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Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the American Coastal Insurance Corporation's First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call and webcast. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, that this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to your host, Jeremy Hellman, Vice President at the Equity Group and American Coastal Insurance Corporation. Thank you. Jeremy Hellman: Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone. American Coastal Insurance Corporation has also made this broadcast available on its website at www.amcoastal.com. A replay will be available for approximately 30 days following the call. Additionally, you can find copies of the latest earnings release and presentation in the Investors section of the company's website. Speaking today will be President and Chief Executive Officer, Bennett Bradford Martz; and Chief Financial Officer, Svetlana Castle. On behalf of the company, I'd like to note that statements made during this call that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. The company believes these statements are based on reasonable estimates, assumptions and plans. However, if the estimates, assumptions or plans underlying the forward-looking statements prove inaccurate or if other risks or uncertainties arise, actual results could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially may be found in the company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the Risk Factors section in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and except as required by applicable law, the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. With that, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to Brad Martz. Brad? B. Martz: Thank you, and welcome, everyone. During the first quarter of 2026, American Coastal continued to be patient and disciplined in navigating a rapidly softening commercial property insurance market. Most of our risk portfolio continues to produce exceptional results, evidenced by our fantastic loss and combined ratios. Average account rate decreases are distorting comparability with gross premiums, but premium production only tells part of the story. Looking deeper reveals American Coastal's account retention was in line with our targets and our policy count and exposure base actually increased at the end of the current quarter versus the same period a year ago. This is strong evidence that ACIC continues to protect and defend its market leadership position. The key to ACIC's long-term success has been our ability to maintain an adequate margin throughout the cycle. Having a strong underlying combined ratio is what ultimately enables us to retain catastrophe risk and produce an acceptable risk-adjusted return on capital over time. Thus, despite losing rate on the front end, we are maintaining margin because loss costs and reinsurance costs are also moving the right direction. I'm pleased to report that our June 1st, 2026, core catastrophe reinsurance program is effectively complete, and we are very pleased with the outcome. The key takeaways are: first, we were able to secure risk-adjusted reinsurance cost decreases that were necessary for us to remain both very competitive and profitable. Second, we increased our exhaustion point up to over $1.6 billion, expected to exceed the 250-year return time using the most recent version of Verisk hurricane model, including demand surge and a 10% load for loss adjustment expenses. Third, we have moved our lower layers to an all-perils basis that will allow us to non-renew the January 1st all other perils catastrophe reinsurance program next year, while maintaining robust protection against potential non-hurricane cat events. And lastly, we have more aggregate protection against frequency and severity resulting from a potentially active hurricane season. Pages 11, 12 and 13 of our earnings presentation provide some additional information regarding our reinsurance program renewals. For the core cat in particular, American Coastal is still evaluating various retention options, and that is expected to be completed very soon. Once finalized, we will disclose more details regarding our hurricane retentions as well as the expected total cost of the [ 6/1 renewal ]. I want to personally thank our reinsurance partners for their incredible support and thoughtfulness as we keep moving forward together. I'd like to now turn it over to our CFO, Lana Castle, for more specifics on our financial results. Svetlana Castle: Thank you, Brad, and hello. I'll provide the financial update, but encourage everyone to review the company's press release, earnings and investor presentation and Form 10-Q for more information regarding our performance. As reflected on Page 5 of the earnings presentation, American Coastal demonstrated another strong quarter with net income of $19.3 million. Core income was $19.3 million, a decrease of $1.4 million year-over-year due to decreased net premium earned, partially offset by decreased total expenses. Our combined ratio was 66%, an increase of 1 point from 2025 and in line with our previously stated target. Our non-GAAP underlying combined ratio, which excludes current year catastrophe losses and prior year development, was 68.3% compared to 68.2% in the prior year. We continue to demonstrate underwriting discipline through the market cycle as indicated by our stable margin. As shown on Page 6 of our presentation, revenues and expenses remained consistent year-over-year. Other income decreased $900,000 in the current year, driven by nonrecurring items in 2025. Net income from continuing operations remained relatively flat, decreasing $400,000 in the current year, inclusive of this nonrecurring