positioning Entegris to become the foundational materials platform underpinning the build-out of global AI compute infrastructure. Our strong results this quarter are a direct reflection of the dedication and execution of our employees around the world. Their commitment to serving customers, advancing innovation, and operating with discipline continues to differentiate Entegris. With that, let me turn the call over to Sukhi to discuss the financials.

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

Thanks, Dave, and good morning, everyone. I'm thrilled to be joining Entegris at such an exciting time for the company and the industry. The combination of market leadership and technology, strong customer partnerships, and significant growth opportunities ahead reinforces my confidence in the long-term potential of the business, and I look forward to working with the team to help unlock that potential. Q2 sales were $883 million, an increase of 11% year-over-year and above our guidance range. Our GAAP net income was $94 million, and our adjusted net income was $143 million, an increase of 42% from a year ago. Both top and bottom-line metrics were above the high end of guidance. Gross margin on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis was 47.6%. The sequential improvement reflected continued progress in operations even as we continued to invest for growth.

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

We have increased our factory direct labor a double-digit percentage from Q4 that will help unlock additional capacity. We expect to build on this momentum as the year progresses. Operating expenses on a GAAP basis were $255 million in Q2, and $204 million on a non-GAAP basis, or approximately 23% of sales. The majority of the year-over-year increase is driven by higher variable compensation associated with the stronger business performance. Adjusted EBITDA in Q2 was $251 million, or 28.4%, also above our guidance range as the benefit of higher gross profits flowed through. The GAAP tax rate in Q2 was 15%, and the non-GAAP tax rate was 16%. GAAP diluted EPS was $0.61 per share in the second quarter, and non-GAAP EPS was $0.93 per share. Now, switching to our segments.

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

Materials Solutions delivered second quarter sales of $371 million, up 5% year-over-year, driven by advanced deposition materials, selective etch chemistries, and CMP. Growth in Materials Solutions accelerated from the first quarter, and we expect the MS segment to deliver double-digit year-over-year growth in the second half of 2026, benefiting from increased demand across deposition, CMP, etch, and implant materials product lines. MS adjusted operating margin was 20.9%, in line with the prior year. Higher raw material and logistics costs, together with planned investments in direct labor associated with customer demand, were largely offset by improved manufacturing performance and productivity initiatives across the segment. APS delivered Q2 sales of $515 million, up 17% year-over-year, driven by strength across both unit-driven and CapEx-related demand. Liquid filtration had its fourth consecutive record quarter. Our microenvironments business, led by FOUPs, delivered its strongest performance in more than three years.

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

Demand was strong in Taiwan due to expansions in leading-edge logic and advanced packaging capacity. We also saw a return to year-over-year growth in North America. APS is benefiting from multiple growth drivers. We are seeing increasing demand tied to higher wafer starts, advanced node transitions, and accelerating semiconductor capital spending. These trends are creating opportunities across the portfolio that should persist throughout this year and beyond. Adjusted operating margin for our APS segment was 30.3% for the quarter, expanding both year-over-year and sequentially. This performance reflects volume growth, favorable mix, continued improvements in operational execution, more than offsetting costs and investments we're making for the customer demand. Now, switching to cash flow and the balance sheet. We delivered free cash flow of $120 million in the second quarter, or 14% of sales, reflecting higher earnings, lower capital spending, and continued working capital improvements.

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

We reduced our cash conversion cycle by approximately 20 days year-over-year and repaid an additional $200 million of debt in the quarter. As a result, net leverage improved to 3.4x, and we now expect to end the year below 3x. Moving on to the details of our third quarter outlook. We expect Q3 sales to range between $905 million and $935 million, a year-over-year increase of approximately 14% at the midpoint, reflecting continued momentum in the industry. Gross margin is expected to be between 47.5% and 48.5%, both on a GAAP and a non-GAAP basis, marking another improvement from Q2 and more than 400 basis points of expansion year-over-year. At the midpoint, we expect GAAP operating expenses of approximately $260 million and non-GAAP operating expenses of approximately $215 million, reflecting higher variable compensation and investments to support the growth we are seeing across our portfolio.

