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DATE

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

  • Chief Executive Officer — Edwin Roks
  • Chief Financial Officer — Daniel Boehle
  • [Unspecified Executive, likely Head of Investor Relations] — Sean Hannan

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TAKEAWAYS

  • Revenue -- $846 million, a 30% year-on-year increase, setting a new quarterly record led by demand in data center networking, medical, industrial and instrumentation, and aerospace and defense end markets.
  • Non-GAAP EPS -- $0.75 per diluted share, up 50% year-on-year and exceeding initial guidance.
  • Total Adjusted EBITDA Margin -- 15.7%, a 40 basis point increase from 15.3% in the prior year, supported by a favorable product mix.
  • Gross Margin -- 22.3%, rising 150 basis points from 20.8% the prior year, driven by volume growth and mix quality in data center networking and aerospace and defense.
  • Operating Margin -- 12.8%, an improvement of 230 basis points from 10.5% the prior year, attributed to enhanced gross margin and scaling of selling, general, and administrative expenses.
  • Data Center and Networking Sales -- Accounted for 36% of total revenue, with 61% year-on-year segment growth, surpassing company expectations as AI data center investments accelerated.
  • Aerospace and Defense Sales -- 40% of total revenue, growing 11% year-on-year, supported by substantial bookings for programs including Alteams Air Defense Radar and APS 153 maritime surveillance radar.
  • Medical, Industrial, and Instrumentation Sales -- Represented 16% of revenue, with 61% year-on-year growth linked to AI-enabled robotics and test equipment demand.
  • Automotive Sales -- Represented 8% of revenue, with a focus on high value-add, high-margin products and ongoing support for advanced capability transitions.
  • Book-to-Bill Ratio -- 1.41 company-wide: 1.65 in the commercial segment and 1.10 in the aerospace and defense segment.
  • Backlog -- 90-day backlog stood at $787 million, rising from $517 million the prior year, reflecting continued growth momentum.
  • Free Cash Flow -- Net use of $85 million, compared to $74 million net use in the prior year due to increased capital expenditures for organic growth.
  • Capital Expenditures -- Forecast increased to a $300 million to $320 million range for the year, up from the previously stated $240 million to $260 million, to support demand-led capacity expansions.
  • Q2 2026 Guidance -- Projected sales of $930 million to $970 million and non-GAAP EPS of $0.82 to $0.88 per diluted share, indicating sustained sequential and year-on-year growth expectations.
  • Strategic Initiatives -- Management reaffirmed the goal to double earnings from 2025 to 2027 and sustain 15%-20% annual revenue growth over three years.
  • Product Complexity and Price Realization -- Chief Financial Officer Unknown Executive stated that increased average selling prices are "mostly ASP, but it still has a big effect on the facility because complex panels require more cycles."
  • Penang Facility Ramp -- Yield improvements moved from above 40% last quarter to the "closer to 70% and 80%" range, with breakeven status expected in the near-term.
  • Customer Diversification -- Management disclosed approximately 10 major data center networking customers with only one constituting over 10% of segment sales.
  • Contract Structures -- CEO Edwin Roks noted that the business has "very, very tight relations" with hyperscaler and networking customers, aligning closely on technology roadmaps and maintaining strategic alliances with key suppliers.

SUMMARY

TTM Technologies (TTMI +8.66%) reported record quarterly results with accelerating revenue from key verticals, citing multi-year demand tailwinds driven by artificial intelligence and defense megatrends. Management highlighted the substantial capital investment increase to capture organic growth and address rising customer demand, particularly in high-complexity, multi-layer boards and advanced module solutions. Supply-chain and execution capabilities were emphasized as supporting customer requirements spanning multiple global sites and both commercial and defense programs.

