Skyworks Solutions sells chips that help phones, vehicles and communications equipment transmit signals, manage power and keep electronic systems synchronized. In fiscal 2026, its existing business generated $549.9 million of operating cash, down from $1.30 billion a year earlier, as profit fell and more money went into inventory. Borrowing enlarged its cash balance ahead of the Qorvo acquisition, which closed three days after year-end. The combined company now has more products to sell, but also a larger interest bill to support while it works to restore cash generation.
Analysis period: fiscal year ended October 2, 2026. Research cutoff: November 11, 2026, New York date; the latest company documents used are dated November 10. Annual financial statements exclude Qorvo; subsequent merger developments are identified separately.
Source: Skyworks FY2026 Form 10-K, filed November 10, 2026, Item 7, pp. 37–42; consolidated cash flows, p. 50; Note 17, p. 76.
1. Growth beyond Apple softened a customer loss, but did not replace it
Skyworks sold more to customers other than Apple, yet total sales still declined. Revenue fell 3.1% in fiscal 2026, following a 2.2% decline in fiscal 2025. Management identified lost market share at a significant customer as the principal cause, partly offset by stronger demand for automotive, data center and Wi-Fi products.
Apple accounted for 61% of annual revenue, down from 67%. That reduction has two meanings: Skyworks became less dependent on one customer, but partly because Skyworks' sales for that customer shrank. Applying the disclosed, rounded customer percentages to revenue shows the scale of the change.
| Revenue and customer dependence | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reported consolidated revenue, USD millions | 4,178.0 | 4,086.9 | 3,959.6 |
| Apple share of revenue | 69% | 67% | 61% |
| Estimated Apple-related revenue, USD billions | 2.88 | 2.74 | 2.42 |
| Estimated revenue from other customers, USD billions | 1.30 | 1.35 | 1.54 |
Reporting basis: FY2024 and FY2026 contain 52 weeks; FY2025 contains 53. These are reported fiscal-year comparisons, without an estimated adjustment for the extra week. Customer revenue estimates use rounded concentration percentages and are not separately reported sales figures. Apple-related sales include multiple device types and sales through distributors and contract manufacturers.
Sources: FY2026 Form 10-K, statement of operations, p. 47; Note 2, p. 52; Note 14, pp. 72–73. Customer calculations are described in the calculation notes.
The customer setback had a known business mechanism. In February 2025, management said it expected the value of Skyworks components in its largest customer's next phone generation to fall 20%–25%, affecting late fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2026. Phone makers choose components before production begins. Losing a position in a new phone therefore reduces the chips Skyworks can sell even when that phone sells well. The roughly 12% decline in estimated annual Apple-related revenue measures a broader mix of devices and shipment periods; it is not a direct scorecard for the earlier per-phone forecast.
Source: Skyworks February 5, 2025 prepared remarks, p. 4; FY2026 Form 10-K, Item 1A, pp. 18–19, and Note 14.
The wider opportunity is producing sales. Management reported approximately 10% annual growth in legacy Broad Markets, its category for products outside the mobile business. Data center, Wi-Fi and automotive products led that growth. This category is different from “all customers other than Apple”: Apple also buys chips for products other than smartphones. Skyworks reports one operating segment, so the filing does not provide separate profits for these markets.
Sources: November 3, 2026 prepared remarks, pp. 2 and 4; FY2026 Form 10-K, Note 14, pp. 72–73.
Customer demand alone will not resolve the problem. Apple reported record September-quarter iPhone revenue for its quarter ended September 26, 2026. That provides useful evidence against treating Skyworks' difficulty as simply a collapse in its largest customer's business. It does not identify which Skyworks components Apple selected or how much Apple paid for them.
Source: Apple November 2, 2026 results announcement, fiscal fourth-quarter discussion. Apple's quarter is contextual evidence, not a like-period comparison with Skyworks' annual sales.
