Ali Bauerlein
Analyst · JPMorgan. Your question, please
Thanks, Ray, and good afternoon everyone. During my prepared remarks, I will review the details of our third quarter financial performance and then I will provide our current guidance for full year 2015 as well as initial revenue guidance for 2016. Revenue for the third quarter of 2015 was $40.8 million representing 38.7% growth over the third quarter of 2014. Once again, we saw continued strong performance on the topline and period over period growth in all revenues streams. Looking at each of our revenue streams, direct to consumer rental revenue in the third quarter was $11.5 million representing 15.7% growth over the same quarter in the prior year. Rental revenue represented 28.3% of total revenue in the quarter. We continue to ship sales capacity towards consumer sales instead of rentals, primarily due to the upcoming additional Medicare reimbursement cut. Rental revenue was down 1% from the second quarter of 2015 where we saw rental revenue of $11.6 million. Rental revenue was down primarily due to the higher rental revenue adjustments per patients on service which more than offset the additional rental revenue from the addition of 800 net patients in the third quarter of 2015. At the end of the third quarter, we had 32,400 rental patients on service, a 20.9% increase over the number of patients on service as of September 30, 2014 and a 2.5% increase over the number of patients on service as of June 30, 2015. Total sales revenue was $29.2 million, reflecting 50.6% growth over the same quarter of the prior year. Total units sold increased to 14,700 in the third quarter of 2015 up 67% from the third quarter of 2014. Direct to consumer sales for the third quarter of 2015 were $11.6 million representing 63.7% growth over the third quarter of 2014 primarily due to the impact of additional sales headcount we added the end of 2014 and continue to add in 2015. As expected, in the third quarter of 2015 the direct to consumer sales channel flowed showed typical seasonality with sales slightly down from the second quarter where we see a peak to the consumer buying pattern partially offset by the increased sales capacity versus the same period in the prior year. International business to business sales were in line with expectations at $7.9 million with 15.4% versus the same period in the prior year. This growth was in line with our expectation based on normal seasonal trend and an unusually strong third quarter in 2014 following reimbursement approval of the Inogen One G3 in France. International average selling prices in the third quarter of 2015 declined over the same period in the prior year, primarily due to currency headwinds and additional discounts associated with the increased sales volume. Domestic business to business sales were $9.8 million in the third quarter of 2015 and was our fastest growing channel in the quarter with a growth rate of 77.1% over the same period in the prior year, primarily due to growing reseller and private label demand for our portable oxygen concentrators. Turning to gross margin, for the third quarter of 2015, total gross margin was 47.5% as compared to 49.8% in the third quarter of 2014, down approximately 230 basis points. Our sales gross margin was 45.1% in the third quarter of 2015 versus 47.8% in the third quarter of 2014. The decline in sales gross margin percentage was primarily related to faster growth in the lower gross margin, business-to-business sales domestically than the direct to consumer sale. In addition, average selling prices declined across business to business sales primarily due to currency headwinds and the increased volume discounts to resellers, private label partners and international customers. Our rental gross margin was 53.5% in the third quarter of 2015 versus 53.9% in the third quarter of 2014 primarily due to lower net revenue per rental patients partially offset by lower servicing cost per rental patient. In terms of operating expenses, overall operating expense was up 41.3% to $15.7 million in the third quarter of 2015 versus $11.1 million in the same 2014 period, and was up as a percentage of revenue to 38.4% versus 37.7% in the same 2014 period. As we hired additional personnel and transitioned our former manufacturing facility to support projected growth. For research and development expense, we had $1.1 million in R&D expenditures in the third quarter of 2015 versus $0.8 million in the same 2014 period. The increase was primarily associated with additional personnel related expenses for engineering projects, primarily the Inogen One G3 upgrade and the Inogen One G4 project. For selling, general and administrative expenses, sales and marketing expense was $8.1 million for the third quarter versus $5.6 million in the same 2014 period primarily due to increased direct consumer personnel related expenses, media expenses and related customer and clinical services personnel related expenses. General and administrative expense was $6.4 million for the third quarter compared to $4.7 million in the same 2014 period. The increase was primarily related to increased personnel related and facilities related expenses. Total SG&A expenses increased 41.4% to $14.5 million in the third quarter of 2015 versus $10.3 million in the same 2014 period, due to the additional investments we made this year and sales [Indiscernible] and capacity expansion that we expect to help our growth in 2016 and beyond. In the third quarter of 2015, we reported income tax expense of $1 million compared to $1.3 million in the third quarter of 2014. Our effective tax rate was 26.7% in the third quarter of 2015 versus 38.6% in the third quarter of 2014, primarily due to a decrease evaluation allowance related to California net operating losses. As a result, our net income after-tax in the third quarter of 2015 was $2.7 million compared to $2.1 million in the third quarter of 2014, an increase of 26.4% in the comparative period and representing return on revenue of 6.6%. Earnings per diluted common share was $0.13 in the third quarter of 2015 and $0.11 in the third quarter of 2014. Moving to our cash balance, we ended the third quarter with $74.1 million of cash, cash equivalents and short term investments, an increase of $8.1million from June 30, 2015. This increase in cash, cash equivalent and short term investments was partially offset by investments in property and equipments of $2 million during the quarter, primarily for our rental fleet addition. As of the end of the third quarter of 2015, we had no bank debt outstanding and our entire $15 million credit facility was available. In addition, I would like to cover some key non-GAAP financial measures. Adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter was $8.2 million, which was a 20.2% return on revenue. Adjusted EBITDA increased 14% in the third quarter of 2015 versus the third quarter of 2014, for adjusted EBITDA with $7.2 million. Turning to our guidance, we are increasing our 2015 revenue guidance to a range of $150 million to $153 million, which represents year-over-year growth of 33.3% to 36%. This compares to our previous revenue expectation of $145 million to $149 million. We are also providing a guidance range for the full year 2016 total revenue of $177 million to $183 million representing 16.8% to 20.8% over the 2015 guidance midpoint of $151.5 million. This revenue growth is inspite of the additional revenue headwinds expected in 2016 associated with the national application of competitive bid prices to Medicare areas currently not subject to competitive bidding. Adjusted EBITDA guidance for 2015 is unchanged from prior guidance of $29 million to $32 million representing an increase of 21.1% to 33.6% over 2014. Net income for 2015 is also unchanged and currently expected to be in the range of $8.5 million to $10 million representing an approximate increase of 24.5% to 46.5% over 2014. We currently expect our effective tax rate in 2015 to be approximately 34%. In addition, we continue to expect net positive cash flow for 2015 with no additional equity capital required to meet our current plan. With that, Ray and I would now be happy to take the questions.