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

At the midpoint, we expect Q3 EBITDA margin to be 28.5%, net interest expense of approximately $43 million, and a non-GAAP tax rate of approximately 15%. We expect GAAP EPS between $0.75 and $0.83 per share and non-GAAP EPS between $0.96 and $1.04 per share. We expect depreciation to remain largely stable for the balance of this year at approximately $34 million per quarter. Looking ahead to our fourth quarter revenue expectations, with our current visibility, we expect revenue to grow approximately 4% from the midpoint of third quarter's guidance range, which represents mid-teens percentage growth year-over-year. Finally, I'd like to update a few modeling items for the full year 2026. We expect net interest expense to be approximately $180 million, the non-GAAP tax rate to be approximately 14%, and diluted share count of approximately 154 million for the full year.

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

CapEx of $250 million. We enter the second half with strong momentum. Since joining Entegris, I have spent considerable time with our global teams and have seen the strength of our technology, market position, and people. My near and midterm priorities are to deliver profitable growth, help drive operational excellence, and allocate capital with discipline. Before turning the call over to questions, I'd like to mention that we will be hosting our Investor Day on November 9th in New York City. We look forward to sharing a more detailed view of our AI materials platform strategy, technology roadmap and long-term financial framework. Seating will be limited and by invitation only. Registration information will follow in the coming days. The event will also be webcast live for those unable to attend in person. With that, operator, let's open the line for questions.

Operator

Thank you. The floor is now open for questions. At this time, if you have a question or comment, please press star one on your telephone keypad. If at any point your question is answered, you may remove yourself from the queue by pressing star two. Again, we do ask that you please pick up your handset when posing your questions to provide optimal sound quality. We'll pause for just a moment. Our first question will come from Melissa Weathers with Deutsche Bank. Your line is open.

Melissa Weathers
Melissa Weathers
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

Hi there. Thanks very much for the question. A lot to talk about. I guess for my first question on the fab CapEx outlook, I was just hoping you could talk a little bit more about what you're expecting, in terms of your CapEx-oriented business. We're seeing a lot of fabs get built out. Just trying to think about how we should be modeling that business second half of this year and into the first half of next year. That'd be helpful.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Good morning, Melissa. Thanks for the question. As a reminder, 75% of our revenue is driven by wafer starts and 25% by CapEx. Within CapEx, 10% is driven by WFE and 15% by fab construction. Tactically for 2026, as you'd expect, we're seeing the greatest uplift in our CapEx business from WFE, with our WFE order rates up at a growth rate that's very similar to the growth rate that's being reported by the WFE market. Call it 20%-30%. We are seeing some benefit from increased fab construction in 2026, the majority of that benefit will actually accrue to 2027, not into the second half of 2026. Thematically, second half of 2026, CapEx revenue driven by strong WFE growth, call it very low double-digit fab growth and 7%-8% unit growth.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

2027 will benefit from much stronger fab construction growth, followed again by WFE as those fabs are populated with tools, which will then be followed again by increased wafer unit growth as those tools process wafers. Also, I'd point out that I mentioned in my prepared commentary, we're currently tracking 20 leading-edge capacity expansions in the market. That's about 8-10 in advanced logic, seven to eight in advanced memory, and six to eight in advanced packaging. Our teams are encouraged by the industry backdrop, we're working very diligently to ensure that we've got supply position to deliver to our customers. Did you have a follow-up, Melissa?

Melissa Weathers
Melissa Weathers
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

Yes, I did. Thank you. Thanks for all that color. Well, first, welcome, Sukhi, to the call. I guess, Sukhi, from the couple of months that you've now been in the seat, anything that's stood out to you, any strategic priorities that you've been working on? It was really helpful to hear about some of the rationalizations and the business exit that you talked about. Any strategic priorities that we should be looking forward to ahead of the Analyst Day?

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

Yeah, thanks, Melissa. Good morning again. Look, it's less than a quarter that I've been here, my first impressions really is the technology that we have here is critical, first and foremost. I'm incredibly impressed with the technology of the company. Very few companies can deliver the innovation and the materials science that Entegris can provide, be it on the Purity Solution side or on the Advanced Materials Solution side. Second, what comes to mind here is that we have pretty strong positions, in the fastest-growing areas of the technology space, in Semis especially. Third, we have ample room to optimize and get the full entitlement out of the portfolio of assets that we have here. Those are my first impressions here, being in the seat for less than a quarter.

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

With that backdrop, at least what comes to my mind is my near-term priorities are pretty clear. We need to help drive profitable growth, further enhance the operational excellence and efficiencies of our assets, and deploy capital in a manner where we get the best return for every dollar spent.

