Universal Display : 2023 Annual Report 2022 Annual Report

TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS:

2023 was a significant year for our Company. We continued to bolster our leadership position at the forefront of energy- efficient OLED material solutions and best-in-class enabling OLED technologies. In an OLED market forecasted to grow to $46 billion in 2024, our materials and technology can be found in virtually every OLED consumer electronics device around the world. We made excellent progress in advancing our key R&D initiatives, enhanced our strong partnerships, and built upon our corporate culture of inventiveness, ingenuity and imagination. We also laid additional groundwork designed to better support our customers and the growth potential of the OLED industry we see in the years ahead. During the year, we:

• Announced new long-term,multi-year agreements with BOE Technology Group and an OLED evaluation agreement with Seiko Epson.
• Celebrated the grand opening of our new manufacturing site in Shannon, Ireland, which is designed to produce red, green and blue phosphorescent emissive materials.
• Strengthened our global IP framework with the acquisition of Merck KGaA's phosphorescent emitter portfolio of more than 550 patents in 172 patent families.

Our 2023 revenue was $576 million, operating income was $217 million and net income was $203 million, or $4.24 per diluted share. While soft consumer spending in the smartphone and premium TV markets tempered our financial results, we remained steadfast in our commitment to excellence and the pursuit of our vision.

UDC also received numerous recognitions that are a testament to our work, our people and what we have built together. We were named to the Wall Street Journal's list of Best-Managed Companies, which is based on five dimensions of corporate performance: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility, and financial strength. We were named to Newsweek's 2024 list of America's Greenest Companies, awarded a Silver rating for corporate social responsibility from EcoVadis and recognized for the fourth consecutive year by the Forum of Executive Women for Board Diversity.

Advancing Our Materials & Technologies

Energy efficiency and sustainability are key foundational elements of UDC's core competencies. Our patented and award- winning phosphorescent OLED technology and UniversalPHOLED® materials enhance the performance of displays and lighting products - providing significant power savings advantages - for longer battery operation in portable electronics and less energy consumption in larger displays and lighting products. In addition to the continuous generation-to- generation improvements in our red and green phosphorescent emissive materials, the forthcoming introduction of our phosphorescent blue into the commercial market is expected to further increase energy efficiency and translate into added power savings, longer battery life, brighter displays, and lower panel temperatures. We believe that our broadening phosphorescent portfolio will enable new product designs and

applications while supporting our customers' sustainability initiatives, driving growth for UDC and the OLED industry.

We also continue to advance OVJP (organic vapor jet printing), our novel, maskless, dry printing platform. Last summer, we announced a critical milestone with the world's first fully printed, high resolution, RGB (red, green and blue) side-by-side PHOLED stack with comparable performance to vacuum thermal evaporation. We believe that this achievement positions OVJP to be a complete deposition solution for OLED TVs. Printing all the layers (red, green and blue PHOLED, prime and common layers) with OVJP is expected to pave the way for faster throughput, smaller footprint and cost-effective manufacturing for OLED TVs.

The Long Growth Path Ahead

We believe that the future is brighter than ever for our Company. We see momentum accelerating across the consumer electronics landscape, from the commencement of an OLED IT adoption cycle to further OLED penetration in the smartphone market, including the rise of foldables, OLED TV growth, the burgeoning OLED automotive market as well as AR/VR, wearables, gaming and signage. From an OLED capacity standpoint, the proliferation of OLEDs in these diverse market verticals is expected to drive increased utilization rates and prompt new OLED capacity to be built. With the OLED industry continuing to gain traction with new products, new capacity, and new adopters, we believe that the industry is embarking on an exciting, new multi-year capital expenditure cycle.

With strong prospects for growth ahead, we will continue to seize opportunities that make us stronger and invigorate our global team. We believe that we are well positioned for long- term market leadership and long-term profitability in the growing OLED market. With our extensive experience and unwavering focus on innovation and execution, we continuously push boundaries to redefine what is possible and forge paths that drive forward breakthroughs and advance our phosphorescent material and OLED technology roadmaps; cultivate and nurture an environment of inventiveness, integrity, inclusion and collaboration; and build on our robust first-mover position. As we approach the 30th anniversary of our Company's founding this year, we are excited to reach even greater heights in the future and continue to make a lasting impact in the OLED industry.

In closing, I thank our exceptional global UDC team for their drive, desire, dedication and heart that elevate and shape Universal Display's unending accomplishments and advancements. To our customers and partners, thank you for the collaborations that create bright, beautiful and brilliant products for displays and lighting. And to our shareholders, thank you for your continued support as we deliver on our vision of turning innovation into reality.

