Deanna Hom Lund
Analyst · John Nelson of the State of Wisconsin
Thank you, Eric. Good afternoon. Our second quarter revenues of $235.2 million came in at the high end of our expected range of $230 million to $235 million, due in part to stronger demand in our Public Safety business and our Satellite Communications business. Our revenues increased year-over-year 7% from $219.8 million in the second quarter of 2012, reflecting the contribution from CEI as well as organic growth of 17.5% in our Public Safety and critical infrastructure business. These increases were partially offset by the timing of shipments in our Specialty Ground Equipment business and Electronic Warfare Products business and by continued compression in our Legacy Services business, which contracted an additional 16.7% compared to the second quarter of 2012. However, the Legacy Services business remained fairly stable on a sequential basis compared to the first quarter of 2013, with a 1.3% reduction sequentially. From an annual run rate perspective, our Legacy Services business is currently operating at approximately $88 million, down from approximately $100 million for fiscal 2012. Our adjusted EBITDA of $24.6 million for the second quarter is from continuing operations and excludes restructuring and acquisition-related items of a $100,000 net credit and stock compensation costs of $2 million. The $100,000 credit in net restructuring and acquisition-related items are comprised of the following items: One, the net reduction of a $2.7 million litigation accrual, resulting from the completion of a litigation matter assumed in the Integral acquisition, which is net of $400,000 of litigation costs related to another litigation matter, related to a prior acquisition; two, $1.9 million in costs related to restructuring activities, related to excess capacity and overhead costs and other cost reduction activities; three, $600,000 related to non-recurring audit fees associated with a change we recently made in external auditors; and four, $100,000 of acquisition-related expenses. From an operational segment perspective, our Government Solution segment generated $183.5 million in revenues and $20.4 million in adjusted EBITDA or an 11.1% adjusted EBITDA margin. Our Public Safety & Security segment generated $51.7 million in revenues and $4.2 million in adjusted EBITDA, or an 8.1% adjusted EBITDA margin. Our PSS operating margins have improved sequentially from 4.5% in the first quarter, in part as a result of cost reduction actions we have taken, as well as operational efficiencies that we have achieved. On a GAAP basis, net loss for the second quarter was $9.6 million, which included a loss from discontinued operations of $2.5 million, $9 million of expense related to the amortization of intangible assets, as well as a $100K income tax benefit. We continue to believe it is also meaningful to provide our earnings per share, excluding the amortization expenses and reflecting our cash pay income tax. On a pro forma basis, EPS from continuing operations, excluding the amortization, restructuring and acquisition-related items and utilizing the estimated average quarterly cash pay income tax provision of approximately $800,000 was $0.02 per share for the quarter. Moving to the balance sheet and liquidity. Our cash balance was $49.7 million at June 30, plus $5.2 million in restricted cash. For the second quarter, we generated $3.3 million in cash from operating activities and a slight use of $700,000 of free cash, after taking into consideration capital expenditures of $4 million, and after payment of our semiannual payment of $31.2 million on our senior notes. Our DSOs decreased 3 days, from 101 days at the end of the first quarter, to 98 days at the end of the second quarter. As a reminder, our second and fourth quarters are the quarters that we pay the semiannual interest payments on our senior notes. So those are typically our lower cash generation quarters. We continue to target DSOs of less than 90 days, which we believe is achievable as we expect that as these milestone-related contractual payment, billing terms are met, that we will be able to continue to reduce the overall DSOs and generate additional operating cash flow. Using the recent quarterly revenues, a 4-day reduction in DSOs is equivalent to approximately $10 million in cash flow generation. As our revenue mix is more project-focused now, our DSOs can tend to fluctuate due to the timing of shipments and satisfaction of billing and contractual milestones. Our contract mix for the second quarter was 80% of revenues generated from fixed price contracts, 15% from cost plus fixed fee contracts, and 5% from time and material contracts. Revenues generated from contracts with the federal government were approximately 65%, including revenues generated from contracts with the DoD of 60% and revenues generated from contracts with non-DoD federal government agencies of 5%. We also generated 7% of our revenues from state and local governments, 19% from commercial customers and 10% from foreign customers. Backlog at quarter end was $1.1 billion, with $558 million funded. Backlog at the end of the first quarter was $1.2 billion. Today, we updated our previously communicated full year fiscal 2013 financial guidance as follows: Revenues of $960 million to $990 million; adjusted EBITDA of $110 million to $120 million; and adjusted free cash flow of $40 million to $50 million. We are also providing fiscal third quarter 2013 financial guidance. Revenue of $220 million to $240 million, adjusted EBITDA of $23 million to $26 million and adjusted free cash flow of $10 million to $20 million. This is equivalent to cash EPS using an estimated annual cash tax pay of $3.2 million, excluding annual amortization of $36.3 million and restructuring and other acquisition-related items of $0.25 to $0.40 per share for fiscal '13 and cash EPS of breakeven or $0.01 for the third quarter. Kratos' updated guidance reflects the impact of delays of certain awards we expected to receive in the first half of this year, and the expected impact of a continued sequestration for the remainder of the 2013 federal fiscal year on certain of the company's programs and contracts. Specifically, during the first half of 2013, we experienced a number of expected contract award delays, including in our Electric Products division and Modular Systems business, with certain of these orders now expected to be received in the fourth quarter. Kratos' revised guidance also reflects a continued significant investment we are making in our internal IT security and infrastructure area, which is being driven in part by a perceived increased threat profile as a result of the nature of certain work we are performing. Also importantly, as Eric mentioned before, we have recently made a decision to further increase by at least an additional $5 million over the balance of 2013, our internal investment, including flight testing, non-recurring engineering and other expenditures related to certain new unmanned aerial system and drone platforms for an extremely strategic U.S. government customer and opportunity. As a reminder, our free cash flow guidance of $40 million to $50 million for 2013 is from continuing operations, excluding acquisition-related items, after interest payments and capital expenditures. This is derived by the $110 million to $120 million adjusted EBITDA, less the annual interest on our notes of $62.5 million, less estimated capital expenditures of $14 million to $19 million, payment of taxes of approximately $3.2 million and the generation of working capital resulting from the expected reduction of DSOs of approximately $10 million to $16 million, which reflects an approximate additional reduction of 4 to 6 days. We now expect to achieve some fairly large contractual billing milestones in the fourth quarter, which we expect to result in cash collections and in meaningful reduction in our DSOs at that time. Accordingly, similar to last year, we expect the second half, especially our fourth quarter, to be significantly cash flow positive. From a capital structure standpoint, we are beginning to prepare the documents for refinancing our senior notes. And based on current market conditions, we would expect to reduce the annual interest rate by at least 200 basis points when we refinance. If successful, this would significantly increase Kratos' free cash flow, and we plan to use the additional free cash flow to further de-lever our balance sheet and increase Kratos' equity value. I'll turn the call back over to Eric now.