Melissa Weathers
Melissa Weathers
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

Great. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question will come from Elizabeth Sun with Citi. Your line is open.

Elizabeth Sun
Elizabeth Sun
Analyst at Citi

Good morning. Thanks for taking the question. I guess my first question is, for the full year, it's good that you are guiding Q3 and Q4 both up, like 4% sequentially. That's for the full year. Are you still on track to be on track to your target model of outperforming the market by 3 points to 6 points, and what will be the driver to maybe to the upside to the full-year outlook?

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Sure. Let me take that one, Elizabeth, and Sukhi, if you have any follow-up, please build on the commentary. For third quarter, at the midpoint of our guidance, we're essentially guiding up mid-teens. That implies more than 10% growth both in MS and in APS. What you're seeing is you're seeing the business accelerate 5% year-over-year growth in first quarter, going to 11% year-over-year growth for the second quarter, moving up to mid-teens year-over-year growth for the third quarter. That's the guidance through the third quarter. Given our increased order visibility and our backlog, we did want to give you at least some improved visibility for fourth quarter, very similar to what we did in last quarter. We guided fourth quarter up sequentially about 4%. We'll tighten up that guidance when we get to our third quarter call.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Based upon what we currently see, even that would be up mid-teens on a year-over-year basis, again, with MS and APS both growing more than 10%. What we're seeing is we're seeing the business accelerate. We're seeing both businesses accelerate from the first half of the year into the second half of the year. Given all the activity, both in fab construction as well as more than 50 engineering engagements in new projects, we think that bodes well for 2027 as well. Did you have a follow-up, Elizabeth?

Elizabeth Sun
Elizabeth Sun
Analyst at Citi

Thanks for the color. On gross margin side, just good to see your Q2 is above the guidance. My first question is, what's got the upside in the Q2 gross margin? Then in Q3, it's nice to see you are touching 48. I'm not asking for a new target model, but from this point, you're talking about your operational efficiency improvements, factory rationalizations. I'm just curious, what is the kind of baseline gross margin we should think of at this point?

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Yeah. Let me maybe take the big picture, Sukhi, maybe you can color in some of the details. Look, we're very excited about the potential of our product portfolio. I sat here in third quarter last year, I spoke about how we had a tremendous amount of untapped capacity in the network. I talked about how we were driving kind of four things operationally, the network optimization, the centralization of procurement, improved focus on yield, then maniacal focus on productivity. When you think about all of those activities that you've seen us kind of consistently drive now for three quarters, we're actually making very good progress across all of those initiatives, including closing another dilutive facility, or announcing the closure, I should say, of another dilutive facility.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

We're very pleased with the progression, we think we have significant room to continue to grow from here. Sukhi, do you want to talk about some of the specific dynamics?

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

Yeah.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Q1 to Q2 to Q3?

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

look, our gross margin improved 70 basis points sequentially. I think it's also important to note that we delivered pretty strong incrementals despite intentionally investing ahead for demand. That should show some proof points that we're on the right track here. The underlying business continues to benefit from productivity and operational improvements, and our ability to drive structurally high margins and flow through as we continue to scale. Look, I think underlying business continues to benefit from all of this, and I think we'll be in a position to drive structurally higher margins through the cycle.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Those are good points, Sukhi, and if I could just maybe build on one comment that you had. We are investing ahead so that we can unlock that capacity that I mentioned across the network. For example, we've increased direct labor by more than 20% since the end of 2025. Again, investing ahead of the capacity and the products that will be delivered in the future quarters. We're making good progress to unlock really the capacity that exists in our manufacturing network.

Elizabeth Sun
Elizabeth Sun
Analyst at Citi

Good to hear. Thanks, Dave. Thanks, Sukhi.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Thanks, Elizabeth.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question will come from Timothy Arcuri with UBS. Your line is open.

Timothy Arcuri
Timothy Arcuri
Analyst at UBS

Thanks a lot. I don't know, Dave, if you or Sukhi want to take this, but I guess my question is on the gross margin rubric. You dropped through between 70% and 75% year-over-year in June. The guidance for September, 75%, 80% drop-through. Are there any one-timers in there? I guess the question is that a reasonable drop-through to use? Because I don't see any reason why you should be growing a year from now, you should be growing any less than what you're growing now. If I use the same kind of mid-teens, and I use that kind of drop-through, your gross margin should be in the 52% range a year from now. I guess the question is, are there any one-timers helping your drop-through right now, and is that a fair.