  • CFO Boehle confirmed capital expenditures rose from an expected midpoint of $250 million to a $310 million plan to secure equipment and accelerate revenue generation.
  • Management expects data center and networking to represent 42% of second quarter sales, projecting continued outperformance in this segment in coming quarters.
  • The company reiterated its agnostic posture towards chip architectures, citing flexibility to serve GPU, TPU, and quantum-oriented hardware platforms.
  • Management stated the aerospace and defense pipeline is approximately 50% radar, 25% communications, below 10% munitions, and 5% space, noting "a lot of upside" anticipated in munitions based on current procurement trends.
  • Cash flow from operations turned positive year-on-year despite higher working capital needs, and the net leverage ratio is "about 1".
  • Recently announced customer wins included participation in the Artemis-I mission and a radar system award for an electric autonomous aerospace OEM.
  • CEO Roks reaffirmed the company is "tracking well ahead" of its stated plan to double earnings from 2025 to 2027.
  • Multiple global manufacturing upgrades are in process, including Penang and a new UK facility, both attracting anchor customers in key markets.

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

  • Book-to-Bill Ratio: The ratio of new orders received (bookings) to units shipped and billed; a measure above 1.0 indicates strong demand and potential revenue growth.
  • Anchor Customer: A key early customer at a new or expanding facility that helps drive operational scale and provide credibility in relevant end markets.
  • Advanced Interconnect: High-complexity printed circuit boards and integrated module technologies that enable rapid, high-density, and reliable connections in electronic systems.
  • Adjusted EBITDA: Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, adjusted for non-recurring or non-cash items for clearer assessment of core operational profitability.
  • Zero-Sub Board: A technology advancement in PCB design to eliminate antenna effects and improve signal integrity by isolating signal and power layers.

Full Conference Call Transcript

Edwin Roks: Thank you, Sean. Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for joining us for our first quarter 2026 conference call. At TTM Technologies, we are focused on designing and manufacturing complex products and solutions in 2 strategic directions. The first is advanced interconnect, which includes highly complex printed circuit boards, substrates and advanced packaging. The second strategic direction built on our advanced interconnect technology to design and manufacture sophisticated modules, subsystems and systems. Examples of this include our RF modules, thermal and power management systems etch and AI processing products as well as complex subsystems and fully integrated mission systems. We believe the future of electronics lies in speed to market, high reliability and efficient technology interim.

The markets in redo business continue to demand highly complex technology solutions in an increasingly compact size and footprint. Our strategy is to stay at the cutting edge of advanced interconnect technologies through innovation and continue to move up the value chain into complex modules and subsystems that combine sensors, actuators RF and Photonics. We engaged early with our customers to ensure alignment on product development and speed to market while also enabling optimal management of their complex supply chains. From a demand standpoint, we are experiencing healthy multiyear tailwinds due to our participation in 2 key megatrends currently driving economic growth, artificial intelligence and defense.

We previously stated that approximately 80% of our net sales are related to these 2 megatrends, and that this puts us in a unique position to benefit our investors. Our ability to seize these organic growth opportunities requires our continuous focus on technological innovation as well as expanding our capacity across our strategic footprint. We are further investing capital and resources to take full advantage of these opportunities today and in the future through our global footprint, which offers our customers manufacturing options across 24 sites located in China, Malaysia, Canada and the United States.

We stand well positioned to support this growth across our end markets, and we are tracking well ahead of our previously communicated plan to grow revenues 15% to 20% per year for the next 3 years and to double our earnings from 2025 to 2027, which were closed that were reiterated on our February 4 earnings call. In our commercial segment, we are highly focused on supporting the demand wave of artificial intelligence in the data center and networking end markets where customer demand has materially accelerated.

We are also focused on evolving opportunities in the use of automation and AI in our medical, industrial and instrumentation end markets, while we remain strategically positioned in automotive where our highly valuable solution designs are positioned to benefit from competitor consolidation and have additional transfer application into other markets. In our airspace and defense end markets, we continue to excel with our leading position in advanced interconnect products and we work to expand our product offerings in indicated and electronics, including modules, subsystems and full mission systems. Recently, we were proud to be a participant in the success of Artemis-I mission with our microelectronics, PCBs and assemblies for both the space large vehicle and the Orion crew capsule.

