Thanks John. Good afternoon everyone and welcome to our second quarter fiscal 2012 call. On today’s call, I will provide some highlights of our record Q2 results. I will then provide a general update on our business and growth initiatives, and we’ll also discuss some of the investments that we are making to our infrastructure, to ensure that we are positioned to capitalize on the tremendous opportunities ahead of us.
After that, I will turn the call over to Carrie McQueen, our Chief Financial Officer for a more detailed discussion of second quarter results and to provide an update to our increased guidance range for the full fiscal 2012.
First, let me provide a quick review of our financials. We generated record revenue of $25.3 million during the second quarter, a 239% increase compared to the second quarter of last fiscal year. Our operating income increased to $4.3 million, which translates to an operating margin of 16.9%.
We also strengthened our balance sheet during the quarter and in Q2 with over $13 million in cash and no debt. Our financial performance exceeded our expectations and based on this and our expectations for the remaining 6 months of the year, we are raising our fiscal 2012 guidance range for revenue and operating income. We are increasing our revenue guidance from a range of $95 million to $105 million, to a range of $105 million to $115 million.
As a reminder, our 2012 -- excuse me, our 2011 fiscal year revenue was $39 million. We’re also increasing our operating margin guidance from a range of 12% to 14% to a range of 13% to 15%. Last fiscal year’s operating margin was 9.5%. We believe that our strong first 6 months financial performance demonstrates the expanding awareness of our products Protandim and True Science.
We are particularly excited about the growing recurring revenue from auto-shipped orders, a signal to us that our existing customers believe in the value of our products to improve their long-term health. We’re also successfully leveraging our business across higher sales volume while making strategic investments in our business.
During the first 6 months of this fiscal year, we increased our research and development and sales and marketing spend. But we still expect a large increase in our operating margin this year compared to last year.
Now let me provide a general update on our business and growth initiatives. We are continuing to benefit from new independently published studies that outlined the efficacy of Protandim and further bolster through the science behind our products. As a science based company, first and foremost, this is always core to our business and growth. Every day, we are seeing increasing attention in the science community and the media, dedicated to the Nrf2 Molecule which is the biochemical messenger that Protandim has been shown to activate. There is a tremendous proliferation of Nrf2 Research and you can go to pubmed.gov to see this research.
For those of you who are new to the LifeVantage story, Protandim was shown in earlier studies to activate the transcription factor in Nrf2, a signal to the cell’s DNA to regulate a network of protective genes. A recent study further investigates Protandim’s ability to increase production of the body’s Nrf2 regulated protective genes, sometimes referred to as survival genes, which includes genes that encodes anti-oxidant enzymes as well as anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic proteins.
As the scientific and consumer communities continue to become more aware of Nrf2 and our science backed product offerings, we expect to continue to see additional independent reports that address Protandim’s ability to increase production of the body’s protective genes. We believe that these studies will further validate our knowledge, and the value of Protandim and True Science.
Turning to sales and marketing, to support the expanding awareness of our products, it is crucial that we continue to invest in our sales and marketing, to support our distributors that are in the field educating consumers and medical professionals about Protandim. An example of how we are investing in marketing and expanding the LifeVantage story is our partnership with Donny Osmond to act as spokesperson for Protandim.
With the career that spans over 5 decades, Donny is famous not only for his music but also his youthful appearance. And we believe he is an ideal person to endorse our product. Donny became interested in Protandim and took the product to his doctor, who studied, validated and then recommended it to him. His personal experience together with his celebrity status has enabled him to tell the world why activating Nrf2 and reducing oxidative stress is important.
You will be presenting at our distributor events and annual convention. Donny has included information about Protandim on his website donny.com and mentioned to us frequently in the social media campaigns. His generating increased national awareness about Protandim that we believe will translate into additional awareness about LifeVantage and our products that will in-turn help our distributors when they approach prospective customers.
As an example, Donny was on the Dr. Phil’s Show that aired on February 8. And one of the topics he addressed was Protandim in its role in enabling him to maintain his youthful appearance and vitality. On the heels of Donny’s appearance on the show, Protandim ranked him on the top 10 Google searches in the United States on February 8 and 9. In addition the business to LifeVantage.com, were up 300% and business to Portandim.com were up over 800%.
We have continued to enjoy significantly increased activity on our Facebook page, in the days following Donny’s appearance on the Dr. Phil’s Show. We are extremely happy with the positive impact that Donny endorsement has on our brand awareness.