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

Yeah. Hey, Tim.

Timothy Arcuri
Timothy Arcuri
Analyst at UBS

mid-70s to use?

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

Tim, thank you for that question. I think on a year-over-year basis, there was about 150 basis points of uplift because of the useful life adjustment that we had. If you take that off, we did also increase margins by more than 300 basis points excluding that. As you look forward into next year, we'll give you an update on more for our target model at Capital Markets Day. Typically, I think what you should be seeing is this incremental flow-through should be in the 60% range. Dave, you want to add anything there?

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Tim, we think the right comps would be from Q1 to Q2. We had nice flow through gross profit over revenue of around 60%. It's a similar number at midpoint from second quarter to third quarter sequentially. That takes out any kind of year-over-year dynamics related to useful life. We think that's probably the best comp as you model out into the future.

Timothy Arcuri
Timothy Arcuri
Analyst at UBS

Okay, cool.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

You have a follow-up, Tim?

Timothy Arcuri
Timothy Arcuri
Analyst at UBS

I do. Sukhi, just on the Q4 guidance, up 4% is only really in line with kind of normal seasonal for Q4. It still seems a little conservative. You guys are doing great, don't get me wrong. Up 4% still seems a little light. Are there any dynamics that you call out in Q4?

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

No, that's a good question. It's important to put the guidance in context, Tim. A 4% sequential increase in Q4 would still translate to a mid-teen year-over-year growth. Represents pretty healthy growth rate and reflects our continued momentum across our businesses. When you consider our composition of revenue, 75% of our revenue tied to semi-unit growth, that's expected to grow about 7%-8%. The remainder is tied to capital spending. Our outlook implies meaningful outperformance relative to the underlying semi market. This is again supported by content gains we're seeing, technology transitions, and our exposure to some of the leading-edge pure play AI enablers. Dave, you wanted to add something to that?

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Well said. Thanks, Tim.

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

Thank you, Tim.

Timothy Arcuri
Timothy Arcuri
Analyst at UBS

Thanks.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question will come from Bhavesh Lodaya with BMO Capital Markets. Your line is open.

Bhavesh Lodaya
Bhavesh Lodaya
Analyst at BMO Capital Markets

Hi, good morning, Dave.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Morning, Bhavesh.

Bhavesh Lodaya
Bhavesh Lodaya
Analyst at BMO Capital Markets

Morning. Maybe on the strong growth that you are seeing in liquid filtration, could you add some more color as to maybe the regions that this is coming from? Is it new fab capacity or just higher operating rates? If you could comment, is KSP playing a role in this as well?

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Sure. When you look at liquid filtration, when you think about how important micro-contamination is to the most advanced nodes, once you get down to sub 5 nm, and down to 2 nm, 2 nm is 20 angstroms, and depending on the size of the molecule, you can have molecules that are 5 angstroms. Purity is becoming increasingly critical at the most advanced nodes of manufacturing. You've seen liquid filtration kind of grow disproportionately as more production capacity is added to the most advanced nodes. That's true the most in advanced logic, but it's also becoming increasingly true across memory and in limited examples across advanced packaging as well. As the market expands capacity at the most advanced nodes, it drives tighter requirements. That drives a greater need for filtration.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

With respect to operating consumer operating sites like KSP, we produce the majority of our filters kind of across three sites, so one in North America, one in Japan, and obviously KSP in Taiwan. KSP, I would categorize as on track. We are on track, perhaps to break even this quarter. Probably a little bit ahead of schedule. KSP, I would color green, and I would count that as on track for 2026. We're through a lot of the qualifications. There's still more to come, but we're basically now into the ramping stage of KSP. When you think about ramping KSP, you're going from essentially a facility that was losing money on a standalone unit of 1 basis to essentially what would be kind of break even, touch wood, here in the third quarter, certainly in the second half of this year.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

As we move and migrate into 2027, it'll move into the diluted category, and then ultimately into the enterprise average gross margin category. Making good progress, and I would color KSP as being on track, and it is participating in some of the liquid filtration ramp that we've spoken about. Did you have a follow-up, Bhavesh?