Steven V. Abramson

President & Chief Executive Officer

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)

• ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
  For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023

OR

• TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from ____________ to ___________

Commission File Number 1-12031

UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (609) 671-0980

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant computed by reference to the closing sale price of the registrant's common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as of June 30, 2023, was $6,320,500,461. Solely for purposes of this calculation, all executive officers and directors of the registrant and all beneficial owners of more than 10% of the registrant's common stock (and their affiliates) were considered affiliates.

As of February 16, 2024, the registrant had outstanding 47,365,600 shares of common stock.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the registrant's Proxy Statement for the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which is to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission no later than April 29, 2024 (the first business day after the 120th day following the end of the registrant's fiscal year), are incorporated by reference into Part III of this report.

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT

CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This report and the documents incorporated by reference in this report contain some "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements concern possible or assumed future events, results and business outcomes. These statements often include words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "estimate," "seek," "will," "may," "project" or similar expressions. These statements are based on assumptions that we have made in light of our experience in the industry, as well as our perceptions of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors we believe are appropriate under the circumstances.

As you read and consider this report, you should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. You should understand that these statements involve substantial risk and uncertainty and are not guarantees of future performance or results. They depend on many factors that are discussed further under Item 1A (Risk Factors) below, including:

• successful commercialization by organic light emitting diode (OLED) manufacturers of products incorporating our OLED technologies and materials and their continued willingness to utilize our OLED technologies and materials;
• the adequacy of protections afforded to us by the patents that we own or license and the cost to us of maintaining, enforcing and defending those patents;
• our ability to protect our patented and non-patented intellectual property;
• our exposure to and ability to defend against third-party claims and challenges to our existing and future intellectual property rights;
• our ability to maintain our competitive position following the expiration of our fundamental phosphorescent organic light-emitting diode (PHOLED) patents;
• our ability to form and continue strategic relationships with manufacturers of OLED products;
• the payments that we expect to receive under our existing contracts with OLED manufacturers and the terms of contracts that we expect to enter into with OLED manufacturers in the future;
• the potential commercial applications of and future demand for our OLED technologies and materials, and of OLED products in general;
• the stability of the global economy, consumer spending and global supply chains, as well as volatility in and disruption of financial markets;
• our ability to offer and our customers' willingness to continue to purchase our materials in the event of substantial increases in tariffs or export restrictions resulting from international trade or geopolitical disputes;
• our customers' development and use of more efficient manufacturing processes and material processing protocols that result in the more efficient utilization of our materials, and therefore reduce their requirements for our materials;
• the comparative advantages and disadvantages of our OLED technologies and materials versus existing and future competing technologies and materials;
• the outcomes of our ongoing and future research and development activities, and those of others, relating to OLED technologies and materials;
• our ability to acquire and supply OLED materials and technologies at cost competitive pricing;
• our ability to compete against third parties with resources greater than ours and that are based in countries where our significant customers are located;
• our ability to respond to and address malicious cybersecurity and IT infrastructure attacks;
• our quarterly cash dividend policy;
• our future OLED technology licensing and OLED material revenues and results of operations, including supply and demand for our OLED materials; and
• general economic and market conditions, including impacts resulting from pandemic outbreaks and geopolitical risks and uncertainties given the international nature of our business.

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Changes or developments in any of these areas could affect our financial results or results of operations and could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by any forward-looking statements.

All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this report or the documents incorporated by reference, as the case may be. We do not undertake any duty to update, correct, modify, or supplement any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this report or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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PART I

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

Our Company

We are a leader in the research, development and commercialization of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies and materials for use in display and solid-state lighting applications. OLEDs are thin, lightweight and power-efficientsolid-state devices that emit light that can be manufactured on both flexible and rigid substrates, making them highly suitable for use in full-color displays and as lighting products. OLED displays are capturing a growing share of the display market, especially in the mobile phone, television, monitor, wearable, tablet, notebook and personal computer, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and automotive markets. We believe that this is because OLEDs offer potential advantages over competing display technologies with respect to power efficiency, contrast ratio, viewing angle, video response time, form factor and manufacturing cost. We also believe that OLED lighting products have the potential to replace many existing light sources in the future because of their high-power efficiency, excellent color rendering index, low operating temperature and novel form factor. Our technology leadership, our current intellectual property position, and our more than 20 years of experience working closely with leading OLED display manufacturers are some of the competitive advantages that should enable us to continue to share in the revenues from OLED displays and lighting products as they gain wider acceptance.