Competition also reaches beyond individual chips. Qualcomm's March 2026 X105 announcement describes a modem and radio system designed for more advanced mobile networks and satellite connectivity. This illustrates the rival system-level offerings Skyworks must compete with. Qorvo broadens Skyworks' own range of filters, amplifiers and antenna technologies, but customers still decide which products enter each device. The business benefit will come from winning those decisions and converting them into shipments.
Sources: Qualcomm X105 announcement, March 2, 2026; FY2026 Form 10-K, Item 1, pp. 6–10, and Item 1A, pp. 18–19.
2. Merger charges explain part of the profit decline, but the pressure was broader
Profit weakened even after management removed acquisition and other selected costs. Reported operating profit, the profit after production and running costs but before interest and taxes, fell 56.7%. That was considerably faster than the sales decline. Skyworks kept less revenue after paying to make its products while spending more on engineering, transaction work and factory changes.
| Consolidated earnings, USD millions except margins and EPS | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross profit | 1,720.8 | 1,682.1 | 1,614.9 |
| Gross margin | 41.2% | 41.2% | 40.8% |
| Operating profit | 637.4 | 500.0 | 216.7 |
| Operating margin | 15.3% | 12.2% | 5.5% |
| Net income | 596.0 | 477.1 | 172.1 |
| Net margin | 14.3% | 11.7% | 4.3% |
| Diluted EPS, USD per share | 3.69 | 3.08 | 1.14 |
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, consolidated statement of operations, p. 47. Margins are calculated from reported revenue; the fiscal-week difference described above applies.
Management attributed lower gross profit to higher input costs and a less favorable product mix, partly offset by higher unit volumes. Selling more units therefore did not translate into more sales dollars or profit. The filing does not provide a numerical split between prices, unit volumes and mix. It establishes that higher shipment volume was insufficient to protect profitability.
Skyworks increased research and development spending to create new products and manufacturing technologies. That spending rose by $51.5 million to $837.0 million, mainly through personnel costs, including stock compensation. It is an investment in future sales, but it is charged against current profit as the work occurs. Engineering consumed 21.1% of revenue, compared with 15.1% two years earlier, because spending rose while sales declined.
Selling and administrative costs increased by $64.6 million to $436.1 million. Professional services for Qorvo were the main reason; lower personnel costs provided a partial offset. Note 17 identifies $84.7 million of merger transaction costs in this expense category.
The remaining major operating-profit movement was a $100.0 million increase in restructuring, impairment and other charges. These reached $124.2 million. Included were $66.2 million of asset write-downs: $37.7 million for excess supplies recorded outside inventory, $25.7 million for property designated for sale, and $2.8 million for acquired development projects. These charges reduced the recorded value of resources that management no longer expected to recover fully.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, Item 7, pp. 39–40; Notes 4, 7, 15 and 17, pp. 58–60 and 74–76.
Removing selected costs changes the size of the decline, not its direction. Management's non-GAAP net income fell 17.1%, from $919.1 million to $762.1 million; adjusted operating profit fell 14.6%. The complete adjustment table appears below. It removes stock compensation and acquired-technology amortization as well as transaction and restructuring costs. Those exclusions help separate accounting effects, but stock awards remain part of employee pay and acquired technology remains part of the business. The adjusted result is not a measure of cash available to spend.
Source: Skyworks FY2026 fourth-quarter financial supplement, p. 2, annual non-GAAP reconciliations; pp. 3–4, definitions.
A higher tax rate absorbed more of each dollar of pretax profit. Although tax expense fell in dollars, the effective rate rose from 9.4% to 19.5%. The filing identifies larger tax shortfalls on employee stock awards, larger provisions for uncertain taxes, transaction costs and a smaller U.S. deduction tied to foreign income among the reasons. The company reported a U.S. pretax loss alongside foreign pretax profit, so a single domestic statutory rate would not explain the outcome.
Fewer average shares modestly softened the EPS decline by spreading profit across fewer shares. The average count used for diluted EPS, which includes potentially issuable shares, fell from 155.1 million to 151.0 million. Using the earlier share count, fiscal 2026 profit would have produced approximately $1.11 per share, compared with the reported $1.14. The much larger Qorvo share issuance occurred after year-end and is absent from these annual EPS figures.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, statement of operations, p. 47; Item 7, p. 40; Notes 8, 13 and 17. The EPS illustration holds net income constant and changes only the share denominator.