Bhavesh Lodaya
Bhavesh Lodaya
Analyst at BMO Capital Markets

Yes, please. Great to hear on KSP. For the follow-up, Dave, you have mentioned before that the business has around $1 billion of incremental sales capacity without adding more plants or more capacity there. Is it possible to break that $1 billion between the consumable side and the CapEx-exposed part of the business? My guess is given how the CapEx business has performed over the last few years, you probably have more capacity than the 25% mix that you have for the business.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

I actually don't have the breakdown off the cuff between units and CapEx. What I did mention last year was that we had significantly greater than $1 billion. I wouldn't just limit it to $1 billion of incremental capacity in the network. It's more than that. It is broad-based. It is across units and CapEx. I don't know that split off the cuff. I can tell you, as I sit here today, we have increasing confidence that we can satisfy the vast majority of the demand that we see in front of us with the current manufacturing network, with limited capital investments from here. We have to do some things. We have to spend some money ahead to unlock that capacity. By and large, we believe that we can satisfy the current demand that we have visibility to through the current manufacturing network.

Bhavesh Lodaya
Bhavesh Lodaya
Analyst at BMO Capital Markets

Thank you.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Thanks, Bhavesh.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question will come from Jim Schneider with Goldman Sachs. Your line is open.

Jim Schneider
Jim Schneider
Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. Clearly, the outlook for WFE growth continues to get more constructive for 2027. I think, Dave, you referenced the fact that your CapEx-related business, given the fab construction profile, the construction piece could actually outpace growth next year. I'm wondering, what are some of the reasons why your CapEx-related business, that portion of the business would or would not exceed WFE growth for 2027?

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

It's really just the timing, Jim. If you think about the 25% of our business that is CapEx, 10% of it is WFE-driven, 15% of it is fab construction-driven. We don't get revenue on time zero of a fab construction. We don't get revenue when you move dirt, pour concrete, place steel. We get revenue 12 months post that. Once you start facilitizing the fab, we get another slug of revenue as you're taking that process piping to tools. We get another slug of revenue with the placement of those tools, finally, we get the unit volume at the end. Kind of a slug of revenue, let's round and call it 12 months, another slug of revenue around 18 months, WFE around 24 months, units thereafter.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Really the fab construction piece, given all the fabs that we're currently tracking, assuming that they move into the construction build-out and tooling stage, we think timing-wise, that you kind of migrate from second half of 2026 being more WFE-driven to perhaps 2027 being a bit more fab construction-driven. Towards the end, maybe a bit more WFE. WFE continues to be strong, obviously, you start to get units out probably in 2028. We think we kind of have these three waves of demand, if you will.

Jim Schneider
Jim Schneider
Analyst at Goldman Sachs

That's very helpful color. Thank you. Maybe as a follow-up, Dave, when you took over as CEO, I think you sort of referenced the fact that you would be looking at different elements of strategy, including your sales strategy, and maybe thinking about entering parts of the market or being more aggressive in parts of the market where you hadn't been previously. Can you maybe give us sort of an update on the overall sales strategy now?

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Sure. We have an enterprise sales team now that sits at the corporate level, which tracks all of our opportunities across kind of our top 35 customers, which represent the largest portion of our business. We've looked at all of those customers. We've tracked our product line placements within each one of those customers and have developed very detailed plans, specific customer by customer, to then go forth and kind of penetrate those accounts in greater volume with also more product line coverage. That's the high level kind of sales strategy that's somewhat different than what we had done historically. In terms of portions of the market that we're interested in, we're going to color in the lines a little bit more at Capital Markets Day. We hope to see you in November at Capital Markets Day. We've talked about, for example, advanced packaging.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

That's an area where historically the company has not played in a significant way. We've always been more front end of line focused in the fab. As you know, advanced packaging is growing incredibly quickly. There are some portions of that market that are not as attractive to us, but there are also some portions of that market that are attractive to us. We have about $100 million runway, plus or minus, in that portion of the market today. That's an area that we would like to see our business grow more quickly as well as have more product placement across categories in that portion of the market.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

We'll color in more of the lines at Capital Markets Day, but an enterprise sales strategy, customer by customer plan across all product lines, not just a few product lines, deep customer engagements from an R&D perspective, more than 50 projects in flight. Of course, some attractive SAMs that are growing quickly, example being advanced packaging, that we're looking to penetrate a little bit more deeply in the future. With that, maybe I'll end it there and we can color in more of those lines at Capital Markets Day. Thanks, Jim.

Jim Schneider
Jim Schneider
Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question will come from Charles Shi with Needham. Your line is open.

