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Report Date : |
07.10.2013 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
KULICKE AND SOFFA INDUSTRIES, INC. |
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Registered Office : |
1005 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, PA 19034 |
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Country : |
United States |
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Financials (as on) : |
29.06.2013 (Consolidated) |
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Date of Incorporation : |
26.11.1956 |
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Legal Form : |
Public Company |
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Line of Business : |
· designing, manufacturing, and selling of capital equipment and expendable tools to assemble semiconductor devices, including integrated circuits, discrete devices, light-emitting diodes, and power modules · Subjects also provide services, maintains, repairs, and upgrades its equipment. · Subject also operates as Equipment and Expendable Tools segment |
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No. of Employees : |
2,270 |
RATING & COMMENTS
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MIRA’s Rating : |
A |
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RATING |
STATUS |
PROPOSED CREDIT LINE |
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56-70 |
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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 |
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Status : |
Good |
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Payment Behaviour : |
Regular |
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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 – March 31st 2013
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Previous Rating (31.12.2012) |
Current Rating (31.03.2013) |
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United
States |
A1 |
A1 |
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Risk Category |
ECGC
Classification |
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Insignificant |
A1 |
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Low |
A2 |
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Moderate |
B1 |
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High |
B2 |
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Very High |
C1 |
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Restricted |
C2 |
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Off-credit |
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united StaTes ECONOMIC OVERVIEW
The US has the largest and most
technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of
$49,800. In this market-oriented economy, private individuals and business firms
make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed
goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace. US business firms
enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan
in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to
develop new products. At the same time, they face higher barriers to enter
their rivals' home markets than foreign firms face entering US markets. US
firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in
computers and in medical, aerospace, and military equipment; their advantage
has narrowed since the end of World War II. The onrush of technology largely
explains the gradual development of a "two-tier labor market" in
which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical
skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay
raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. Since 1975, practically
all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. Since
1996, dividends and capital gains have grown faster than wages or any other
category of after-tax income. Imported oil accounts for nearly 55% of US
consumption. Crude oil prices doubled between 2001 and 2006, the year home
prices peaked; higher gasoline prices ate into consumers' budgets and many
individuals fell behind in their mortgage payments. Oil prices climbed another
50% between 2006 and 2008, and bank foreclosures more than doubled in the same
period. Besides dampening the housing market, soaring oil prices caused a drop
in the value of the dollar and a deterioration in the US merchandise trade
deficit, which peaked at $840 billion in 2008. The sub-prime mortgage crisis,
falling home prices, investment bank failures, tight credit, and the global
economic downturn pushed the United States into a recession by mid-2008. GDP
contracted until the third quarter of 2009, making this the deepest and longest
downturn since the Great Depression. To help stabilize financial markets, in
October 2008 the US Congress established a $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief
Program (TARP). The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in
US banks and industrial corporations, much of which had been returned to the
government by early 2011. In January 2009 the US Congress passed and President
Barack OBAMA signed a bill providing an additional $787 billion fiscal stimulus
to be used over 10 years - two-thirds on additional spending and one-third on
tax cuts - to create jobs and to help the economy recover. In 2010 and 2011,
the federal budget deficit reached nearly 9% of GDP. In 2012 the federal
government reduced the growth of spending and the deficit shrank to 7.6% of
GDP. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan required major shifts in national resources
from civilian to military purposes and contributed to the growth of the budget
deficit and public debt. Through 2011, the direct costs of the wars totaled
nearly $900 billion, according to US government figures. US revenues from taxes
and other sources are lower, as a percentage of GDP, than those of most other
countries. In March 2010, President OBAMA signed into law the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act, a health insurance reform that will extend
coverage to an additional 32 million American citizens by 2016, through private
health insurance for the general population and Medicaid for the impoverished.
Total spending on health care - public plus private - rose from 9.0% of GDP in
1980 to 17.9% in 2010. In July 2010, the president signed the DODD-FRANK Wall
Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law designed to promote financial
stability by protecting consumers from financial abuses, ending taxpayer
bailouts of financial firms, dealing with troubled banks that are "too big
to fail," and improving accountability and transparency in the financial
system - in particular, by requiring certain financial derivatives to be traded
in markets that are subject to government regulation and oversight. In December
2012, the Federal Reserve Board announced plans to purchase $85 billion per
month of mortgage-backed and Treasury securities in an effort to hold down
long-term interest rates, and to keep short term rates near zero until
unemployment drops to 6.5% from the December rate of 7.8%, or until inflation
rises above 2.5%. Long-term problems include stagnation of wages for
lower-income families, inadequate investment in deteriorating infrastructure,
rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, energy
shortages, and sizable current account and budget deficits - including
significant budget shortages for state governments.
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Company name: KULICKE AND SOFFA INDUSTRIES, INC.
Address: 1005 Virginia Drive, Fort
Washington, PA 19034 - USA
Telephone: +1
215-784-6000
Fax: +1 215-784-6001
Website: www.kns.com
Headquarters: 6 Serangoon North, Avenue 5, #03,
Singapore 554910
Telephone: 2157846000
Corporate ID#: 193739
State: Pennsylvania
Judicial form: Public Company (Nasdaq = KLIC)
Date incorporated: 11-26-1956
Stock: 75,277,538
shares issued and outstanding (as of 07-26-2013)
Value: No
par value
Name of manager: Bruno
GUILMART
Business:
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells capital
equipment and expendable tools to assemble semiconductor devices, including
integrated circuits, discrete devices, light-emitting diodes, and power
modules.