3. Inventory and factory spending left less cash for other uses
Inventory tied up cash while customer collections provided relief. Receivables fell from $598.1 million to $494.7 million, and the cash-flow statement records a $103.5 million cash benefit from receivables. Inventory moved in the opposite direction: it rose 41.8% to $1.07 billion while annual revenue declined.
Most of the inventory increase was in products being made and completed products awaiting sale. Work in process rose from $540.6 million to $691.5 million; finished goods rose from $169.3 million to $317.7 million. Building those goods requires materials, labor and factory spending before customers provide cash. The filing does not allocate the buildup between factory transfers, planned launches and slower sales. The demonstrated consequence is that more cash was committed before sale, with greater exposure if orders change.
That exposure matters because customers can cancel or delay many orders, and some products have few alternative buyers. The separate supplies write-down concerns materials held for operating use, rather than products being made for customers.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, balance sheet and cash flows, pp. 49–50; Notes 2, 4 and 5, pp. 53 and 58–59; Item 1A, pp. 22–23.
The year-to-year cash bridge makes the effect clearer. Lower net income reduced operating cash by $305.0 million. Changes in receivables, inventory, supplier bills and other operating balances reduced it by another $470.8 million compared with fiscal 2025. Changes in costs and benefits that affected profit without a current cash payment—such as depreciation—offset $24.9 million of those reductions. Together, these explain the $750.9 million fall in operating cash.
Within that bridge, inventory changed from a $41.8 million cash benefit to a $316.7 million cash use. Other operating assets and liabilities changed from a $173.6 million benefit to a $119.2 million use. Better collections offset part of these movements, while supplier credit helped slightly less than in the previous year. The cash squeeze therefore reflects both weaker earnings and the timing of purchases, customer payments and other operating payments.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, cash-flow statement, p. 50, and Item 7, p. 41. The calculation notes reconcile both years.
Skyworks also increased cash spending on property and equipment by 64.4%. After this spending, the cash remaining was below the amount paid in dividends and ordinary share repurchases.
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| Cash generated and allocated, USD millions | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | 1,824.7 | 1,300.8 | 549.9 |
| Capital spending, cash paid | 157.0 | 195.0 | 320.6 |
| Free cash flow: operating cash less capital spending | 1,667.7 | 1,105.8 | 229.3 |
| Cash dividends paid | 439.1 | 432.6 | 320.1 |
| Cash paid under share repurchase programs | 77.3 | 830.2 | 114.5 |
| Remainder after dividends and program repurchases | 1,151.3 | -157.0 | -205.3 |
Reporting basis: Capital spending is shown as a positive use of cash. Free cash flow follows the company's non-GAAP definition and excludes purchased intangibles. Fiscal 2026 also used $30.5 million for purchased intangibles, leaving $198.8 million after both forms of investment, before dividends and repurchases. Employee-award tax withholding is separate from program buybacks.
Sources: FY2026 Form 10-K, cash-flow statement, p. 50; FY2026 financial supplement, p. 2, free-cash-flow definition and reconciliation.
The last quarter remained weak on this measure. Operating cash was $33.7 million versus $200.0 million in the prior-year quarter; capital spending was $94.7 million versus $56.0 million. Quarterly free cash flow was therefore negative $61.0 million, compared with positive $144.0 million. These quarterly amounts are included in the annual figures above.
Source: FY2026 financial supplement, p. 2, three-month cash-flow reconciliation. The prior-year quarter includes the fiscal calendar's extra week.
The company is changing its factories to improve efficiency. It plans to consolidate Woburn wafer production into Newbury Park and designated certain Woburn assets for sale. Separately, its Singapore filter facility must relocate by the July 2030 sublease expiry unless arrangements change. Transferring a chip process requires equipment moves and customer qualification of production lines, so savings can be preceded by spending and disruption.
