JJ Pellegrino
Chief Financial Officer
Thanks George. I’d now like to say a few words about our share offering, gross margin, cost cutting, the bottom line and guidance. Before I do however, I would like to welcome the analyst team at Brean Capital, including Jason Wittes who initiated coverage in May. I would also like to welcome the research team at Stifel Nicolaus, including Rick Wise, Matt Blackman and Drew Ranieri who initiated coverage on us following our recent public offering. We look forward to working with both teams in the quarters ahead. On June 4, 2014 we closed an underwritten public offering of 1.64 million shares of our common stock at a price of $7 per share. Net proceeds from the offering were $10.5 million. The goals of this offering were to increase our war-chest (ph) for acquisitions and to issue additional shares in order to support increased trading liquidity. The $7 per share offering price represented an 8% discount to our pre-offering share price of $7.63, in-line with the 7% mean discount for recent med device follow-on offerings. Post offering, our weighted average share count used in the calculation of fully diluted EPS was 16.5 million shares in Q2, 2014 and will be approximately 17.7 million for both Q3 and Q4, 2014 and approximately 17 million for the full year 2014. Gross margin in Q2, 2014 was 68.1%, a sequential improvement from 67% in Q1 and 66.7% in Q4, 2013. XenoSure manufacturing ramp, Southbridge closure and cost reduction initiatives, all contributed to the improving results. I continue to expect additional improvements over the second half of 2014 and look for a 70% gross margin in Q4. Operating expenses in Q2, 2014 were $10.4 million, a sequential reduction of $1.1 million from the first quarter. The February and April layoffs of 40 employees, as well as other internal cost cutting initiatives have driven the decline. All told, we believe that we have reduced annual operating expenses by approximately $5 million, which is facilitated a quick bottom line turn around. Combined with strong sales and an improving gross margin, this rightsizing of our expense structure clears the way for $2 million in operating income in Q2 and a 11% operating margin. Turning to guidance, we are expecting Q3, 2014 sales of $17.1 million up 12% versus Q3, 2013 and operating income of $1.4 million up 80% versus Q3, 2013. We’re also increasing our full year 2014 sales guidance to $70.1 million up 9% versus 2013 full year and improving our full year operating income guidance to $5.6 million, up 24% versus 2013. Separately we will be presenting at several upcoming investor conferences, including the Canaccord Global Growth Conference in August in Boston; the Barrington Growth Conference in September in Chicago; the Stifel Healthcare Conference in November in New York; the Canaccord Medical Technology forum in November in New York and the Brean BMC Life Sciences Summit in November in New York. With that, I’ll turn it back over to Philip for Q-&-A.