income. Page 7 shows balance sheet highlights. Cash and investments decreased 7.5% from year-end to $599.4 million, driven by the payment of our previously declared special dividend of $0.75 per share of $36.6 million. The company's liquidity position remains strong. Stockholders' equity increased 4.5% to $331.7 million, driven by our underwriting results. Book value per share is $6.86, a 5.4% increase from year-end 2025. The company is well positioned to navigate the shifting market and capitalize on opportunities as they present themselves. I will now turn it over to Brad Martz for closing remarks. B. Martz: Thank you, Lana. Today, we estimate we have between $150 million and $200 million of excess capital in our company. That provides us with tremendous strategic and financial flexibility moving forward. Margins remain solid. We are obviously losing some premium on the front end, but with earnings -- pretax earnings essentially being flat year-over-year and maintaining a strong combined ratio, we feel like that is representative of the disciplined underwriting we continue to do here at American Coastal. That concludes our prepared remarks for today, and we are happy to field any questions at this time. Operator: [Operator Instructions] And our first question comes from Michael Phillips with Oppenheimer & Company. Michael Phillips: Maybe a first couple of questions, Brad, around just the impact, I guess, for modeling purposes of the new reinsurance. How should we think -- I mean, a lot of moving parts here, right? So how should we think about, I guess, on a consolidated basis, maybe either just the net to direct, net to gross premiums this year and maybe even next year, maybe more so this year as compared to what it was in 2025? B. Martz: Thanks for your question. We appreciate that. I would prefer to defer that question until we finalized our ultimate retention decisions only because I think that has an impact on ceded premiums as well as how to model losses in the second half of the year. We are very close. We're hoping to have that finalized before today's call. But while the program in excess of $50 million is essentially done, we are looking at various cost benefit analyses of reducing likely second and third event retentions to ensure that we are remaining profitable in a 3 loss scenario. That has been one of our primary goals to make sure we can maintain underwriting profitability even with 3 full retention events in Florida. So I think it's probably a little early, but we can still suggest and refer you to the full year guidance that remains unchanged at this time. I think that is the best estimates we can provide at this moment. After the second quarter, it is possible we'll want to revisit that guidance, but not at this time. Michael Phillips: Okay. I guess maybe I was going to ask this later, but since you mentioned it, so the first quarter results so far don't give any reason to change the revenue guidance that you gave earlier? B. Martz: No. Second quarter is our strongest premium production quarter of the year. It has the potential to essentially make or break that guidance. So I want to be cautious in potentially using the first 3 months of the year to revise our estimate for the full year. But for right now, we're still striving for those estimates on a full year basis, but it will depend on how strong the second quarter is. Michael Phillips: Okay. That makes sense. Thanks, Brad. Can you just, I guess, remind, where you see the opportunities for the E&S carrier? I think it's mainly just if I'm right here, Texas and Florida for now. Is that right? And then kind of longer term, just thoughts on how you see that expanding? B. Martz: Yes, absolutely. We finally assumed some E&S business in the first quarter. It was about $6.2 million of E&S premium that came in through our participation on the AmRisc's E&S portfolio, which we were excited about. That does still track with our initial full year guidance, although anything could happen, it could certainly come in above that or below that. Where we're seeing opportunities for Skyway is really going to be dependent on market conditions, but we're evaluating all classes of commercial property very, very carefully. Our core products in both condominiums, apartments and assisted living facilities are where we're going to lead. And we're going to continue to focus on properties with risk characteristics that are very similar to our portfolio in Florida. So -- we are also working with various fronting partners to stand up a fronted A.M. Best-rated option for use in Florida and outside of Florida for Skyway to have additional underwriting capacity that will likely produce some premium by the fourth quarter, but we're still in the process of setting that up. Hope to have it operational in the third quarter with the premium production starting in the fourth quarter. So not a huge uplift from E&S via Skyway underwriters in 2026. It's more of a 2027 initiative. I think most of our E&S premium, somewhere between $50 million and $80 million is going to be coming from the assumption of -- and co-participation on the AmRisc's portfolio for 2026. Michael Phillips: Yes. Perfect. That's very helpful. And then maybe just lastly on the loss or expense side. Your G&A expense kind of averages around $10 million or $11 million a quarter. Any reason to think that could change any time over the next year or so in either direction? B. Martz: No, it's been relatively stable. Obviously, we had some nonrecurring benefits in the prior year that are distorting the expense ratio in the current period. But as far as our fixed costs, we've got a very good handle on those. And have a strategy to continue to try and do more with less. We're gaining some operating efficiencies