Construction in progress increased from $86.7 million to $164.4 million, while net property and equipment remained nearly flat at $1.20 billion. Depreciation and the Woburn asset changes help explain why cash investment did not produce a similar increase in the balance-sheet total. The filing does not divide total capital spending into maintenance, expansion and relocation. Manufacturing changes will improve cash generation only if lower operating costs outweigh the spending and disruption needed to move production.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, Item 1A, pp. 19–20; Notes 6 and 15, pp. 59 and 74.
4. Qorvo transformed the funding picture after year-end
Borrowing built the cash balance ahead of the acquisition payment. Cash and equivalents rose to $2.61 billion, mainly after Skyworks issued $2.00 billion of notes in August. It also repaid $500.0 million of older notes. The new borrowing arrived before the acquisition payment, making the October 2 balance sheet a temporary picture between financing and closing.
On October 5, Skyworks paid approximately $2.9 billion in cash and issued 85.3 million shares to Qorvo stockholders. Total purchase consideration was approximately $10.2 billion, including the accounting value of shares and equity awards. Skyworks acquired approximately $1.3 billion of Qorvo cash and used its revolving credit facility as part of the funding. The year-end cash balance should therefore not be carried forward as the combined company's available cash.
Qorvo's acquisition accounting was still being prepared when the 10-K was issued. The filing does not provide an acquisition-date balance sheet or full combined pro forma financial statements. Consequently, the reported $2.18 billion goodwill balance and $633.7 million of net intangible assets describe legacy Skyworks, not the enlarged company. Legacy intangibles fell from $809.0 million mainly because the cost of acquired technology was charged to profit over its useful life, a process called amortization. Goodwill, which records part of the price of past acquisitions, was unchanged and passed its annual impairment test; it is not spendable cash.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, balance sheet, p. 49; Notes 7, 16 and 17, pp. 59–60 and 74–76.
The acquisition also brought Qorvo's debt into the group. After the October 7 note exchange, the combined fixed-rate notes totaled approximately $4.05 billion, before revolving borrowings. Their contractual annual interest is approximately $187.7 million if these principal amounts remain outstanding. Fiscal 2026 interest expense was only $41.3 million, because much of the borrowing arrived near year-end and Qorvo's debt was not yet consolidated. That calculation excludes revolver interest and financing-cost amortization; it is not a forecast of total interest expense.
| Fixed-rate notes after the October 7 exchange | Principal, USD millions | Annual coupon rate |
|---|---|---|
| Skyworks notes due 2028 | 800.0 | 5.000% |
| Qorvo-origin notes and replacement notes due 2029 | 848.7 | 4.375% |
| Legacy Skyworks notes due 2031 | 500.0 | 3.000% |
| Qorvo-origin notes and replacement notes due 2031 | 699.7 | 3.375% |
| Skyworks notes due 2032 | 600.0 | 5.750% |
| Skyworks notes due 2036 | 600.0 | 6.250% |
| Total principal | 4,048.4 | — |
Reporting basis: These are contractual principal amounts, not debt carrying values after issuance costs. The October 7 filing distinguishes old notes canceled from new notes issued; the latter plus old notes still outstanding determine the table. Rounded figures may differ from the acquisition's approximately $1.55 billion inherited-debt description.
Sources: FY2026 Form 10-K, Notes 16–17; October 7, 2026 Form 8-K, Item 1.01, exchange settlement and remaining principal. Exact interest inputs appear in the calculation notes.
The first large note repayments now fall in 2028 and 2029, totaling about $1.65 billion. That leaves time for integration, but requires cash retention or refinancing before the full debt schedule runs off. The $750.0 million revolver expires November 18, 2030. It was undrawn at year-end and used to fund the acquisition; the cited filing does not quantify that subsequent draw. Its floating borrowing rate is tied to SOFR, a U.S. dollar lending benchmark. The agreement limits debt to 3.0 times a defined earnings measure that adds back interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Skyworks reported compliance at October 2. That date does not establish post-merger borrowing headroom.
