MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :           

15.03.2012

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD.

 

 

Registered Office :

P.O. Box 586, Hermon Industrial Zone, Yoqneam Illit 2069207      

 

 

Country :

Israel

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.12.2011

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

30.03.1999

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Developers, marketers and exporters of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance

 

 

No. of Employees :

Group having 778 full time employees, as well as 63 part time employees, of which 648 full time and all part time employees in Israel

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

A

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

Fairly Large

 

Status :

Good

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

No Complaints

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

NOTES:

Any query related to this report can be made on e-mail : infodept@mirainform.com while quoting report number, name and date.

 

ECGC Country Risk Classification List – September 30th, 2011

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

                   (30.06.2011)                  

Current Rating

(30.09.2011)

Israel

a2

a2

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

Off-credit

 

D

 


Company name & address

 

MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD.

Telephone                972 4 909 72 00; 74 723 72 00

Fax                         972 4 959 32 45

P.O. Box 586

Hermon Industrial Zone

YOQNEAM ILLIT      2069207,ISRAEL

 

 

HISTORY & LEGAL FORMATION

 

Originally established as a private limited company, incorporated as per file No. 51-276328-5 on the 30.03.1999.

 

On February 8th, 2007 published a prospectus offering shares to the public through the NASDAQ, and converted into a public limited liability company (keeping the same registration number).

 

On July 9th, 2007 published a prospectus offering shares to the public through the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

 

 

SHARE CAPITAL

 

Authorized share capital NIS 2,400,000.00, divided into: -

                137,142,857 ordinary shares of NIS 0.0175 each,

of which 40,046,048 shares amounting to NIS 700,805.84 were issued.

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS

 

1.  FMR LLC (FIDELITY Fund), 15%, American institutional investor,

2.  ORACLE CORP., 9.6%, of the USA (Nasdaq: ORCL),

3.  Eyal Waldman, 4%,

4.  Shares are also traded on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange (symbol MLNX) and on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

 

In October 2010 subject announced that ORACLE acquired 10.2% of its shares.

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

1.     Eyal Waldman, Chairman and General Manager,

2.     Irwin Federman,

3.     Ms. Glenda Dorchak,

4.     Amal M. Johnson,

5.     Thomas Riordan,

6.     Thomas Weatherford,

7.     Dov Baharav.

 

 

BUSINESS

 

Developers, marketers and exporters of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance.

 

Among name brands "BridgeX", "ConnectX", "InfiniBlast".

 

Subject also serves as an OEM supplier

 

Manufacturing is carried out by sub-contractors.

 

Over 99% of subject's sales were export (93% in 2010), of which 52.5% to North America.

Among clientele: ORACLE, DELL, HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, LSI/Engenio Corporation, Network Appliance, Isilon, Voltaire, Xsigo, GE, Toshiba Medical, Seachange International, SUPERMICRO COMPUTER, VOLTAIRE, NASA, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Texas Advanced Computing Center, and more.

 

Amongst local suppliers: COMTEL ISRAEL ELECTRONICS SOLUTIONS.

 

Operating from rented premises (Engineering Headquarters, development facilities), on an area of 2,370 sq. meters, in Mellanox House, Hermon Industrial Zone, Yoqneam Illit (or 'Upper Yoqneam'), from development centers in Ramat Hachayal Industrial & Hi-Tech Zone, Tel Aviv, in Tel Hai (a Kibbutz in the country’s north) and in Raanana. Also operating from Corporate Headquarters from rented premises on an area of 9.650 sq. meters in Sunnyvale, California, USA.

 

Group having 778 full time employees, as well as 63 part time employees, of which 648 full time and all part time employees in Israel.

 

Group significantly increased its employee number following the acquisition of VOLTAIRE LTD. in February 2011 (some 200 employees).

 

 

MEANS

 

In February 2007 subject raised US$117.3 million via NASDAQ.

 

R&D expenses in 2011 were US$ 92.5 million (US$ 56.8 million in 2010).

 

Subject is an “Approved Enterprise” and as such enjoys tax benefits and State incentives. In April 2001 the Israel Investment Center (IIC) approved a US$ 7,118,000 investment in subject's plant. In June 2004, IIC approved NIS 5.7 million investment plan for the expansion of subject’s plant.


 

Consolidated B/S shows:

 

                                                                                         US$ (thousands)

                                                                               31.12.2011            31.12.2010

ASSETS

Current assets

        Cash & short term investments                                  238,083                 253,306

        Accounts receivables                                                  48,215                  19,893

        Other assets                                                               7,373                    4,487

        Inventories                                                                 24,955                  11,717

                                                                                       318,626                 289,403

 

Property and equipment (net)                                              36,806                  15,490

Goddwill and intangible assets                                           158,542                       290

Other long term assets                                                       16,056                    4,780

                                                                                       530,030                 315,755

                                                                                    =======              =======

 

LIABILITIES

Current liabilities                                                                67,093                  23,778

Long term liabilities                                                            20,590                  10,287

Equity                                                                             442,347                 281,690

                                                                                       530,030                 315,755

                                                                                    =======              =======

 

 

Current market value US$ 1.47 billion.

 

There are 3 charges for unlimited amounts, as well as 4 charges for the total sums of US$ 2,274.00 and NIS 6,418,133.00 registered on the company's assets, in favor of Bank Leumi Le'Israel Ltd., Bank Hapoalim Ltd. and a leasing company (last charge placed August 2011).