through various uses of technology and AI tools, which we're super excited about. It's very premature to actually get into any real details, but our mantra -- one of our strategic objectives for this year was to operationalize AI, and we're off to a very good start. Operator: Your next question comes from Mitchell Rubin with Raymond James. Mitchell Rubin: We've heard some market rhetoric around increasing competition in Florida. Can you provide some color on the trends you're seeing with retention levels on renewals and new business? B. Martz: Yes. Retention historically in our business, Mitch, has been between 75% and 95%. That's where we target account retention with kind of the sweet spot being in the low to mid-80s. It was slightly below that in the first quarter, but well within our targeted range. We saw it bounce back pretty nicely in March after we made a voluntary decision to walk away from a few large -- very large accounts in January, where we did see some what I would consider to be reckless competition come in and significantly undercut both on price and on deductible, which was just not consistent with how we underwrite. So we're going to be disciplined in those situations and cede market share to those willing to burn their way into the market. It's rare that that's happening. It's not a daily occurrence. I would say competition and capacity is obviously robust, but most of that is healthy competition, and we're doing a good job of defending our market leadership position as evidenced by the fact that our policy count and our exposure base is relatively stable. So it is tough flooding out there, no question about it. But we feel very good about our ability to compete moving forward given the job we've done on the reinsurance renewal. We're -- the risk-adjusted cost decreases there, and again, I'm going to refrain from giving specific numbers today. But right now, they are exceeding our average year-over-year average premium changes. So with reinsurance costs in line or better than what we're losing on the front end with our rates, it will continue to allow us to compete very aggressively and maintain our best accounts. Mitchell Rubin: That's very helpful. Sticking with the reinsurance renewal, can you walk us through some of the more meaningful structural changes in the renewal relative to last year's program? B. Martz: Yes, I'll reiterate them again for you in case of you want to dive into more details, just stop me and let me know. But we have more overall limit. That's number one. Introducing some new cascading layers that work like a top and drop where it's -- you've got a lot more vertical limit for first event, yet more aggregate limit for second and subsequent events, assuming those layers are not eroded. So the increased protection for both frequency and severity is sending return times even higher year-over-year. So we feel very good about it, whether you're looking at it from a first event, a second or a third event perspective. So more robust coverage at a very attractive risk-adjusted rate decrease combined with, I guess, the third biggest change is the movement to an all-perils tower away from a hurricane-only tower. Historically, we had separated the non-hurricane and the hurricane risk because of the noise and the volatility associated with our old discontinued personal lines business. But we just have exceptional loss experience when it comes to the SCS, severe convective storm stuff. So it made perfect sense for us to think about including the lower layers, placing the lower layers on an all-perils basis. And that way, we will -- that would save us approximately $4 million by nonrenewing the layers excess of $50 million on the AOP cat renewal at [ 1/1 ]. And then we'll certainly obviously consider various options within our retention with that renewal because there's still some additional spend there. In total, that program was about $11 million, if I remember correctly. So there's still significant spend there to manage the potential frequency and severity of non-hurricane cat. But we're trying to drive simplicity and standardization across the board with this risk transfer approach. And we got a lot more overall limit out of our gross cat quota share as well. So while we're maintaining the 15% cession rate with earned premiums going down in this part of the cycle, we are actually technically shrinking that reinsurance spend via the quota share. So we view that as a positive, and we're very happy with where we landed this year.. Operator: Your next question comes from Bill Dezellem with Tieton Capital. William Dezellem: Would you please go into a bit more detail on the new initiatives that you're doing on E&S front and the timing on when that may lead to total American Coastal growth? B. Martz: Sure. Bill, reiterating timing, obviously, we got E&S kickoff in the month of March with the initial $6.2 million of written full year is still, like I said, somewhere going -- it's going to depend on how much capacity AmRisc can put to work, right? We've given them a certain amount of capacity. They're fighting hard to win and write quality business. And I would expect that number is going to add about $70 million in E&S premium to our company this year that we did not have last year. That's solid new growth coming from that segment. Beyond -- for '27 and beyond, I think it's going to look very similar to what we've done with apartments, where you could expect $20 million to $30 million annually of new business through a thoughtful sort of very disciplined approach to finding niches, where we know how to compete. We know how we're going to win and we can earn an attractive return on capital. Some of that is obviously market dependent and what's going on with terms and conditions for sure. If