Charles Shi
Charles Shi
Analyst at Needham

Thanks for taking my question, Dave and Sukhi. The first question, by now, a lot of your customers' customers, or maybe customers, fab customers, are signing LTAs, et cetera, securing pricing with the customers, their customers. Wondering from a materials perspective, from your perspective, any opportunity for your industry to really think about maybe you should sign LTA as well, and maybe you should discuss pricing with those customers and maybe capture what's the fair value for companies like Entegris? Thank you.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Thanks, Charles. We do have some supply agreements with our customers. I would say we've been approached more recently to engage in more supply agreements, given the current demand environment, that's an area that we're certainly looking at very closely, not only from a pricing perspective, but just from a supply perspective. Our number one business priority at this stage is to make sure that we can support our customers through this period of accelerating demand. We will ensure that we are appropriately compensated for the value, capacity, and technology that we provide. Our number one priority right now is making sure that we can unlock the manufacturing network that I've spoken so much about, then be able to get that fixed cost absorption, get that volume, and provide the products that our customers desperately need as they engage in their ramps.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

As I mentioned, we're currently tracking more than 50 engineering projects with customers. These are long-term engagements. There's more than 20 advanced fabs that are being built. While our guidance today doesn't contemplate material pricing, we are confident that we will be compensated for the value that we bring. Did you have a follow-up, Charles?

Charles Shi
Charles Shi
Analyst at Needham

Yes. Thanks, Dave, for the color on pricing on LTA and other stuff. I want to ask you a product question. I know from time to time, asking a question about a single product is kind of tough. For what it's worth, Molybdenum has been a focal point in a lot of the investor discussion, for whatever it's worth, again. We've been hearing from some of the equipment companies that at least that there's a third equipment company entering the Molybdenum deposition, at least in the memory space. Want to get your thoughts on overall Molybdenum growth, what you are seeing today going to next year. More importantly, looks like now it's a three OEM equipment companies are in the race. Are you agnostic relative to the gives and takes of the market share among those three? Thank you.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Thanks, Charles. Look, Molybdenum, we have not seen in the wild the third entrant in a meaningful way as of yet. It's largely a two-horse race as we see it right now. Obviously, we're staying close to this market. Molybdenum is up significantly on a year-over-year basis. I don't have the exact number in front of me for second quarter, but I think the number was more than 20% on a year-over-year basis up in the second quarter. Memory volumes are starting, and I'm referring to NAND, are starting to grow to kind of the high 200s or the 300+ layer count, which is what's driving that need for Molybdenum. We believe we are very well-positioned there. Molybdenum, it's a unique and a novel chemistry, and it's a new chemistry for the memory market.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

It's a chemistry where you not only have to deliver a delivery cabinet that has very stable pressure with a molecule that is incredibly aggressive from a process piping perspective, but you have to sublimate a solid into a gas and deliver it at pressure and at temperature to get the right performance out of the memory process. We're very with our position. We think overall it probably doubles for us on a year-over-year basis, 2026 versus 2025. We're happy with the performance and the hard work the team's doing. Thanks, Charles.

Charles Shi
Charles Shi
Analyst at Needham

Thanks.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from John Roberts with Mizuho. Your line is open.

John Roberts
John Roberts
Analyst at Mizuho

Thank you. Maybe you could back up a little bit and tell us where you are overall in your footprint optimization program. You took a couple actions in the quarter, put that in perspective for us in terms of what's to come.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Sure. Let me maybe broaden it out and talk a little bit about what are we trying to drive overall for manufacturing and operations. We have network optimization, which is the rationalization that you reference. We have centralizing procurements, which is driving more leverage throughout our total procurement supply chain. We have maniacal focus on driving yield, reducing scrap, improving throughput through those activities, and then of course, productivity. Productivity is measured across both people as well as machines and tooling. Those are kind of the four very high-level work streams that we have been working on now for almost a year, coming up on a year. We're making good progress across all of those. All of those have meaningful potential to expand gross margin or expand profitability while driving reduced future capital investments.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Increasing units, driving increased profitability by using the same kind of fixed footprint. Those are the big efforts. In terms of additional rationalization, demand remains strong. We mentioned that demand increased materially in the middle of the first quarter, and that we were taking a little bit of a pause on rationalization until we determined exactly where that demand signal settled. Demand increased again in the second quarter. I'll play back the commentary from the first quarter that we're going to carefully evaluate right now where this demand signal settles, because right now the demand profile is continuing to increase from a level that we thought was already elevated in Q1. No additional plans at this time for incremental network optimization. We still have roughly 35 manufacturing facilities.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

We will utilize them all to the fullest extent, and then to the extent that we see opportunities in the future, we'll come back and update you at that time. Did you have a follow-up?