 

           

REVENUES

                                                                    Consolidated Statement of Income

                                                                                      US$ (thousands)

                                                                                    Year ended 31.12

                                                                        2011                 2010                2009

Revenues                                                        259,251            154,640            116,044

 

Gross profit                                                      167,236            114,090              87,375

 

Operating income                                               12,593              23,438              18,747

 

Income before taxes                                           13,352              23,303              19,265


 

Net income                                                         9,977              13,540              12,886

                                                                    =======         =======         =======

 

The revenues of 2011 include the sales of acquired VOLTAIRE.

 

 

OTHER COMPANIES

 

MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES INC., 100%, USA.

VOLTAIRE LTD., 100%, designers and developers of InfiniBand based connectivity solutions for data centers.

VOLTAIRE UK LTD., 100%,

MELLANOX KK LTD., 100%,

MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES DISTRIBUTION LTD., 100%.

 

 

BANKERS

 

Bank Hapoalim Ltd., Yoqneam Branch (No. 722), Yoqneam, account  No. 398395.

 

A check with the Central Banks' database did not reveal any negative information regarding subject's a/m account.

 

 

CHARACTER AND REPUTATION

 

Nothing unfavorable learned.

 

Despite our efforts, we were unable to speak with subject's officials, as they were always unavailable. We left messages which so far remain unanswered.

 

In April 2008 subject won ‘Best of Interop’ Award, which recognize exhibitors that have made significant technological advancements in specific category areas.

 

In January 2009 subject announced that its shares are now listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, the highest initial listing standards of any exchange in the world.

 

During 2009 subject negotiated to acquire COPPERGATE COMMUNICATIONS LTD. for US$ 200 million, however this deal did not pull through.

 

In November 2009 subject was ranked number 20 Fastest Growing Company in Israel on Deloitte’s 2009 Israel Technology Fast 50 Program and number 298 Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2009 Technology Fast 500™.

 

In January 2010 Subject's General Manager Eyal Waldman was named ‘CEO of the Year’ by the Israeli Center for Management.

In February 2010 subject opened its 3rd develompnt center in Tel Hai Industry Gardens located in Northern Israel, and recruted 15 employees with an intention to recrute fuerther 30 employees. In November 2010 the Ministry of Industry, Labor and trade approved a participation in the salary of employees in the Te Hai facility.

 

In March 2010 subject announced the establishment of UK subsidiary, itended to inhance European activities.

 

In November 2010 subject and the Beijing Computing Center, announced a joint cooperative agreement to build the Beijing Public Cloud Computing Center including a joint cloud computing laboratory.

 

In November 2010 subject won the "Cloud Networking Innovator Editors Choice Award" in the first annual HPC in the Cloud Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards and also won the "Best HPC Interconnect Product or Technology” in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards.

 

In November 2010 Texas Advanced Computing Center chose subject's products for it computing cluster.

 

In February 2011 subject completed the acquisition of the Israeli-based VOLTAIRE LTD. (was publicly traded on Nasdq), among the leading companies in the world in its field, for a total sum of US$ 218 million (US$ 207 million in cash).

 

The global economic crisis which erupted in the last third of 2008 adversely affected the global electronics and hi-tech markets and in-turn, hit the local electronics industry. Nevertheless, local companies in the Electronics and Software branches in general have proven ability to withstand light of the crisis, much given the fact that global electronics sector begun recovery since mid 2009. According to the Israel Association of Electronics & Software, hi-tech industries sales in 2011 reached around US$ 25 billion, up from US$ 23.5 billion in 2010, US$ 22.85 billion in 2009 and US$ 21.3 billion in 2008.

 

2010 sales divided into export of US$ 19.9 billion (US$ 19.45 billion and US$ 18 billion in 2009 and 2008, respectively) and US$ 3.6 billion sales to the local market. Division of export: 32% to North America, 28% - Europe, 27%  - Asia.

 

Export of electronic products in 2011 kept rising and reached US$ 21 million: 3.4% increase in Electronic Components & Computers, and 3.9% increase in Communications, Medical & Scientific Equipment.

 

The division of companies by production within the branches is as follows: 22% Software, 23% Civilian Communications & Telecommunications, 18% Industrial Equipment, 19% Defense Systems, 14% Components and 7% Medical Systems.

 

From the Israel Export Institute (IEI) data, export of telecommunications equipment in 2010 reached US$ 2.7 billion, 5% up from 2009 (when it fell 24% from 2008). Sales for export were expected to rise further and reach US$ 2.84 billion in 2011, according to IEI.

 

68,000 employees were serving in the Electronics sectors, and 83,000 in the software sectors.

 

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), import of raw materials for the local Machine and Electronics Manufacturing rose in 2010 by 19.8% from 2009, reaching US$ 7,817 million, after a 18.2% decrease in 2009 (from 2008), which was due to the global economic crisis. The trend continued in 2011 –11.9% rise from 2010, totaling US$ 8,743.7 million.

 

 

Investments (capital formation) by the hi-tech industries in machinery and equipment from import in 2010 rose by 11.2% from 2009 (when it plunged by 61% from 2008) and summed up to NIS 3,227 million. A break of the above investments sum reveals that there was a 15% decrease in the Electronic Components segment to NIS 784 million (after 81% fall in 2009 from 2008); Investment in the equipment for Control & Medical/Scientific segment was NIS 1,260 million (32.5% increase after 20% decrease); Electronic Communications equipment - NIS 1,082 million (15.3% increase after 31% decrease); and in Office & Computing equipment a 32.5% rise was noted (after 11% fall in 2009), reaching NIS 101 million.

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Good for trade engagements.

Maximum unsecured credit recommended several US$ millions.


FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.49.90

UK Pound

1

Rs.78.15

Euro

1

Rs.65.09

 

 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

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NB

New Business

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This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

 

 

 

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