Cypress Stretches RMTR Bid Deadline - Analyst Blog
14 Septiembre 2012 - 6:50AM
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Cypress Semiconductor
Corporation (CY) announced that it has extended the
deadline for the acceptance of its tender offer to buy all of
Ramtron International Corp.'s (RMTR) outstanding
stock for $2.88 per share by two weeks.
The initial offer of $2.68 per
share was raised to $2.88 per share last month, representing a
purchase price of about $109 million. The offer was declined by
Ramtron stating that it was inadequate and not in the best interest
of its shareholders. The deadline for the offer was scheduled to
expire on September 11, which has now been extended to September
25.
However, all other terms and
conditions of the offer remain unchanged. This is the fourth time
that Cypress has extended the deadline for acceptance of its offer
to buy Ramtron.
Ramtron International is a fabless
semiconductor company with about 34.0 million shares outstanding.
It supplies ferroelectric random access memories and has
Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN) and Toshiba Corp. as
manufacturing partners. In the second quarter of 2012, Ramtron
reported revenue of $14.2 million with a net profit of $69,000.
We believe the deal could make
sense for Cypress for a number of reasons. First, Ramtron is a
fabless company and would fit very well into Cypress’ low capex
manufacturing strategy. Being a fabless company, Ramtron relies on
partners for manufacturing, assembly and testing of products that
offer superior technology and services at competitive prices.
Second, Ramtron’s ferroelectric-RAM
(F-RAM) would supplement Cypress’ Memory Products Division, which
includes Asynchronous SRAMs, Synchronous SRAMs and nvSRAMs, and
provide a longer-term roadmap for its non-volatile memory market.
Ramtron’s F-RAM enables read-writes with very little delay, low
power consumption, and high endurance with limited memory loss.
The F-RAM is also competitive with
some of the newer technologies such as Phase-change-RAM. The Memory
Products Division segment generated 41% of revenue in the second
quarter and was up 1.3% sequentially. The sequential increase came
on the back of strong demand in the static random access memory
(SRAM) business.
The impact of the deal on Cypress’ financials is unknown but it
will definitely bring synergies on the sales side.
Cypress is a semiconductor company
offering high-performance, mixed signal, programmable solutions. In
the second quarter, Cypress reported earnings of 5 cents, beating
the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 3 cents. Higher touch sales,
improved gross margins and tight operating expense control
contributed to the upside in earnings.
Cypress operates in a highly
competitive market. In the touchscreen market, the company competes
with Atmel Corporation (ATML) and
Synaptics (SYNA).
Currently, Cypress has a Zacks #3
Rank, implying a short-term Hold rating.
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