John Roberts
John Roberts
Analyst at Mizuho

Yeah. As the balance sheet continues to improve, how are you thinking about bolt-on M&A? There's still a fair amount of white space across your customers' needs.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Yeah. Sukhi, feel free to chime in on this if you'd like.

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

Sure. Look, our immediate near-term focus really is on reducing our leverage. We have a clear path, right? As we mentioned in our prepared remarks, we will get to under 3x net leverage by the end of this year. In fact, we are actually in the month of July, we repaid another $25 million of debt. That still remains our top priority. Overall, look, the way we look at investments here is, relative to our cost of capital, we'll look at internal investments and the return we get from those type of investments, and then we look at CapEx-related investments, and then finally, external M&A. Each one of them has different risk profiles to it. We'll be looking at each one of these areas with the view of actually getting the right type of return for each of the investments.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

If I could just build on something that I'm incredibly excited about. The rate and pace of de-leveraging is happening significantly faster than I expected. I never anticipated that I could sit here on this call today, here in August, and be able to tell you that we expect to end the year with a net leverage ratio that starts with a two. That was an expectation that I did not have starting this year. The team has done a great job driving expansion and gross margin. They've taken that gross margin all the way down to net income, and even better, they've taken it all the way down through free cash flow through a lot of the work that's been done on the working capital side. I expect that great work to continue.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

The reward for good work is even more work, we're going to work very hard in the second half of this year to continue to drive free cash flow, to continue to reduce our leverage. As we do that, it opens up a lot of opportunities, as Sukhi mentioned.

John Roberts
John Roberts
Analyst at Mizuho

Thank you.

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

Yeah.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Mike Harrison with Seaport Global. Your line is open.

Mike Harrison
Mike Harrison
Analyst at Seaport Global

Hi, good morning. One of your competitors today suggested that they think they're seeing some share gains in CMP slurries and cleans. Was hoping that you could talk a little bit about how you're seeing the competitive environment within CMP, whether you think you're encountering any share shift one way or the other.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

We feel good about our CMP business. We've got nice growth rates in CMP. We actually think that we have some very market-leading growth rates in pads. We think we're successfully growing, expanding, and defending plans of records and slurries. When you look at our CMP business overall, we're quite pleased with that trajectory, including some of the inroads into advanced packaging that weren't in place a year ago. Overall, we feel good about our CMP business. As we mentioned, MS is a business that's accelerating as we go through the course of this year, expecting more than 10% growth in the third quarter, implying more than 10% of growth again in the fourth quarter. Very happy with the MS business overall, and then specifically with the CMP business. Did you have a follow-up?

Mike Harrison
Mike Harrison
Analyst at Seaport Global

Yeah, my follow-up is specific to the molybdenum business. You talked a little bit about the growth that you're seeing there, but I'm curious. You've talked in the past about the need to optimize the CMP solution, as well as selective etch, and maybe some of the filtration components around that. Are you seeing that customers are adopting that full optimized suite from Entegris, or are they picking and choosing different suppliers for the different aspects of molybdenum deposition etch CMP?

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Look, specifically for molybdenum, the majority of the envelope tends to sit around the distribution cabinet that I mentioned, and the actual molecule itself. The other portions of that process, as you mentioned, both the etch as well as some of the follow-on processes, those are by and large separate buying centers today.

Operator

Thank you.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Thanks, Mike.

Operator

Our next question comes from Chris Parkinson with Wolfe Research. Your line is open.

Chris Parkinson
Chris Parkinson
Analyst at Wolfe Research

Great. Thank you so much. Just in terms of what you're expecting in the second half on a sequential basis, both 3Q and 4Q, could you just hit on your expectations for mainstream operates into the second half of the year, and then as well as HBM as it pertains to memory? Just any color there would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Yeah. Mainstream demand remains mixed. There's memory-related pressure on some of the consumer markets, that's offset by its strength in some of the AI-related applications like power management and silicon photonics. We see mainstream as improving, but still somewhat mixed because obviously there's a lot of consumer-related markets, mobile being a great example, that sit within mainstream, and the memory pressure on those markets, not to be discounted. We think foundry utilization in the mainstream has improved to probably 80%-85%, depending on exactly on which mainstream provider you're looking at. I do agree, I think the direction of travel seems to be modestly higher.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

I think our view on it is just that it's slightly improved compared to last quarter, but we still expect it to be tempered and below the trend growth for 2026, and potentially longer, pending the outcome of memory pricing and availability. Did you have a follow-up, Chris?