market changes, maybe we can do a lot more, a lot faster. But given current market conditions and our outlook for where markets are headed, especially if this is a relatively benign hurricane season, which is forecast given the current prediction for a super El Nino year, it could be slower for us to attract and write new business. William Dezellem: May be the first time that I've ever heard a quasi-plea for more hurricanes. B. Martz: I wouldn't go that far. We don't wish that on anybody. But yes, I mean, it certainly would chase off some of the capacity that's out there doing irresponsible things and maybe firm up pricing a little bit, which would give us some more comfort and margin for error as we branch into new territories with our core products. We're very confident in our ability to compete both in and outside of Florida, but -- and we have underwriting experience in places like Texas and South Carolina with commercial residential. We've been there before. We've got a good game plan, but sometimes you just got to be patient with the insurance cycle. William Dezellem: Thanks, Brad. All joking aside, so I want to make sure I'm getting an apples-to-apples comparison here. This quarter, you had $65 million of net earned premiums. So when you're talking about the $70 million of E&S premium with AmRisc this year, that would essentially be equivalent to that [ number or set ] [Audio Gap] to add quarter, the equivalent of one additional quarter to your business revenue? B. Martz: Not quite. Not quite because I was mixing and matching written and earned a little bit here. So I was talking about written with the $70 million target currently. And again, which could go up, which could go down, but that's written on an earned basis, I would expect about half of that to earn this year.. William Dezellem: Thank you for the clarification. Very good point. And assuming that you had 100% retention for additional new business next year, both of which are faulty assumptions. But if that were the case, statement would hold for 2027, that would essentially be the equivalent of an additional quarter. B. Martz: I think that's fair. And I do think, again, with current assumption of continued soft market conditions, we can expect reinsurance costs to be ultimately very competitive. We still have tools in our arsenal to manage the ceded premium that would potentially allow for even more growth on a net premium earned basis after reinsurance spend. So depending on our risk appetite and what's going on with the cost of reinsurance capital, I do think the outlook gets even better given some of those elements that are within our control. So we'll have to wait and see. But yes, ideally, we'd like to be growing revenues and earnings. at all times. That's ideal, but that's just not something -- we're not going to be focused on growing top line in a market that -- where you won't like the results if we do it. William Dezellem: No, that's -- I really appreciate both that and the perspective how those premiums are ultimately flowing in and the implications that could have. Operator: And your next question comes from [ Akshay Fellow ], Private Investor. Unknown Attendee: I had a question on capital allocation. You mentioned $200 million of -- $200 million of excess capital and we only see about $5 million of stock repurchases in Q1. And I understand there's probably an additional $20 million of repurchases authorized that could be done. Can you please expand on the reasoning for -- reasoning behind only doing $5 million of stock repurchases [ with $200 million of excess capital ]. B. Martz: Yes. Thanks for your question. It's a good one. We certainly have excess capital in the system between our statutory ordinary dividend capacity, the amount of equity and capital we've amassed in our captives as well as the unregulated unrestricted cash we have on hand. We're being a little cautious about share repurchase, primarily because of the fact that it would further reduce the outstanding float, which -- and the liquidity in our stock. So I think that's one we really would prefer to maintain for severe potential dislocation in the price. The stock is still very cheap and by almost any measure. So it is attractive to us. And we could see some additional use of that Board authorization in the second half of the year. I definitely don't want to rule that out, but we also have to be in an open trading window. Open -- the window for us has been closed and is generally closed half of every quarter. So there's that constraint as well. But I think share buybacks are definitely on the table for discussion as is debt reduction and special dividends to shareholders. So a lot of that will depend on timing, what's going on with interest rates, what happens with our results for the full year. So we'll be mindful and watch the stock price. If it gets too cheap, that's something we will give serious consideration to. Unknown Attendee: Just to kind of like comment on that like looking at where the share price is trading, it's kind of like a chicken or the egg problem. Once you have -- once the market gets clarity on the next card market or rates increasing or the actual growth trajectory of the company, the prices tend to go up and then doing buybacks during those times, it just increases the cost of capital, whereas now we have uncertainty on the rates and then the share price for that reason is trading or one of the reasons why it's trading where it is, so that you have the best opportunity by doing these terms. And like it's a balance, I'm sure that you understand. Yes. So just wanted to kind of comment on that, but thank you for your time. B. Martz: Yes. All fair points. Operator: Thank you. And ladies and gentlemen, that was our last question for today. So with that, we will conclude today's call and all parties may disconnect. Thank you, and have a good day.
Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us, and welcome to Wolfspeed, Incorporated Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] I will now hand the conference over to [ Ed Goodwin ], Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Unknown Executive: Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Wolfspeed's Third Quarter Fiscal 2026 Conference Call. Today, Wolfspeed's Chief Executive Officer, Robert Feurle; and Chief Financial Officer, Gregor van Issum, will report on the results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026. We would also encourage you to reference the slides that were published on our IR website today. Please note that we will be presenting non-GAAP financial results during today's call, which we believe provide useful information to our investors. Non-GAAP results are not in accordance with GAAP and may not be comparable to non-GAAP information provided by other companies. Non-GAAP information should be considered as a supplement to and not a substitute for financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is in our press release and posted in the Investor Relations section of our website, along with a historical summary of our other key metrics. Today's discussion includes forward-looking statements about our business outlook, and we may make other forward-looking statements during the call. Such forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties. Our press release today and the SEC filings noted in the release mention important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. With that, let me turn the call over to Robert. Robert Feurle: Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today. We are pleased to see that our strategy is building meaningful momentum. The third quarter of fiscal 2026 delivered revenue of $150 million, in line with the midpoint of our guidance. We continue to make strong progress on the areas of our business within our control, addressing our capital structure, improving our operational efficiency and deepening engagement with customers across the broad set of end markets. As we move forward, we remain focused on 3 key strategic priorities: advancing technology leadership, demonstrating strict financial discipline and driving operational excellence. We have made strong progress in each of these areas this quarter. Starting with technology leadership. We continue to accelerate innovation across our silicon carbide platform to create a fundamental technology advantage. We are maintaining a disciplined approach to R&D, focusing our investments on high-return programs in the fastest-growing markets, and our efforts are delivering tangible results. This quarter we introduced the first commercially available 10-kilovolt silicon carbide power MOSFET and launched our next-generation TOLT portfolio. These innovations, particularly 10-kilovolt will help to cement Wolfspeed's position as a leader in high-voltage applications. At the same time, we are making progress on our materials capabilities. After shifting all device production to 200-millimeter at Mohawk Valley, our Durham facilities anchor our materials capabilities. The infrastructure, talent and floor space there today support at least our near-term growth ambitions, including commercial scale 300-millimeter development as the market evolves. Now turning to financial discipline. We took an important step this quarter to further optimize our capital structure through the refinancing of a portion of our first lien senior secured notes. This refinancing was supported by both new and existing institutional investors, demonstrating confidence in the long-term growth prospects of Wolfspeed and silicon carbide technology more broadly. Gregor will provide more on the specific financial implications shortly. This brings us to our third priority, driving operational excellence. We remain focused on differentiating through quality, customer responsiveness, time to market and supply chain resilience. We continue to refine our manufacturing processes to improve quality, cost and speed across everything we do. As mentioned last quarter, we completed the shutdown of 150-millimeter device production at Durham ahead of schedule. This creates optionality to redeploy that space. This approach allows us to increase output and improve our earnings potential by leveraging our current tooling base without the heavy incremental capital investment that would otherwise be required. The Durham campus can currently support all commercial materials activities as well as our emerging 300 millimeter platform. We are also leveraging AI within our own operations. Through our expanded partnership with Snowflake, we have unified factory, supply chain and enterprise data on a single platform, and we've deployed AI-driven tools that enable real-time insights and faster decision-making across the organization. Last quarter, we outlined the realignment of our go-to-market strategy around 4 verticals: auto, I&E, aerospace and defense and materials. During the quarter, we have sharpened our approach with the completion of recent leadership additions, including Daihui Yu as Regional President for Greater China; Stefan Steyerl as Vice President of Sales for EMEA, and, most recently, Yasuhisa Harita as Regional President for Asia Pacific. These leaders strengthen our ability to scale our go-to-market efforts globally, and we are encouraged by early traction we are seeing across each of these end markets. In auto, global EV adoption continues to grow, though more modestly in certain regions. Silicon carbide revenue doesn't necessarily scale in lockstep with vehicle sales due to design-in