Our primary business strategy is to (1) develop new OLED materials and sell existing and new materials to product manufacturers for display applications, such as mobile phones, televisions, monitors, wearables, tablets, portable media devices, notebook computers, personal computers and automotive applications, and specialty and general lighting products; and (2) further develop and either license or otherwise commercialize our proprietary OLED material, device design and manufacturing technologies to those manufacturers. We have established a significant portfolio of proprietary OLED technologies and materials, primarily through our internal research and development efforts and acquisitions of patents and patent applications, as well as maintaining long-standing, and establishing new relationships with world-class universities, research institutions and strategic manufacturing partnerships. We currently own, exclusively license or have the sole right to sublicense more than 6,000 patents issued and pending worldwide.

We manufacture and sell our proprietary OLED materials to customers for evaluation and use in commercial OLED products. We also enter into agreements with manufacturers of OLED display and lighting products under which we grant them licenses to practice under our patents and to use our proprietary know-how. At the same time, we work with these and other companies that are evaluating our OLED material, device design and manufacturing technologies for possible use in commercial OLED display and lighting products.

Market Overview

The Display Panel Market

Thin, energy-efficient display panels that can be manufactured on glass or flexible substrates are essential for a wide variety of portable consumer electronics products, such as mobile phones, AR/VR headsets, digital cameras, wearables, tablets and notebook computers. Due to their narrow profile and light weight, flat panel displays are the display of choice for larger product applications, such as computer monitors and televisions.

Liquid crystal displays, or LCDs, continue to dominate the flat panel display market. However, we believe that OLED displays are an attractive alternative to LCDs, and OLED displays are gaining market share, because they offer a number of potential advantages, including:

• higher power efficiencies, thereby reducing energy consumption;
• a thinner profile and lighter weight;
• higher contrast ratios, leading to sharper picture images and graphics;
• wider viewing angles;
• deposition on non-rigid substrates which enable conformable and flexible displays;
• faster response times for video and gaming; and
• lower cost manufacturing methods and materials.

Based on these characteristics, product manufacturers have adopted small-area OLED displays for use in a wide variety of electronic devices, such as smartphones, wearables and tablets. Manufacturers are increasingly commercializing large-area OLED displays for use in televisions and monitors. We believe that if these efforts are successful, they could result in sizeable markets for OLED displays.

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Organic materials make technically possible the development of flexible displays for use in an entirely new array of product applications. Such applications include display devices that fold in use, or conform to various shapes for wearable, rollable, industrial and ruggedized applications. In addition, due to the inherent transparency of the organic materials and transparent electrode technologies, OLEDs eventually may enable the production of transparent displays for use in products such as automotive windshields and windows with embedded displays.

The Solid-State Lighting Market

Traditional incandescent light bulbs are inefficient because they convert only about 5% of the energy they consume into visible light, with the rest emerging as heat. Fluorescent lamps use excited gases, or plasmas, to achieve a higher energy conversion efficiency of about 20%. However, the color rendering index of most fluorescent lamps - in other words, the quality of their color compared to an ideal light source - is inferior to that of an incandescent bulb. Fluorescent lamps also pose environmental concerns because they typically contain mercury.

Solid-state lighting relies on the direct conversion of electricity to visible light using semiconductor materials. By avoiding the heat and plasma-producing processes of incandescent bulbs and fluorescent lamps, respectively, solid-state lighting products can have substantially higher energy conversion efficiencies.

There are currently two basic types of solid-state lighting devices: inorganic light emitting diodes, or LEDs, and OLEDs. Current LEDs are very small in size (about one square millimeter) and are extremely bright. Having been developed about 25 years before OLEDs, LEDs are already widely employed in a variety of lighting products, such as traffic lights, digital signage and billboards, replacements for incandescent lighting, backlights for smartphones, computer monitors and televisions, and as border or accent lighting. However, most commercial LED offerings are characterized by high operating temperatures and intense brightness which may make them less desirable for many lighting applications.

OLEDs, on the other hand, can be designed to provide improved lighting characteristics because they can be larger in size and can be viewed directly, without using diffusers that are required to temper the intense brightness of LEDs. OLEDs can be fabricated onto any suitable surface, including glass, plastic or metal foil, and could be cost-effective to manufacture in high volume. Given these characteristics, product manufacturers are working on and have introduced limited product applications of OLEDs for diffuse specialty lighting applications and ultimately general illumination. If these efforts are successful, we believe that OLED lighting products could begin to be used for applications currently addressed by other existing lighting technologies, as well as for new applications that take advantage of the OLED form factor. In particular, the ability of OLED technology to produce uniform illumination over arbitrary shapes is making OLED lighting very attractive to the automobile industry as well as the digital signage industry.