It also services, maintains, repairs, and upgrades its equipment.
The company operates in two segments, Equipment and Expendable Tools.
The Equipment segment manufactures and sells a line of ball bonders to
connect very fine wires made of gold or copper between the bond pads of the
semiconductor devices or dies, and the leads on its package; heavy wire wedge
bonders for the power semiconductor and automotive power module markets; wafer
level bonders, which mechanically apply bumps to die, while still in the wafer
format, for some variants of the flip chip assembly process; and die bonders that
are used to attach a die to the substrate or lead frame, which will house the
semiconductor device.
The Expendable Tools segment provides various expendable tools for a
range of semiconductor packaging applications. Its products include capillaries,
which are used in ball bonders; bonding wedges for wedge bonders; and saw
blades to cut silicon wafers into individual semiconductor die, as well as to
cut semiconductor devices that have been molded in a matrix configuration into
individual units. The company serves semiconductor device manufacturers,
outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers, other electronics
manufacturers, and automotive electronics suppliers primarily in the United
States and the Asia/Pacific region.
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. was founded in 1951.
No name of foreign suppliers available.
EIN: 23-1498399
Staff: 2,270
Operations & branches:
At the headquarters, we
find a large factory, warehouse and office, owned.
In Fort Washington,
PA 19034, we find the warehouse and office.
Shareholders:
The Company is listed with
the Nasdaq under symbol KLIC.
As of 06-30-2013, 82% of
the stock was held by institutional and mutual fund owners, including:
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Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) |
7.25% |
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Dimensional Fund Advisors LP |
4.13% |
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Acadian Asset Management |
4.03% |
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Renaissance Technologies, LLC |
3.36% |
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BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. |
2.88% |
Management:
Bruno Guilmart has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of
Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. since September 30, 2010.
Mr. Guilmart served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation from July 7, 2008 to September 4, 2010. He
has more than 19 years of experience in semiconductor engineering, marketing
and business development. He served as the Group Chief Executive Officer of
Unisem M Bhd from August 2007 to June 4, 2008. ... He served as Chief Executive
Officer of the Unisem group. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and
President of Advanced Interconnect Technologies, Inc. from September 2003 to
August 2007. Mr. Guilmart served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
and Marketing division at GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte. Ltd. (also known as
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd.), from 1999 to 2003, where he was
responsible for global sales, marketing and design services, strategic
alliances and partners and customer support operations. From 1999 to June 2002,
he served as the President of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd.'s Asia
Pacific and Japan operations. From 1996 to 1999, he served as a Vice President
of Professional Services at Cadence Design Systems covering Asia Pacific. From
1982 to 1989, he served in engineering, marketing and business development
positions at Hewlett-Packard Company in Europe, United States and Asia. From
1989 to 1996, Mr. Guilmart served as Managing Director of Northeast Asia Sales
of Temic Semiconductors' Daimler-Benz Group (Temic Semiconductors GmbH). He has
been a Director of Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. since September 30,
2010. He served as an Executive Director of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
from August 28, 2008 to August 5, 2010. He served as an Executive Director of
Unisem M Bhd from August 2, 2007 to June 4, 2008.
Mr. Guilmart holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical
Engineering University of Paris South, University Institute of Technology,
France and a Master's Degree in Electronics and Business Management from Paris
XI Institute of Technology, France.
Jonathan H. CHOU is Vice
President and CFO
Alan Bruce SCHINDLER is Sr. Vice President of Global Operations.
Subsidiaries &
partnership:
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Kulicke and Soffa Pte. Ltd. |
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Singapore |
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Kulicke and Soffa Global Holdings Corporation |
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Labuan, Malaysia |
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Kulicke and Soffa (Israel) Ltd. |
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Israel |
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Kulicke and Soffa Holding Company Pte. Ltd. |
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Singapore |
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Kulicke and Soffa Foreign Investments, Inc. |
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Delaware |
On attachment:
- 10K 2012
- 3rd 10Q 2013
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Currency in |
As of: |
Oct 03 |
Oct 02 |
Oct 01 |
Sep 29 |
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TOTAL REVENUES |
225.2 |
762.8 |
830.4 |
791.0 |
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NET INCOME |
-41.6 |
142.1 |
127.6 |
160.6 |
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Banks: DBS Bank
Legal filings
& complaints:
As of today date, there is no legal filing pending with the Courts.
Secured debts
summary (UCC):
File number: 2008120207669
Date filed: 12-02-2008
Lapse date: 12-02-2013
Secured Party: Key
Equipment Finance Inc.
1000
South McCaslin Blvd, Superior, CO 80027
File number: 2010110901993
Date filed: 11-09-2010
Lapse date: 11-09-2015
Secured Party: SG Equipment
Finance USA Corp
480 Washington Blvd, Jersey
City, NJ 07310
File number: 2008102704673
Date filed: 10-27-2008
Lapse date: 10-27-2013
Secured Party: Presidio
Technology Capital LLC
One
Sun Court, Norcross, GA 30092