and qualification cycles. As the industry evolved, we believe that we needed to retool the approach as the market entered its next phase. Therefore, we strengthened our team with experienced automotive executives and launched a focused strategy targeting key global accounts with high electric adoption, positioning Wolfspeed to capture the next wave of design wins. Given the qualification cycles of EV programs, our success from these engagements are expected to translate into revenue over time. In I&E, momentum in AI data center applications continues to build. Our TOLT portfolio is purpose-built for AI rack power, and we are actively collaborating with AI ecosystem partners on the transition from 400-volt to 800-volt architectures. While it represents a moderate portion of our business today, we have continued to see strong sequential growth in AI applications with approximately 30% sequential growth from Q2 to Q3 and increasing customer engagement, which gives us confidence in the long-term trajectory of this opportunity. In aerospace and defense, growth is supported by electrification trends and increasing demand for secure domestic supply chains. In addition, we continue to expand our presence in emerging applications such as electric aviation. Our partnership with a leading manufacturer of electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft is a strong example of how our solutions enable higher efficiency and power density in the next-generation platforms. Finally, in our materials business, we continue to serve our 150-millimeter materials customers, including under the LTA framework. In addition, we are making progress with qualification on 300-millimeter materials. At the same time, we are engaging with AI ecosystem companies to explore how 300-millimeter substrates can address thermal, mechanical and electrical challenges in next-generation AI and high-performance computing packaging architectures. We continue to engage on 300-millimeter as a longer-term opportunity. I want to thank the team for their continued execution against our strategic priorities and for the excellent progress against our technological, operational and go-to-market objectives. With that, I will turn it over to Gregor. Gregor Issum: Thank you, Robert, and good afternoon, everyone. Before walking through our financials, I want to highlight the benefits of our recent refinancing. We took a significant step to strengthen our capital structure through the private placements of new convertible 1.5 lien senior secured notes, common stock and prefunded warrants, generating approximately $476 million of aggregate gross proceeds. We used the cash on hand to cover fees associated with the private placement, directing the full aggregate gross proceeds towards reducing our existing senior secured note balance by approximately 43%. These actions reduced total debt principal by approximately $97 million and are expected to lower the annual interest expense by approximately $62 million. Our first debt maturity remains in 2030, providing runway to execute our strategic plans as we continue to optimize our capital structure. Additionally, during the quarter we received CFIUS clearance that resulted in the release of equity to Renesas. CFIUS approval, coupled with our strategic refinancing, primarily drove the more than $400 million increase in the company's equity position during the quarter, significantly improving our debt-to-equity ratio. Now I will turn to our third quarter results. We generated $150 million in total revenue for the quarter, in line with the midpoint of our guidance. Power revenue was approximately $100 million, of which 90% was from our Mohawk Valley 200-millimeter device fab. The remaining 10% of power device revenue was last time buys of our 150-millimeter device inventory. Materials revenue was approximately $50 million, flat sequentially. Next, our gross margin for the third quarter was negative 20.6%, representing a double-digit percentage point improvement compared to the last quarter, partially driven by a more favorable product mix as well as beneficial impact from digesting the fresh start accounting inventory in the last quarter. The impact of underutilization across our manufacturing footprint was approximately $46 million in Q3. Underutilization continues to be the primary driver of our gross margin profile and improving factory utilization remains one of the most important levers to drive margin expansion going forward. One point worth highlighting is as our operation performance continue to improve, we are producing the same revenue with less capacity consumed. These continuous efforts position us to keep expanding our earnings potential per dollar of invested capital even if it makes the reported underutilization look larger. Non-GAAP operating expenses totaled $61 million in the quarter. With headcount reduction actions largely complete, we expect to maintain approximately this level of OpEx moving into the next quarter. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was negative $62 million. Now turning to cash flow, which remains one of our top priorities. Operating cash flow for Q3 was negative $84 million, driven by improvement in precious metal reclamation, interest income and continued working capital improvements. Capital expenditures were approximately $5 million on a net base in the third quarter, reflecting $38 million of gross CapEx, mostly coming from previous commitments we have made. These investments were nearly entirely offset by $33 million of incentive receipts from the New York State related to Mohawk Valley. We ended the quarter with approximately $1.2 billion in cash and short-term investments, allowing us to continue to pursue our strategic priorities with confidence. Whilst we've taken meaningful steps to strengthen our balance sheet, we recognize there is more work ahead. Looking ahead, while near-term demand in automotive remains uncertain, we continue to see encouraging momentum in high-growth areas such as AI data centers and other I&E applications. These markets represent meaningful long-term opportunities, though it will take time for them to scale and offset current softness in automotive. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year '26, we are targeting revenues between $140 million and $160 million. We expect non-GAAP gross margin to remain negative in the fourth quarter and OpEx to be roughly flat quarter-over-quarter. On the long term, our objective remains clear: to return to above-market revenue growth driven by a more diversified customer base and to achieve EBITDA and cash flow profitability. Robert Feurle: Thank you, Gregor. This quarter reflects continued progress against our 3 strategic priorities: advancing technology leadership, demonstrating strict financial discipline and driving operational excellence. The actions we have taken this quarter, strengthening our balance sheet, launching industry-leading products, deepening our leadership team in the region with a focus on customer centricity and enhancing our operational capabilities are all directed towards one objective, positioning Wolfspeed to capture growth and expand earnings power as the market environment improves. With that, operator, we are now ready to take questions. Operator: [Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Christopher Rolland with Susquehanna. Christopher Rolland: I guess my first one is going to be around AI and your opportunities to address AI very specifically. If you could talk about perhaps the AI power tree, what's available in your view for silicon carbide, what applications you might address earliest, whether it might be PSUs or power delivery boards or solid-state transformers or the 300-millimeter kind of future applications that you spoke about in your prepared remarks. If you could just talk about what you think actually comes to revenue first and what might be meaningful for Wolfspeed, that would be great. Robert Feurle: Thank you. So that's a great question. Let me quickly start kind of answering, you discuss 2 things. The one is on the device side here. It's everything which is, I call it, 650 volt up, right? Then if you look at from an application perspective, these are the power supplies in the data center, the traditional new customers around that space. And this is, of course, battery backup storage, kind of powering also the air conditioning in the data centers consuming silicon carbide. And then outside of the data center, more of the transmission piece where pretty much you will see the future adoption of solid state transformers, right? So this is really a significant driver of future silicon carbide demand. And we are engaged, I would say, the whole chain from energy generation to up to the kind of 650 volt level. Below that, that's then a different wide bandgap technology kind of taking that space. But up to that space, I think we are engaged with everybody in the ecosystem. Lower voltages are primarily, I'll call it, component and discrete approaches and the higher voltage are modules. So the qualification times are also a little bit different between modules and improving reliability of a solid-state transformer versus pretty much selling components to the power supply. So the one which is probably ramping faster is more the power supply stuff while then solid-state transformers, I think, will kick in kind of over time. And second piece to the second answer to your question is around 300-millimeter. So again, we started these, we call it beyond power activities, and we see quite some really good momentum here with a lot of ecosystem partners on using silicon carbide's unique property around thermals and mechanicals in various aspects, but all of them come around packaging, co-packaging, interposers, heat things in that kind of application area. I think people are looking like, wow, there is really unique properties being super conductive while also being insulating, and I think here, the discussions have started here. This is early discussions. Also as we've indicated, there's nothing where we see revenue short term. But we believe here the technology has certainly a right to play. Christopher Rolland: Excellent. Maybe as a follow-up, I think the legacy for Wolf for silicon carbide has primarily been automotive. I was wondering if you could speak to how the end markets might change under your management, particularly between automotive, industrial and AI. And AI, in particular, might you be able to offer maybe an aspirational AI target for revenue at some point in the future? Robert Feurle: No, absolutely, very good question here. Look, when I came in, I mean the company was organized around products. There was one gentleman running modules, one gentleman running discrete. And so what I said is we got to change this to be application-oriented because, look, at the end of the day the focus was all around EVs. And then we did an organizational change and said let's move to an application-focused go-to-market approach. And so the business lines are now pretty much we've got an automotive business line, the gentleman from Onsemi running that business line. And there's an I&E business line and that I&E business line is kind of with some substructures around renewables, AI data center and then generally drives business, which is pretty much all of what we call industrial here. And then we have a segment around aerospace and defense, and then there's the materials business. And this is kind of how we view kind of the go-to-market to really support a more differentiated view of how do we approach customers, but also how do we service the customers because the design cycles are different, the requirements are different and the dynamics are certainly different. I think that's something which we really see that organizational change which I put in place last year is really starting to pay off to get that focus on it. And as you've probably seen here, previous quarter, Q1 to Q2, we grew 50% on the data center side. This quarter, Q2 to Q3, we grew 30%. So it's really growing here. Again, it's not a huge size of revenue yet, but it's certainly the growth shows putting the focus on it. We got the product portfolio, yes, and we are making really, really good progress. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Jed Dorsheimer with William Blair. Jonathan Dorsheimer: Robert, a question for you, just maybe a little bit on the go-to-market strategy. Some of your competitors, I mean, everybody is talking of the use in AI in terms of 800 voltage. But utilization at some of the competitors has actually come down, which tells me that auto is still the main driver. So I'm just -- I guess my question for you is, as you think about your go-to-market strategy on the product level for AI applications and maybe also for solid-state transformers, how much absorption do you think you can -- what type of utilization do you think you can get to in Mohawk Valley? And then I have a follow-up question. Robert Feurle: Yes. Look, I mean, at the end of day, first of all, we're not disengaging from automotive, yes. Let's make this very clear here. Automotive is a very, very important part of our business. And I think, look, the cars are becoming electric and the cars are becoming connected. So we will clearly focus on, I call it, technology leadership around really penetrating these, let's say, high-end sockets. And quite frankly speaking, the customers are really appreciating kind of what we're doing on the technology side. And you will see here some announcement at PCIM. PCIM is the upcoming trade show on the power side here, beginning of June here, and you will see some announcement around the technology side coming out on that trade show. Then on your question on AI data center, again, this is being driven out of our I&E business line. And again, it really represents a significant growth for us in a sense that really diversifying Wolfspeed away from pretty much being a pure-play auto company and really diversifying the revenue. And then within I&E, like I already mentioned, right, it goes pretty much everything from 650 volts upwards. So a 650-volt discrete, it's pretty much 1,200-volt discrete. And then kind of in the 2.3 kilowatt, 3.3 kilowatts, you look into modules. And these are pretty much modules which are used for the solid-state transformers. And as these transitions in this transformer space happens, I think we are very, very well positioned here with the customers in this ecosystem. And then, of course, we see demand picking up and that then also will increase the loading effectively in our Mohawk Valley. I mean the good news is, quite frankly speaking, that the restructuring on our, let's say, device side is done. We talked about we phased out 6-inch. We pretty much exited our Durham facility. This means we have completely made the move over to Mohawk Valley, which means also it's the ability to scale, yes, because a lot of -- if I look at the competition here, a lot of them are still on 6-inch. A lot of them are really trailing in that conversion. And I think this puts us in a unique position that we can also tell the customer, look, there is no PCN. We don't have to move the product anywhere to go through as kind of the demand picks up on these applications. Jonathan Dorsheimer: Great. And then maybe as a follow-up for Gregor, just it looks like you've been able to restructure a little bit more than half of the L1. I'm just curious what your intentions are in terms of that. Can you -- is the goal to -- and I may have missed this in the remarks, but get that completely restructured before the June time frame or July time frame? Gregor Issum: Yes. Obviously, you saw that we took a first big step by taking out 43% of the first lien debt. That is the most expensive debt we have. It's around 14% interest rate. And there will be a further step up to 16%. So clearly this is the prime focus to address. We felt it was very important to take this first step, and we are very pleased with the signal of strength with new long holders coming in and even having a part of equity at a premium be part of this mix of taking a part of the L1 out. The size of the L1 was, however, such that doing this in one go would have been too costly, particularly because we expected that the stock would rerate after taking a first step and showing the signal of strength that we have disability. We think we see some of that over the last couple of weeks. And what we're doing right now is evaluating which exact steps we're going to take and when. We are not in a rush because of the maturities in 2030, but obviously I'm keen to do something. We're not going to put a specific time line against that. That is not necessary to put that pressure on ourselves. We will take the best possible approach when the market conditions are optimal to get the best cost of capital for the company. Operator: There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call back to Robert for closing remarks. Robert Feurle: All right. Thank you also for joining us on the call, and thank you for the very constructive questions. Gregor Issum: Thank you. Bye-bye. Operator: This concludes today's call. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect.
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