Leases add operating commitments rather than bond principal. Legacy Skyworks had $178.4 million of recorded lease liabilities and $215.0 million of undiscounted future payments, including $37.7 million in fiscal 2027. These figures exclude Qorvo and show an additional claim on operating cash alongside interest and debt repayments.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, Notes 10 and 16, pp. 69–70 and 74–75.
Management changed capital allocation ahead of closing to create flexibility for debt reduction, repurchases and acquisitions. It ended quarterly dividend declarations in July. That removes a recurring cash demand, while the new $2 billion buyback authorization remains discretionary. About $1.9 billion was unused at year-end. Given the cash shortfall after investment and distributions, the business benefit of this policy depends on how much cash management retains for operations and debt repayment.
Repurchases also need to be separated from employee issuance. During fiscal 2026, Skyworks retired 1.6 million repurchased shares but issued a net 2.0 million shares through employee-award exercises and settlements. Shares outstanding therefore rose from 148.7 million to 149.1 million before Qorvo. Stock compensation was $218.4 million, and the merger subsequently added both the 85.3 million consideration shares and approximately 4.6 million converted employee awards. Buybacks alone do not describe the change in ownership claims.
Sources: July 28, 2026 capital-allocation announcement, “Capital Allocation Framework”; FY2026 Form 10-K, equity statement, p. 51, and Notes 9 and 17.
5. The merger broadens the business, while savings will take longer to arrive
Qorvo gives Skyworks more ways to serve customers, but the near-term recovery still depends on execution. Management's purpose is to combine complementary radio, power and analog technologies into more complete customer solutions. In phones, that means supplying more of the path between signal processing and the antenna. Beyond phones, the combined company can offer a wider range of products for defense, networks, vehicles and connected equipment. This can spread dependence across more products, although customer qualification and production decisions determine when those opportunities become revenue.
Sources: Skyworks October 5, 2026 completion announcement, business rationale; FY2026 Form 10-K, Item 1, pp. 6–10, and Item 1A, pp. 18–19.
Management targets at least $500 million of annual cost savings within 24–36 months of closing. Its nearer target is approximately $150 million of operating-expense savings during fiscal 2027, weighted toward the second half, with a $250 million–$300 million annualized savings rate at year-end. A year-end rate describes the pace then reached, not savings earned throughout that year.
The intended sequence is sensible: administrative and engineering overlap can be addressed before factory consolidation is finished. Management expects roughly two-thirds of ultimate savings from operating expenses and one-third from manufacturing costs. It is also responding to input-cost pressure through factory utilization, supply agreements and selective price increases. These are plans and actions, not yet a verified net cash benefit after integration spending.
Sources: November 3, 2026 results announcement, first-quarter outlook; November 3 prepared remarks, pp. 2, 4 and 6.
For the first combined quarter, management forecast revenue of $1.80 billion–$1.90 billion. Its $1.85 billion midpoint compares with $1.983 billion from adding the two companies' preceding September quarters. Qorvo's quarter included about $70 million from an extra week; excluding that week, the midpoint implies a roughly 3% sequential decline. Management expects smartphones to decline and diversified markets to grow. This is a more restrained near-term demand picture than the merger's increase in company size might suggest.
Source: November 3, 2026 results announcement, combined September revenue table and first fiscal quarter 2027 outlook. The $1.983 billion is an unaudited addition of separate companies' revenue, not reported consolidated Skyworks revenue. Calculation: 1,850 ÷ (1,983 − 70) − 1 = −3.3%, with all inputs in USD millions.
A November 10 product announcement shows what diversification looks like in practice. Skyworks introduced the SKY4680x automotive audio processors, designed to let automakers reuse software across vehicles with different audio requirements. Samples and evaluation boards were available. The potential benefit is a wider role in vehicle electronics, but the announcement did not disclose production revenue or order value. For the company, the next commercial step is customer adoption and production, rather than the product introduction itself.