As for this, current state of the defense budget as well as the geopolitical environment considering the conflict in Iran, our solutions are ever present in the categories of advanced radar systems, advanced gaming systems, missiles and decoys, electronic surveillance systems and satellite and ground-based communication systems. In the commercial aerospace market, we recently won an award from an innovative electric autonomous aerospace company for light passenger travel to provide the sense and the void radar system for their autonomous aircraft. I'll now begin with an overview of our business highlights from the quarter. Then we'll follow up with a summary on our Q1 fiscal 2026 financial performance and our Q2 and fiscal 2026 guidance.

We will then open the call to your questions. We delivered an excellent first quarter of 2026, and I would like to thank our employees for delivering these results. We achieved sales of $846 million and non-GAAP EPS of $0.75 per diluted share, both above our guidance issued in early February and both all-time quarterly highs. Sales grew 30% year-on-year, reflecting continued demand trend in our data center and networking end markets driven by the requirements of AI while our medical, industrial and instrumentation and aerospace and defense end markets also experienced strong growth. The company adjusted EBITDA margin was 15.7% in the first quarter of 2026 compared to 15.3% in the prior year, largely reflecting positive mix impacts.

Non-GAAP EPS of $0.75 per diluted share was a 50% improvement year-on-year. The aerospace and defense end market represented 40% of first quarter 2026 sales. Sales in the Aerospace and Defense market grew 11% year-on-year for the first quarter. The sales growth in defense market continues to be a result of positive tailwinds in defense budgets, our strong strategic program alignment and key bookings for ongoing programs. During the first quarter of 2026, we saw significant A&D bookings related to the Alteams Air Defense Radar, APS 153 maritime surveillance radar and a transportable radar safaris system for ballistic missile detection and tracking.

In addition, we continue to see an increase in bookings for respective programs and we also have first booking that was confirmed to support Golden Done. A&D book-to-bill was [indiscernible] for the quarter, which led to a program backlog of $1.6 billion, similar to a level a year ago. We expect second quarter 2026 from this end market to represent [indiscernible] 36% of our total sales, while still delivering both year-on-year and sequential growth. Sales in the data center and networking end market represented 36% of our first quarter 2026 sales.

This end market experienced 61% year-on-year growth in the first quarter above our growth expectation and reflecting continued demand strength from our data center and networking customers, building out the AI data centers. For the second quarter of 2026, we expect this end market to represent 42% of net sales. The medical industrial instrumentation end market represented 16% of the first quarter 2026 sales. This end market saw a year-on-year growth of 61% during the first quarter aided by healthy demand of AI-enabled robotics in medical, automated test equipment for AI applications in instrumentation.

A notable example when in the quarter was for a major continuous glucose monitoring customer products with our involvement on both the current and next generation, which will feature a materially smaller footprint and more powerful performance. For the second quarter of 2026, we expect medical, industrial and instrumentation end markets to represent 14% of total sales, growing both sequentially and year-on-year. Automotive sales represented 8% of the first quarter of 2026 sales. We continue to be very selective in this market to focus on higher value-add products that carry margin profiles consistent with our financial goals as we also believe long-term business cycles should migrate back towards advanced capabilities.

We are also supporting our Tier 1 automotive customers as they transition some of their more advanced capabilities towards products, in ancillary end markets. We expect the automotive end market to represent about 8% of our total sales in the second quarter of 2026. The overall book-to-bill ratio was 1.41% for the first quarter of with the commercial reporting segment at 1.65% and the A&D reporting segment at 1.10%. At the end of the first quarter of 2026, the 90 days backlog, which is subject to cancellations, was $787 million compared to $517 million a year ago. Now then Bailey will summarize our financial performance for the first quarter. Dan?