Our Competitive Strengths

We believe that we currently are one of the leading technology developers in the OLED industry because we were the first company to develop and commercialize PHOLED emitter technology. Our experienced management and research teams have built an extensive intellectual property portfolio around our OLED technologies and materials, particularly with regard to PHOLED emitter materials, which we continually seek to enhance and grow. We work diligently, through the delivery of high-quality commercial products, superior technical support and customer service, to enable our industry-leading customers, which primarily are large display manufacturers, to adopt our OLED technologies and materials through implementation of long-term commercial material supply and patent and know-how license agreements. Our key competitive strengths include:

Technology Leadership

We are a recognized technology leader in the OLED industry. We, along with world-class academic partners, pioneered the development of our UniversalPHOLED® phosphorescent OLED technologies, which can be used to produce OLEDs that are up to four times more efficient than fluorescent OLEDs and significantly more efficient than current LCDs, which are illuminated using backlights. We believe that our PHOLED technologies and materials will continue to be well-suited for industry usage in the commercial production of OLED displays and lighting products.

Through our internal, innovative research, which has produced the majority of our most critical commercial technologies, our relationships with supplier companies, such as PPG Industries, Inc. (PPG), and our existing and new academic partners, we believe that we can continue to advance the technology we have already developed and commercialized, and that we will continue to discover and develop other important OLED technologies, as well as novel OLED materials, that will facilitate further adoption of our various OLED technologies by product manufacturers. To this end, we operate two state-of-the-art laboratories, or Application Centers, near our larger customers in the Asia-Pacific region. These Application Centers have provided us and our customers with the ability to more quickly evaluate, develop and bring to market our newest OLED materials and technologies. We also are committing significant resources to

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further the development of next-generation emissive layer technologies and dry printing technologies such as organic vapor jet printing (OVJP).

Broad Portfolio of Intellectual Property

Generally, each of our commercial offerings is protected by multiple patents which can help us either to prevent or combat the introduction of counterfeit and/or knock-off products that could potentially impact the market demand for our OLED materials and technologies. Our strong patent and non-patentedknow-how portfolios in the areas of PHOLED emitter materials, complementary PHOLED materials, OLED device designs, and OLED manufacturing technologies are reflective of our continued commitment to innovate and invest. We believe that our extensive portfolio of patents and non-patentedknow-how provides us with a competitive advantage in the OLED industry.

Through our internal development efforts, acquisitions, and long-standing relationships with academic partners, research institutions and product manufacturers, we own, exclusively license or have the sole right to sublicense more than 6,000 patents issued and pending worldwide. We continue to enhance and grow our OLED technology and materials patent portfolio organically through internal research and development, partnering with third parties, and by acquisition. We also continue to accumulate valuable non- patented technical know-how relating to our OLED technologies and materials.

Leading Supplier of UniversalPHOLED® Emitter Materials and Related Technology Licensing

We are the leading supplier of PHOLED emitter materials to OLED device manufacturers. The emitter material, which is designed to efficiently convert electrical energy to a desired wavelength of light, is the key component in an OLED device. Our manufacturing partner of over 20 years, PPG, continues to manufacture our materials for us, using proprietary manufacturing processes and know-how, which materials we then qualify to our exacting product specifications and resell on a just-in-time basis to OLED device manufacturers. We record revenues based on our sales of these materials to OLED device manufacturers. Our commercial supply agreements typically require our customers to purchase minimum quantities of our materials, which purchases can be in the form of annual minimum purchase undertakings or as a minimum percentage of their purchase requirements, or a combination of both.

Our commercial supply arrangements allow us to maintain close technical and business relationships with these OLED device manufacturers purchasing our proprietary materials, and thereby further supports our technology licensing business. We do not directly manufacture or sell OLED display or lighting products. Instead, we enter into non-exclusive licensing arrangements with OLED device manufacturers, many of which also purchase our materials, that pay us fixed license fees and/or running royalties based on their sales of licensed commercial products using our proprietary technology and patents. We believe this business model allows us to concentrate on our core strengths of technology development and innovation, while at the same time provides significant operating leverage. We also believe that this approach may reduce potential competitive conflicts with our customers.

Long-Standing Customer Relationships

We have long-standing customer relationships with OLED device manufacturers that are using, or are evaluating for use, our OLED materials in commercial OLED products. We have more than 20 years of experience in working closely with OLED device manufacturers and have provided support to them in their commercialization of OLED technology by delivering customer-specific solutions for red, green, and yellow emitter materials, or dopants.

