Corning Incorporated : Q4News Release2022

Corning Incorporated

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News Release

FOR RELEASE - JANUARY 31, 2023

Corning Reports Fourth-Quarter and

Full-Year 2022 Financial Results

The company grew 2022 sales and EPS, building on a strong 2021 and demonstrating

strategic resilience in a challenging external environment

Optical Communications and Hemlock and Emerging Growth Businesses delivered double-

digit year-over-year sales growth, and Display Technologies maintained stable pricing

For first-quarter 2023, management expects sales to be impacted by pandemic-related disruptions in China, with core sales in the range of $3.2 billion to $3.4 billion and core EPS in the range of $0.35 to $0.42

Pricing and productivity improvement actions taken in Q4 2022 are expected to deliver

profitability and cash flow benefits starting in Q1 2023

CORNING, N.Y. - Corning Incorporated(NYSE: GLW) today announced its fourth-quarter and full-year 2022 results and provided its outlook for first-quarter 2023.

Financial Performance

Fourth-Quarter 2022:

• Fourth-quarterGAAP sales were $3.4 billion, and core sales were $3.6 billion.
• Fourth-quarterGAAP EPS was $(0.04), and core EPS was $0.47. The primary differences between GAAP and core EPS stemmed from restructuring charges taken in the fourth quarter and from non-cash,mark-to-market adjustments associated with the company's currency-hedging contracts and Japanese-yen-denominated debt.
• Free cash flow for the quarter was $377 million.

Full-Year 2022:

• For the full year, GAAP sales were $14.2 billion, up 1% year over year, and core sales were $14.8 billion, up 5%, versus a strong 2021.
  o Optical Communications' annual sales surpassed $5 billion, reaching an all-time high.
  o Display Technologies maintained stable pricing year over year despite a sharp drop in panel maker utilization in the second half.
  o Specialty Materials and Environmental Technologies delivered consistent sales year over year, outperforming depressed end markets.
  o Hemlock and Emerging Growth Businesses generated 34% year-over-year growth, driven primarily by solar sales, as well as strong year-over-year growth in

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Pharmaceutical Technologies and Automotive Glass Solutions.

• Full-yearGAAP EPS was $1.54, and core EPS was $2.09. The primary differences between GAAP and core EPS stemmed from restructuring charges.
• Full-yearfree cash flow was $1.24 billion.

First-Quarter 2023 Outlook:

• For the first quarter, management expects core sales in the range of $3.2 billion to $3.4 billion and core EPS in the range of $0.35 to $0.42. Management expects sales to decline more than seasonally due to pandemic-related disruptions in China. Management took actions to increase price and improve productivity in the fourth quarter of 2022. The company expects the benefits of these actions to begin in the first quarter of 2023 and, as a result, profitability to improve despite an anticipated sequential sales decline.

Wendell P. Weeks, chairman and chief executive officer, said: "In 2022, Corning grew core sales to $14.8 billion as we built on our strong positions in optical communications and solar - and our businesses continued outperforming their end markets. I'm pleased with the sales growth we continue to deliver despite recession-leveldemand in markets constituting about half of our sales. However, our profitability and cash flow have lagged sales growth as a number of pandemic-driveneffects continue to ripple across the global economy. In response, we took significant additional price and productivity improvement actions in the fourth quarter that will improve margins and cash generation starting this year."

Weeks continued, "We will continue to focus on operating each of our businesses well in 2023, including adapting to global and market dynamics, while simultaneously advancing long-term growth initiatives and capabilities that will drive our success as the global economy stabilizes. Even though the pandemic-related disruptions in China are currently impacting the television, automotive, smartphone, and IT markets, we'll be ready to capture growth when consumer demand returns. We remain confident in our ability to deliver durable multiyear growth."

Ed Schlesinger, executive vice president and chief financial officer, said: "In 2022, we grew full-yearsales and EPS. In the fourth quarter, we took actions to further improve our profitability and cash flow. These actions included raising prices again in Optical Communications and Life Sciences, improving our productivity metrics, and reducing our inventory."