Source: Skyworks November 10, 2026 automotive audio announcement, product architecture and availability. This development was announced on the filing date and is outside the fiscal 2026 results.
6. Tax and legal exposures remain relevant to cash planning
Some recorded tax benefits will reduce future taxes only if the business can use them. Net deferred tax assets, after deferred tax liabilities, increased from $347.5 million to $438.1 million. These assets principally represent deductions and credits available in later periods, not cash in the bank. The recorded value of research-related deductions available in future years was an important contributor to the increase.
Skyworks also excluded $204.3 million of potential tax benefits from recognized assets through a valuation allowance because it did not expect sufficient taxable income or tax liability in the relevant jurisdictions to use them. This allowance increased by $17.5 million.
Separately, Skyworks had $83.2 million of tax benefits it had not recognized because acceptance by tax authorities was uncertain, up from $64.2 million. It disclosed ongoing U.S. federal and California examinations. Cash taxes of $140.3 million exceeded the $41.6 million tax expense recorded against profit. Future tax benefits and payment timing explain why the expense is not the current cash bill.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, Note 8, pp. 60–65. Deferred tax assets and uncertain tax positions have different accounting purposes and are not offset here.
The securities class action also remains unresolved. The court denied the company's motion to dismiss the amended complaint on May 6, 2026, and related shareholder derivative cases remain disclosed. Skyworks intends to defend the cases; the filing provides no quantified loss range. Its small recorded legal accrual therefore does not settle the potential exposure. By contrast, Denso's patent litigation was settled during fiscal 2026 for a charge described as immaterial. The distinction matters for planning: one dispute has a reported outcome, while the securities cases remain an unquantified demand on management and potentially on cash.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, Note 11, pp. 70–71.
7. Conclusion: the larger company needs to turn breadth into cash
Skyworks has a stronger range of products, but enters integration with weaker cash generation in its legacy business. Growth outside its largest customer shows that diversification is working commercially. It has not yet offset customer losses, higher costs and the cash committed to inventory and manufacturing changes.
The merger offers a credible route to broader sales and lower duplicated costs. Its financial success will depend on retaining customer positions while consolidating operations, selling the inventory already built and turning planned savings into cash after integration spending. Progress on those measures would give Skyworks more room to fund engineering and meet its larger debt commitments. Continued inventory accumulation or delayed factory savings would leave that room narrower, even if reported revenue rises sharply through Qorvo's inclusion.
Sources: FY2026 Form 10-K, Items 1, 1A and 7; Notes 5, 16 and 17; November 3 prepared remarks, integration discussion, pp. 3–4.
Reporting basis and calculation notes
Reporting basis: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.; ticker SWKS; CIK 0000004127; Form 10-K; accession 0000004127-26-000055; filed November 10, 2026. Fiscal 2026 ran October 4, 2025–October 2, 2026; fiscal 2025 ran September 28, 2024–October 3, 2025; fiscal 2024 ran September 30, 2023–September 27, 2024. The statements consolidate Skyworks and its then-owned subsidiaries, eliminate intercompany balances and follow U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP. Qorvo closed October 5, 2026, after these annual accounts. KPMG's November 10, 2026 audit opinions stated that the accounts fairly presented the company's finances and that financial-reporting controls were effective.
The research cutoff is November 11, 2026, New York date. Sources used include the November 10 filing and product announcement, November 3 results materials, October merger documents and specifically relevant earlier disclosures.
Sources: SEC issuer filing history; FY2026 Form 10-K, cover, auditor's report, pp. 45–46, and Note 2; company-hosted copy of the filing.
Calculation notes: Growth equals the current amount divided by the comparable earlier amount, less one. Margins equal profit divided by revenue. Calculations use reported amounts before rounding. SEC XBRL checks used the selected filing's consolidated U.S.-GAAP facts, matching currency, units and actual reporting dates. The fiscal year attached to a filing does not replace the dates of each comparative figure.
Source: SEC Skyworks company facts, including consolidated revenue, operating income, net income, assets, liabilities, equity, operating cash, capital spending, inventory and stock-compensation facts for the selected accession.
