About Aehr Test Systems
Headquartered in Fremont, California, Aehr Test Systems is a leading provider of test solutions for testing, burning-in, and stabilizing semiconductor devices in wafer level, singulated die, and package part form, and has installed thousands of systems worldwide. Increasing quality, reliability, safety, and security needs of semiconductors used across multiple applications, including electric vehicles, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, solar and wind power, computing, data and telecommunications infrastructure, and solid-state memory and storage, are driving additional test requirements, incremental capacity needs, and new opportunities for Aehr Test products and solutions. Aehr has developed and introduced several innovative products including the FOX-P™ families of test and burn-in systems and FOX WaferPak™ Aligner, FOX WaferPak Contactor, FOX DiePak® Carrier and FOX DiePak Loader. The FOX-XP and FOX-NP systems are full wafer contact and singulated die/module test and burn-in systems that can test, burn-in, and stabilize a wide range of devices such as leading-edge silicon carbide-based and other power semiconductors, 2D and 3D sensors used in mobile phones, tablets, and other computing devices, memory semiconductors, processors, microcontrollers, systems-on-a-chip, and photonics and integrated optical devices. The FOX-CP system is a low-cost single-wafer compact test solution for logic, memory and photonic devices and the newest addition to the FOX-P product family. The FOX WaferPak Contactor contains a unique full wafer contactor capable of testing wafers up to 300mm that enables IC manufacturers to perform test, burn-in, and stabilization of full wafers on the FOX-P systems. The FOX DiePak Carrier allows testing, burning in, and stabilization of singulated bare die and modules up to 1024 devices in parallel per DiePak on the FOX-NP and FOX-XP systems up to nine DiePaks at a time. For more information, please visit Aehr Test Systems’ website at www.aehr.com.
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May 31, | Feb 28, | May 31, | May 31, | May 31, | ||||||||||||||||
2023 | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||
Net sales | $ | 22,269 | $ | 17,206 | $ | 20,289 | $ | 64,961 | $ | 50,829 | ||||||||||
Cost of sales | 10,790 | 8,331 | 9,821 | 32,215 | 27,164 | |||||||||||||||
Gross profit | 11,479 | 8,875 | 10,468 | 32,746 | 23,665 | |||||||||||||||
Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||||||||||
Selling, general and administrative | 3,587 | 3,250 | 2,993 | 12,237 | 10,047 | |||||||||||||||
Research and development | 2,253 | 1,832 | 1,655 | 7,134 | 5,818 | |||||||||||||||
Total operating expenses | 5,840 | 5,082 | 4,648 | 19,371 | 15,865 | |||||||||||||||
Income from operations | 5,639 | 3,793 | 5,820 | 13,375 | 7,800 | |||||||||||||||
Interest income, net | 487 | 374 | 22 | 1,245 | 13 | |||||||||||||||
Gain from forgiveness of PPP loan | - | - | - | - | 1,698 | |||||||||||||||
Other (expense) income, net | (4 | ) | (18 | ) | (38 | ) | (3 | ) | 30 | |||||||||||
Income before income tax expense | 6,122 | 4,149 | 5,804 | 14,617 | 9,541 | |||||||||||||||
Income tax expense | (11 | ) | (17 | ) | (10 | ) | (60 | ) | (91 | ) | ||||||||||
Net income | $ | 6,111 | $ | 4,132 | $ | 5,794 | $ | 14,557 | $ | 9,450 | ||||||||||
Earnings per share | ||||||||||||||||||||
Basic | $ | 0.21 | $ | 0.15 | $ | 0.21 | $ | 0.52 | $ | 0.36 | ||||||||||
Diluted | $ | 0.21 | $ | 0.14 | $ | 0.20 | $ | 0.50 | $ | 0.34 | ||||||||||
Shares used in per share calculations: | ||||||||||||||||||||
Basic | 28,425 | 27,893 | 27,003 | 27,785 | 26,014 | |||||||||||||||
Diluted | 29,572 | 29,373 | 28,568 | 29,215 | 27,774 |