Daniel Boehle: Thanks, Edwin, and good afternoon, everyone. I will review our financial results for the first quarter of 2026 that were included in the press release distributed today. Key financial highlights are also summarized in the earnings presentation posted on our website. For the first quarter, our net sales were $846 million compared to $649 million in the first quarter of 2025. The 30% year-over-year increase was due to continued strong growth in our data center networking, medical, industrial and instrumentation and aerospace and defense end markets, partially offset by a more modest than anticipated decline in our automotive end market.

GAAP operating income for the first quarter of 2026 was $72.4 million compared to comp operating income for the first quarter of 2025 of $50.3 million. On a GAAP basis, net income in the first quarter of 2026 was $50 million or $0.47 per diluted share. This compares to GAAP net income for the first quarter of 2025 of $32.2 million or $0.31 per diluted share. The remainder of my comments will focus on our non-GAAP financial performance. Our non-GAAP performance excludes M&A-related costs, restructuring costs, certain noncash expense items such as amortization of intangibles, impairment of goodwill stock compensation, gains on the sale of property, unrealized gains or losses on foreign exchange and other unusual or infrequent items.

We present non-op financial information to enable investors to see the company through the eyes of management and to facilitate comparison with expectations in prior periods. Gross margin in the first quarter of 2026 was 22.3%, an increase of 150 basis points from 20.8% in the first quarter of 2025. The year-on-year increase was due primarily to higher sales volume and favorable product mix, particularly in the data center networking and aerospace and defense end markets. Selling and marketing expense was [indiscernible] million in the first quarter or 2.8% of net sales versus $20.3 million or 3.1% of net sales a year ago.

First quarter general and administrative expense was $49.3 million or 5.8% of net sales compared to $38.9 million or 6% of net sales in the same quarter a year ago. Our operating margin for the first quarter of 2026 was 12.8%, a 230 basis point improvement from 10.5% in the same quarter last year. The increase in the period was due both to the improved gross margin as well as operating leverage resulting from selling, general and administrative expense discipline. Interest expense was $10 million in the first quarter of 2026 compared to $10.9 million in the same quarter last year.

Interest income was $2.5 million in the first quarter of 2026 compared to $3 million in the same quarter last year. Realized foreign exchange and other nonoperating income and expenses in the first quarter of 2026 totaled a net expense of $6.8 million as compared to net income of $1.5 million in the same quarter last year. The increased expense was driven by the weakening of the U.S. dollar, which resulted in a $7 million foreign exchange loss in the first quarter of 2026 as compared to a $0.9 million gain in the same quarter last year. Our effective tax rate was 14.5% in the first quarter of 2026, resulting in a tax expense of $13.6 million.

This compares to an effective tax rate of 15% or a tax expense of $9.3 million in the same quarter last year. First quarter 2026 non-GAAP net income was $80.1 million or $0.75 per diluted share. This compares to first quarter 2025 non-GAAP net income of $52.4 million or $0.50 diluted share. Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter of 2026 was $132.9 million or 15.7% of net sales compared with first quarter 2025 adjusted EBITDA of $99.5 million or 15.3% of net sales. Cash flow provided by operating activities was $21.7 million in the first quarter of 2026, despite the increased net working capital supporting our continued revenue growth.

This compares to cash used in operating activities of $10.7 million in the same quarter last year. Free cash flow in the first quarter of 2026 was a net usage of $85 million as compared to a net usage of $74 million in the first quarter of last year both periods reflecting increased capital expenditures in support of organic growth opportunities. Now I'll return to our guidance for the second quarter of 2026 and a directional outlook for fiscal 2026. We project net sales for the second quarter of 2026 to be in the range of $930 million to $970 million and non-GAAP earnings to be in the range of $0.82 to $0.88 per diluted share.

In addition, considering the current demand dynamics reflected in our first quarter results and second quarter guidance, we believe that the net sales growth trajectory in the first half of the year should continue in the second half. The second quarter 2026 non-GAAP diluted EPS forecast is based on a diluted share count of approximately 107.5 million shares, which includes the dilutive effect of outstanding stock options and other stock awards. We expect SG&A expense to be about 7.4% of net sales in the second quarter and R&D expenditures to be about 1% of net sales.