Calculation notes — customer estimates: Estimated Apple revenue equals annual revenue multiplied by Apple's rounded revenue share; the remainder is attributed to other customers. The inputs are all shown in section 1. The calculation implies roughly 12% lower Apple-related sales and roughly 15% higher other-customer sales in FY2026.
Geographic revenue generally follows device-makers' headquarters, rather than where consumers bought devices. Revenue from individually insignificant OEMs is classified by the direct customer's location, typically a distributor. U.S.-classified revenue fell from $3,157.1 million to $3,023.2 million. Distributor-channel revenue fell from $3,525.6 million to $3,394.0 million. These classifications help locate the recorded sales decline but do not independently measure consumer demand.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, Note 14, pp. 72–73.
Calculation notes — reported operating-profit bridge: The following reconciles the fall in operating profit. Higher operating costs combine the research, selling/administrative and restructuring increases explained in section 2.
| Operating-profit movement, USD millions | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY2025 operating profit | 500.0 |
| Lower gross profit | -67.2 |
| Higher operating costs | -216.1 |
| FY2026 operating profit | 216.7 |
Most intangible amortization is already included in product costs, so it is not added to the bridge again.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, statement of operations, p. 47, and Note 7, p. 60.
Calculation notes — management's adjusted earnings: Positive adjustments below add back expenses; the tax adjustment reduces the resulting profit. The adjustment categories are management's classifications and can span multiple GAAP expense lines.
| Annual net-income reconciliation, USD millions | FY2025 | FY2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Reported GAAP net income | 477.1 | 172.1 |
| Add: stock compensation | 232.4 | 218.4 |
| Add: acquisition-related expenses | 5.4 | 132.9 |
| Add: acquired-intangible amortization | 153.3 | 140.7 |
| Add: settlements, gains, losses and impairments, net adjustment | 19.5 | 67.8 |
| Add: restructuring and other charges | 84.7 | 73.3 |
| Tax adjustments | -53.3 | -43.1 |
| Management's non-GAAP net income | 919.1 | 762.1 |
The non-tax adjustments are pretax; the final row is after management's tax adjustments. Those adjustments incorporate its normalized-tax approach, including a 10% fiscal 2026 non-GAAP tax rate, rather than one uniform statutory rate applied to each item. The $132.9 million acquisition-related addback is broader than the $84.7 million merger transaction cost specifically disclosed in Note 17; they are not interchangeable. Interest expense remains in the adjusted result. This reconciliation does not classify every excluded expense as nonrecurring.
Sources: FY2026 financial supplement, pp. 2–4; FY2026 Form 10-K, Note 17.
Calculation notes — profit to operating cash: Noncash adjustments remove costs and benefits already included in profit that did not require a cash payment in the same period. Positive operating-balance changes released cash; negative changes used it.
| Annual operating-cash reconciliation, USD millions | FY2025 | FY2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Net income | 477.1 | 172.1 |
| Stock compensation | 232.4 | 218.4 |
| Depreciation and intangible amortization | 463.0 | 462.5 |
| Asset write-downs | 0.0 | 66.2 |
| Deferred-tax adjustment | -55.8 | -90.6 |
| Debt-cost amortization and other adjustments, net | -9.1 | -1.1 |
| Cash effect of customer receivables | -89.3 | 103.5 |
| Cash effect of inventory | 41.8 | -316.7 |
| Cash effect of supplier payables | 67.1 | 54.8 |
| Cash effect of other operating balances | 173.6 | -119.2 |
| Operating cash flow | 1,300.8 | 549.9 |
The noncash adjustments total 630.5 in FY2025 and 655.4 in FY2026. Operating-balance changes total positive 193.2 and negative 277.6, respectively. This supports the year-to-year explanation in section 3.
| FY2026 cash-balance reconciliation, USD millions | Amount |
|---|---|
| Opening cash and equivalents | 1,161.3 |
| Cash from operations | 549.9 |
| Cash used in investing | -134.3 |
| Cash from financing | 1,029.2 |
| Closing cash and equivalents | 2,606.1 |
Investing cash includes $212.5 million of net proceeds from securities transactions. Separate marketable securities fell from $227.1 million to zero. Cash plus securities therefore rose by $1,217.7 million, less than the $1,444.8 million increase in cash alone. The cash-flow statement presents cash and equivalents without a separate restricted-cash balance.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, balance sheet and cash-flow statement, pp. 49–50. Cash capex excludes $45.9 million of capital purchases accrued but unpaid at year-end; it is not a measure of all asset additions.