We have a proven track record of delivering consistent, high-quality OLED material to our customers. We provide just-in-time supply to our customers and serve as a sole source to them for many of our critical materials. We believe that our unparalleled manufacturing partners, namely PPG, our well-established supply chain, our multi-tier quality testing, and our product assurance protocols make us a preferred partner for our customers and for any large-scale OLED display manufacturer that wants to deliver to high-quality international end-customers.

In 2023, our largest customers for our PHOLED materials included Samsung Display Co., Ltd. (SDC), LG Display Co., Ltd. (LG Display), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. (BOE), Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. (Tianma), Visionox Technology, Inc. (Visionox), Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd. (CSOT), Japan Display, Inc., Sharp Corporation, and AU Optronics Corporation (AU Optronics). Other licensed customers of our technology in 2023 included Kaneka Corporation, Pioneer Corporation, and OLEDWorks L.L.C.

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Complementary UniversalPHOLED® Host Material Business

In addition to our proprietary UniversalPHOLED® emitter materials, we continue to develop, supply and offer for sale certain of our proprietary phosphorescent host materials to OLED device manufacturers. In addition, we have entered into a number of host material strategic partnerships through development agreements with OLED material partners that are focused on combining our proprietary PHOLED emitters with hosts and other OLED materials of these companies in order to optimize the performance of our emitters in our customers' newest product designs. We do not believe that revenue from our host development and third-party collaboration agreements will be significant compared with our emitter business. However, we believe that development and collaborative relationships such as these are important for ensuring the continued success of the OLED industry and the broader adoption of our PHOLED and other OLED technologies in the marketplace.

Experienced Management and Scientific Advisory Team

Our management team has significant experience in developing business models focused on licensing disruptive technologies in high growth industries. The team has strong relationships with, and deep understandings of, our customers and their needs, the commercial marketplace and the OLED industry on the whole. We believe our management team's experience and long-standing relationships are important to maintaining good and accommodating working relationships with our customers, particularly when we are confronted with challenging technical, regulatory and trade issues given our international reach. In addition, we employ and contract with some of the leading researchers in the industry, and we maintain a long-standing Scientific Advisory Board that includes industry pioneers, namely Professor Stephen R. Forrest of the University of Michigan (Michigan) and Professor Mark E. Thompson of the University of Southern California (USC).

Our Business Strategy

Our current business strategy is to continue to promote and expand our portfolio of OLED technologies and materials for widespread use in OLED displays and lighting products. We generate revenues primarily by selling our proprietary OLED materials and licensing our OLED technologies to display and lighting product manufacturers. We are presently focused on the following steps to implement our business strategy:

Expand Our Collaborative Relationships with Leading Product Manufacturers and Developers

We collaborate and partner with leading manufacturers of displays and lighting products who are commercial licensees of our OLED technologies and purchasers of our OLED materials. We also supply our proprietary OLED materials to manufacturers and developers of OLED displays and lighting products for evaluation and for use in product development and for pre-commercial activities, and we provide technical assistance and support to these manufacturers and developers to foster ongoing relationships and new commercial agreements. We concentrate on working closely with OLED device manufacturers and developers because we believe that the successful incorporation of our technologies and materials into commercial products is critical to their widespread adoption.

Enhance Our Existing Portfolio of PHOLED Technologies and Materials

We believe that a strong portfolio of proprietary OLED technologies and materials for both displays and lighting products is critical to our continued success, particularly as the utilization of PHOLED technologies and materials expands in the marketplace. Consequently, we are continually seeking to expand this portfolio through our internal development efforts, our collaborative relationships with existing and new academic and other research partners, and other strategic opportunities, such as funding early-stage startup companies whose technology may be synergistic to ours. Since the acquisition of the early fundamental research developed by our initial academic partners in the late 1990's, one of our primary goals has been and continues to be the development of new and improved PHOLED technologies and materials with increased efficiencies, enhanced color gamut and extended lifetimes, which are compatible with different manufacturing methods, so that they can be used by various manufacturers in a broad array of OLED display and lighting products.

Develop Next-Generation Organic Technologies

We continue to conduct research and development activities relating to next-generation OLED technologies for both displays and lighting products, including next generation emissive layer technologies and dry printing technologies such as OVJP, which we discuss in more detail below. We also are funding research by existing and new academic partners and research institutions on the use of OLED and other related technologies in other applications. Our focus on next-generation technologies is designed to enable us to maintain our position as a leading provider of OLED and other organic electronics technologies and materials as new markets emerge.

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