We expect interest expense of approximately $10.6 million, interest income of approximately $2.5 million. and realized foreign exchange and other nonoperating expenses of approximately $6.9 million. We estimate our effective tax rate will be between 13% and 17%. Further, we expect to record depreciation of approximately $32.1 million, amortization of intangibles of approximately $9.2 million, stock-based compensation expense of approximately $11.5 million and noncash interest expense of approximately $0.5 million. Finally, I'd like to announce that we will be participating in the Barclays Leverage Finance Conference in Austin, Texas on May 19 and the B. Riley 2026 Investor Conference in Los Angeles, California on May 20.

In addition, we will host an Investor Day on May 27 at the NASDAQ Exchange in New York City, as announced in our press release last week. That concludes our prepared remarks. Sherry, will turn it over to you for questions.

Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first question will come from the line of Steven Fox with Fox Advisors.

Steven Fox: Great. I had 2 questions, if I could. First of all, I was wondering if you could maybe discuss the current interest you're seeing from your customers in bringing business into the UK facility as you ramp it? What kind of customers are looking at the facility and maybe how have the discussions progressed versus a year ago? And then I had a follow-up.

Daniel Boehle: Yes, happy to answer your question. If you think about Once, I think we're making really, really good progress there. we are identifying, let's say, our anchor customers like we did in Penang. So that's going well. a core team is identified to see what we're going to do. As you remember, probably remember, it's about 750,000 square feet, and we have basically 3 modules. So we can use them for both our commercial business or our defense business, and we're very flexible with that. So we're identifying the customers right now. We have, of course, our supplier agreements in place. We have -- we are dealing with our equipment centers. So that's going well.

And what I really like in that site as well is that we are going to build an R&D center, which is not only, let's say, providing capacity for our customers but also being very close with them on new R&D developers.

Steven Fox: Great. That's helpful. And then as a quick follow-up, can you give us your latest thinking around the impact of higher oil prices on laminate costs and how that flows through your income statement in coming quarters? .

Unknown Executive: Yes, Steve. So it's Sean Hannan here. So we did have some conversations within the company here and what we're observing within our supply chain and suppliers we are observing some pressure in the supply chain environment as is the rest of the industry and that can relate certainly to lead times and to pricing, but we don't think it's restricting our ability to reach our goals. In terms of a derivative specifically due to oil pricing, that's not something that we're currently observing through our questions.

Operator: Out next question. And that will come from the line of Jim Rashidi with Needham & Co. .

James Ricchiuti: Just wanted to focus on the growth you're seeing in the Davis Center networking portion of the business. Is there a way for you to give us a sense of how much of that is volume driven versus price? And when I say price, I guess there are 2 components to that, right? They are the higher ASPs for the more complex forwards and maybe just higher pricing in general. So I'm just wondering if you can maybe drill down a little bit more on that. .

Unknown Executive: Yes, Jim, actually Happy to do that. And again, good to meet you again. First of all, I think if we -- before we get to the ASP and the volume aspects let's go back to the visibility first. I think our visibility is still, let's say, for normal order still within the quarter. As you know, we are doing some larger order for larger players here where we have a visibility of, let's say, a year. And we still have our strategic alliance with the stop customers. And these are, let's say, in the multiyear regime. That is, let's say, the whole point with respect to complexity. These boards are getting more and more complex.

We spoke in the past about the number of layers. We can go to 80 layers. We had 100 players, even 140 layers, which is really the summer. And then, of course, we have these atomical panels as well where we distinct the power from the signals. So that's going very, very well. because of that complexity, our ASPs are going up, let's say, a factor of 4, maybe a factor VIII. But I hate to talk about ASP because it's basically the complexity. It's basically the complexity of what's going on -- then the volume aspect of it, yes, there is more volume. There are more panels.