Chris Parkinson
Chris Parkinson
Analyst at Wolfe Research

Yeah, just a quick one, actually. Can you just give a little extra framework on the businesses in life sciences that you are now out of in terms of just the optics on a segment level, if you have them available? Thank you.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Yeah. Life sciences, the business we exited, think of it as less than $20 million of annual revenue. Think of it as being more like fluid management type products. We still have some filtration products for life sciences. That business is still ongoing. Think of this as more fluid management and life sciences. It did have a dilutive margin, both gross margin as well as a significantly dilutive EBITDA margin. Given the tremendous growth in semiconductors and management time, effort, and focus, it made sense for us at this time to announce the closing of that business and the wind-down of that standalone facility. Thanks, Chris.

Chris Parkinson
Chris Parkinson
Analyst at Wolfe Research

Cheers. Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. Our final question for today comes from Edward Yang with Oppenheimer. Your line is open.

Edward Yang
Edward Yang
Analyst at Oppenheimer

Hi, Dave, and welcome, Sukhi. Nice quarter. Thanks for the time. On the MS side, it's great to see you guiding for double-digit growth in the second half. It was a bit below industry MSI in the second quarter, and I just wanted to close a loop on that. Was that just timing? The segment margin there was also down year-over-year. Do you expect margins in MS to expand in the second half as well?

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

I'll talk about the growth, and Sukhi, maybe you can comment on the margins. Look, for MS, it grew 5% year-over-year in the second quarter. MSI probably grew around 7%-8% in the second quarter, depending on what numbers you're looking at in the market and making sure that you account for the wafer shippers versus actual wafer starts. We think we were in line, given some of the year-over-year comps related to Liberation Day last year and some of the pull forward that we saw in that business. I would say that we grew in line with market for the MS business for second quarter, and we think based on current visibility, that we will most likely grow above market in the third quarter and the fourth quarter as well. Sukhi, do you want to comment in on the margins?

Sukhi Nagesh
Sukhi Nagesh
SVP and CFO at Entegris

Look, on the margin side, as manufacturing here becomes really complex and customers continue to migrate to advanced nodes, the number of opportunities that the company has is continuing to expand. We're seeing that reflected in the growing set of SAM opportunities across the portfolio. As you would expect, we are investing accordingly in areas where we see significant long-term growth in the MS division, and that includes capabilities such as moly precursors and other high-value opportunities. Operating leverage we're generating right now, we are seeing intentional reinvestment to support future growth, and you should see that earnings power start to increase over time.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

Edward, did you have a follow-up?

Edward Yang
Edward Yang
Analyst at Oppenheimer

Yeah, I do. Dave, coming back to your comments around advanced packaging and understand you'll provide more detail at Analyst Day. It didn't sound like you're interested in acquiring a bigger footprint there. I was just wondering how quickly you could scale that business organically from that $100 million revenue run rate.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

We won't comment on acquisitions either way, but we never said we weren't interested in looking at some businesses in that space. I think when we look at the advanced packaging market, though, it's still being defined. Even today, you still have changes in materials, you have changes in packaging sizes, you have changes in real substantive technical changes with respect to thermal expansions, conductivity, attach. There's a lot that's still to be defined in the space, and it's a very rapidly growing space. Five years ago, it was very low single digits as a percentage of CapEx in the industry, and this year it may be approaching double digits, or approaching 10% in terms of percentage of total industry CapEx. We think there are a lot of growing SAMs.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder
CEO at Entegris

We think there are a lot of SAMs that can support the type of differentiated products that we can provide, and those are the spaces that we want to target, and we think there's more than enough opportunity to target those spaces and still have the right to win without necessarily facing the incumbent advantage. Stay tuned for more during Capital Markets Day and appreciate the question, Edward.

Edward Yang
Edward Yang
Analyst at Oppenheimer

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. This concludes today's Entegris second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Please disconnect your line at this time and have a wonderful day.

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