At the end of January, we held an elite academy in Las Vegas, where over 3,000 of our distributors attended, a record for an elite academy event, exceeding our numbers at our quarterly event held in San Antonio last October. To put that increase in perspective, just 2 years ago, we were thrilled to have even 500 distributors, at our elite academies. We are very pleased with the success and growth of our distributor events.
We continue to evolve the events by selecting larger convention centers and more recognized keynote speakers to help motivate our dedicated distributors and ensure the event is memorable and provides them with the tools they need to be successful. In addition to our strong growth in the United States, we’re also expanding our reach in Japan and Canada, and exploring other geographic opportunities.
A few months ago, we announced our exploration and preparation goals for expanding into Australia. In a continued effort, we are pleased to announce that one of our major milestones has been accomplished. In December 2011, we received approval for Protandim in the Australian market from Australia’s regulatory committee for therapeutic goods. We’re still in the process of meeting additional requirements that are hopeful about the pending opportunities of this market.
We also recently introduced new packaging for Protandim. We’re getting great feedback from our distributors and consumers and believe the new packaging better aligns the product with our company’s focus of science backed products. These events combined with our additional investments and marketing are enabling us to rapidly expand our mid-level ranks of distributors and helping enable them to achieve an elite rank status.
Our goal is to develop a larger middle-class of distributors, who are building large sales organizations, selling a significant amount of products and thus receiving significant monthly commission checks. We want our distributors to achieve the financial success that they are striving for and we are working to create more distributor leaders.
Now, I would like to spend some time discussing investments in our infrastructure. On our fourth quarter fiscal ‘11 conference call, we outlined for you our plans to invest in our infrastructure to support our growth. And we also pointed out that we are getting to a very important leverage point in our business model.
Even as we are increasing the absolute dollar investment in our infrastructure and in our human capital, we expect our operating margins for fiscal 2012 to improve by over 350 basis points over the prior year as we improve the leverage in our business. At our Annual Shareholder Meeting in January, our shareholders elected 4 new board members, and our new board elected a new Chairman of the Board, Woody Spedden, who has over 50 years of executive management experience with public and private companies, which will serve us well as he chairs our board.
Each of our new director’s brings a wealth of corporate experience and expertise in areas that are critically important to the company’s growth and long-term success, including executive and board experience with publicly traded companies. The 4 new directors have held leadership positions at successful companies. We encourage you to visit our investor pages on our website to become better acquainted with our board members and their experience.
As our company evolves, we recognize that it is critical that we have a strong board of directors to complement our management team and provide us with insight and expertise. Each of our new directors brings the unique and valuable perspective that will be instrumental as we grow our business through distributor growth, geographic expansion and the strategic introduction of new and complementary products.
A key area in which, we continue to invest in our, personnel. Having the right human capital is critical to our long-term growth and success. During the past 6 months, we have added personal in areas such as finance, accounting, marketing, sales, customer support, lab technicians and operations. These additions to the LifeVantage team are part of our efforts to scale this company responsibly.
And for all those consumers and distributors who we are yet to meet, LifeVantage must deliver and continue to scale this company strategically, proactively and cooperatively to be a strong and stable company, they can rely on and count on for years to come.
In addition to our personnel updates, we also concentrated efforts on moving our corporate headquarters, to support our expanding team. Just recently, we hit the milestone of 100 employees. We outgrew our prior location and moved a few blocks away to a space that is nearly 3x the usable space.
We have made tremendous strides in many areas of our business during the first 6 months of this fiscal year, including over 200% revenue growth, record operating income, improvements in our balance sheet and expanding our board of directors. These improvements have positioned us to look towards the listing on our National Stock Exchange at the appropriate time.
The remaining initial listing requirement to be satisfied would be to meet the minimum share price requirements. As we evaluate the benefits and optimal timing of this listing, we currently believe that our best plan of action is to continue to strive for strong profitable growth. And based on this approach, we currently do not intend to see the reverse stock split to increase our share price in the immediate future.
In summary, we are very pleased with our record second quarter results, and believe the momentum we are building in the marketplace, will lead to continued record results throughout this year.
In addition to our strong sales, we are improving leverage in our business model, while strengthening our distribution network. This all leads to our ultimate and constant goal of improving our shareholder value, while educating people around the world about a way to enhance their health and wellness.
Now, I will turn the call over to Carrie to review our financial results.