But also if you look at volume, if you want to create a more complex panel, you need more cycles in the facility to build that panel that's also a volume aspect. So if you -- let's say, bottom line, bottom line, if you look at ASP versus volume, yes, it's mostly ASP, but it still has a big effect on the facility because complex panels require more cycles in the facility. Hopefully, that answers your question. .

James Ricchiuti: It does help. And maybe 1 quick follow-up. I'm wondering if you can give us an update on how the ramp is going in Penang. And Dan, maybe if you can give us some sense as to what kind of a headwind it might have represented in the quarter and how you see that unfolding in Q2 in the second half?

Daniel Boehle: Yes, yes, one, absolutely. I'm very happy with the performance [indiscernible] yields, let's say, are improving a lot. If I look at these anchor customers, and I pick one of them, there we are seeing yields, let's say, in the past, we saw yields above 40% last quarter. Now we are seeing it closer to 70% and 80%. So that's going very well. In the past, I would say a year ago, we disclosed some of the breakeven numbers. I can tell you, we were getting very close to that number. So I will be very surprised, let's say, in Q4 and hopefully earlier, we are in a breakeven situation for Penang. So that's going well.

We spoke about the headwinds of 160 basis points, bringing that back, so let's say, in half to 80 basis points headwind for the full year. we're still on track there. And again, we hope to do better. So again, we changed the team. I was at myself, by the way, a few weeks ago. It is going very smooth. It's a highly automated facility, so yes, I'm very positive, Jim, about that situation there.

James Ricchiuti: And then just to clarify, when you say an anchor customer, is that an anchor customer in the data center networking area.

Daniel Boehle: It is but in that facility, we also do a lot of medical industrial instrumentation business. But in this case, I was talking about one of the data center networking players, yes.

Operator: Next question. And that will come from the line of William Stein with Truist Securities. .

William Stein: Congrats on the great results and outlook. First, I want to ask something about data center networking, can you help us understand the your size in that market relative to the market overall because most of this market really has served out of Asia. I think there are many investors here in the U.S. who might not appreciate you may not be the biggest. And so it highlights the potential for significant growth, maybe almost you can take whatever you can build to. Can you maybe characterize that? And then the other question I had was about the exposure or concentration in that end market relative to the various GPU or TPU type customers and the other hyperscaler customers.

Maybe talk about the dispersion of -- or the customer concentration.

Daniel Boehle: Yes. Thank you, Will. These are really good questions. So first of all, your first question, if you look at the size of the market, that's always a big that's always a bit difficult to define, correct. It's -- the spend, let's say, in all these data centers, about 75% of it is still in hardware, which I really like. It's the energy component, and it's basically what we do is the interconnect. Yes, we are the nervous system, as you know, of all these interconnects putting all these chips together. The market overall is a bit difficult to define in that sense. But I can tell you, we play in the high end of that market.

So everything what has to do with, let's say, more than 40 layers. And like I said in the previous question, [indiscernible] high complexity, very small pitch. That's where we play in. If I look at our competition, so thinking about Giant, thinking about boosting and micro and others, let's say, we are in that top 4. There is a lot of demand and we are in that top 4.

Some of the, let's say, innovations, some of the innovations we did, let's say, I'm talking about emplozem, which is, for instance, the asymmetrical boards where power is on one side of the board and signal the other side of the Board, we basically transferred some of that IP to our competition to be able to make sure that we can supply a whole business. So the whole landscape is, let's say, 5, 6 layers where we are in the top 4. That's about the situation. Of course, we have a pretty unique situation here. We are a U.S. player that also means that we are very flexible with our location perspective what the customer wants.

We can, if you want the process in China, we do that. We have 5 facilities in China. We have a facility in Malaysia, if you want, China plus 1 but if these customers want to be in the U.S., we have 16, 17 sites in the U.S. supporting this. So that's basically what's happening. Then related to your second question, regarding GPU, TPU XPU, whatever you want the PU. I can tell you we're agnostic. We're agnostic for that particular situation. Even if it goes to Quantum processing, QPUs, there is a lot of conventional processing required after quarter -- so there is always a need for these boards. These boards for whatever customers are very, very, very similar.

