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FabriNet (FN)

Q2'25 earnings call · held February 3, 2025 · compared with the Q1'25 call · management-credibility review
8/12
Disclosure score
1 high, 4 medium, 3 low flags
Financial quality
Bottom line
The sleeper story is that Fabrinet is becoming a DCI/telecom growth story while everyone still thinks of them as an AI/datacom play; 400ZR products alone are now $83M quarterly and growing 43% sequentially. The market sees record revenue but misses that their largest customer segment just went negative and will decline again in Q3. The binding constraint isn't demand or capacity, it's customer concentration risk with a single client controlling their destiny: 'We're ready to go whenever the customer is.' My view changes if 1.6T actually ramps in Q3 rather than Q4, or if telecom growth stalls.

The 30-second version

  • Telecom is eating datacom's lunch: 17% sequential growth in telecom while datacom dropped 9% as Nvidia transitions
  • Record revenue of $834M masks a major customer transition risk that could persist through Q3
  • Building 10's $2.4B capacity addition signals either massive confidence or dangerous overbuilding

What changed this quarter

MetricQ1'25Q2'25Change
Total Revenue$804M (+17% YoY)$834M (+17% YoY)+3.7% sequential acceleration
Non-GAAP EPS$2.39$2.61+9.2% beat despite FX headwinds
Datacom Revenue$329M (+36% YoY)$299M (+4% YoY)32pp YoY deceleration
Telecom Revenue$297M (+2% YoY)$348M (+24% YoY)22pp YoY acceleration
800G+ Revenue$257M (+19% YoY)$257M (+12% YoY)Flat sequential, decelerating YoY
400ZR as % of Revenue10% of optical10% of TOTAL revenue43% sequential surge to $83M
Operating Cash Flow$83M$116M+40% sequential surge
Free Cash Flow$63M$94M+49% sequential acceleration
Gross Margin12.7%12.4%30bps compression from FX
Operating Margin10.7%10.6%Holding despite gross margin pressure

Accountability tracked

8 new promises made5 narrative shifts flagged6 prior promises scored
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