Schlesinger continued, "Looking ahead, we're well positioned to capture growth as our end markets recover. For the first quarter, we anticipate core sales in the range of $3.2 billion to $3.4 billion, and we expect sales to improve from these levels in the second quarter. The benefits of our recent actions will improve profitability despite lower sales, and we expect first-quarter core EPS in the range of $0.35 to $0.42."

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Strategy in Action

Corning strives to be a catalyst for positive change and to help move the world forward. The company drives profitable multiyear growth by inventing, making, and selling life-changing products while cultivating deep, trust-based relationships with industry leaders, ultimately incorporating more content into customers' offerings. To do so, Corning takes a long-view approach, investing in a set of vital capabilities that are becoming increasingly relevant to profound transformations that touch many facets of daily life. Today, Corning's markets include optical communications, mobile consumer electronics, display, automotive, solar, semiconductor, and life sciences.

2022 highlights include:

• Delivering innovations that offer unprecedented performance to meet the rigorous
  demands put on smartphone cover materials and allow people to do more right from their mobile devices by developing a new glass composition,Corning®Gorilla®Glass Victus®2, that delivers improved drop performance on rough surfaces like concrete. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.will use the new compositionas part of its next generation of Galaxy flagship smartphones. Additionally, Corning's premium cover materials are also on the front and back of the Samsung Galaxy S22 devices, and Corning's DX products are featured on all five rear cameras of the Samsung Galaxy S22
  Ultra.
• Enabling enhanced experiences for drivers and making vehicles greener by providing sustainable glass solutions for innovative curved interior displays. Corning collaborated withLG Electronics, a global technology and vehicle component solutions innovator, to advance in-carconnectivity, and withCarUX, a leading car display company owned by Innolux, to enable the future of automotive displays. Corning also continued expanding its gasoline particulate filter business into new markets as India advanced GPF implementation.
• Helping build a more connected world.Corning teamed up with Nokia and Wescoto address operators' labor and supply challenges with products that accelerate and simplify rural broadband deployment. To meet demand in Europe, Corningopened a new optical fiber manufacturing plant in Poland.Additionally, the company was joined by AT&T CEO John Stankey and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, whose leadership helped pass infrastructure legislation dedicated to connecting the unconnected, toannounce a new optical cable manufacturing facilityin Arizona to meet committed customer demand and address industry growth.
• Advancing the semiconductors that are fundamental to all of today's technology by strengthening the United States' leadership position in the growing industry. Sen. Charles Schumer and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul joined Corning toannounce agovernment-backedexpansionof its Advanced Optics facility in Fairport, New York, to bolster the supply chain. In Michigan,government funding is expected to allow the

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expansion of operationsto meet the increasing global demand for hyperpure polysilicon in the semiconductor industry and address growing solar demand.

• Developing sustainable practices across its industries. Corning expanded its supply of critical materials to the solar industry, submitted carbon reduction goals to the Science Based Targets initiative, and extended its leadership in renewable energy use. Corning also pioneered chemical recycling methods with thepotential to drastically reduce single- use plastic consumption and waste in the Life Sciences industry.
• Driving life-changing discovery - from clean energy to space exploration. Corning's advanced optics technologies played a vital role inthe first successfulfusion-ignitionexperiment in history. The company alsoapplied itsindustry-leadingsolutionsto enable the world's deepest look into the universe by engineering and manufacturing key optical instruments for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
• Building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment. Corning became aVETS Indexes Recognized Employerin recognition of the company's many employees who are veterans as well as its work to hire, retain, promote, and support veterans, and theNational Business Inclusion Consortium named Corningamong its Best-of-the-BestCorporations for Inclusion.

Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2022 Results and Comparisons (In millions, except per-share amounts)

										Full-		Full-
					%			%		year		year	%
	Q4 2022	Q3 2022	change	Q4 2021	change		2022		2021	change
GAAP Net Sales	$	3,406	$	3,488	(2%)	$	3,676	(7%)	$	14,189	$	14,082	1%
GAAP Net (Loss) Income (1)	$	(36)	$	208	*	$	487	*	$	1,316	$	1,906	(31%)
GAAP Diluted EPS	$	(0.04)	$	0.24	*	$	0.56	*	$	1.54	$	1.28	20%
Core Sales (2)	$	3,633	$	3,666	(1%)	$	3,714	(2%)	$	14,805	$	14,120	5%
Core Net Income (2)	$	402	$	438	(8%)	$	465	(14%)	$	1,794	$	1,811	(1%)
Core EPS (2)	$	0.47	$	0.51	(8%)	$	0.54	(13%)	$	2.09	$	2.07	1%

1. Represents GAAP net (loss) income attributable to Corning Incorporated.
2. Core performance measures are non-GAAP financial measures. The reconciliation between GAAP and non- GAAP measures is provided in the tables following this news release, as well as on the company's website.
   * Not Meaningful

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Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2022 Segment Results

The fourth-quarter and full-year 2022 results below are prepared on a basis consistent with Corning's segment reporting as presented in the company's consolidated financial statements.

Optical Communications

										Full-		Full-
					%			%		year		year	%
	Q4 2022	Q3 2022	change	Q4 2021	change		2022		2021	change
Net Sales	$	1,195	$	1,317	(9%)	$	1,206	(1%)	$	5,023	$	4,349	15%
Net Income Before Tax	$	164	$	233	(30%)	$	198	(17%)	$	841	$	705	19%
Net Income	$	130	$	183	(29%)	$	155	(16%)	$	661	$	553	20%

In Optical Communications, fourth-quarter sales were $1.2 billion, down 9% sequentially, driven by the pacing of customer projects. For the full year, sales surpassed $5 billion, an increase of 15%, driven by 5G, broadband, and cloud computing.

Display Technologies

										Full-		Full-
					%			%		year		year	%
	Q4 2022	Q3 2022	change	Q4 2021	change		2022		2021	change
Net Sales	$	783	$	686	14%	$	942	(17%)	$	3,306	$	3,700	(11%)
Net Income Before Tax	$	217	$	169	28%	$	317	(32%)	$	972	$	1,209	(20%)
Net Income	$	171	$	134	28%	$	252	(32%)	$	769	$	960	(20%)

In Display Technologies, fourth-quarter sales were $783 million, up 14% sequentially, as panel maker utilization increases drove higher volume, and glass price was consistent with the third quarter. Net income was $171 million, up 28% sequentially, driven by strong execution and additional volume. For the full year, sales were $3.3 billion, down 11% year over year, driven by lower glass volume as a result of the industry correction in the second half of 2022. Glass price was consistent for the full year, and the company expects glass price in the first quarter to remain consistent with the fourth quarter.

Specialty Materials

										Full-		Full-
					%			%		year		year	%
	Q4 2022	Q3 2022	change	Q4 2021	change		2022		2021	change
Net Sales	$	505	$	519	(3%)	$	518	(3%)	$	2,002	$	2,008	-
Net Income Before Tax	$	98	$	122	(20%)	$	117	(16%)	$	430	$	470	(9%)
Net Income	$	78	$	96	(19%)	$	92	(15%)	$	340	$	371	(8%)

In Specialty Materials, fourth-quarter sales were $505 million, down 3% sequentially and year over year, but outperformed the smartphone and IT markets driven by customer product launches and continued strong demand for premium glasses and advanced optics products. Full-year sales were consistent as the segment outperformed the smartphone and IT markets, which were down by 11% and 15% respectively. Full-year net income was $340 million, down 8% year over year, due to continued investment in next-generation materials for consumer electronics and semiconductor equipment, as well as new markets, such as bendable devices and augmented reality.

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