And the complexity is fairly similar. So I'm so happy to say that we are very agnostic for that situation. Hopefully, that answers your question.

Operator: Our next question. That will come from the line of Mike Crawford with B. Riley Securities. .

Michael Crawford: Within your aerospace and trans vertical, how much was commercial? How much was space? And where what do you expect to see space in the future, especially as compute migrates to Leo Geodis linereven loom based space?

Daniel Boehle: Yes, Mark, that's a very clear question. If you look at the aerospace and defense and by the way, you probably saw in the earnings that we did move our commercial space business from our commercial through the Aerospace and Defense group. And we did that for a reason because there is a lot of synergy between these businesses and it's much, much easier to put it in their own business. So that's what we did.

If you look at, let's say, aerospace and defense, the breakdown is about 50% of the aerospace and defense business and that can be printed circuit boards can also be up to chain what we call the chain, let's say, all kinds of modules or subsystems or systems it's about 50% radar related. Then we have about, let's say, 25% communication, mostly communication related, some guidance systems, these type of things. Below the smaller fraction here below 10% is munitions. That's, by the way, that's where I expect a lot of upside in the coming periods. And then 5% only 5% -- currently, 5% of our business is space.

And I agree with you, there is a lot of room to maneuver. There's a lot of potential, especially with our radiation heart designs and all the other things we do. So space is absolutely in the area of focus area, but currently, it's only 5% of our business.

Michael Crawford: Okay. And then switching gears. CapEx was high at $107 million in Q1. Can you just provide any updated thoughts on where that might fall out this year and next, and that's assuming that you are not only ramping in China and Malaysia and Syracuse, but also clear.

Edwin Roks: Yes, Mike, I'll take that question. So we -- you'll see in our 10-Q when it comes out, we disclosed the CapEx forecast for the year. It was originally about $250 million -- $240 million to $260 million. We're increasing that to $300 million to $320 million is the range that we're currently looking at. So we've accelerated some of the capital expenditures that we talked about for Asia as some of the lead times on equipment we're starting to get indications that those would -- would start stretching out. So we got our orders in early. We were starting to really get some of that equipment in a little bit quicker we've had to pay deposits for that.

So that's why the cash expenditures have been up a little bit higher. But as you can see in our numbers, it's also generated fast revenue for us. So we've accelerated some of that $200 million to $300 million of CapEx that I said we were going to expand in Asia.

Operator: Our next question and that will come from the line of Ruben Roy with Stifel.

Unknown Analyst: This is Fed saying on for Ruben. Look yesterday, one of the major EMS guys reported. And then you made mention of challenges in 40-plus layer PCBs and sort of sourcing them. We've already talked about price leverage. It sounds like you have that headwind. Correct me if I'm wrong, I think I heard you say [indiscernible] on that. We're talking about volumes via the accelerated CapEx ramp, which sounds perhaps tied to the anchor customer. Maybe we look at perhaps the contract structures themselves and the length of contracts, the update into '27 we got earlier this year was healthy and great.

And curious if you're seeing contract structures extend out as we're seeing with some of these other rack scale input and what that looks like in terms of securitizing supply with you being the supplier over a multiyear period, particularly as you're investing on an accelerated cadence into CapEx?

Edwin Roks: Yes. That's a good question. Thank you very much for the question. Yes, if we look at contracts, it works a bit different here. I think it's it's all over these hyperscalers and data center and networking customers, it's about very tight relations. We have very, very tight relations. That basically means we have a lot of alignment on road maps or future. How do you think about, let's say, multilayers or you think about 0 stop, which is basically making sure there is no antenna function in these boards, you can imagine that everything becomes more and more complex. So you get a lot of antenna functionality in that thing which you don't want.