Calculation notes — other balance-sheet movements: Other current and long-term assets together increased from $427.5 million to $620.8 million. Disclosed components include higher prepayments, $12.5 million of Woburn assets held for sale, and capacity-reservation deposits and prepayments that rose from $26.4 million to $68.5 million. The latter secure access to suppliers' wafer production. The filing does not fully explain the increase in the residual “other” category, so it is not assigned to a particular investment program. Capacity deposits are already within these asset totals and are not added again.
Financing debt at carrying value rose from $995.8 million to $2,472.8 million. Other liabilities collectively rose from $1,164.1 million to $1,248.3 million. Supplier payables rose by $65.8 million, compensation accruals by $19.3 million and accrued customer liabilities by $39.1 million, while lease liabilities declined. These balances largely arise from running the business, separate from borrowing through notes.
Sources: FY2026 Form 10-K, balance sheet, p. 49; Notes 10, 11 and 15. Balance-sheet changes and cash-flow movements need not match because accruals and noncash classifications differ.
Calculation notes — equity and balance-sheet checks: Equity is the accounting amount left after liabilities are deducted from assets. The table explains why it fell despite positive profit.
| FY2026 equity reconciliation, USD millions | Amount |
|---|---|
| Opening equity | 5,757.1 |
| Net income | 172.1 |
| Net employee-share settlements | 6.4 |
| Stock-compensation credit recorded in equity | 208.5 |
| Repurchased shares retired | -107.1 |
| Dividends declared | -320.1 |
| Other comprehensive loss | -1.2 |
| Closing equity | 5,715.7 |
Retained earnings, the accumulated profit remaining after distributions, fell by $148.0 million because dividends exceeded annual profit. Additional paid-in capital records share-related capital beyond nominal share value. It rose from $68.1 million to $175.8 million: award settlements added $5.9 million, stock-compensation credits added $208.5 million and share retirements removed $106.7 million.
Common-stock nominal value rose by $0.1 million. Investment and pension adjustments together reduced equity by $1.2 million. Repurchased shares were retired, leaving no separate treasury-share balance. The $107.1 million equity reduction and $114.5 million cash repurchase payment are distinct statement amounts; cash allocation uses the latter.
| Balance-sheet identity, USD millions | October 3, 2025 | October 2, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Assets | 7,917.0 | 9,436.8 |
| Liabilities | 2,159.9 | 3,721.1 |
| Equity | 5,757.1 | 5,715.7 |
| Liabilities plus equity | 7,917.0 | 9,436.8 |
The $1,519.8 million asset increase equals a $1,561.2 million liability increase less the $41.4 million equity decrease. These figures precede Qorvo's acquisition accounting.
Source: FY2026 Form 10-K, comprehensive income, balance sheet and equity statements, pp. 48–51; Note 9, pp. 66–69.
Calculation notes — debt interest: The 2029 total combines $778.096 million of replacement notes with $70.616 million of old notes still outstanding. The Qorvo-origin 2031 total combines $646.805 million of replacement notes with $52.904 million still outstanding. Multiplying each note balance in section 4 by its annual coupon rate, using these unrounded amounts, produces total annual interest of $187.746 million. The calculation assumes a full year with no principal repayments.
Sources: FY2026 Form 10-K, Note 16; October 7, 2026 Form 8-K, Item 1.01.
This analysis is for information and education and is not investment advice. Management forecasts are identified as forecasts and may differ from actual results.