So 0 sub is a new thing there. We spoke already about the empower the power and the signal is separated, there's a lot of, let's say, material science in our boards, which makes sure that signal integrity becomes at the highest part. I think that's the key thing for these customers. you need to be the technology leader. You cannot be a follower here. And then the other thing is, of course, you need to have the capacity and the flexibility. And that's what we provide, let's say, being in China, being in China Posninoucase, Malaysia and being in the U.S. and hopefully soon in Europe.

So that's basically where we are, and that's basically tightened that relation with the customers. The other side is, let's say, the suppliers, they are the same thing. We have strategic alliances with all the critical components. And yes, of course, we have contracts in place. But if you have to rely on that contract, you're just too late. It's always a matter of, let's say, relation and making sure you're very relevant for that supplier, you're very relevant to your customers. So that will be my answer here.

Daniel Boehle: By the way, just to add to Edwin's answer. So -- and also coming back to part of the question. So to clarify, within data center and networking, we don't have just an anchor customer. I think there was a reference to an anchor customer specific to a facility being Penang earlier in the conversation. But we have about [ 10 ] very major customers within that segment. Only 1 is a 10% enter right now, but we're playing with [ 10 ] substantial names. .

Unknown Analyst: Okay. That's great. That was actually going to be a follow-up, particularly Daniel because of your CapEx commentary, I think last quarter, you -- as you mentioned, we're pointing to $250 million at the midpoint. And quarter, it sounds like $310 million, and you're still talking about FY '27 going up. So you're talking about an incremental [indiscernible] relative to at least what we signaled last quarter. if you can point to any sort of puts and takes on the pace at which you might recognize these ramps. I don't know if you're ready to make those types of disclosures. I understand if you're not.

And if you're not the question on A&D you're pointing ammunition in the space, similar sort of question on contract structure, are these procurement-based contracts whereby margins are fixed? Or are these fixed firm price, whereby there's potential of margin accretion and I'll stop there.

Edwin Roks: I guess I'll first address your capital expenditures. So I'm not going to go beyond what I just said about this year, as you mentioned, so our capital expenditures from this year is going up from -- yes, centered on $250 million to now centered on $310 million. So the range is from $300 million to $320 million. And so that's accelerated a little bit of what we had previously talked about over the next 2 years, and that's to continue to stay at pace with the demand that we are experiencing from our customers in the data center area. So I'll maybe pass it over you to answer the other question.

Sorry, do you want to repeat that second 1 a comment earlier.

Unknown Analyst: And as far as -- you're talking diminution in space, and it sounds like Edwin you're saying munitions might be the upside more near term space for a longer build upside.

Edwin Roks: Yes, absolutely. By the way, we see strong demand in general, in our Aerospace and Defense business. And for the obvious reasons, of course. But on the munitions side, yes, if you read the newspapers, the there is the supply becomes more and more important. And we see that. We are long lead time items. So basically the primes are already coming to us, let's say, with respect to what can you do additionally on the munition side. So -- and that's -- for us, it's more of the same. We already do that. So that's a very, very good thing. So yes, that's the answer.

Operator: Thank you. I'm showing no further questions in the queue at this time. I would now like to turn the call back over to Mr. Edwin Roks for any closing remarks. [indiscernible]

Edwin Roks: Yes. Thank you, Sheri. Now I'd like to close by summarizing 3 key items. First, we are experiencing a high healthy growth. We delivered strong sales growth in Q1 of 30% year-on-year, resulting in an all-time high for quarterly revenue, driven by increases in our data center networking, medical, industrial and instrumentation and aerospace and defense end markets. Secondly, our adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter of 15.7% as reflected strong operating performance, leading to another all-time high record and quarterly non-GAAP EPS results of $0.75 per diluted share. And third, we continue to generate solid cash flows from operation, which enables us to invest in our projected continued growth while maintaining a healthy net leverage ratio of about 1.

In closing, I would like to thank all the employees of TTM, our customers, our suppliers and our shareholders for your continued support. Thank you very much, and goodbye.

Operator: This concludes today's program. Thank you all for participating. You may now disconnect.